What did you brew today?

[Jcdonnan]

Just done a random oatmeal stout with a load of leftovers, only do small batch biab and ended up with 4 and a half litres.
1.1kg Maris otter
200g chocolate
300g oatmeal
130g cara amber
150g melanoidin

12g east Kent goldings
3g brewers gold
Half packet of us-04

OG of 1076

Hope it turns out nice!

 

[MickDundee]

Yesterday I had a 2nd attempt at my Common People steam beer. I had a couple of efficiency problems (60% when I'd planned for 65% which means it falls just outwith the style guidelines for California Common) and it's come out a lighter colour than the first one but otherwise the brew day went smoothly.

I have high hopes as my first attempt was so good!

The changes I made were to substitute some of the crystal malt for Caramunich and Carapils, add 1% rye (I heard that 1-2% helps give it an authentic steam beer flavour) and changed the hop bill as I didn't like the taste of the flame out Northern Brewer last time and it took 6 weeks or so to mellow but once it did it was phenomenal.

 

[AlanManley]

Busy with my Brown Ale that I designed and got the ingredients from the West Berkshire Brewery Homebrew Club. So far so good!

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[Sandimas]

Small-batch BIAB golden ale brewed today, a mix-up of the recipes in the Greg Hughes and Graham Wheeler books, like Summer Lightning but a bit weaker but hoppier. After the brew went on I realised I'd run out of Styrian Goldings so added more EKG, the ones I grew for the first time this year :)


Recipe Specs
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Batch Size (L): 12.0
Original Gravity (OG): 1.045 (°P): 11.2
Final Gravity (FG): 1.011 (°P): 2.8
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 4.42 %
Colour (SRM): 5.6 (EBC): 11.0
Bitterness (IBU): 35.0 (Average)
Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 68
Boil Time (Minutes): 60

Grain Bill
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2.500 kg Maris Otter Malt (100%)

Hop Bill
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24.0 g Challenger Leaf (6.1% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil) (2 g/L)
10.0 g East Kent Golding Leaf (4.7% Alpha) @ 10 Minutes (Boil) (0.8 g/L)
5.0 g East Kent Golding Leaf (4.7% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (Aroma) (0.4 g/L)
8.0 g Styrian Golding Leaf (4.4% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (Aroma) (0.7 g/L)

 

[Hoddy]

Yesterday I had a 2nd attempt at my Common People steam beer. I had a couple of efficiency problems (60% when I'd planned for 65% which means it falls just outwith the style guidelines for California Common) and it's come out a lighter colour than the first one but otherwise the brew day went smoothly.

I have high hopes as my first attempt was so good!

The changes I made were to substitute some of the crystal malt for Caramunich and Carapils, add 1% rye (I heard that 1-2% helps give it an authentic steam beer flavour) and changed the hop bill as I didn't like the taste of the flame out Northern Brewer last time and it took 6 weeks or so to mellow but once it did it was phenomenal.

It's victory malt that you've been told that adds the steam authenticity. Off the top of my head it's about 7% victory. If you search the forum I think I posted a recipe for the Californian common steam beer.


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[MickDundee]

It's victory malt that you've been told that adds the steam authenticity. Off the top of my head it's about 7% victory. If you search the forum I think I posted a recipe for the Californian common steam beer.


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It was definitely rye I read, at between 1% and 2%, but I can't find the link (not on here, it was an American HB Blog). However, I've just read up on Victory malt and it might not be a bad shout. I was using the Caramunich for a bit of biscuity quality, might try the victory in a later version of I still feel it's missing that je ne sais quoi!

 

[IainM]

Today I brewed nothing, but I did pick 25kg of pears from the tree in the garden to put a perry on at the weekend.

 

[Personal91]

I made a couple mugs of coffee from frozen granules today - also made a beef tea xD

 

[AlanManley]

Good brew day today. Enjoyed it and felt much more streamlined. Now just the waiting game!

