What did you brew today?

[Gerryjo]

Just started Dry Hopping and got my labels ready... lets hope it all works. Tastes good already...

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[GerritT]

Did some bottling today, first one with CML pale ale yeast. One thing's for sure: it's a dream to clean! Seriously, it looks like chocolate milk.
But it reached fg in 4 days so can't complain about that. Two crates of Amarillo Pale Ale, just about ripe when holiday starts :cheers7:

 

[gar]

i did one of those b&m real ale mini kits. as per instructions but pretreated the water with campden tablet. i picked up a 2nd kit to mess with. ..

 

[NIGHTSKY BREWING]

Meanwhile... today was planned as brewday but my back said 'no' (actually it said HELL F*CKING NO ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR BL**DY MIND), so I did some light prep work for tomorrow.
Milled 7 pounds of pale malt and a handful of carapils for an early start tomorrow.

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Hi, hope your back is cool now.........were can you buy the Bulk special grains you have in Pic.:thumb:

 

[NIGHTSKY BREWING]

No, I don't think so, for a first try. Porter is essentially a malt forward drink and perhaps my current favourite. I don't see spices adding much to the style, although they go well in a Belgian / Germanic Wheat beer. Coriander is the most popular.

Good luck with the brew - it should be good!

many thanks for relpy.

 

[paulw]

just done a demijohn of rhubarb. East recipe,3lb stalks ,3lb sugar, leave overnight then strain into demijohn and top up! fingers crossed, not done before but have so much rhubarb, might as well have a go!

 

[paulw]

put up 5gall sauv blanc, 5gall pinot and 5gall father hook yesterday, also barrelled 5 gall suffolk old ale

 

[Sadfield]

Have a simple US Pale Ale on the go, 95% Extra Pale Propino and 5% Carapils, with HBC 431 Experimental Hops (Specific aroma descriptors include peach, berry, tropical fruit, citrus and herbal). Going to split the fermentation between MJ44 West Coast and the wild yeast I harvested from the back garden, that I've been stepping up for a couple of months.

 

[GerritT]

Hi, hope your back is cool now.........were can you buy the Bulk special grains you have in Pic.:thumb:

www.brouwmarkt.nl/en/ 25 kg for around £33, 5 kg for £12.40

Total price of the order excluding shipping costs is between € 0,00 and € 150,00: Orders above € 150,00

Great Britain (excl. Gibraltar, Channel Islands) € 6,75 FREE

Back is up&running again now, cheers :cheers7: , but that eve-before-brewing worked very well for me! Costs me an hour in the evening, a lazy hour anyway normally spoken, but the next brewday it pays back double! Running start! Should've thought of that earlier.

addendum: oh and the buckets are foodgrade plastic, 5 liters I guess.

 

[GerritT]

Tomorrow. Ought to become an interesting brew, considering the hops.
Already crunched the 3 kg-ish of malt.

 

[Gerryjo]

Brewed a Light Lager from TH Bible but upscaled the grain bill to 3.1kg of Pilsen malt as I had no lager and used 1.15kg of Cornflakes in place of flaked corn and never again.
I've never had a stuck mash until last night as the cornflakes turned to a pulp slowing everything down and even done an overnight chill in the fermenter as it took me that long.
Popped in fermenting chamber at 20deg with inkbird at 12deg and was so disgusted this evening at about five o'clock that I just pitched the yeast though it's down to 14 now and no activity so fingers crossed.
Bloody cornflakes!!!!!!


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[chrissyr63]

I pitched a summer ale today (brewed yesterday and chilled overnight).
Mix of ekg and savinski gold at 70, 30 and 0 and cml real ale yeast at 20c. OG of 1.044 so hopefully a nice quaffer.

 

[Cwrw666]

In the middle of mashing a 4 gallon brew of brown ale. Haven't done a brown for ages.
Basically it's the Greg Hughes Northern Brown recipe but slightly tweeked.

Using low colour Maris Otter, but only because that's the only PM I have as I'm planning to do several pale ales from this sack. Hope it won't affect the finished brew too much.

 

[Portreath]

Having done 4 BIAB recipes from Graham Wheeler's book, which so far I'm really pleased with. BTW Arkel's Mash Tun Mild tastes great only after 1 week in the bottle!!!
I'm now just putting together the grain bill for my (first) own bitter BIAB recipe, which I will be getting on with later today.
3500g Maris Otter
300g Crystal Malt
200g Torrified Wheat
100g Chocolate Malt

25g Challenger & 18g Fuggles @90 mins
15g East Kent Goldings @ 10 mins
20g Fuggles for dry hopping
MJ's New World Strong Ale yeast
25 ltrs Spring water
Aiming for 19 ltrs of strong bitter at 4.9% ish

It may not be quite as adventurous as some of the recipes you guys have come up with, but it was a great learning exercise putting the recipe together, I just hope it turns out OK.

 

[NIGHTSKY BREWING]

put up 5gall sauv blanc, 5gall pinot and 5gall father hook yesterday, also barrelled 5 gall suffolk old ale

I go Sea fishing in the bay which area are you....billys tower ,,,Whitehorses....

 

[GerritT]

Somehow miscalculated the water, now boiling off about 3 liters. Yay.

 

[Ben2083]

My first Saison brewed yesterday and bubbling away nicely when I got up this moring.

Pilsner, Vienna and Wheat with EKG and Stryian Goldings. Split the boil in to two, one with lemon and Basil and one with orange peel and peppercorns, both pitched with M29 French Saison.

Bit too warm in the kitchen for brewing but looking forward to trying them now!

 

[Clint]

Portreath..what AAU are the 90 minutes addition giving you?

 

[Portreath]

@Clint
Challenger 7.5
Fuggles 2.9
East Kent Goldings 2.6
Funny thing is though, I used the brewer's friend calculator and changing the mash and the boil to 60 mins does not change the values, but changes the IBUs only very slightly, i.e. a change of .70 for the extra 30 mins for the fuggles.

 

[Clint]

So you get 13 IBU for the brew?