On Your Left

In fact, his goal in 2020 is to log 5000 miles on the bike, and at this time he is well ahead of accomplishing the goal. See Sheppy's Blog: #5000MilesIn2020.

While out on the bike, several times a day, he will announce himself to slower riders and pedestrians with "On Your Left". At some point he thought ... that would make a good beer name.

Early July, we needed a recipe and decided to make it an easy drinking low alcohol but flavorful beer to enjoy after rides in the summer heat.

We decided to start with an Ordinary Bitter as the base style. 

We thought it would be fun to use Golden Naked oats as part of the grist, and went towards the light side of color for the style.

Rather than going with English hops, we thought we'd mix up the style a bit and go with Galena to add a bit more fruity hoppiness. 

The Brew Master had also been spending quite a bit of time listening to Brülosophy podcasts lately, and really enjoyed the Short and Shoddy episodes / experiments.

If you're unfamiliar ... basically ... the idea behind "Short and Shoddy" is to cut some of the traditional processes to shorten brew days to see if you still end up with a good beer.

Lower mash times and boil times were things that come up over and over as not really being that important. Obviously, this dramatically reduces brew day times.

I thought I'd incorporate these and see what happens. I may decide to do more of my own recipes with lower mash and boil times. We'll see how this one turns out.

Should be awesome to drink this beer after a long hot July bike ride. 

For more information on this beer, see Sheppy's Blog: On Your Left 

On Your Left --- Batch 1 (260)

Style		Ordinary Bitter		Batch Size		6.00 gal
Type		All Grain		Boil Size		7.66 gal
Brewhouse Efficiency		70.00		Boil Time		30 minutes

Recipe Characteristics

Recipe Gravity		1.037 SG		Estimated FG		1.010 SG
Recipe Bitterness		26.3 IBUs (Rager)		Alcohol by Volume		3.5 %
BU : GU		0.709
Recipe Color		8.3 SRM		Color
Measured OG:		1.035		Measured FG:		1.010
ADF:		71		Measured ABV:		3.3

Ingredients

Ingredients

Amt	Name	Type	#	%/IBU	Volume
8.68 gal	Denver, Colorado	Water	1	-	-
3.00 g	Calcium Chloride (Mash)	Water Agent	2	-	-
2.00 g	Epsom Salt (MgSO4) (Mash)	Water Agent	3	-	-
7 lbs	Maris Otter (Crisp) (4.0 SRM)	Grain	4	82.4 %	0.55 gal
1 lbs	Golden Naked Oats C15 (15.0 SRM)	Grain	5	11.8 %	0.08 gal
8.0 oz	Crystal, Dark (Simpsons) (80.0 SRM)	Grain	6	5.9 %	0.04 gal
0.500 oz	Columbus (Tomahawk) [18.00 %] - Boil 30.0 min	Hop	7	16.6 IBUs	-
0.250 oz	Galena [15.20 %] - Boil 10.0 min	Hop	8	2.8 IBUs	-
0.750 oz	Galena [15.20 %] - Boil 5.0 min	Hop	9	6.9 IBUs	-
1.0 pkg	Nottingham Yeast (Lallemand #-) [23.66 ml]	Yeast	10	-	-

Mash Profile

Mash Steps

Name	Description	Step Temperature	Step Time
Mash In	Add 10.63 qt of water at 168.2 F	156.0 F	45 min

Batch sparge with 2 steps (Drain mash tun , 6.02gal) of 168.0 F water

Recipe Notes
Salts From Denver water, this puts my water at:
Ca=112,Mg=28,Na=21,SO4=128,Cl=167,HCO3=104

Brewing Record

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Pre-boil OG		(1.033 SG)		Pre-boil Vol		(7.66 gal)
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Fermentation
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