What are you drinking tonight 2020.

[dave_77]

Start the evening with my Idaho7, Simcoe & centennial IPA

 

[strange-steve]

Just quality checking my dunkels bock before the October competition. This was the first beer I made following my Orval clone and I'm picking up just the slightest hint of brett in this. It's actually nice though, adds an interesting little background note and in case Samale sees this... um... it was intentional

 

[Pennine]

Home and with a mosaic citra pale ale.

 

[dave_77]

Just quality checking my dunkels bock before the October competition. This was the first beer I made following my Orval clone and I'm picking up just the slightest hint of brett in this. It's actually nice though, adds an interesting little background note and in case Samale sees this... um... it was intentional

Do you have to use any special cleaner for fermenters that have had Brett in them?

 

[strange-steve]

Do you have to use any special cleaner for fermenters that have had Brett in them?

Not really, just a good thorough clean should do it. I might be wrong but I don't think brett is any more resilient than sacch, the difference is that it only requires a very small amount of brett to affect the flavour, given enough time. I've been using brett for years and this is the first one that has given me any cross-contamination issues, although it happened in the two beers that followed the Orval clone. Everything was deep cleaned with bleach when I noticed that, just to be sure.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Cardamom Saison!

 

[SamBrewster]

Half a bottle of red with lunch, a sleep and onto the beers. After Home Hopped & Ghost, now onto Innkeepers Incompetence.

 

[strange-steve]

Cardamom Saison!

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Is that from one of those kegs? Just wondering if you can get saison levels of carbonation from a PB?

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Is that from one of those kegs? Just wondering if you can get saison levels of carbonation from a PB?

It is, and not really. The saison is still nice but would improve with a little more carbonation. My new setup includes a few corny kegs for just that purpose.

 

[marshbrewer]

Hatherwoods (Lidl) Ruby Ale, which tastes an awful lot like Hob Goblin. Their Purple panther porter next.

 

[dave_77]

Enjoying the latest Belgian Pale, still fairly young as only couple of weeks in the bottle.

 

[Leon103]

Took another sample of my bipa. And now sipping this.

Can't beat a 99

 

[foxy]

Irish Extra Stout, very smooth, no noticeable astringency, fine carbonation bubbles and good lacing. On the to do again list.

 

[Pennine]

Took another sample of my bipa. And now sipping this.

Can't beat a 99

bipa = belgian IPA?

 

[Leon103]

bipa = belgian IPA?

Black ipa

 

[Banbeer]

Just making sure that my citra Saison is at the correct carbonation amount, not quite there yet so will have to try another later



Recipe kindly given to me by @Clint, cheers bud.

 

[cushyno]

This was my first attempt at Summer Lightening, second tasting now 2 weeks in the bottle, thirst quenching with a lingering bitterness, not really a good session ale though. Will make it again and drop the ABV to 4.5%
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I'm nearing the end of a barrel of Summer Lightning. I found it a little unbalanced. Could have been better either with lower bitterness or more hop flavour. That said, it turned out drinkable.
However I'm done with S04. I've given that yeast plenty chance and there's always an odd grainy cardboard flavour from the yeast. Can't imagine why it's so popular.

 

[foxy]

I'm nearing the end of a barrel of Summer Lightning. I found it a little unbalanced. Could have been better either with lower bitterness or more hop flavour. That said, it turned out drinkable.
However I'm done with S04. I've given that yeast plenty chance and there's always an odd grainy cardboard flavour from the yeast. Can't imagine why it's so popular.

Try and get hold of some CN-36, good for English and American beers, the students at Monash Uni did a comparison of CN-36 and US05 and the CN-36 came out slightly better. Extremely cheap too.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Another busy day on the brew-shed but now stopped and ready to enjoy a beer. I’ve chosen a pint of my Summer Breeze in anticipation of a slightly warmer and hopefully much drier day tomorrow

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Same again barkeep!