It has enough malt complexity to prevent it from being a boring tasting beer. The biscuit malt gives it a nice nutty / bready taste.

It finishes pretty dry with some initial malt-sweetness that does not last to the finish. The Buckwheat Belgium Pale Ale is a well-balanced, easy-drinking beer. It sort of tastes like a little brother to my Phat & Tyred Ale. The beer model likes it too, which is a bit of a disappointment as I would like to drink it all myself. I was very pleased with the way this beer turned out. Because I was going to have to do a partial mash anyway, I decided to bring the base grain up to the same amount as the LME, making this (by far) the most economical brew I've done so far. Jamil's recipe calls for a bit of Biscuit malt to be steeped, but BeerSmith wants it to be mashed. To my surprise, she actually spent the time to look through the book and picked out 'Antwerp Afternoon', which is Jamil's award winning Belgium Pale Ale. I asked her if she would like to pick out a recipe from the book for me to brew. Of course I spent lots of time looking it over and based most of my recipes so far in 2010 on recipes in the book. Buckwheat's Belgium Pale Ale Brewed: Kegged: Īs I mentioned before, the SheppyBrew Beer Model got me Jamil Zainasheff's and John Palmer's book Brewing Classic Styles for my birthday.

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