Pirate Life South Coast Pale Ale

[Rob Courtney]

Have a certain affinity for this one, people like it or hate it but is a bloody nice ale after a days cricket. I'll usually neck two or three pints of this so...

2  E5

2 X2

y1 yeast

Dry hop 25 gms Cashmere, 25 gms Wai-it would have liked to go 12.5gms of Taheke and Wai-ti but I live in a small country town and couldn't find any Taheke.

Anyways, just dry hopped it so giddy up but I guess that means another 8 weeks until I get a real good idea on this one

 

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[Rob Courtney]

Bottled today, was nice out of the droid, really looking forward to it in a few more weeks

[Rob Courtney]

Six weeks in so some sort of an idea now where it is going. I've had a couple of stubbies of this and really I thought it was a version of Hops sessed Ale which was a beer I was OK with but probably wouldn't go out of my way to brew again. I thought given it was young, I'd give it a few weeks to see where it was at...all the while hoping that wasn't the peak.

It's actually really nice but it isn't the beer I was looking to make, it is kinda missing that real citrusy, maybe grapefruit taste that makes this a great beer to smash a couple of pints after a day of cricket with some bowls of hot chips and gravy and sometimes call the wife to walk down to the pub because 2 pints turned into 5 and a chicken Snitty burger and someone needs to take me and the car, home. 

I will have one tomorrow with a can of the original to really pinpoint what is missing in this one because I'd like to have an arsenal of this stuff to drink in summer.

@BrewArt Team

Edit, had a can tonight, it was the citrus taste but more lemon than grapefruit. The one I have made just misses that...ppunch of flavour

[Rob Courtney]

Maybe it is the cooler temperature and the lack of secondary but tonight I cracked a stubbie of this (330  ml because I demanded it) and it had the flavour I kinda was looking for. Fingers crossed it keeps moving forward