# Rice and Jasmine Tea Kveik Ale

Brewed as the second beer of a parti-gyle comprised of:

1. Kveik Blond Ale
2. Rice and Jasmine Tea Kveik Ale

## Ingredients

### Fermentables

| Name                                    | Amount      |
|---------------------------------------- |------------ |
| Innomalt's "Pilsner Moderne" Malt       | 4 kg        |
| Jasmine Rice, pre-cooked                | 1 kg        |

### Hops

| Name            | Amount  | Alpha   | Form      | Use           |
|---------------- |-------- | ------- | --------- | ------------- |
| Mt. Hood        | 35 g    | 5.9%    | Pellet    | Boil, 60 mins |
| Mt. Hood        | 10 g    | 5.9%    | Pellet    | Boil, 30 mins |
| Tettnang        | 10 g    | 3.1%    | Pellet    | Boil, 10 mins |
| Hallertau Blanc | 15 g    | 8.5%    | Pellet    | Whirlpool     |
| Hallertau Blanc | 15 g    | 8.5%    | Pellet    | Dry Hop       |

### Yeast

| Name                                           | Code    |
| ---------------------------------------------- | ------- |
| White Labs Hornindal Kveik Ale Yeast           | WLP521  |

### Other

| Name                                      | Amount  | Use                  |
| ----------------------------------------- | ------- | -------------------- |
| Jasmine Tea                               | 45 g    | 2nd fermentation     |

## Brewing Steps

### Mash

* Amount: 21L
* Time: 60 mins
* Target Temperature: 67°C

### Sparge

* Amount: 4L
* Time: 15 mins
* Strike Temperature: 67°C

### Boil

* Amount: 25L
* Time: 90 mins

## Notes

This type of malt is more susceptible to DMS and the mash needs to undergo a
vigorous boil.

Dry hopped on 2020-06-29, but only added 35g of tea.

Tasted on 2020-07-02 and added another 10g of tea.

Bottled on 2020-07-05.

It took a while for this beer to become good enough to be enjoyable. Whereas the
jasmine comes out OK, there is too much tea and it gives the beer a displeasing
astringency. It would have been a better idea to use dried jasmine flowers
instead of tea.

-- In retrospective, that tea was trash and I wouldn't drink it on its own.
-- Using a better jasmine tea would've probably solved that issue (Perles du
-- Dragon, for example)

It's also pretty thin. If I were to brew it again, I would ditch the rice and
try to get a better extraction (we didn't really sparge and just added -- a lot
-- of water to top the carboy off).

I would also reduce the amount of Mt. Hood at 60mins by half. I'm not sure I get
the point of whirpooling hops either, as we cool too quickly. Better add it as
very late boil instead.