52 x 330ml and 5 x 500ml bottles. Not only the highest ABV I’ve ever done but also the highest number of bottles!This has fermented down to 1.008 from 1.066 giving me a mighty 7.6% beer - the strongest ive ever made by about 2%! It’s a bit paler than I’d planned but otherwise (very) early impressions are promising.
Off like a rocket! Started at 20C and been ramping up over the last 27 or so hours and it’s now at 28.9C. Hopefully it’ll be up to 30 by the morning and I’ll keep it there for the next week.Got an extended mash on for my Citra Saison. My daughter has a 1 hour school visit this morning then I’ll take her out for a snack before going back to nursery, then pick up my Inkbird from the sorting office and get some shopping - it will probably be about a 3 hour mash. Lost my mash paddle though (I think it might be in the shed) so had to use a metal spatula.
It was meant to be an APA but I won the Inkbird competition so decided to do a saison to test out the steppes temperature function during fermentation. Went with a Citra saison so I could still get something a bit hoppier in my stocks. I had the gain already but not the hops/yeast, which I got from The Malt Miller this week.
Recipe:
2.5kg Crisp Clear Choice pale malt
1.5kg Ireks Munich
15g Citra FWH
35g Citra 5mins
50g Citra flameout
Fermenting starting at The low 20s and ramping up to 30 over a couple of days. Using MJ French Saison
I also plan on bottling my Dubbel today.
My wife would kill for a range like that only O keep telling her we don't have the room....[emoji106]All went well...except the bit where I forgot to put the bazooka in the boil kettle..do did a quick transfer and sorted it. Volumes bang on but efficiency down a bit to just over 68% giving an og if 1042 instead of 1047.View attachment 13904 View attachment 13905 View attachment 13906 View attachment 13907 View attachment 13908
I brewed a Hop Back Summer Lightning clone from Graham Wheeler's book
Yesterday I put 8 litres of cider down in my Craft FV. After talking to the guy at the local home brew store, I got an 11g pack of Cider yeast and 8 litres of 100% natural apple juice from Aldi. I put them all together and hope that it turns out well. I have wanted to do cider for a bit now and this is the first batch.
The only thing that worried me is that the wife was giving a helping hand and before I know it she had an unsteralused wooden spoon string the 2 litres of juice I had warming up. All other items were sterilised apart from the spoon. Fingers crossed that this is not the thing that spoils the brew.
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