Brewed this with WLP067 Coastal Haze Ale Yeast.
OG: 1.069
FG: 1.010
ABV: 7.75%
The color and clarity is about right for Pseudo Sue though I'm not comparing side by side, just based on memory.
Not a strong aroma but picking up some Citra, citrus, OJ.
The taste seems weak. It doesn't taste like a whole heck of a lot of anything. Not bitter, not flavorful. Like watered down juice. and it has almost no head on it, it should be carbed to 12 PSI.
Followed the whirlpool and dry hopping schedule. 6 oz dry, split for 5 days and 3 days. cold crashed 2 days, and force carbed one day.
It's kind of dangerous being 7.75% and tasting like nothing but I was hoping it would ignite my senses. I did not clone Pseudo Sue.
While my efficiency was higher than expected, it's due to the problems that began during the mash. I ended up mashing for 100 minutes. I mashed in at 144 F which was under my target of 148 F so I mashed longer while getting the temp up, and still performed a 10 minute mashout at 168 F. Used a No sparge method with larger grain bill and HERMs recirculation to compensate. Then the tubing between my MLT bulk head and false bottom came disconnected while stirring and I got all kinds of grain in my pump which got stuck so I couldn't drain to my boil kettle. I decided to get a grain bag and scoop / dump the entire mash into it and squeeze the wort out of the bag into my boil kettle. I believe this actually caused the higher efficiency.
mash pH was a little high at 5.56.
final pH reads 5.28 @ 56 F, which according to a temperature correction calculator should be 5.21.