Got about 19l in fv, and 35 ish 500ml bottles.
What brand of pale are you usingAbsolutely beautiful day today, not much planned so a brew day was fitted in!
American IPA this time....
5kg Pale
500g Vienna
Mashed at 66 for 2 hours or so.
20g Colombus @60
10g Summit @15
25g El Dorado @5
65g El Dorado and 20g Summit Whirlpool for 20 mins @80c.
Pitched CML 5, IBU 55, OG 1051. 16l in the FV. Gravity not too bad this time, was expecting slightly more but i'm struggling with this batch of malt to get the sugar out of it, hence why I had less in the FV than usual.
What brand of pale are you using
So after yesterday's disaster and taking the opportunity to take some time owing I got home early and decided to brew a pseudo lager, this one using Loral hops, not one I've used before but it sounded nice.
4kg Pale
200g caragold
250g carapils
Mashed at 62 for 1 hour.
Brought to boil and hops were
10g challenger +
10g Loral @30
20g Loral @ 15
20g Loral @ 5
60g Loral whirlpool 80c for 20 mins.
Og a little bit down on expected at 1043, IBU 40, pitched cml california common. Hoping this will be my 6 nations sessionable beer.
Chinook Porter... what, wait, did I miss something? Did you win a competition?
Fantastic you must be well chuffedAhh won the Scottish National Homebrew Champs, American Porters and Stouts!
Dude, that's fantastic, congratulationsAhh won the Scottish National Homebrew Champs, American Porters and Stouts!
Dude, that's fantastic, congratulations
This was the recipe, right, from last November?Thanks, had a feeling it was a good one but was chuffed to get scores of 44 +45!
This was the recipe, right, from last November?
My other prize for the Chinook Porter came today, a lovely bag of malt from Crafty Maltsters!
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To celebrate, and because I fancied brewing a bitter anyway I thought I'd get one on.
5.3 kgs of crisp pale ale malt
200 Abbey
200 medium crystal
50g choc
Mashed for 2 hours at 66c
Boiled for 30 mins
30g admiral @30
30g fuggles @15
30g fuggles @5
Yeast nottingham, just cooling so we'll see what the og is later, ibu 40.
To add...... og 1048
Carers leave day due to the teachers strike. Got up early and finished before telly time was over at 930!
Fancies a more sessionable saison and with a few bits that needed using up I went with the remains of my pale malt, lager malt and a 2 packets of nearly empty hops.
4kg Pale (finally that crap sack is finished)
1kg lager
300g wheat
Mashed at 64c
30 min boil.....
20g first gold @30
30g ekg, 200g sugar and 3 cardamom pods @5.
Pitched cml lille saison at 26c. Very pale out of the fv and og 1054ish so think it might end up at a high 5% ish. Bit better than my last one at 7.3%!
Any thoughts on the CML Atlantic yeast, pilgrim?First Gold Bitter brewed today!
4.5kg Otter
200g Light Crystal 60l
100g Medium Crystal 100l
200g Biscuit
50g Choc
Mashed at 66c for an hour
10g Challenger @60
20g First Gold @30
25g First Gold @15
50g First Gold @Flameout
Pitched CML Atlantic at 20c, it was going to be S-04 but realised it was a year out of date and didn't want to chance it.
IBU 38 OG 1049
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