Brewing an American Blonde Ale with Fermentis K-97 Yeast!

Brewing and tasting an American Blonde Ale that Mike fermented with Fermentis K97 yeast.

Mike wanted to get a light but decidedly American Blonde Ale ready for summer sipping. He focused on a light highly fermentable grain bill coupled with an extended low temperature mash. To give the beer some summer appeal he used Loral Hops to capture a unique fruit like quality but maintain some earthy/woody notes as well.

A semi-unique aspect to this brew was the use of Fermentis K97 yeast. This is a German Ale yeast that seems to primarily be a Kölsch style yeast despite some people that seem to use it as a German wheat beer yeast. I guess that's OK if you want a super clean wheat beer as we didn't detect any of the traditional German wheat beer characteristics you'd expect from other yeast strains.

This beer is crisp and light and ready for summer.
Recipe below.

CHEERS!

RECIPE:
6.5 gallon post boil batch
Mash 150F/65.5C -75min
Mashout 168F/75.5C -10min
OG 1.052
FG 1.009


8lb/3.63kg Weyermann Pils
1lb/453g Flaked Barley
1lb/453g Weyermann CaraHell (13L)
0.5oz/14g Cascade 6%AA-60min
2oz/56g Loral 10%AA-10min
Fermentis K97

Ferment at 60F/15/5C 10days, raise temp to 68F/20C addn'l 3days

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