What did you brew today?

[Cheshire Cat]

23 litres of Niagara wheat beer

3200g Europils malt
2800g Wheat malt
250g Maple syrup last 10m of boil
30g Amarillo @ 60m
30g Willamette @ 15m
1 Protofloc @ 15m
CML Kristallweizen @ 23C
OG 1060 BHE 70%
IBU 29
SRM 5.6

 

[Northern Brewer]

Not today, should be this Friday as I've taken a day off, a more or less traditional Bitter. I brewed this for our wedding reception 7 years ago, it went down a storm so though I would give it a another go.

Batch Size : 80 L

Fermentables (15.5 kg)
14 kg - Pale Ale Finest Maris Otter 5 EBC
500 g - Caramunich II 124 EBC
500 g - Smoked Malt 3.9 EBC (not heavily smoked, this is just trad floor malted)
250 g - Crystal 400 450 EBC
250 g - Torrefied Wheat 3.3 EBC
Hops (400 g)
60 min - 100 g - Bobek (Styrian Golding B)
60 min - 100 g - East Kent Golding (Whole)
30 min - 50 g - East Kent Golding (Whole)
Hop Stand
30 min hopstand @ 90.2 °C
30 min - 50 g - East Kent Golding (Whole) - 5...
Dry Hops
6 days - 100 g - Goldings, East Kent (Whole)
Miscellaneous
Mash - 5 g - Calcium Chloride (CaCl2)
Mash - 3 g - Epsom Salt (MgSO4)
Mash - 25 g - Gypsum (CaSO4)
Sparge - 4 g - Calcium Chloride (CaCl2)
Sparge - 2 g - Epsom Salt (MgSO4)
Sparge - 20 g - Gypsum (CaSO4)
15 min - Boil - - Protafloc
Yeast
Lallemand (LalBrew) Nottingham Yeast

 

[Alastair70]

AG No 20 and the 17th with the Grainfather. 1st brew with the new iSpindel. Setting it up with the GF app was fairly painless once I'd worked out how to spell iSpindel properly!

Brewed GEB's Crisp English IPA recipe kit. I wanted something sub 5% to hook up to tap 3 on the kegerator, and be suitable for consumption in volume in the summer months. Uneventful brew (for once), just final clean up to take care of and I'm done for the day.

 

[moto748]

Bottled my small batch Fisherman's Stout today. I didn't achieve the target OG, being about 5 points down. A combination of not mashing long enough, and a little too much water, I fear. However, right or wrongly, at pitching time I resisted the strong temptation to bung a bit of brown sugar in, and decided to leave it as is. Target FG was achieved exactly, though, and the beer tasted OK at bottling. ABV should now be around 4% rather than the 4.7% aimed for, but I'll live with that and put it down to experience! I learnt the lesson for my next batch, though, which is much closer to the mark.

 

[Rogerh]

23L of @Hazelwood Brewery Best Bitter. It was only when sorting the malts that I realised that I had Bohemian Pilsner, not plain Pilsner malt. Don't know how much of a difference that may make.

Hit all my numbers, and it should come out at about 5%.

 

[Oneflewover]

A lemon saison today, 23l batch.
700g pale
2300g pilsner
900g wheat
300g flaked barley
200g flaked wheat
400g dextrose
8g Magnum at 60
10g Enigma and zest of 2 lemons at 10
10g Enigma at 5
40g Enigma at steeped at 80 deg C
MJ M29 french saison and half a pack of CML Lille saison I had hanging around (ditched the other half)

Mashed at 62 deg C - hopefully with the low mash temp, overpitch of yeast and the relatively high % sugar this will be bone dry. I might dry hop with some more Enigma, haven't made my mind up yet

 

[Banbeer]

23L Mangrove Jacks JuicyIPA used MJ LME 1.2kg. Always a good IPA imo.

OG 1.060

Currently in the brew fridge @ 20°C

 

[mitch]

3x 5L testers of:
Clone Proper Job
Clone Oakham Citra - went wrong. very low SG of 1038
Clone Oakham Citra - repeated with a better SG of 1051 - dry hopped with cascade.
All 60min boils and 30min sparge times all done on the hob. Labour intensive. Next purchase will be an electric mash kettle mehthinx.

 

[gorinsparks]

Premium larger from the range store.

 

[Northern Brewer]

Not today, should be this Friday as I've taken a day off, a more or less traditional Bitter. I brewed this for our wedding reception 7 years ago, it went down a storm so though I would give it a another go.

