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[nhradar]

So, last spring I thought it would be nice to brew a helles for the summer.
But then I never found an appropriate block of time to lager it. So the malt and hops lay around (I had decided to start with Jon Plise's helles, available in kit form from MoreBeer) for a while. I decided that, yeah, I just don't want to deal with lagering right now, and it's the wrong season for a helles anyway. SO, I decided to use the same set of ingredients with an ale yeast. It'll still be a bit blonde for the winter, but...

Anyway, looking for thoughts, especially from, well, you know who you are.

Plise helles ale
Author: Jon Plise/NHRadar

Original Gravity: 1.061 (1.045 - 1.051)
Terminal Gravity: 1.015 (1.008 - 1.012)
Color: 12.27 (3.0 - 5.0)
Alcohol: 5.96% (4.7% - 5.4%)
Bitterness: 10.1 (16.0 - 22.0)

Ingredients:
8 lb Bavarian Pilsner
.5 lb American Munich
.25 lb German CaraFoam
14.2 g Sterling (5%) - added during boil, boiled 110 min
28.4 g Sterling (6%) - added during boil, boiled 1 min
1.0 ea Fermentis S-33 SafBrew S-33

Notes
ferment at 64 F

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Comments

Yeast

[nhradar.livejournal.com]

Safale S33. Fairly clean, high tolerance and with a wide fermentation range, but I've never used it before. I'm fermenting a little cool, at 64.

I actually brewed this a few days ago and forgot to post about it until now...it's in a fridge with a brew belt and external temperature control (ambient is around 55) in MA while I'm off in IA.