Zappa – Sour Peach Ale – BeerCo – Recipe

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:

• GigaYeast Brux Blend GB156
• GigaYeast Sour Cherry Funk GB150

FERMENTATION DIRECTIONS

1. Normal Ale Fermentation: Cool to 20.6 C and keep temperature consistent for 10 Days

Recipe Notes:

1. Pitched onto West Footscrazy Flanders Red Yeast Cake Sun 6 Sep 15 – racked off into 2 x 5L glass carboys.
2. 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.
3. Racked off into 15litre demi-john and topped up with a homebrew Belgian Tripel
4. 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