I just wanted to write the same. I'd expect more British malts and hops, otherwise it looks more like 18b APA. I'm curious if it's more marketing to call it British or if it's really tasting more British than American because yeast do most of the job.
It doesn’t seem to me that the yeast sets it apart when a few winning recipes used Chico. Also, many APAs and IPAs use English yeast to good effect. It would be nice if the national delineation in name actually meant that the ingredients were representative of those historic national flavours. Clearly that doesn’t win competitions… I can’t wait to win the British Porter category with an IPA in the future. Sorry to be pessimistic about it all but it’s a bit annoying.
A lot of real ale in Britain does use a lot of American and new world hops these days, I do think you need some British hops in there to make it really taste like a British golden ale
Great research as always, but I’m thinking this is a pretty flawed and/or pointless style category if people are basically winning with American Pale/Blonde Ale recipes. WLP-007 is very clean by British standards so I’m doubtful that yeast expression is huge here. Would be curious to try the commercial examples and see how they compare.
Been waiting for this one.
As always! Fantastic data! Thank you.
Interesting to see a British ale winning with American hops. Great video as always
I just wanted to write the same.
I'd expect more British malts and hops, otherwise it looks more like 18b APA.
I'm curious if it's more marketing to call it British or if it's really tasting more British than American because yeast do most of the job.
I think it's more the yeast that sets this apart from apa and session Ipa. One winner even admitted that they won the category with a session ipa
It doesn’t seem to me that the yeast sets it apart when a few winning recipes used Chico. Also, many APAs and IPAs use English yeast to good effect. It would be nice if the national delineation in name actually meant that the ingredients were representative of those historic national flavours. Clearly that doesn’t win competitions… I can’t wait to win the British Porter category with an IPA in the future. Sorry to be pessimistic about it all but it’s a bit annoying.
A lot of real ale in Britain does use a lot of American and new world hops these days, I do think you need some British hops in there to make it really taste like a British golden ale
Thanks for the vid!
im really surprised by the american hops (and the modern ones) o: thanks again Mean for an excellent job👏🏼
Great research as always, but I’m thinking this is a pretty flawed and/or pointless style category if people are basically winning with American Pale/Blonde Ale recipes. WLP-007 is very clean by British standards so I’m doubtful that yeast expression is huge here. Would be curious to try the commercial examples and see how they compare.
Great video as usual -thanks ----wondering what the difference is between this golden ale recipe and an APA recipe ??
Not much. Maybe more esters in the British
*now* I know what "mean" brews means....I am interested in trying wy1099 on a golden ale, any info on using this yeast good or bad?
I think it'll work but be a bit less attenuated than it should be.