PilgrimHudds Brewdays

[pilgrimhudd]

Cool, thanks dude I'm thinking of doing another batch of this hazy pale ale, but using Tropical England this time (and as it happens, I've got another batch of the American Amber in that review in the FV ATM)

Yeah I saw your post, nice beer that.

I think the tropical English would go well with you recipe for the hazy, will you use hazy yeast?

My latest batch used cml hazy, I'll bottle on Tuesday, desperate to see what it looks like!

 

[matt76]

Yeah I saw your post, nice beer that.

I think the tropical English would go well with you recipe for the hazy, will you use hazy yeast?

My latest batch used cml hazy, I'll bottle on Tuesday, desperate to see what it looks like!

I'll use Lallemand Verdant IPA again - whether that's a hazy yeast or not I don't know... with some oats in the grist and a dry hop I seem to get a stable and lasting haze, albeit not the thickest fog. On the other hand I've found the bitters and ambers have come out super clear if I fine with gelatin. On it's own though it doesn't drop quite as clear as BRY-97 for example.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

I will be bottling my Tropical England today. I was going to keg it but at 6.7% ABV I think it will be better bottled.

 

[pilgrimhudd]

I'll use Lallemand Verdant IPA again - whether that's a hazy yeast or not I don't know... with some oats in the grist and a dry hop I seem to get a stable and lasting haze, albeit not the thickest fog. On the other hand I've found the bitters and ambers have come out super clear if I fine with gelatin. On it's own though it doesn't drop quite as clear as BRY-97 for example.

Ahh that reminds me, I did add some oats to mine.

 

[pilgrimhudd]

I will be bottling my Tropical England today. I was going to keg it but at 6.7% ABV I think it will be better bottled.

It's a good'n!

 

[Rodcx500z]

I kegged a tropical from cml 2 days ago also a gamma ray twist 3 days ago

 

[pilgrimhudd]

I kegged a tropical from cml 2 days ago also a gamma ray twist 3 days ago

Gamma Ray is centennial mainly off the top of my head?

 

[Rodcx500z]

Gamma Ray is centennial mainly off the top of my head?

It had bittering hops and a large bag of gamma ray twist off the top of my head i think it was 205g

 

[Cheshire Cat]

It's a good'n!

37 bottles filled and moved to living room.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

37 bottles filled and moved to living room.

Strawberry gin bottled too.

 

[pilgrimhudd]

Strawberry gin bottled too.

Not for me thanks, but each to their own!

 

[matt76]

Not for me thanks, but each to their own!

I expect it's like that pink cider - only a REAL man can stand in a pub drinking it

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Made with frozen strawberries, very nice, would be good in summer with tonic and fresh strawberries.

 

[pilgrimhudd]

Bottled my Tropical English v2, this one finished at 1012, making it 6.6%. Cloudy as hoped, quite bright, taste wise, possibly not as fruity as last time, however a lovely level of bitterness. See you in4 weeks!

 

[pilgrimhudd]

Busy one again today, bottled my Chinook porter, finished at 1016 making it a decent 6.4%, looks good with a good aroma, tastewise, maybe slightly thin if thats a taste? Anyway see how it goes when it carbs up.

I also brewed a Dunkelweizen, using the Gretel recipe on the CML website. Shifting it a little to account for stock.

Pale Ale 1.5kg
Wheat 1.2 kg
Vienna Malt 1.3 kg
Crystal Light 300g
Caramalt (light) 100g
Chocolate Malt 140g

45g Hersbrucker @60

Pitched at 24c CML Gretel

Plan is (when i find my warmer) to warm the fv up to the high 20's if I can.

 

[matt76]

Busy one again today, bottled my Chinook porter, finished at 1016 making it a decent 6.4%, looks good with a good aroma, tastewise, maybe slightly thin if thats a taste? Anyway see how it goes when it carbs up.

I'll be interested to hear what you make of it, I think I'm coming round to the conclusion that I prefer my dark beers malty rather than hoppy - or at least I haven't yet managed to perfect the art of dark and hoppy!

A few months ago I tried Siren's "Nepethe" Porter - I recall it having a similar taste to my own one but much thinner whereas mine has a lot more mouthfeel so I think I know what you mean. But yeah, always risky to draw to many conclusions at packaging rather than waiting until it's properly carbed and conditioned (despite saying that I'm sure I'll continue to do so! )

 

[pilgrimhudd]

I think your right, much prefer a malty dark beer!

Wondering if it needed some more mouthfeel, next time I should chuck in some lactose?

Funny how commercial beers differ, I had a porter on Saturday that i had to chuck, yesterday had a winter porter from sainsbury (would recommend the winter warmer too) and it was really good, tasted of Xmas pudding.

 

[matt76]

For the lactose I don't know because I've never used it but I believe that's the idea. I'm pretty sure the 5-6% stout I had from Siren recently had assume in actually.

I suppose you could consider adding in some oats, along with the wheat? Personally I tend to do it by adding shed loads of crystal malts and dark roasted malts - but I kinda need to because I'm generally aiming around the 4% ABV mark.

The other thing of course is you could add more base malt but then you're heading into Baltic Porter territory.

As for commercial beers, yeah they can vary a lot. I think anything mass produced is at least consistent, it may or may not be good.

The trouble with homebrewing is it's made me more aware and critical of off flavours. Some craft beers are amazing but I've had assume that we're dreadful where you think, "Really? You're letting this go out to the buying public?"

 

[pilgrimhudd]

Couple of updates since last time, I bottled my dunkelweizen yesterday, that finished around 1010 ish, and I believe that the og was 1046(I neglected to write it down!). Therefore I'm saying abv of 4.6% ish....

Aroma, lots of banana, taste lots of clove. Apart from the fact it looks like river water I'm pretty happy.

I also brewed a Pilgrim hopped user upper last week. I was looking for a bag of malt and the home brew company had a 25kg bag for £26 which I didn't think was bad a 100g of Pilgrim for £2 so thought I'd give it a whirl.

This had 3.5kg pale, 1kg Munich, 200g Crystal and 150g biscuit. Boiled for 60 mins and added 15g pilgrim @60, 20@10, 20@ 5 and 30g whirlpool at 80c for 20 mins. Pitched cml Midland and the wort tasted promising. Og 1050 ibu 37.

 

[Gingerbrews]

I'll be interested to see how this turns out. I've a similar lot of left overs lying about