What are you drinking tonight.

[marshbrewer]

Quiet night then?! You’ll sleep well!

You say that, and I was thinking the same, but unless I've messed up my calculations, it's about the same quantity of alcohol as about four and a half pints of 4% bitter. That's a few, but not mental territory. He said.... Zzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

[Ajhutch]

True enough, you’ve only actually had a litre of beer. Maybe the brulosophy guys should be looking at this

 

[BeerCat]

Czech pale lager

 

[Gulpitdarn]

I'm currently enjoying my Wilko Winter Warmer, (It's glass number two y'know) I really must keep off the keyboard when drinking, but hey! you know it's good stuff and I was only this morning complaining in another thread about how watery the Wilko kit beers can be.

 

[An Ankoù]

I've had a printout of Brupaks Guide to Grains for as long as I can remember and I was always fascinated by the entry for Special B, "An interesting usage is to blend Rauchmalz with Special B (60/40) to emulate the flavour of the traditional English brown malt, traditionally kilned over open fires."
So, I'm working my way through the first tester bottle. It clearly isn't ready yet, but I can't find my brush to creosote the fence!
There. down in one. Time to see if the Urquell is ready yet!

 

[Portreath]

A rep called around today and gave me a few bottles of Cruzcampo Cervaza. Just opened a chilled bottle of said brew, and MEH!!!! I think this needs something to make it drinkable, i.e sun, sea, sand and plate of tapas.

 

[An Ankoù]

A rep called around today and gave me a few bottles of Cruzcampo Cervaza. Just opened a chilled bottle of said brew, and MEH!!!! I think this needs something to make it drinkable, i.e sun, sea, sand and plate of tapas.

I used to live and work in Madrid. around 1990. Cruzcampo was not the best beer even then. Mahou 5 estrellas wasn't too bad. But. And it's a big BUT. There's no such thing a bad, free beer so long as it's drinkable.

 

[Portreath]

I lived in Fuerteventura for 3 years, my local inn sold Tropical on tap, so that we me sorted. As you say though, @An Ankoù it's free, and drinkable so happy days..onto a couple of cans of Abbot now.

 

[Clint]

Didn't care much for that Tropical..
I'm having a couple of my GH dry stout...having spent a couple of hours in A&E with my youngest son who fell on his gob in martial arts and burst his lip...such fun!

 

[Rog.T.B.]

Could someone explain what a difference brewing Lager at lower temperatures make. What would you recommend. Cheers

 

[An Ankoù]

Brewing lager at a low temperature allows the yeast to ferment the wort producing a very low ester profile. That's to say there is less contribution to the flavour from the yeast so we get a "cleaner" flavour. Many lager yeasts will ferment satisfactorily at ale temperatures, too, but the beer will taste more like ale and seeing as how your malt profile is balanced towards lager, it probably won't be excellent.
Try to keep a max temperature of 10-12 C during fermentation- or even less. You can let it rise a couple of degrees later for a diacetyl rest, but there's really no need as the beer's going to sit on the yeast, anyway, for at least 6 weeks.
Sorry I should have posted this as a reply to Rog. T.B.

 

[Rog.T.B.]

Cheers An Ankou, I will try my next Lager 10-12C and see what difference it makes.

 

[Techlec]

Youngs american IPA 2nd prime in a 5L keg! 3rd glass

 

[An Ankoù]

Some visitors were kind enough to bring us a case of Old Speckled Hen. Just had one. It's going to take a lot of IPA to wash the taste out of my mouth, I'm happy to say.

 

[Gulpitdarn]

Enjoying a Swainy Smash (Swain is my surname) a munich fuggle, while fettling my old BSA B33, listening to to a valve radio. It don't get much better than this I tell ya.

 

[Portreath]

Nice looking bike, and beer. I restored a BSA C15 a few years back, to sit next to the Bantam restored too, great little bikes. Just had a pint of Hop House 13 in spoons, and I'm still confused an hour later!! it was like nothing I've tasted before. It's the weirdest pint I've had in....well ever!!

 

[Banbeer]

Cheers An Ankou, I will try my next Lager 10-12C and see what difference it makes.

Only ferment a lager at those temps if you are using a true lager yeast as kit yeasts usually ferment alot higher and will not start, not sure if you do kits or Grain

 

[Banbeer]

Drinking a Wherry at the moment

 

[Arek]

Trying my first lager. 100% pilsner malt + M76 + polish Marynka hops. Quite happy with results. Not too much carbonation as bottled only 2 days ago but couldn't resist to open one. Also batch split in two buckets. One dry hopped with 50grams of Ekuanot.

 

[Clint]

Bottled 2 days ago....be careful it doesn't get any better!