After a success with a Cascadeⁱ-grapefruit beer last summer I thought I'd try another easy drinking super hoppey beer.

Mash - 1 hour 30 mins, 20 litres, 50°c for 30 mins, 15 mins to reach 67°C & held there for 45 mins

2 teaspoons of citric acid

4 Kg pale malt

Boil 1 hour 20 mins

Amarillo hops 35g at start, Cacade hops 35g at start

Amarillo hops 20g after 40 mins, Cacade hops 20g after 40 mins

Amarillo hops 3g after 1 hour 10 mins, Cacade hops 27g after 1 hour 10 mins

650g sucrose as boil ended

Using the very handy recipe formulator, the alcohol level should be around 4.6% & bitterness at 104 IBUⁱ

Verdict on bottling: Wow!    Stereotypical grapefruitiness of Cascade hops in spades but not overwhelmingly so.   Good bitterness but the hoppiness is the biggest factor.   Eagerly anticipating the settled product.

Verdict after 1 week in bottle: Initially a little musty with some DMS, but aftertaste is wonderfully fresh with citrus hoppiness.   After leaving the beer to air for a few hours (the DMS flavour vents away with the realeased CO₂) in the fridge I am left with an extremely pale, superbly clean tasting, easy drinking, hoppy beer.

Verdict after 4 weeks in the bottle: A very citrussy, lemony-grapefruity, hoppy beer.   Still not cleared perfectly.   This beer is very dry now & wonderfully thirst quenching.