Skinny Blonde Recipe Instructions

This recipe is available as an Aussie Brewmakers Recipe Kit, order no. 19840

 This recipe is an Aussie Brewmakers original. It is a ‘take’ on the low-carb, blonde style of beers – but with a bit more flavour and mouth-feel from the hops and grain. We call it our Skinny Blonde and it is well worth a try if you are watching those carbs but still enjoy a beer! This recipe is another great introduction to experimenting with hops and grains for the beginner or ‘tin kit’ brewer.

Ingredients:

• 1 x 1.7kg Coopers Canadian Blonde Beer Kit
• 1 x 1kg Aussie Brewmakers Beer improver
• 1 x 150g Aussie Brewmakers Cracked Light Grain (steeped)
• 1 x 12g Saaz Finishing Hops (steeped)
• 1 x 3g Dry Enzyme (used to ferment more of the malt sugars to make a drier/diet beer)
• 1 x 15g Premium American Ale Yeast

Other Ingredients:

• 200g of Dextrose if kegging with no secondary fermentation (not supplied)

Method:

1. Clean / sterilize all equipment including fermenter, paddle, mug and jug (used for steeping)
2. Discard Coopers Canadian Blonde tin yeast and sit tin in hot water for 10 minutes to loosen contents
3. Boil 1.25L of water in kettle
4. Steep 12g of Saaz Finishing Hops in 250ml of boiled water for 10 minutes
5. Steep Cracked Light Grain in 1L boiled water for 15 minutes
6. Re-boil 2L water in kettle
7. Add 1.5L of boiled water to fermenter, then add Beer Improver (add slowly to prevent clumping) and stir vigorously to thoroughly dissolve
8. Add Coopers Canadian Blonde tin contents to fermenter and stir thoroughly to dissolve
9. Pour 250ml of boiled water into beer tin and stir to dissolve remaining contents, then add to fermenter
10. Strain steeped Cracked Light Grain liquid into fermenter and rinse grain with 250mls boiled water (do not add grain to fermenter)
11. Add water to fermenter to 22.5L and test temperature – make sure it is between 18-24 degrees before pitching yeast
12. Take initial hydrometer reading
13. Add Saaz Finishing Hops teabag and mug of water to fermenter
14. Add 3g Brew Cellar Dry Enzyme to fermenter and stir gently
15. Pitch 15g Premium American Ale Yeast and stir gently
16. When fermentation finished (may take 5-7 days longer than normal due to addition of the Dry Enzyme) check with hydrometer and bottle as per normal.

N.B. If kegging, add 200g of Dextrose at step 7