What did you brew today?

Appleton Brews · Sep 25, 2024

Today I brewed 22 litres of Mena Dru Stout (it means Red Hill in the Cornish language) The genuine stuff is brewed by the St. Austell Brewery in Cornwall.

3500g Irish Pale Malt
300g Smoked malt
180g Roasted Barley
180g Naked malted oats
180g Chocolate malt
140g Medium Crystal Malt
Fuggles 46g at 60m & 30g at 15m
CML Midland yeast
OG 1.044 expecting ABV 4.5%

Caramel Ox · Sep 28, 2024

Kernel Export India Porter using the last mystery yeast pack I got from MM which is HBC431. This has been on my recipe list for a while so had to be attempted sometime. Currently I have significant doubts about being too strong in the roast flavour. Been a while since I made any porter so maybe it will change during fermentation.

RichardM · Sep 28, 2024

A Belgian Dark Strong Ale
It started out with the idea of doing a Chimay Blue clone.
I found a few recipes online, read Brew Like a Monk and then tweaked it.
It's about half way through the boil at the moment and should be ready to drink this time next year

6Trails · Sep 28, 2024

Just finished a dry Irish stout. Incident free so far.

YeastFace · Sep 28, 2024

Appleton Brews said:
Today I brewed 22 litres of Mena Dru Stout (it means Red Hill in the Cornish language) The genuine stuff is brewed by the St. Austell Brewery in Cornwall.

3500g Irish Pale Malt
300g Smoked malt
180g Roasted Barley
180g Naked malted oats
180g Chocolate malt
140g Medium Crystal Malt
Fuggles 46g at 60m & 30g at 15m
CML Midland yeast
OG 1.044 expecting ABV 4.5%

Not meaning to be a pedant but Du is Cornish for black, and with lenition or possession is Dhu. Cognate with Dubh as Gaeilge nó Gàidhlig.

Red is rudh/rua/ruadh (or dearg, if a deep red).

Appleton Brews · Sep 28, 2024

You are right it is black.

jof · Sep 28, 2024

I pressed 5 gallons of apple juice for cider making demo at the museum

NotSure · Sep 28, 2024

Caramel Ox said:
Kernel Export India Porter using the last mystery yeast pack I got from MM which is HBC431. This has been on my recipe list for a while so had to be attempted sometime. Currently I have significant doubts about being too strong in the roast flavour. Been a while since I made any porter so maybe it will change during fermentation.

Kernel is an awesome brewery and I appreciate that they still bottle as opposed to can. I've hijacked their Pale Ale yeast to make a beer before by using the residue at the bottom of three bottles and making a starter. If I tried cloning one of their beers, I'd probably do something similar, but understandable if you don't try that with bottles of their stronger ones. Almost like a big homebrewer and they do things right.

ale_crowe_holic · Sep 29, 2024

My DIPA has turned into a TIPA.
I'm assuming due to the extra oats and lactose I added at the start

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RichardM · Sep 29, 2024

ale_crowe_holic said:
My DIPA has turned into a TIPA.
I'm assuming due to the extra oats and lactose I added at the start

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Lactose won't affect the ABV, it isn't fermentable.

ale_crowe_holic · Sep 29, 2024

RichardM said:
Lactose won't affect the ABV, it isn't fermentable.

Ok, just the oats then.

RichardM · Sep 29, 2024

ale_crowe_holic said:
Ok, just the oats then.

Is the final gravity in your image what you have measured or what is predicted?

ale_crowe_holic · Sep 29, 2024

RichardM said:
Is the final gravity in your image what you have measured or what is predicted?

Measured over the last couple of days. Going to check Tuesday morning as I'm going away for 2 weeks from then so hoping to bottle before I go.

foxy · Sep 30, 2024

foxy said:
I brewed a Pacific Ale clone today.
OG 1,045 FG 1,010 ABV 4.6% IBU 27 SRM 3.5 Mash pH 5.5
3 kg Weyermann Pilsner malt
1.5 kg Weyermann Wheat malt
0.5 kg Flaked wheat
8g Galaxy @ 20 minutes
20g Galaxy @ 10 minutes
10g Galaxy @ 5 minutes
30g Cascade dry hop in secondary.
Mash into 32 litres of water 40 minutes @ 64C 20 minutes @ 70C

Holding steady @ 64C
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Iodine test
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Double barrel squeeze and an extra 2 litres
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Boil and gravity check
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That will do me. What I am hoping for.
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I thought I was being conservative by adding my Galaxy Hops at 20 minutes, a side-by-side taste of the Stone & Wood Pacific ale mine is slightly on the bitter side. I have now read that no hops go into the Stone & Wood Pacific Ale before 10 minutes!
I have been looking online at other responses to Galaxy Hops and came across this article where Scott Hargrave of Balter Brewing discusses Galaxy Hops.
https://allaboutbeer.com/best-pract...'s got all this great,stay away from hot side.

RoomWithABrew · Sep 30, 2024

foxy said:
I thought I was being conservative by adding my Galaxy Hops at 20 minutes, a side-by-side taste of the Stone & Wood Pacific ale mine is slightly on the bitter side. I have now read that no hops go into the Stone & Wood Pacific Ale before 10 minutes!
I have been looking online at other responses to Galaxy Hops and came across this article where Scott Hargrave of Balter Brewing discusses Galaxy Hops.
https://allaboutbeer.com/best-practices-for-brewing-with-galaxy-hops/#:~:text=It's got all this great,stay away from hot side.

Just wondering given you've done some research on this beer, what yeast and temp profile did you use.
Taken on board the Galaxy tip. I've not used it in a beer yet but this looks like a great excuse.
Lots about Stone and Wood in the Brewing in Queensland 12 parter on youtube.

foxy · Sep 30, 2024

RoomWithABrew said:
Just wondering given you've done some research on this beer, what yeast and temp profile did you use.
Taken on board the Galaxy tip. I've not used it in a beer yet but this looks like a great excuse.
Lots about Stone and Wood in the Brewing in Queensland 12 parter on youtube.

I used SO4, I also put a bit of Vienna in mine for a bit of body but I won't bother next time. Mashed at 64C, I have seen others mash at 66C so I may try that on my next brew.

Bzee · Sep 30, 2024

60 ltr of cider took all day even with a 1.8 kw garden shreader

Twostage · Oct 3, 2024

A user-upper yesterday. My plan was to make a Kolsch, had a recipe and ingredients ready to go then I realised my stock levels of conditioned beer was running out so switched to something that didn't need to be lagered. So it was a mix of Vienna, Munich 1, dextrin and amber. Hops were Citra, Aurora and Celeia hops. Fermenting with Voss Kviek at 30c.

First time I've constructed a recipe on the fly in the brewshed, weighing bags of grain and hops and sticking the result into BrewFather until I had something like beer.

Appleton Brews · Oct 3, 2024

Today I’m brewing 15 litres of a Double Maxim Brown Ale
2800g MO
100g Medium crystal
70g Chocolate malt
70g Wheat malt
50g Roasted Barley
23g Challenger @ 45m
15g Fuggles @ 15m
CML Midland

Druss · Oct 3, 2024

Twostage said:
First time I've constructed a recipe on the fly in the brewshed, weighing bags of grain and hops and sticking the result into BrewFather until I had something like beer.

That's pretty much my entire process

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