 

[beechwood]

This morning i brewed an extract stout with some of the left over special grains from this year. I used a 3.18kg bucket as a base, steeped black, chocolate, torrified wheat and amber for 20 mins @ 80C boiled for 1 hour with 46g chinook at 60 mins. Gv-12 ale yeast
Aiming for 4.5% IBUs of about 42

Looking forward to this one, next brew is thursday (a dark ale) :thumb:

 

[DoctorMick]

Good brew day today. Enjoyed it and felt much more streamlined. Now just the waiting game!

Is that an American Stout? Looks very interesting.

 

[JapanBrew]

I hate you guys!! I'm getting up there in age...kids gone. Second wife... but still in the courts loosing lots of money. Ex laughing her ars (donkey) off at the expense of my kids.



Got to brew!!

 

[AlanManley]

Is that an American Stout? Looks very interesting.

An American Brown Ale actually, well that's the idea anyways. Wort was good. Fingers crossed it works out!

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[MyQul]

Brewing a 5L stove topper Bramling cross/First gold ESB. Just mashing now

 

[Hoddy]

Just finished the clean up of a 21 litre - V2 Rosemary pale ale [emoji106]

Just in time for the November or December (can't remember when the pale ale is) home brew comp.


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[Poochops]

Nothing started, but I got the Coopers IPA out of the brewfridge and into the house, dry hopped with 50g of centennial and 50g of Columbus, made a hop tea bag using a large nylon mesh bag I got from eBay and steeped it in boiled water for 20 mins, this brew has seen 200g of hops now, will bottle it next weekend ready for the festive season. Put my new Zealand pilsner back into the brew fridge to cold crash it before I bottle that during the week.
All things being equal there'll be about 140 bottles of various goulash ready for Christmas with what I've got already, oh and there's another 90 bottles of Brewferm Belgian styles in the garage for long term conditioning, been very productive since I started about 4 months ago!

 

[alikav]

Nothing started, but I got the Coopers IPA out of the brewfridge and into the house, dry hopped with 50g of centennial and 50g of Columbus, made a hop tea bag using a large nylon mesh bag I got from eBay and steeped it in boiled water for 20 mins, this brew has seen 200g of hops now, will bottle it next weekend ready for the festive season. Put my new Zealand pilsner back into the brew fridge to cold crash it before I bottle that during the week.
All things being equal there'll be about 140 bottles of various goulash ready for Christmas with what I've got already, oh and there's another 90 bottles of Brewferm Belgian styles in the garage for long term conditioning, been very productive since I started about 4 months ago!

Started a Coopers A IPA today and ive ordered 100g of Mosaic to dry hop. Also got some grapefruit /vodka zest pickling, gonna chuck that in too

 

[Toredan]

Mosaic Rye IPA, mashing at the minute!

 

[Slid]

I did a sort of Boddingtons clone today for my father-in-law. Twentieth brew in the Grainfather, not that I am racing Doctor Mick in any way :)

4kg Maris Otter
220g Caramalt
120g Torrified Wheat

42g Challenger / EKG @ 60m (18/24)
20g Bramling Cross @ 10m

The smallest grain bill I've done to date in the GF and it was a bit different.
Mash went very well and the sparge was very rapid indeed.

I checked the FV this evening and it has kicked off already with one of the bottles of recycled slurry from 21st August brew which was the Cornish Tin Miners Ale from the Greg Hughes book (which is very good indeed, and first drunk only this week).

 

[bigfrogs]

I did a brew on Saturday and today it is fermenting like mad..After some advice from DoctorMick(Cheers!!) I went for the following to make use of a load of hops I have left from a Brewdog punked IPA clone.
22.5ltrs
Maris otter 4.3kg
Ambermalt(could not get hold of crystal 30L) 300g
Caramalt 200g
Cascade 20g @ 60mins
Chinook 17.5g and crystal 17.5g @ 15mins
Cascade 20g and Ahtanum 20g @ gas out.
I hit my predicted SG of 1.050 spot on after topping up with 2lts of boiled water .I am still having trouble working out the water loss from mashing /boiling but I'm getting there.I am going to dry hop with Cascade,Crystal and Ahtanum but have not decided amounts yet,It will depend on how much of each I have left:lol: