Hazelwood Brewday

[Hazelwood Brewery]

I’m trying this flavouring in my plum porter and early results smell and taste good.

I’ve now ordered their Hazelnut flavouring to make a Hazelnut Stout (I love the one from Dark Arts) and some Clementine flavouring to make a “Jaffa Cake” Chocolate Stout. Excited already!

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Tried the Hazelnut flavour in a stout - such a disappointment. I’m gutted.

Tried the Clementine and Chocolate flavour in a stout (Jaffa Cake Stout) and this is showing some promise. Not good enough as it is but I might make up three or four bottles to see if the flavours develop in the bottle.

Next, a couple of fruit flavours (not in the stout).

 

[kimosabby]

Tried the Hazelnut flavour in a stout - such a disappointment. I’m gutted.

Tried the Clementine and Chocolate flavour in a stout (Jaffa Cake Stout) and this is showing some promise. Not good enough as it is but I might make up three or four bottles to see if the flavours develop in the bottle.

Next, a couple of fruit flavours (not in the stout).

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What sort of dosage rates are you mixing with? I once used peanut butter essence in a choc stout and put in about 1ml a litre. Won’t do that again...

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

What sort of dosage rates are you mixing with? I once used peanut butter essence in a choc stout and put in about 1ml a litre. Won’t do that again...

1 drip at a time, up to about 10 drips in a quarter pint.

..just for testing

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Some time ago I tried a bottle of Goose Island Sofie saison and liked it. The key attributes for this beer (I think) are orange peel and being aged in white wine barrels. I haven’t got white wine barrels or even oak chips so thought I might just try Nelson Sauvin hops to get something of a hint of white wine in the hop stand and I added quite a lot of fresh orange peel at the same time. Just for good measure some Amarillo hops too. Will be interesting to see how this one turns out.

 

[Ajhutch]

Sounds good. What yeast have you gone for?

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Sounds good. What yeast have you gone for?

I used Lallemand Belle Saison

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Just had a peek in my fermentation cupboard to check on my saison. It was bubbling contentedly so all looking good. Most notable though - as I opened the door I got a waft of orange from the orange peel. I’ve no idea what this will taste like but the smell at this point is incredible. Excited (again!)

 

[Pennine]

im trying to picture in my head orange and grapes? cant seem to... curious how they will mesh.

i have a soft spot for saison's and citra. match made in heaven for me. but sauvin is a great idea.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

im trying to picture in my head orange and grapes? cant seem to... curious how they will mesh.

i have a soft spot for saison's and citra. match made in heaven for me. but sauvin is a great idea.

It might not work! I’ll let you know.

Edit: Please, don’t let it be like Buck’s Fizz!!!

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Today I kegged the latest batch of my IPA “Summer Breeze”.

Now the long hard impatient wait before I can see if the changes I made to the recipe have made it better or not.

Drum. Drum. Drum. Drum.

 

[Pennine]

It might not work! I’ll let you know.

Edit: Please, don’t let it be like Buck’s Fizz!!!

i tried and orange and a grape at the same time. wasnt bad at all, tasted like a fruit salad. you should be good!

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

i tried and orange and a grape at the same time. wasnt bad at all, tasted like a fruit salad. you should be good!

Do you mean an actual grape and an actual orange?

 

[Pennine]

Do you mean an actual grape and an actual orange?

yup! was genuinely curious, for your sake of course.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

yup! was genuinely curious, for your sake of course.

Of course!

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Made another batch of my Mosaic IPA. This is one of those beers that doesn’t really impress for about 4 weeks then quite suddenly becomes everyone’s favourite - second favourite when there’s any Summer Breeze left (Citra/Galaxy IPA).

23 litres, OG=1060, abv~6.5%

 

[samale]

Made another batch of my Mosaic IPA. This is one of those beers that doesn’t really impress for about 4 weeks then quite suddenly becomes everyone’s favourite - second favourite when there’s any Summer Breeze left (Citra/Galaxy IPA).

23 litres, OG=1060, abv~6.5%

Hard to see past mosaic. I just bottled my black IPA last night. I paired mosiac with Simcoe. Smells good.
What's your recipe for your mosiac IPA

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Hard to see past mosaic. I just bottled my black IPA last night. I paired mosiac with Simcoe. Smells good.
What's your recipe for your mosiac IPA

I do the same:

Mosaic IPA “Festival”
4.8Kg Vienna malt
300g Crystal 30
200g Torrified wheat
75min mash at 155F

20g Magnum Leaf AA=15.3% (60 mins)

1/2 Protofloc tablet (15 mins)
30g Simcoe Leaf AA=13% (15 mins)
30g Mosaic Leaf AA=11.4% (15 mins)

1Kg sugar (0 mins)

Reduce temp to 165F
30g Simcoe Leaf AA=13%
30g Mosaic Leaf AA=11.4%
Hop stand for 30 mins at 165F

23 litres in FV, OG=1060
20g US West Coast yeast

Dry hop on day 7
50g Simcoe Leaf, added dry
50g Mosaic Leaf, added dry

Barrel on day 12, FG=1010

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Just kegged my “Goofie” saison and I’m really impressed with the performance of the Belle Saison yeast: OG=1042, FG=1003. I even mashed at a fairly high temperature and by my reckoning the yeast still managed to achieve 93% attenuation!

Goofie Saison 5.1%
3.6Kg Pilsner malt
800g Vienna malt
1Kg Flaked Barley
Mash at 155F for 75 mins

10g Magnum leaf AA=15.3% 60 mins

At 0 mins reduce temp to 165F
22g Nelson Sauvin leaf AA=12.3%
20g Amarillo leaf AA=9.2%
110g thinly sliced orange peel
Hold at 165F for 30 minutes

23 litres in FV, OG=1042
1 pack Belle Saison yeast
Keg after 14 days, FG=1003

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

My recipe for sweet stout, still under development but not bad even now.


Sweet Stout 5.0%
3.6Kg Maris Otter
400g Chocolate malt EBC 900
300g Flaked oats
250g Crystal malt EBC 385
250g Special-B malt EBC 300
200g Brown malt EBC 150
200g Torrified wheat
75 min mash at 155F

10g Phoenix leaf Hops (60 mins)

500g Lactose at 5 mins
20g Phoenix leaf hops at 5 mins

22 Litres in FV, SG=1066
2 packs Safale 04 Yeast

Barrel on day 14, SG=1028