What are you drinking tonight 2020.

[GerritT]

Midweek tap water.

 

[Clint]

Yeah me too ..nights tonight. But...then I'm off for four!

 

[dan125]

Having another cheeky sample of my rye beer.

 

[user 18729]

Lockdown Lager in the sun. Strong likelihood of having a look through Just Eat

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

One of these puppies while I get the mash on for my bitter.

 

[samale]

Having another cheeky sample of my rye beer.

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How'd that turn out Dan I have did a few and I didn't get much flavour out of the rye. Adds a great mouth feel to the beer but lacked the spiciness that people describe. I used 1kg in a 20 litre batch

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Still mashin’

 

[Cheshire Cat]

My Leffe clone

 

[pjgriff]

Well just started drinking my first brew Muntons Connoisseur's Traditional Bitter.. I was not sure about it first of all as one bottle I tried a few days ago didn't really produce a head but today I have had a couple of bottles and now has a nice head.. it's not too bad a taste. Overall I'm happy with the very first brew I made. Already bottled my second brew .. so a few weeks time I will have an amber ale to look forward too

 

[Banbeer]

What's the best way to prepare

Errr.....towels and plenty of hot water, oh wait, that's childbirth........ forget the hot water but keep the towels.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Well just started drinking my first brew Muntons Connoisseur's Traditional Bitter.. I was not sure about it first of all as one bottle I tried a few days ago didn't really produce a head but today I have had a couple of bottles and now has a nice head.. it's not too bad a taste. Overall I'm happy with the very first brew I made. Already bottled my second brew .. so a few weeks time I will have an amber ale to look forward too

I’ve found the head does come after a while when bottling. It seems to me to me that carbonation takes 2-3 weeks, conditioning takes another 4 weeks, the head comes during or just after the conditioning period. I always used to find bottling disappointing until I managed to leave some long enough to figure this out!

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Boil started, so a celebration

Pre boil volume and gravity exactly as planned so that must deserve a beer.

 

[pjgriff]

I’ve found the head does come after a while when bottling. It seems to me to me that carbonation takes 2-3 weeks, conditioning takes another 4 weeks, the head comes during or just after the conditioning period. I always used to find bottling disappointing until I managed to leave some long enough to figure this out!

Maybe I should leave it a bit longer. I think after I had made a few I will have some that would be left longer

 

[samale]

Boil started, so a celebration

Pre boil volume and gravity exactly as planned so that must deserve a beer.

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I just mashed in. Sampling the last of my weizenbock. Really nice beer and one I will brew again

 

[dan125]

How'd that turn out Dan I have did a few and I didn't get much flavour out of the rye. Adds a great mouth feel to the beer but lacked the spiciness that people describe. I used 1kg in a 20 litre batch

Well it's still early days (only 4 days since packaging) but I'd say the rye is noticable but only mild at 15% of the grist.
It didn't finish very low on the FG (70% attenuation for 4.6% ABV) but the rye does seem to dry it out. I'm planning to rebrew and will use more and/or higher colour crystal to try to balance this.

 

[dan125]

I am rewarding myself for efforts to restore the garden table (one coat of Ronseal) with the last of my Iron Pier beers - a quite bitter IPA.
I'd never heard of Sultana hops before.

 

[samale]

Hasn't rained in weeks until I brew outside tonight.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Hasn't rained in weeks until I brew outside tonight.

Oh no! No rain here in Kent - yet!

Still swigging the Helles, must be slowing down in my old age!

 

[dan125]

Oh no! No rain here in Kent - yet!

Still swigging the Helles, must be slowing down in my old age!

How's that brew coming on?

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

How's that brew coming on?

Just chillin’ at the moment, at 107F and falling... looks a bit more pale than I’d planned (maybe EBC 18-20 rather than 20-25) but that won’t be a bad turn out if it works out that way. I’ll make adjustments to the recipe later if needed.