
Frank Zappa once sang about “sitting on the beaches looking at the peaches”… Whilst, there was no sitting on the beaches looking at the peaches here, there was a lot of sitting on the back deck watching the peaches grow in the garden and thinking of ways to incorporate the bounty of the home orchard into a #sour #lambic #homegrown #homebrew with some luscious fresh #harvest peaches that needed to be put to work on a straight unblended lambic of Bulldogs Bite Golden Sour Ale II. So if you love sours & peaches stop looking & start brewing my friend! Hope this gets you going down the rabbit hole of sours homebrewing…cheers…ps this stuff takes time…we are 10 months in and at least another 2 years to go before consumption…#brewhappy
VITAL STATS
- Style BJCP 2008 : 17.D Straight (Unblended) Lambic
- OG/FG/IBU 1.0419 / 1.0105 / 8
- SRM 5
- ABV 4.1%
- Water 12.61 L Water
- Batch Size 9.46 L (Picobrew / double all ingredients for standard 19L brewlength)
- Brewday: 23 August 2015
Gladfield Malt Bill:
- 50% Gladfield Pilsner Malt 1.30 kg
- 20% Gladfield Wheat Malt 0.5 kg
- 18% Gladfield Vienna Malt 045 Kg
- 6% Harraways Rolled Oats 0.15 kg
- 6% Gladfield Aurora Aromatic Malt 0.15 kg
- 100% 2.55 Kg
HOPS
Type Amount (g) Alpha Acid % Time
Saaz 10 3.5 60 mins (start of boil)
ADJUNCTS
Type Amount (g) Use Time
Irish Moss 3 Boil 10 mins from end of boil
AMENDMENTS
Name Amount (tsp)
Calcium Chloride 0.5
MASH
Single Step Infusion Mash 67 degrees celsius 90 minutes
BOIL
- 60 minutes
YEAST
Name Expected AA% Range Temp (C) Pitch Temp (C)
White Labs WLP655 Belgian Sour Mix I 75 17.2 – 23.9 20.6
You could use any of the following fine choices from GigaYeast:
FERMENTATION DIRECTIONS
- Normal Ale Fermentation: Cool to 20.6 C and keep temperature consistent for 10 Days
Recipe Notes:
- Pitched onto West Footscrazy Flanders Red Yeast Cake Sun 6 Sep 15 – racked off into 2 x 5L glass carboys.
- Took FG 1.10 Tasting tangy, looking golden and cloudy and beautiful sick slic on the top of the fermenter – marvellous stuff so far. Will google for wood chips to L ration.
- Racked off into 15litre demi-john and topped up with a homebrew Belgian Tripel
- 19 Dec 2015 Picked & Chopped & Boiled for 2 mins 3.6Kg of homegrown harvest peaches from the garden (tx Frank Zappa) + 200g of raw sugar
5. 24 Jan 2016 Racked again of the Peaches Pure into a third fermentation in a DemiJohn