What did you brew today?

[Justin Dean]

Exe Valley Spring Beer.
Ashbeck water .48g per litre gypsum and campden tablet.
Pale malt 4280g mash 90 muns per Grainfather calculator for mash and sparge
Target hop pellets 25 g 10 start of boil
Irish moss 3 g 80 mins of boil
Celeia Golding pellets 5 g post boil
Safale s04 ywast hydrate for 40 mins in cooled boiled water at 20 deg c
Fermenter at 20 degrees

 

[Clint]

It's been on the cards for a while....Kolsch...4kg pilsner,1kg Munich with hallertauer hersbrucker..CML kolsch yeast. Mash on!

 

[Clint]

all done...still mucking about with my volumes after last time,dialled in 70% bhe for the recipe,og should have been 1048 but got 25 litres at 1044 which gives 69.7%,so not too far away...super clear wort and very tasty!

 

[Cwrw666]

Chili IPA.
I made this a couple of months ago but didn't have enough chilies in it so this time I'm doubling the amount. There was a slight afterburn but not enough to knock yer socks off.
Basic recipe is Greg Hughes English IPA scaled down to 4 gallons:

6Lb Hook Head pale malt
4 oz Crystal 145

48g Challenger (80m)
28g EKG (15m)
28g EKG (0m)

Plus 500g sugar and 8 big dried chilies

Should come out at about 1052 OG
Gervin yeast.

 

[Cwrw666]

Finished now, hot wort transferred to FV for a few hours no-chilling. I'll be pitching and taking the OG just before going to bed tonight.

 

[Cwrw666]

OG turned out at 1046 - a bit down on the last time. Last time was self-ground pale malt and this time the Homebrew Company had mistakenly sent me crushed. For some reason I always seem to get lower OGs with crushed than I do with freshly ground whole grain. (and it's not the fineness of the grind because I passed the crushed malt through the grinder as I thought there was a bit too much unground grain in it as it came)

 

[foxbat]

Exe Valley Spring Beer.
Ashbeck water .48g per litre gypsum and campden tablet.
Pale malt 4280g mash 90 muns per Grainfather calculator for mash and sparge
Target hop pellets 25 g 10 start of boil
Irish moss 3 g 80 mins of boil
Celeia Golding pellets 5 g post boil
Safale s04 ywast hydrate for 40 mins in cooled boiled water at 20 deg c
Fermenter at 20 degrees

Are you blending the Ashbeck with tap water? Ashbeck alone doesn't need a campden tablet though it will do no harm.

 

[samale]

Pale ale on the go. Base malt, honey malt, carapils, crystal 80.
Hops will be all cascade and centennial.

 

[Richie_asg1]

Just bottled my IPA from The Range today, and sorted two fruit wines into DJ's from the 10L buckets.

Just about to make labels for the IPA and thought about what to call it. It is from "The Range" and is their "Make Your Own" brand. So I thought I would call it the "Make Your Own IPA".

.......But I wanted to shorten it to just " MYO IPA"

....I wondered why the labels turned out blurry.

 

[Streeter]

Just put on 40 pints of this pale ale kit yesterday: https://www.the-home-brew-shop.co.uk/acatalog/Simply-Pale-Ale-Beer-Kit.html

OG of 1.039, and it's already actively bubbling away. As per the instructions I'll check it again in 7 days. Having read a few reviews I am considering dry hopping to boost the flavour, but haven't decided on what hops to use yet.

Edit: Decided on Summit hops, will likely put 50g in this weekend depending on how the brew is progressing.

 

[DonV]

Brewing has been a bit intermittent.
Last brew was 1.5 Kilos of pale malt, 1.5 kilos of Amber malt and 1 kilo of smoked malt with 60g of Fuggles hops.
Produced 15 litres at 1065. Interesting taste, not for a session though.
Today just got 6K of extra pale with 50g each of Rakau and Wakatu hops on the go. Hoping for about 30L.
Don

 

[pvt_ak]

Mmm... so deviated a little further away from the GH recipe.

Had to use biscuit malt in place of cara .. only 275g and using MJ M44 yeast.

All boiling away nicely .

Bottled this up last weekend before coming away. Flocculation was naff with the M44 , should hopefully have settled in the bottle, if not will cold crash for a week.

Anyone else found that with M44 ?

 

[GerritT]

Found a few cartons of apple juice yesterday, nearing their bb-date... Cidertime anyone?

 

[Alastair70]

Had a rattle at one of Get er Brewed’s single hop kits. Limited instructions available so I stuck something vaguely sensible into the GF Connect and went with the flow. Got 23L of wort with OG 1.056, so must have done something right. The garage smells amazing, I love Citra. This is my second Grainfather brew and I really love it. Sparge took about 40 minutes, but all in from water treatment to packing up and letting the chickens loose on the spent grain was about 5 1/2 hours.

https://www.geterbrewed.com/single-hop-series-citra-23-litres-5.6/

 

[dan125]

Finally got round to brewing a pale ale with the Voss Kveik that @BeerCat sent me a while ago.
I lost my bazooka filter after putting it somewhere safe when deep cleaning my pot at Easter so went with this domed false bottom as a replacement. It drains much better than the bazooka but lets more bits of leaf and crud through.
Seemed to lose less to dead space with this and got nearly 30L in the FS.
pushing my luck a bit but hoping some anti-foam will keep it under control.

EDIT: Here's the recipe for what was meant to be a 28L batch with OG 1.046. Reined the hops in a bit compared to usual hoping they will balance with the yeast character rather than dominate it. Currently tucked up at 30C so expecting a quick start despite what seems like a horible under pitch

 

[Duncan Dobbin]

Brewed AG no3. Pale Ale, with Citra, Mosaic and Cascade. All loaded towards the back end of the boil, with a big drop in a hop stand at 80 degrees C for 15 mins. Will also dry hop with the remaining Cascade and possibly some more Citra. Not sure yet. First time I have tried a hop stand, and it smelt great already when testing the SG!

 

[samale]

View attachment 19028 View attachment 19029 Finally got round to brewing a pale ale with the Voss Kveik that @BeerCat sent me a while ago.
I lost my bazooka filter after putting it somewhere safe when deep cleaning my pot at Easter so went with this domed false bottom as a replacement. It drains much better than the bazooka but lets more bits of leaf and crud through.
Seemed to lose less to dead space with this and got nearly 30L in the FS.
pushing my luck a bit but hoping some anti-foam will keep it under control.

EDIT: Here's the recipe for what was meant to be a 28L batch with OG 1.046. Reined the hops in a bit compared to usual hoping they will balance with the yeast character rather than dominate it. Currently tucked up at 30C so expecting a quick start despite what seems like a horible under pitch

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Where can you buy this kveik yeast

 

[dan125]

Where can you buy this kveik yeast

I'm not sure where @BeerCat got the original yeast that he sent me, but a few of the yeast manufactuers make a kveik - Malt Miller has about 5 (but none in stock I notice)

 

[BeerCat]

I'm not sure where @BeerCat got the original yeast that he sent me, but a few of the yeast manufactuers make a kveik - Malt Miller has about 5 (but none in stock I notice)

Its the original stuff from the farm. Its not been through a yeast lab.

 

[Arcs]

St Peter's honey porter. She's bubbling away like a crazy volcano right now - looking good!