Batch Size : 80 L

Fermentables (15.5 kg)
14 kg - Pale Ale Finest Maris Otter 5 EBC
500 g - Caramunich II 124 EBC
500 g - Smoked Malt 3.9 EBC (not heavily smoked, this is just trad floor malted)
250 g - Crystal 400 450 EBC
250 g - Torrefied Wheat 3.3 EBC
Hops (400 g)
60 min - 100 g - Bobek (Styrian Golding B)
60 min - 100 g - East Kent Golding (Whole)
30 min - 50 g - East Kent Golding (Whole)
Hop Stand
30 min hopstand @ 90.2 °C
30 min - 50 g - East Kent Golding (Whole) - 5...
Dry Hops
6 days - 100 g - Goldings, East Kent (Whole)
Miscellaneous
Mash - 5 g - Calcium Chloride (CaCl2)
Mash - 3 g - Epsom Salt (MgSO4)
Mash - 25 g - Gypsum (CaSO4)
Sparge - 4 g - Calcium Chloride (CaCl2)
Sparge - 2 g - Epsom Salt (MgSO4)
Sparge - 20 g - Gypsum (CaSO4)
15 min - Boil - - Protafloc
Yeast
Lallemand (LalBrew) Nottingham Yeast

I brewed this today, all went well apart from I forgot the protafloc, I was distracted by the missus who wanted me to nip out and get some hoisin sauce for dinner. Its not the end of the world but annoying all the same, hazy seems to be in at the moment

I decided to call it sheep-dip bitter as the surface spring I use goes through sheep territory, so no doubt a sheep or two have been through it.

Some random photos.

Just started the recirc through the heat exchanger. The mash tun is usually closer to the control box, hence why the temp probe wire is a bit taut :)

hop stopper in the copper. I remembered to put it in.

the boil, I wrap an old duvet around the copper to speed up getting to the boil. Resting the lid on the extraction duct works well, virtually no steam in the brewery.

Finished at 1.045, target was 1.042 so not bad efficiency, I think Brewfather said 76% but I haven't gone through all the settings yet so not sure if this is correct.

Cheers
Andy

 

[starseeker]

I have brewed 23l of Belgium pale ale from the Greg Hughes brew book , i was only two points off the target OG so i am very happy with that .

 

[Arcs]

Vanilla Porter err I think lol

 

[Rodcx500z]

English golden ale just gone well it's mashing

 

[samale]

My first attempt at a lemon and rosemary rye Saison
3kg pilsner
1kg rye
500g wheat
200g acid malt
300g sugar @10mins

15g Sorachi ace@60mins
20g Sorachi ace@10mins
30g Sorachi ace + 5g of rosemary and the zest of 1 lemon at flameout

Yeast belle Saison
Og 1.056

@Pennine what's the postage to the other side of the world.
I will keep you updated

 

[cushyno]

Belgian Blonde Ale

5kg Chateau pale
500g Vienna
250g Biscuit malt
200g Carapils
100g Caramunich II
500g Clear Candy Sugar

10g Magnum 9%AA @60m
13g First Gold 9%AA @60m
5g First Gold 9%AA @10m
15g Styrian Goldings 4.5%AA @10m
20g Styrian Goldings 4.5%AA @0m
65degC 60min Mash, 60min boil
CML Belgian Ale yeast at 22degC

 

[Alastair70]

AG No 20 and the 17th with the Grainfather. 1st brew with the new iSpindel. Setting it up with the GF app was fairly painless once I'd worked out how to spell iSpindel properly!

Brewed GEB's Crisp English IPA recipe kit.

I’m loving the ispindel. It’s trimmed a good couple of days off the time in FV. I’ve upped the temp to 24C for a last 48hrs then will cold crash for another 48hrs. Keg on Thursday, force carb and it will be grain to glass in less than 2 weeks.

 

[StoutWolf]

8l of bitter. Loosely based on GH Yorkshire bitter, but with hop and yeast substitutes.

 

[Oneflewover]

A lemon saison today, 23l batch.
700g pale
2300g pilsner
900g wheat
300g flaked barley
200g flaked wheat
400g dextrose
8g Magnum at 60
10g Enigma and zest of 2 lemons at 10
10g Enigma at 5
40g Enigma at steeped at 80 deg C
MJ M29 french saison and half a pack of CML Lille saison I had hanging around (ditched the other half)

Mashed at 62 deg C - hopefully with the low mash temp, overpitch of yeast and the relatively high % sugar this will be bone dry. I might dry hop with some more Enigma, haven't made my mind up yet

Yep this is going to be dry. 4 days in and I suspect that it's almost reached FG.

I'm not picking up much of the lemon in the sample unfortunately. I'll dry hop shortly.

 

[ryderkellan]

12L dark mild with special B. Because.

 

[samale]

Yep this is going to be dry. 4 days in and I suspect that it's almost reached FG.
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I'm not picking up much of the lemon in the sample unfortunately. I'll dry hop shortly.

Try dry hoping with fresh lemon zest.