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Post-Gluten Prometheus

Vital Statistics: Batch Number: 36 Style: Gluten-Free Brew Date: 5 February 2011 Original Gravity: 1.047 (11.67 °Plato) Final Gravity: 1.005 (1.28 °Plato) ABV: 5.5% ABW: 4.3% Calories per pint: 200 Estimated IBU (Rager): 23.1 Estimated IBU (Tinseth): 19.3 Mash Used: No Days in Primary: 18   Days in Secondary: 0 (kegged on 23 February 2011) Ferm. Temp. Notes: 64°, ± 2-3° Yeast Used: WB-06 Wheat Beer Apparent Attenuation: 89% Real Attenuation: 73% Rating: 2.55 Entirely Consumed: Yes (finished 18 December 2011) Availability: 298 days	Recipe: 6 lbs white sorghum extract 2 lbs toasted buckwheat groats 3 AAU (19g @ 4.5% AA) Willamette @ 60 3 AAU (19g @ 4.5% AA) Willamette @ 15 3 AAU (16g @ 5.4% AA) Cascade @ 15 3 AAU (16g @ 5.4% AA) Cascade @ 0 (flame-out) Safbrew WB-06
General Notes: First extract brew. First use of dry yeast. First gluten-free brew.
Tasting Notes: Tasting notes taken 17 June 2011, 114 days after kegging; I'm finally getting around to reviewing this bizarro beer. Poured from tap into a pint glass. Appearance: very cloudy, opaque body with a sandy yellow hue. Head poured about one finger of creamy foam but dissipated rather quickly, leaving no lace on the glass. I'll call it average, but really I don't have much of a frame of reference here. (3) Smell: chalky, perfumey aroma. It is sweet with floral notes and some fruitiness like banana and apple, but with some slightly solventy alcohol smell thrown in. It really doesn't smell like beer, per se, but it's not completely horrible. (3) Taste: quite sour and somewhat bitter; it tastes like banana-ey perfume and sweet solvent, mixed with lemon juice. I'm told that compared to other sorghum beers, it's not too terrible. I, myself, am not a huge fan. It sort of makes me think of the slightly sweet but toxic stuff under the sink that one might drink as a kid. It's not horrible, but ... uff da. (2) Mouthfeel: this beer actually has a decent amount of body and is relatively creamy. It holds up to a hefeweizen-type standard pretty well. (3.5) Drinkability: I don't see myself voluntarily drinking a lot of this beer. Hopefully I can find someone who likes it so I can give some away. (2) Overall score 2.55 (C-). This beer was a rather wild experiment with a lot of disparate elements: dry wheat beer yeast, sorghum extract, self-toasted buckwheat groats; overall, I would not consider the experiment a failure, because I learned something. The beer itself is a bit of a failure, but it has given me ideas for the future. I am going to try this again without the buckwheat and with a more conventional dry yeast (Nottingham, maybe?). Eventually.
Hops Table Hop Variety Addition Time AAU AA% Quantity (g) Type IBU (Rager) IBU (Tinseth) Notes Willamette 60 3.00 4.5 19 Pellet 12.7 9.7   Willamette 15 3.00 4.5 19 Pellet 5.2 4.8   Cascade 15 3.00 5.4 16 Pellet 5.2 4.8   Cascade 0 3.00 5.4 16 Pellet 0.0 0.0 Flame-out.