What did you brew today?

[chrisb8]

No brew day today but I've been playing with my new toys. Setting up and testing my new RO filter and corny keg system. Wasted about an hour trying to figure out why nothing would come out the tap - turns out you really have to push those disconnects on hard! So simple in the end... But exciting times and now all set and ready to go

 

[foxy]

Got three brews under the belt so far this year, I have a porter in the cold crash fridge, brewed at the end of last year.
An AIPA, an Ordinary Bitter and an ESB

The ESB in the foreground was 1,056 pitched a large starter Thursday afternoon today Saturday morning all activity has slowed right down. It is a new yeast to me not on the market yet so I am going to have to take a sample today to see if has finished.

 

[NPi]

Today, I brewed 20l of Climbits "Black Sabbath", which is an American Porter fermented with a Wheat beer yeast (!?). God knows how it will turn out, but it's turned up to 28C in the fermenter for that Banana kick.

 

[Clint]

Today it's a pilsner...just about to mash in.

 

[obscure]

Today it's a pilsner...just about to mash in.

I keep on thinking about doing a larger with the weather being what it is at least I wouldn’t need to worry so much about keeping the wort warm, but Sod’s law by the time I get around to it we will be in the middle of a 30 C heat wave.

As for today I’m doing a batch of Weissbier using the Greg Hughes recipe mashed in about twenty minutes ago.

 

[Clint]

All done...one point down on OG but extra to fv so all good.
Leaving me loads of time to prep tonight's curry!

 

[Banbeer]

Made an IPA using up some hops that were in the freezer

3.75kg MO Pale
250g Carapils
60 minute mash @ 65°C
30g magnum @ start
20g simcoe @ 15
20g cascade @ 5
70g cascade @ turnoff
half a protofloc tablet @ 10
Lallemand East coast yeast pitched @ 23°C
OG 1.044

Should make a nice 4.5% session ale.

 

[Redwulf]

A little session IPA along the lines of dead pony club.

4kg MO Pale
200g Torrefied Wheat
200g Medium Crystal
100g Caramunich 1
60 min Mash at 65°C

20g Chinook @ 60 Mins
12g Citra @ 15 Mins
12g Simcoe @ 15 Mins
13g Citra at turnoff
13g Simcoe at turnoff
Half a protofloc @ 10
US-05 Yeast pitched @ 23°C

25g each Citra/Simcoe and perhaps 25g Centennial dryhop.

Expecting 4.3% but I was 3 points up on my pre-boil gravity, so it may well be in the 4.5% bracket

 

[MmmBeer]

Brewed an APA today, based loosely on James Morton's Undead Pale, to use up some of the Citra hops I had in the freezer. I decided to brew outside, rather than steaming up my brewtility room, again, but I think it slowed things down in reaching mash, mashout, boil temperatures.

4.6 kg Pale
700g Munich
500g Carapils
200g Crystal
Mashed at 65°C for an hour

20g Citra at start of boil (60 min)
20g Citra at 10 min
30g at 5 min
80g hopsteep at 77°C for 30 mins
(50g dry hop for 3 days)
Pitched with S-04 (had planned to use US-05, but went with JM's suggestion)

Because of the cold, left it unattended for longer than normaly would, first overchilled the first 10l to 12°C, then overcompensated, reducing the cooling water to almost nothing, ended up at 21°C.

 

[obscure]

GH Weissbier

First brew of 2021, 9L batch.

My efficiency was a tad higher than expected coming in at 1.055 instead of 1.052 I was expecting. Yeast wise I am using Fermentum Mobile FM41 Cloves and Banana (Malt Miller where out of Wyeast 3068 the Yeats recommended in the recipe). Am hoping their yeast proves to work well as they have some interesting sounding yeast and seem to be a couple,of pounds cheaper than Wyeast.

Plan is to ferment fat about 22-23C then keg and force carb.

 

[Banbeer]

posted by mistake

 

[Mrhandsome]

Brewed a Belgian Quad today. Double mashed and used the first runnings to boil into a dark syrup, took forever but finally done and hit my target O.G. of 1.100. Not as dark as I wanted but from the taste of the syrup it should be a good one.

 

[pilgrimhudd]

Brewed a Belgian Quad today. Double mashed and used the first runnings to boil into a dark syrup, took forever but finally done and hit my target O.G. of 1.100. Not as dark as I wanted but from the taste of the syrup it should be a good one. View attachment 39304View attachment 39303View attachment 39302

Mind posting your recipe for this one mate?

 

[Mrhandsome]

Mind posting your recipe for this one mate?

I don't know if it's any good yet....

10l batch
1.9kg extra pale malt
1.6kg Pilsner
480g(ish) homemade dark candi syrup
8g Zeus @60 (or any other bittering hop to 23 ibus)
15g Hallertau Mittelfruh @30 and 10
WLP530 yeast

I did a double mash, the first 10l I boiled down into a dark syrup then I mashed again and continued as normal. I got 85% efficientcy which is amazing on such a big beer. I may add a little more candi syrup and transfer to secondary after two weeks is up if the attenuation isn't what I want, or I might just bottle.

 

[pilgrimhudd]

I don't know if it's any good yet....

10l batch
1.9kg extra pale malt
1.6kg Pilsner
480g(ish) homemade dark candi syrup
8g Zeus @60 (or any other bittering hop to 23 ibus)
15g Hallertau Mittelfruh @30 and 10
WLP530 yeast

I did a double mash, the first 10l I boiled down into a dark syrup then I mashed again and continued as normal. I got 85% efficientcy which is amazing on such a big beer. I may add a little more candi syrup and transfer to secondary after two weeks is up if the attenuation isn't what I want, or I might just bottle.

Understood!

I just wondered how you'd double mashed, and fancy a quad (not done one before) so this sounds great! How much did you boil it down too?

 

[Mrhandsome]

Understood!

I just wondered how you'd double mashed, and fancy a quad (not done one before) so this sounds great! How much did you boil it down too?

Probably about 1.5l of syrup, I didn't measure I just did it by eye.

 

[pilgrimhudd]

Probably about 1.5l of syrup, I didn't measure I just did it by eye.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

21 litres of Andromeda IPA
5000g Pale malt
450g Vienna malt
450g Wheat malt
20g Galaxy at 60, 15, 5 minutes.
Safale US05
OG 1064 BHE 72%.

 

[Clint]

Ha! I see what you did there...

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Ha! I see what you did there...

I almost put those words in myself