What did you brew today?

[Rodcx500z]

That's an impressively red ale!

Hi Chris, i was 6 points over on the og

 

[samale]

Mashing in a single malt IPA. One of my favourite commercial IPAs is a single malt IPA from 8 degree's North called full Irish.

6kg Minch malt
10g of Magnum @fwh
50g of bru-1 & 50g of citra @flameout
50g bru-1 & 50g citra dry hop

Yeast is CML Lax which is equivalent to WLP 001.

Will finish this later

 

[colliefish]

I brewed muntons flagship west coast ipa and the hazy ipa yesterday. All went well besides the tin opener breaking. Both in the brew fridge bubbling away this morning.

 

[moto748]

Really pleased with the turnout on the Irish stout this morning. Checking once cooled, I found myself in the rare and pleasurable business of actually having to add some water! A nominal 15 litre batch (actually 15.5), I added a litre of water and ended up with 16.5 litres @ 1048 OG, giving a BHE of a dizzy (for me) 76%!

I am putting it down to my revolutionary bag-prodding (tm) technique!

 

[Arrakus]

On the boil with 16l of GW’s Bathams Best recipe. The local bottle shop has had Bathams in for a couple of weeks, I’m becoming a bit obsessed with it!!

 

[Worf]

LDM = Liquid Diastatic Malt? Light Dry Malt?

LOL... Sorry @moto748 .... Light dry malt.

(Having so much fun chasing ground squirrels, I didn't see this when you asked!)

 

[obscure]

Was buying some yeast from CML and saw they are now doing 1 Gallon (imperial) grain kits, so decided on a whim to give the Hibbs Irish Red Ale a try (£8.95 with the forum discount) not exactly the cheapest but not unreasonable for a 1 gallon kit delivered.

Kit itself is about what you would expect an instruction sheet which gives a full breakdown of the hop and grain bill (something which sadly a fair few kits don’) as well as the bag of mixed crushed grain, pre weighed hops, yeast and Irish moss. They also provide hop boiling bags which I thought was a nice touch. You do need to provide 100g of honey or sugar, as I have it to hand I‘ve opted for honey,

Brew day mostly went smooth though I kind of forgot the problem of using a 7L pit instead of a 20L one is you have a lot less head room and it boils much more rapidly so only narrowly avoided a boil over.

Overall got just under 5L at 1.042 a bit lower than I was expecting mainly I think due to having slightly more volume than I meant to I considered adding a bit more honey but in the end decided t9 add the yeast and see how it turns out.

 

[Rodcx500z]

Hi Obscure, i have 21L of it in the fv let us know how you go on with it, i used brown sugar og was 6 points over at 1055 but i was 1L short i am getting to grips with the brewzilla

 

[ScrumpyRam]

I brewed muntons flagship west coast ipa and the hazy ipa yesterday. All went well besides the tin opener breaking. Both in the brew fridge bubbling away this morning.

Just bought the hazy IPA kit. Brew day on Friday so it can ferment while we're on holiday. Should be ready for the second batch of dry hops as we get back

 

[Craftman]

Made a batch of GH pale ale this morning. Ended up with just over 24L at 1.043, so only 1 point out and 1L over - not too bad

 

[alefric LeHendz]

Joint brewday with @Hoppopotamus today:
First up Belgian Dark (very) Strong
90minute mash, 150 minute boil
87% Belgian pilsner
6.5% Belgian diastatic amber(60ebc)
6.5% Dark Candi Rocks (450ebc)
Perle 8g@90
Saaz 5g@30
Yeasts - Lallemand Abbaye & MJ M31
OG came in...well we think about 1.137, the hydrometer doesn't read that high

 

[alefric LeHendz]

Second came a small beer (Odd dark mild) made using the same grain and whatever open ingredients were lying around(both brewed BIAB so simple enough).
Same grain as the dark strong
+ 50g chocolate malt & 50g dextrose in the boil.
Mash 60 minutes, boil 90 minutes
Willamette 5g@60
Fuggles (leaf) 6g @0
Yeast - 34/70
OG - 1.041(temp adjusted from image)

 

[Hoppopotamus]

Joint brewday with @Hoppopotamus today:
First up Belgian Dark (very) Strong
90minute mash, 150 minute boil
87% Belgian pilsner
6.5% Belgian diastatic amber(60ebc)
6.5% Dark Candi Rocks (450ebc)
Perle 8g@90
Saaz 5g@30
Yeasts - Lallemand Abbaye & MJ M31
OG came in...well we think about 1.137, the hydrometer doesn't read that high

Strictly speaking the OG was 1995 - but that was the © date not a scale reading!

 

[MmmBeer]

On the boil with 16l of GW’s Bathams Best recipe. The local bottle shop has had Bathams in for a couple of weeks, I’m becoming a bit obsessed with it!!

I would be interested to hear how this turns out. A lovely pint, especially on draught.

 

[dave_77]

Daytime Brewing for a change.
Brewing a Cream Ale grist
93% low colour Maris otter
7 % flaked Maize

Crystal hops in the boil with a dry hop of moteuka. Yeast is M54 California Lager yeast. Hoping for a Lager like ale with a subtle Lime/floral citrus character Target abv of 5%

 

[Clint]

Finally the much anticipated 5 points bitter clone. Mash just about done. I'm gonna use Lallemand verdant with this.

 

[Clint]

All done! Three points over target gravity allowing for temp adjustment as I dropped the wort to fv at 30c..leaving it to chill down to 20 or so in the brew fridge. This gives me 77% bhe.

 

[moto748]

I'm having a go at the Gumballhead stuff. I've bought some Amarillo (over eight quid!), and melanoidin is near enough to aromatic malt, isn't it? Well, it'll be interesting to see how it turns out anyway!

This is also the first time I've done a brew with hops at First Wort (albeit not in great quantity). Well I guess it improves the smell at this stage a little!

 

[Clint]

I liked the GBH...Must do it again!

 

[damienair]

Yesterday evening I put on a Juicy Session IPA. My second time to do this kit. Loved it the first time.