CS3 - James P's Patriot

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Permalink Reply by Reviled on July 23, 2009 at 7:43pm

Slight disaster with my Patriot :o( When I poured it into the glass it was like a slurpee, semi frozen... My CAP wort is in the chest freezer crash cooling to 10*c, and its too cold for the PETs.. Lucky all of em werent in the fridge...

By the time it thawed it was pretty flat and thin, however retained a bit of the nice fruity hop aroma and caramel malt flavours! It was pretty quaffable! Nice and clean bro, well fermented!

Cheers mate

Permalink Reply by James P on July 24, 2009 at 9:02pm

You froze my beer? I think I just found who will get my nomination for relegation..... :) Just kidding...

Permalink Reply by Mike Neilson on July 24, 2009 at 10:01pm

Wowzers!! At least he got a sample im still waiting for my allocation!!!!

Permalink Reply by Reviled on July 25, 2009 at 10:05am

Shit sorry Mike have been busy as hell, will try and get that sorted for you ASAP!

Permalink Reply by Mike Neilson on July 25, 2009 at 10:22am

No worries chief!!

Permalink Reply by James P on July 25, 2009 at 10:55am

I have no idea how I screwed the boxes up.... I marked them and all....sorry!

Permalink Reply by JoKing on July 26, 2009 at 12:46pm

I had this one last night too.

It's not a bad drop - quite clean. Aroma took a while to put my finger on... but in the end I got there. I assumed that it was very lightly dry hopped... but couldn't pick what hop was giving me what I was getting.

I moved onto the taste and figured out from there that it wasn't dry hopped... so I went back to the smell again. Swirled the crap out of it throughout the whole bottle... and it wasn't till the last 250mls when it clicked in my head. Apricots! Dehydrated apricots! Phew! I'd put that down to a combination of that aroma hop addition of Amarillo and the amount of CaraPils you have in there, James. Good combination.

That flavour was crisp and refreshing all the way through... with some subtle fruits coming through from the hops. I'm picking that if you want to brew this one again, a little bit of CaCl2 and CaSO4 wouldn't go amiss... there was just a hint of astringincy from the grain... probably due to a slightly high mash pH. Please correct me if I'm wrong though.

Overall I really liked this beer - it tasted like a lager drinkers version of a Pale Ale. It made it super crisp... and exellently refreshing... very much a summer quaffing beer. If all the breweries in NZ were producing this instead of shit like Export Gold, I'd be buying a hell of a lot more megaswill!

Thanks James - Cheers.

Permalink Reply by James P on July 27, 2009 at 2:22pm

Thanks! I forgot to dry hop it..... :(

You are right for the rebrew, I have additions for CaCl2 and lactic acid. As I haven't replaced my pH meter yet didn't want to change the water profile too much. CHCH water is 7.8 pH normally.

Permalink Reply by MrC on July 26, 2009 at 1:02pm

Drank this one last night followed by "The Yak".

Poured a nice & clear golden color with a short lasting white head.
Aroma of Pils malt, light caramel, bread & sweet fruity US hops. Slight smell of something that is hard to pinpoint but reminding me of stale cigarette butts, not offensive, just there. Taste has a nice balance of dry/bitter/sweetness with a slickness on the tongue and a bready aftertaste. This beer smells hoppier than it tastes. Nice easy drinker.

What would I change? I thought it was maybe lacking a little in the malt backbone of the beer, maybe a different base malt or sub out some base malt for munich? That's just my personal pref though. Nothing wrong with it as is.

Great job James, well brewed. That's a beer I could easily drink a lot of. Well done!

Cheers.

Permalink Reply by James P on July 27, 2009 at 2:23pm

Sorry Mr C, may have dropped my cigarette in there once or twice and not added enough hops to hide it! :)

Permalink Reply by Martin Bridges on July 27, 2009 at 12:46pm

This was the first of my case swap beers that I opened last night. I've been avoiding reading any other comments on any of the beers (other than my own) so as not to pre-judge. Sadly my internet connection was playing up last night so I didn't get to write this up straight away while it was fresh in my mind, but I'll see how I go.

First impressions count and this beer scores well, twice. Great label! Then the pour - gorgeous colour, gorgeous clarity. Absolutely flawless, a really attractive beer. First whiff of aroma made it plain that there were American hops in there - plenty of citrus (grapefruit). A bit of swirling and sniffing elicited some juicy fruit (pineapple) notes. Carbonation level also good.

Malt profile was a little more subdued, and body a little thin. A fraction of astringency at the back of the tongue. However, a very refreshing and drinkable beer that certainly showed off the US hops.

If this was my beer, I'd be looking at maybe upping the CaraPils a bit or mashing a little higher to get a bit more body, but other than that I wouldn't change a thing.

Nice start to my case-swap drinking.

Permalink Reply by James P on July 27, 2009 at 2:41pm

Thanks Martin, and yes the it turned out a little thinner than I wanted. My mash temps were a little lower than anticipated, and probably sparged with a little hotter than I should have or as Joking noted maybe my pH was out.

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