September in the Rain

[enitharmon]

Right then. The debut brew of the Golgonooza[1] Brewery is underway.

It's not the heady stuff I was intending to run, as mentioned in another thread. This brew, now dubbed "September in the Rain" (with due acknowledgements to Al Dubin and Harry Warren) after the weather outside, begins with 12 litres of wort at an OG of 1050 and the now very frisky yeast cultivated from a bottle of Fuller's 1845. Not sure now what to do with the fallback culture from a bottle of Co-op Gold Miner (aka Freeminer Bitter from Cinderford, Gloucestershire) but I expect it will keep.

This is not meant to be a clone of anything. I notice that many posters are attempting to replicate commercial beers and I find myself wondering why. September in the Rain, whatever it tastes like in the end, will be mine, all mine!

[1] Go on, google it along with my monicker. You know you want to and it might lern you owt

 

[PD]

I did and am still baffled.
I must admit not being a fan of William Blake and his life style, but each to his own.

 

[enitharmon]

William Blake was certifiably bonkers and a lot of his poetry is heavy going. It wasn't a good idea to cross him either. In a lot of ways he was ahead of his time, and a genuine radical.

But you've got to love the idea of a City of the Imagination. Especially when applied to a brewing operation with nothing ruled out.

 

[graysalchemy]

I think you will find that a bit lost on us,

we are after all just a bunch of blokes, wallowing in the thought of our last pint and seeking refuge from the daily barrage of domestic behest.

 

[The Goatreich]

:clap: GA

 

[graysalchemy]

:thumb:

 

[Hawks]

For someone with couple Big chips on her shoulder.

I thought it was a cat :shock:

 

[The Goatreich]

I'm happy to give people the benefit of the doubt, especially online as often things can easily come across too seriously, but there's a lot of highly intelligent people on this forum, in all manner of fields and subjects, and I found being told to google something so that I can learn something pretty damn patronising.

 

[Swift Pint]

I'm happy to give people the benefit of the doubt, especially online as often things can easily come across too seriously

Agree with this :thumb:


What September in the Rain like then? Besides an OG 1.050, is it dark, light, hoppy etc?

Golgonooza is a good name for a brewery, although I admit I've no idea what it is or what it means... :lol:

 

[Good Ed]

we are after all just a bunch of blokes, wallowing in the thought of our last pint and seeking refuge from the daily barrage of domestic behest.

perfect :thumb:


and enith, people do clone beers so that they can benchmark their brewing against a commercial product, with the result that 99.9% of the time the home brew version a far better than the commercial brew.

Good luck with your brew; it's September in Glorious Sunshine here :thumb:

 

[The Goatreich]

It's the same as cooking or baking. When just starting out you don't just guess the ingredients, you use a recipe book and make something you like the look of. When you get more confident with the methods, and more knowledgable with the ingredients you can start experimenting. Personally I'm still in the recipe stage and will be for some time as there's so many I want to make!

 

[enitharmon]

Well, thank you gentlemen for the warm welcome. But I think I've wandered into the wrong room. If you don't mind I'll take my drink to the other bar where they seem to be less po-faced and have more of a sense of fun.

Sheesh!

 

[graysalchemy]

We have tried to meake you welcome, but all you do is make me fell I have to apologise for being man :wha: :wha:

If a man did that to a woman then he would be classed a sexist.

Equality is a two way street.

 

[enitharmon]

All right. I've had my tea and a good think. So let's set the record straight. :nono:

I haven't asked anybody to apologise for being a man. Consider it possible that you were seeing patronage where there was none; certainly none was intended.

Look, I spent most of my working life in a predominantly male environment, working in computing. I know a great deal from direct experience about being patronised as a woman in a man's world, and I survived by knowing how to be "one of the lads", sharing in the banter, giving as good as I got, and going to the pub after work without compromising my being very much a woman. I've been a member of Camra since not long after it was formed. I drink pints, used to smoke rollups until I saw sense and gave up smoking, follow rugby league and play crown-green bowls in my retirement. I can feel patronised too, by references to "ladies" for example (I'm not a lady, I worked for a living) but generally I grit my teeth and move on. I am who I am, I have my discursive style and my strange sense of humour and a tendency to tease but no malice towards anybody. I like being me and even if I didn't I'm too old to change. Those who don't like it will just have to lump it.

Now, let's talk about brewing.

I don't know what September in the Rain will taste like. At the moment it tastes sweet and malty but it has a long way to go yet, obviously. It's a rich reddish-mahogany colour now but of course that will also change as fermentation proceeds. I don't care much for very hoppy beers so I hope it won't turn out too much so, in fact I'd like to think it will be dark, rich and malty, but however it turns out will be my benchmark and I can then learn and adjust for future brews. I'm rather looking forward too seeing how it comes out; it's quite an adventure and although I set out equipped with map and compass, so to speak, I wait to see where the path leads me. That will be my benchmark – if it's a disaster then so be it, one never does anything well until one has really fouled it up.

 

[graysalchemy]

Thought you were on the move, but since you have cleared that one up then that sounds a lovely beer exactly the type of beer I would like.

So what is the recipe, also I am still intrigued by the beer that you mentioned in you introduction thread, the sherry yeast at the end threw me but on reflection it would make as a good addition to a hefty barley wine late on. :hmm: :hmm:

By the way are you anadromous or landlocked, perhaps you may want to Google that one. :whistle: :whistle: :whistle:

 

[The Goatreich]

All right. I've had my tea and a good think. So let's set the record straight. :nono:
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: :thumb:

 

[jonewer]

rugby league

A witch!

 

[enitharmon]

Thought you were on the move, but since you have cleared that one up then that sounds a lovely beer exactly the type of beer I would like.

Friends again! :

So what is the recipe, also I am still intrigued by the beer that you mentioned in you introduction thread, the sherry yeast at the end threw me but on reflection it would make as a good addition to a hefty barley wine late on.

The beer mentioned in the introduction thread was meant to replicate a dark barley wine I made years ago when my daughter was a baby (she's 32 now!). It was brewed in the bucket until the yeast gave up with the alcohol content, then I decanted it into demijohns, restarted it with the sherry yeast and treated it as a wine. I set out this week to enact a long-cherished desire to recreate it as best as possible. But I decided at the last minute to make a more orthodox beer to start off with, using the ingredients I bought for the original project.

Thus, I have boiled the contents of a 1.8kg tin of Munton's light malt extract and a 500g bag of Munton's dark spraymalt with 60g of Goldings hops in water that reduced to 12 l when strained into the bucket. To this I have added two teaspoons of yeast nutrient and the yeast cultivated, as I said, from a bottle of Fuller's 1845 – a beer which comes close to my idea of how I would like mine to turn out. All I can do now is keep an eye on it for a while and hope.

By the way are you anadromous or landlocked, perhaps you may want to Google that one.

Neither, I live on an offshore island entirely surrounded by salt water and I'm past my sell-by date for spawning anyway

 

[graysalchemy]

I get your humour now, we should get along just fine

:thumb: :thumb:

I made a barley wine last year but unfortunately a year on it hasn't lived upto expectations, it was a clone of Robinsons old Tom which has the Sherry tones to it so perhaps that is what I need.

I would like to do a stupid % barley wine or scot heavy so that may be the thing :thumb:

Glad you got the herring :lol: :lol:

 

[enitharmon]

Glad you got the herring :lol: :lol:

Yebbut the cat (see picture, her name's Tosca by the way) grabbed it and took it behind the sofa.