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Brewer: Bawlmer Craft Beers
Style: Brown Ale
Alcohol Content: 6.1%
Seasonal: No
Description:
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Bawlmer Formstone Ale
Brewer: Bawlmer Craft Beers
Style: Brown Ale
Alcohol Content: 6.1%
Seasonal: No
Description:
Formstone Ale
Formstone Ale is brewed with a blend of American special pale ale, and caramel malts, as well as dark Belgian chocolate malt. This gives a deep dark brown color and bold complex flavor profile with hints of caramel, chocolate, coffee, and nuts while maintaining very low astringency. Like all Bawlmer beers, these flavors and aromas are balanced by residual sweetness and body from our traditional single infusion mash.
Noble American Cascade hops are boiled for more than an hour in the fire-brewed kettle to accentuate these malt flavors. American Willamette hops are added at the end of the boil to contribute a clean, somewhat fruity aroma. Formstone is then fermented in traditional, open fermenters with Bawlmer’s top cropping, ale yeast. Natural bottle-conditioning infuses the beer with fine, delicate carbonation and imparts a thick, rich head.
Formstone is packaged in 12 oz long neck bottles and is available in 6 packs and full cases.
Style – American Brown Ale
Malts – American Special Pale Ale Malt (4° Lovibond) moderately kilned two-row malt which adds malt flavor and aroma and an amber color; American Caramel Malt (60° L) two-row caramel malt which provides deep color and caramel sweetness with lower astringency than traditional crystal malts; American White Wheat Malt (2° Lovibond) Soft White Winter Wheat which improves head retention; and Belgian Chocolate Malt (350° L) imported malt that is roasted at temperatures up to 450°F and then rapidly cooled. This malt adds aroma, a deep red color, and a nutty /roasted taste.
Flavoring Hops - Cascade hops from independent American hop growers - adds floral, spice, and grapefruit flavors.
Aroma Hops - Willamette hops from independent American hop growers – considered “the king of American aroma hops” adds aromas of fruit, earth and spices.
Hop Bitterness – 40.6 International Bitterness Units (IBU’s)
Original Specific Gravity – 1.057 (14o Plato)
Final Specific Gravity (after fermentation) – 1.013 (3.3o Plato)
Final Alcohol Content (following bottle conditioning) – 6.1% by Volume
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