What are you drinking tonight 2020.

[Hazelwood Brewery]

yeah @Hazelwood Brewery I'm im very interested to see how you keg and serve. it seems like you pour a lot of clear beers and maintain a ton of selection. are you keg conditioning? do you ferment in those kegs too?

I am keg conditioning and of course have several kegs. Hang on, I’ll grab some pics.. In the meantime another Saison!

 

[Pennine]

one of my favorite dutch beers.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

I use a basic cygnet boiler to mash and boil though I do re-circulate throughout the mash.

The wort then goes in a basic plastic bucket. In this pic you can see one on the floor of my “shed” because I have a Saison! in the fermentation cupboard at 26C.




When they’ve finished fermenting they go in a keg and spend 2-12 weeks conditioning. 2 weeks for an IPA, 4 weeks for a bitter, 6-8 weeks for brown ales and the like, 12 weeks for really dark and stronger beers like my sweet stout. Here are some of my kegs...



The fermentation cupboard is shown in this pic..



I carbonate by injecting CO2 and simply pour from the keg.

I have more kegs in the garage too.

I don’t believe there’s any great secret, it’s mostly time and conditioning I think.

 

[dad_of_jon]

Poperings Hommelbier as part of my holiday Belgian mixed case accompanied by Michael Jackson's classic tome. Always like an educational project

Very impressed. Much sweeter than I expected with a big golden syrup character and orangey fruit. Neither the 7.5% or 40 IBUs are immediately obvious but the palate is dry with a lovely, distinct hoppy flavour. Heady but not with alcohol.

I always fetch hommelbier back from my belgian raids. It's amazing that leroy have one of the best (hommelbier) and one of the worst beers on their books (leroy stout)

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

I always fetch hommelbier back from my belgian raids. It's amazing that leroy have one of the best (hommelbier) and one of the worst beers on their books (leroy stout)

Good to know no one is perfect!

 

[Pennine]

I use a basic cygnet boiler to mash and boil though I do re-circulate throughout the mash.

The wort then goes in a basic plastic bucket. In this pic you can see one on the floor of my “shed” because I have a Saison! in the fermentation cupboard at 26C.

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When they’ve finished fermenting they go in a keg and spend 2-12 weeks conditioning. 2 weeks for an IPA, 4 weeks for a bitter, 6-8 weeks for brown ales and the like, 12 weeks for really dark and stronger beers like my sweet stout. Here are some of my kegs...

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The fermentation cupboard is shown in this pic..

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I carbonate by injecting CO2 and simply pour from the keg.

I have more kegs in the garage too.

I don’t believe there’s any great secret, it’s mostly time and conditioning I think.

ah that's a great setup! have you considered sticking a airco unit in there to cool the whole cabinet down? I know you said you like your beer warm though. does it get too warm in there during warm weeks like this?

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

ah that's a great setup! have you considered sticking a airco unit in there to cool the whole cabinet down? I know you said you like your beer warm though. does it get too warm in there during warm weeks like this?

I do keep toying with the idea of air con and I think I will do it because I have too many kegs to use things like cooling jackets - and I have been looking at air con units a lot recently!

I do like beers at ambient temperatures but as you say 20C is too warm and starts to affect the flavour. At the moment the shed is 19C and on the edge. 18C would normally be my upper limit for cask ales.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

A change of pace - sweet stout. 6% and not a hint of it so if I go quiet you’ll know I’ve been suckered in (again!).

 

[marshbrewer]

Went for a number nice long walk with the Mrs and the youngest along the prom between Trusthorpe and Sutton in Sea. Popped into the beach bar at Sutton, had a pint if staropramem, which was ok. Walked back, drive home and have accidentally poured myself s pint of will-not-clear Kolsch, which just as the kegs is getting to the end.... Wait for it..... Has cleared.

 

[marshbrewer]

Another pint, just so I could get a photo to show you how the will-not-clear Kolsch has started to clear. I think there are about 4 pints left in the keg. (The weird white stuff at the bottom of the glass is etching)

 

[Jim Brewster]

Went out for a curry, had a Goan fish curry and a pint of Cobra, it goes down well.

 

[Fuzzy Growler]

Me and the wifey on my mates first ever brew, old conkerwood black ale, really nice ale, liquorice and treacle toffee but not overly sweet, great effort. I need to get him on here.

 

[marshbrewer]

In the local having a pint of Yella Belly as Bateman's have started brewing it again after lockdown. Lovely.

 

[Fuzzy Growler]

In the local having a pint of Yella Belly as Bateman's have started brewing it again after lockdown. Lovely.

Where looking at going in to another lockdown

 

[samale]

Me and the wifey on my mates first ever brew, old conkerwood black ale, really nice ale, liquorice and treacle toffee but not overly sweet, great effort. I need to get him on here.View attachment 30439

She looks a belter
Not a bad looking pint either

 

[Fuzzy Growler]

She looks a belter
Not a bad looking pint either

She's a scouser mate, you'd run a mile

 

[Rodcx500z]

Went in aldi with the misses picked up a couple of Harpers ruby red not bad very hob ish wish i had got more

 

[samale]

She's a scouser mate, you'd run a mile

If she supports Liverpool and drinks carft beer she's a keeper

 

[Fuzzy Growler]

If she supports Liverpool and drinks carft beer she's a keeper

She supports Sheffield United because I do and she loves all alcohol that's why I married her

 

[Cheshire Cat]

SUFC, living in Leyland you both should support PNE or Chorley.