What did you brew today?

[The-Engineer-That-Brews]

Sounds decent @The-Engineer-That-Brews !

Mate, did you put just the star anise in the boil @10, and then the cinnamon and nutmeg in the primary when you pitched?
Just making sure I'm reading your recipe right - my instinct is to put all the spices in the last 10mins of the boil...

 

[pilgrimhudd]

Mate, did you put just the star anise in the boil @10, and then the cinnamon and nutmeg in the primary when you pitched?
Just making sure I'm reading your recipe right - my instinct is to put all the spices in the last 10mins of the boil...

All in @5 mate or @10 I cant remember, it didnt go on the fv.

 

[The-Engineer-That-Brews]

First brew on in ages. Went with a pale ale.

60% chevalier
33% barke pils
7% light crystal

1.048
Us05 , forgot to order live yeast last week. Wanted to use wlp007
Step mash for attenuation

Admiral and eldorado hops to about 50ibu. Got good clarity prior to transferring it to the fermentorView attachment 54470

I am SO jealous of that amazingly clear wort - is that after chilling? Mine always looks like scrambled egg with the cold break....

 

[The-Engineer-That-Brews]

Festive ale after the boil - looks about the right colour... spices are there but not excessive.
I thought I'd undershot the OG but it went up a couple of points after giving the FV a good stir. I’ve noticed that before, too…
Decided to use S-04 because I had some handy and it’s now in the fridge at 15°C

 

[531Man]

@pilgrimhudd festive inspired festive ale today!
Why does someone have to come to the door when I’m at the weighing out suspicious white powder stage
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Various sized packets of white powder,
Fine measurement scales,
Mortar and pestle (love it),
Stainless teaspoon.
Can't see the problem.
Add a burner and bacofoil and perhaps a syringe/needle and tourniquet - then they've got good reason to be concerned.

 

[moto748]

That's the Wild West for you!

 

[Cheshire Cat]

12 litres cherry wheatbeer
10 litres raspberry wheatbeer

 

[Clint]

Today it's Hazelwood Brewery Plum Porter. Mash on...smells absolutely delicious!

 

[Donegal john]

23l patersbier with hull melon on the boil
Up early this morning dog walked and all.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Today it's Hazelwood Brewery Plum Porter. Mash on...smells absolutely delicious!

The Porter is nice without the flavouring too so a split batch is always an option, especially if bottling.

 

[Clint]

The Porter is nice without the flavouring too so a split batch is always an option, especially if bottling.

Great idea!

 

[MickDundee]

I’ve got a bitter on mashing at the moment.

3.1kg MO
300g crystal
I was meant to use 350g golden syrup as well but I forgot to buy it at Tesco this morning so I’m sticking in the rest of a bottle of maple syrup and 200g caster sugar.

40g 5.6AA fuggles for 60mins
25g 4AA Willamette

London Ale III

 

[Little Rock Brewing]

A Belgian Dubbel/Triple.
The refractometer gives a converted brix reading of 8.2%.
Well if you're only going to have a couple a night!

 

[Clint]

All done. Wort smells and tastes very promising...it even lured the youngest son from his gadgets as he thought it was chocolate cake cooking!
Smashed my predicted OG getting just over 79% bhe. Yeast pitched and in the fridge it goes.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

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All done. Wort smells and tastes very promising...it even lured the youngest son from his gadgets as he thought it was chocolate cake cooking!
Smashed my predicted OG getting just over 79% bhe. Yeast pitched and in the fridge it goes.

That looks just about right

 

[Clint]

That looks just about right

Looking forward to this! Plum flavour ordered this morning. Four points over target and an extra litre to fv.

 

[Begbie]

I brewed an AG Chocolate Oatmeal Stout, which I've brewed before using my 11L stock pot, brewing short and liquored back to give me 12L. This time I used my Klarstein Maischfest and got the same OG as before (1044) while hitting the 12L volume into the FV too. Very satisfying brewday.

Only difference this time was that I added 50g of Cocoa nibs during the boil. Last time I only added them after the 3rd day of fermentation. I'm hoping that using them in the boil, and during fermentation, will give more chocolate flavour, as my previous batch wasn't as chocolate-y as I wanted (still delicious though!).

 

[NormanHurst]

Just mashed in on a simple EKG based Golden Ale

 

[NormanHurst]

Brew day done. Few minor mishaps. The Challenger hops I was going to use for bittering didn't exist (note to self: update spreadsheet). Luckily I had over ordered on EKG.

Missed the alarm for end of boil too so the 15 minute addition was more like 20 and the extra few minutes may have contributed to OG being 3 points over.

No matter though. Wort looks good and tastes good at this stage. In the fridge at 19C ready to go.

 

[LesTom]

Brewed a Dunkelweizen using @Leon103 's recipe for inspiration, here's a photo of it mashing in the shed.

Here's my recipe and I had to improvise a bit and use what grains I had, fingers it turns out OK.