Boskoopse Vlierige Blonde

Around Boskoop the Elder-flower will be blossoming abundantly in Spring time. A invitation for brewing a beer with these lovely fragant flowers: a Blonde-beer with an infusion from Brandewijn in which the fresh Elder-flowers have been soaked for 3 months. A Blond with a Elder(-flower) character!

Recommended drinking temperature: 8...10 oC
Bottled:	055: 2024-05-14 044: 2022-03-09 035: 2020-09-07
Alc. vol.:	6.3...7.2%
EBC:	13...23
EBU:	30...33
Brew volume:	20...23 liter
Malts:	3,400gr Pils (3 EBC) 1,200gr Vienna (10 EBC) 1,100gr Light Wheat-malt (3 EBC) 220gr crystal sugar (0 EBC) added 10 minutes in the cooking
Hops and herbs:	21gr First Gold (2017, 10.2% @ 90min) 15gr Saaz (2023, 4.0% @ 30min) 25gr Saaz (2023, 4.0% @ 15min) 25gr Saaz (2023, 4.0% % 5min) 120gr Vlierbloesem (flame-out and dry-hop) About 10% hop has been added for every year storage.
Additions:	150ml Mispelblom Brandwijn (35%) with freshly picked Elder-flowers have been soaked for more than 24 months (2 days before bottling) The brandwijn is filtered through a cheese-cloth and added through a funnel through the water-lock hole of the CCT.
Yeast:	17gr Fermentis T-58 Safbrew Specialty Ale at 20oC
SG (begin - end):	1.070 - 1.022 1.062 - 1.020 (055)
Mashing-scheme:	24 liter Boskoops water with 0.5gr CaCl2, 2.0gr CaSO4 en 7.0ml lactic acid Beta-Amylase: 40 minutes at 65oC In 5 minutes heating up to 72oC Alpha-Amylase: 40 minutes at 72oC stir at 15 and 30 minutes In 10 minutes heating up to 78oC 10 minutes enzyme-deactivation at 78oC Loutering: Loutered with 10 liter Boskoops water with 1.3ml lactic acid at 80oC
Fermentation:	19...30 days in CCT, no yeast drained
Bottling:	In 330...33cl bottles with 2.3gr suiker dissolved in water per bottle (7.7gr/l)
Batch-number(s):	035, 044 and 055
Volume:	44x .3l + 26x .33l + 1x .75l