Will you wash and sanitise the NEIPA bucket or put it straight on top? I ask as in the past I've done similar and dropped the new brew straight onto the yeast cake and it was fine.
Hazelwood’s Brewday Part 2
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I’ll clean and sanitise first. My bitter uses an English ale yeast that produces nice English ale esters and has good flocculation for clarity. The verdant yeast used in the NEIPA wouldn’t give me the same flavour profile and is designed to produce hazy beers - see next post
The NEIPA is kegged along with some keg hops and a good dose of ascorbic acid. The final gravity is 1.012 giving me an abv of 7.1%. This one is definitely more hazy!
The bitter is done now and just over 20 litres is tucked up in the fermentation cabinet. There’s nothing happening on the brewing front tomorrow (apart from dry hopping my Butterfly Effect APA) but on Friday I’ll keg the Brown Ale and I might get another Czech lager on the go.
I dry hopped that American Pale this morning and then decided I ought to replace the silicon tube on my recirculation/transfer pipes and clean the stainless quick disconnects. It’s probably a bit odd but clean pipes make me feel happy. 
I didn’t get round to kegging that Brown Ale yesterday because we went out in the morning to Folkestone and again in the afternoon at the pub. I did keg it this morning though and it’s hopefully a good one. The colour is right, the aroma is right, and from what I can tell out of the fermenter the flavour is good. I might have to brew another batch to see how well it works on cask.
First taste of my revised NEIPA and after just 3 days in the keg this one is more in line with what I wanted. My wife thinks it looks like grapefruit juice and tastes like grapefruit juice! She does have a point but there is a lot more going on, the aroma is bursting with juicy tropical fruit (and grapefruit). It might actually be very close to Faith although that wasn’t my intention at all.
Same hops and hop schedule as your previous NEIPA recipe @Hazelwood Brewery ?
No, I just used up some hops I’d been given as competition prizes with the first batch. This one uses some of my favourite hops - Citra, Mosaic, Cascade.
This morning I kegged my 6.3% American Pale, Butterfly Effect. It has good colour and flavour and is quite aromatic although keg hops will boost that further.
I completely forgot to post about yesterdays brewday, I brewed another batch of my Pirate Pale as the keg currently on tap is about to kick.
Today I brewed a Czech lager. I do have one of these on tap at the moment but with Christmas coming up I ought to have one ready in the wings.
The stout and best bitter (keg also about to kick) are ready to keg so I might keg those tomorrow.
Today I brewed a Czech lager. I do have one of these on tap at the moment but with Christmas coming up I ought to have one ready in the wings.
The stout and best bitter (keg also about to kick) are ready to keg so I might keg those tomorrow.
I kegged those beers this morning, the stout and the best bitter that’s going in a keg.
I’ve still got the Pirate Pale and Czech lager to keg but that won’t be until next week. I just need to brew 2 more beers and a cider then I’m fully stocked again.
I’ve still got the Pirate Pale and Czech lager to keg but that won’t be until next week. I just need to brew 2 more beers and a cider then I’m fully stocked again.
Yesterday I dry-hopped the Pirate Pale and today I brewed another batch of the cask best bitter. The bitter is the same recipe as for keg except I use an extra couple of litres of water because the King Keg holds more than a corny keg and I add a little extra base malt to compensate for the additional volume and maintain gravity. The boiler was pretty full but I now have 25 litres in the fermentation cabinet.
Tomorrow I’m going to brew a strong ale based on my brown ale. I’ll be looking for something around 8%.
Tomorrow I’m going to brew a strong ale based on my brown ale. I’ll be looking for something around 8%.
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HH how often do you brew it seems like every day. I thought I brewed a lot but only average 2 or 3 brews a month.
I brew in batches so when I’m restocking all my kegs it does get pretty busy. On average it would be 4 or 5 a month.
The strong ale is done and in the fermentation cabinet. It’s a good-looking ale if I say so myself
This morning I kegged the Pirate Pale and the Czech lager. That gives me space in the fermentation cabinet for my last brew in this tranche, a cider.
Pirate Pale
Czech Lager
Pirate Pale
Czech Lager
I know I said I have enough beer now but I’ve changed my mind. I have 2 NEIPAs so I’m going to drink the older of those more quickly to give other beers more time to mature before I finish those off! This means that in less than 2 weeks I will have an empty keg…
So the next question is what to brew and the obvious answer is another bitter but I think I’ll be alright, at least for another 3 or 4 weeks. With Christmas around the corner I definitely want something warming, something malty, and maybe darker.
Doppelbock?
So the next question is what to brew and the obvious answer is another bitter but I think I’ll be alright, at least for another 3 or 4 weeks. With Christmas around the corner I definitely want something warming, something malty, and maybe darker.
Doppelbock?
I’m getting another brew in this morning. Can you tell what it is yet?
Dunno. Give us a clue!
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