Welcome back everybody I'm Brad I'm
Steve so today we have the Cascade smash
with Rahr 2-Row now we just finished
the Pilsner version so we're moving on
to the next one this was bottled on 6/22
same as the Pilsner version 5.3 8% and i
think the other one was 39 yeah 3 9 so
it very darn close
we finally got very close on them even
you just yeah yeah so well and that's
what I was also thinking about because
some of these and I don't know if I
don't notice it when I'm doing a five
gallon batch because you're not doing
like I could do three beers in one day
but sometimes it's so hard to read like
it could be four point seven five bricks
but it's actually four point eight five
bricks so that's one thing that I have
noticed is that lately you could be off
a little bit and still be on you you
know so that's sometimes I think it's
better instead of going with the bricks
to go with the actual you know 10:43
1044 because there's more lines to read
where the bricks it's it just goes wider
yeah yeah so but we've got a lot of
settlement and this one well look at the
color of this one yeah and I think I
don't know I was watching as you opened
it and I noticed a lot of carbonation
start coming to the top and I wonder if
it just kicked up all that yeah but and
we'll have a side-by-side of three
cascade beers but the color of this
looks like Mountain Dew yeah but it
looks more I would think this one would
be the Pilsner yeah because the Rahr 2-Row
should be darker yeah that's weird
but I also did a video because when we
were talking before
some people were saying that the hops
can change the cloudiness in the color
okay yeah well see that well same exact
top the only thing at the same quantity
to us so that could be debunked a button
but look at the head on this one bottled
the same day same package of carbonation
tablets the only thing that we changed
was the the malt hmm
so very nice fluffy head with a whole
bunch of hot crap on top finger of had I
mean I've got pillows so do you
yeah there you know when I wonder too if
there's just more residual sugar left
over for that carbonation to those
sugars but it's five point three eight
percent verse five point three nine
percent so okay it's to tell us what do
you I mean the color I like the color if
all that hop particle wasn't there lots
and lots of bubbles what do you get it
looks like meringue on the top get a lot
more snow because that bubbles but I get
more lemon this time melon this time
it's almost like a
yeah I get more hot this time yeah I
still get that sweet malt but yeah I I
don't know if it's because you said
melon but it's more Melanie on the melon
side than it is a fruit or a citrus
yeah which isn't normally your cascade
yeah so I wonder if it's just that
residual sweetness what we're smelling
yeah Pilsner okay let's try and taste so
we get our fulfillment of hot dust today
it's got a stronger flavor than the last
one it this is gonna sound very weird
it tastes brighter so I don't know if
it's just almost like it's fresher
yeah but yeast maybe a touch of yeast
maybe it's just because the carbonation
is going yeah it tastes smoother mm-hmm
it's a little drier yeah it's still so
on this one we were at 11 bricks and we
went down to four point seven five
bricks okay or ten eighteen but you have
to do the conversion for a refractometer
we're on the other one we are at eleven
point two five bricks there we went down
to five okay that makes sense and so
this would be your dryer yep so you're
waiting to taste that difference but
yeah it is different I still get the
sweet a tiny bit of that sweet mall
biome
I don't get I don't get the Cascade
taste that I was expecting yeah I got
more like I don't even know what I'm
thinking I don't know it's more lemon or
melon to me than it is I could see that
I couldn't even tell you what what hops
are in here what it's just a brighter
crisper fresher taste like no taste yeah
it's very light beer you know and every
time I think you cascade I always
thinking too hard yeah so I'm always
trying to compare like taste wise to
that yeah I I would never guess cascade
was in this yeah and I believe on this
one when it was two weeks old I got more
vegetal like it was very young so it is
getting better
and our meringue still has hop-hop stuff
on it but I think for the most part
there's there's nothing wrong with it
but that cascades not bringing anything
on its own
yeah and for two pounds of grain it
should be overpowering this to be I
would think like it's a very brute dry
yeah something yeah it's not bad yeah
but yeah so let us know if you've made a
cascade smash beer in what your hops
schedule was and we will compare it to
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