Hazelwood’s Brewday Part 2

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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.
 
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.
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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.
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Tomorrow I’m going to brew a strong ale based on my brown ale. I’ll be looking for something around 8%.
 
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?
 

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