Bombshell Blonde - pale ale

5 gallons.  A pale ale, this is the beer that got the new roof on the house.

mash @ 155F

• 4.0 # pale 2 row
• 2.0 # maris otter
• 0.5 # biscuit
• 0.5 # 10L crystal
• 0.5 # 40L crystal
• 0.5 # wheat

Boil

• 0.5 oz warrior - first wort
• 2.0 # light brown sugar - 60 minutes
• 0.5 oz cascade - 15 minutes
• 1 t black peppercorns - 5 minutes
• 1.0 oz willamette - 5 minutes

cool and pitch 1 sachet SafAle S-05

• OG 1.056
• FG 1.010

Interesting note: after 2 weeks in the bottle, a slight vegetal aftertaste...assumed DMS...but 2 weeks later the strange taste was gone and the beer was delicious..and literature suggests DMS won't fade, so I don't know what it was.


Completely consumed during the  big roofing weekend.