Been a busy week here on the wild and sour front.
The ‘lambic’ has kicked off nicely, time to forget about it for a while. I’ve got a yearning for kriek so I think when some goes into carboy for long ageing, the young portion will get some cherries.
I drank these two delicious beers last weekend and poured the dregs into some low gravity DME wort. There’s some very promising activity and it smells good, earthy and a little tart.
I brewed a fruity saison on Wednesday based loosely on one of the Mad Fermentationist recipes I linked to above, recipe for 12 litres:
1 kg Vienna malt
1 kg Munich malt
0.5kg flaked wheat
0.2kg Crystal 60
0.2kg Crystal 120
Mashed at 64C for 90 minutes
20 IBUs of Magnum at 60 mins
400g of dried figs, rehydrated and puréed, added at 5 mins
200g Greek forest honey added at flameout
OG 1.060
Fermenting in primary with MJ29 French Saison. I’ll bottle some straight and will add the dregs to a gallon for ageing.
Tonight I’m doing a Brett Pale Ale, midway through the boil now. Recipe for 15 litres:
2 kg Pilsner malt
1.5kg torrified wheat
Mashed at 64C for 90 mins
15 IBU of Magnum at 60 mins
200g of maltodextrin (Brett food) at 5 mins
20g of Bramling Cross at flameout
On target for OG 1.045
Fermenting with WLP648 Brett Trois Vrai.
I will see how this one goes and potentially fruit/dry hop in future. I’ve not done 100% Brett before so a bit of a step into the unknown.