What did you brew today?

[MmmBeer]

I made an APA today, trying some of the Cara30 obtained from the recent group malt buy. Hopped with Centennial and Amarillo and fermented with MJ West Coast yeast.

 

[moto748]

The parsnip stout production line continues apace! Small batch stove-top stock-pot job. Reckon I could easily do one of these a week. It doesn't require the care with temp control, sparging etc, that's necessary with AG brews.

 

[MmmBeer]

The parsnip stout production line continues apace! Small batch stove-top stock-pot job. Reckon I could easily do one of these a week. It doesn't require the care with temp control, sparging etc, that's necessary with AG brews.

Save some for @Rodcx500z, he loves parsnips.

 

[Nottsbeer]

Nothing, spent an afternoon putting together an order for fresh supplies. Included my first liquid yeast for another attempt at a Taylor's Landlord clone: Wyeast 1469 West Yorkshire - dried yeasts have seemed to over-attenuate and leave the beer too dry. I will achieve a reasonable Landlord clone!!

Would you mind sharing your recipe for this one? Am planning this in the next few months once I have the liquid yeast. I have the GW recipe if that's what you will use

 

[cushyno]

Nothing, spent an afternoon putting together an order for fresh supplies. Included my first liquid yeast for another attempt at a Taylor's Landlord clone: Wyeast 1469 West Yorkshire - dried yeasts have seemed to over-attenuate and leave the beer too dry. I will achieve a reasonable Landlord clone!!

I had an absolute nightmare with a pack of 1469. It's a good yeast and behaves as everyone says - explosively top fermenting, but I seem to have got a lactobacillus infection somewhere in the first pitch. Attenuation was way too high for the stated figures. I do hope it was something I did at my end rather than the lacto already being in the smackpack. I have never suffered an infection of any type before, but it's definitely lactobacillus, as it turned a TT Landlord clone a little sour and has over-attenuated a black sheep clone by 5 points. A lager and 2 kveik brews either side have not suffered, so I have to assume it's the smackpack.

 

[AlDaviz]

Copied a recipe from grainfather site “Scottish golden ale” says camra award winner in fife !)
Came out 1.071 instead of 1.067 so ooh it’s could be strong !!

 

[moto748]

I'm having a go at brydo's Oatmeal Milk Stout (Beer Brewdays folder) Just a small batch to see if that improves efficiency.

 

[moto748]

Oops!

Half-way through the hop boil, I remembered I'd forgot to include the oats in this oatmeal stout!

What to do? I made an instant decision: turn off the boiler, weigh out the oats, bung them in another bag, and sling them in. I'm going to leave them to steep in there for an hour, then take them out and continue the hop boil.

I figured that is probably better than the other option of omitting them altogether.

 

[slowdave]

Currently got GEB Sessionable IPA boiling.
It's my first AG kit from GEB and so far all looks good.

I was confused by the 2 stage mash process - 30 mins @45'C then 45mins @71'C - not encountered this before.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

23 litres of Munich Dunkel
2800g Munich light
2000g Pilsner malt
50g Carafa 3
200g Biscuit malt
100g Chocolate malt
Tried a 45 minute boil for a change
25g Northern Brewer @ 45m
20g Tettnang @ 15m
Tsp of Irish moss @ 15m
MJ M54 yeast
OG 1048 BHE 69%

 

[Rodcx500z]

Spare of the moment user upper ale, mash just gone on

 

[MmmBeer]

Bottled 9 litres of elderflower fizz. Had missed a few days hydrometer readings and the wine had dropped below the target bottling gravity, so I calculated the required amount of sugar, made a stock syrup and primed bottles with a graduated turkey baster. They should carb up nicely now.

 

[Rodcx500z]

Well that brew was the worst i have ever done, was aiming for 1050 i got 1042 i got distracted weighing the base malt i think i missed 1kg out ah well it will be beer

 

[jayk34]

West indies porter clone. I thought my brewday went well, 5 hours start to cleanup. Unfortunately I missed my OG by a whopping 13 points!!! Was aiming for 1.063 and ended up with 1.050, not sure what happened. My pre boil gravity target was 1.049 and got 1.046 for that.

 

[Donegal john]

A pale ale Maris otter ,wheat carapils and cara rye with Zeus chinook and vic secret. Went very well for a change 20 Zeus at start 40 chinook 15 min 80 vic secret hopstand and another 40 vic secret will go in on Monday for a dry hop as I went with Voss for a quick turnaround. First brew in ages. And got the garage back into shape during the mash/boil. Result.

 

[slowdave]

Malt Millers Allagash Belgian White clone.
Hit 1045 as opposed to 1049.
In the ferment fridge waiting for airlock life.

 

[obscure]

With most of the beer I currently have bottled being in the 6-7% range I decided it was time for something lowish in Alcohol so a basic bitter made with Kweik (I don’t have a brew fridge also Hot Head works rather nicely with the hops I’m using)

Brewed yesterday but as I do no chill only got the OG this morning when I pitched the yeast.

Golden Harvest
Volume: 11L
Expected Packaged Volume: 9L

Grain Bill:
Simpson Golden Promise 2KG
Crisp Black Malt: 50g (Primarily added for colour I know it doesn’t really affect the flavour but I find something odd about really pale beer, so borrowed the idea of adding Black malt to what is effectively a one grain beer from Graham Wheelers Landlord recipe)

Hops:
50g Fuggles 4.87AA 30 Minutes 47.7 IBU
10g Styrian Golding 4.2AA 5 Minutes 2.14 IBU
10g Bramling Cross 5.4AA 5 Minutes 2.75 IBU
52.66 IBU total

Yeast: Omega Hothead

OG 1.041
FG (Expected) 1.008
Estimated Attenuation 80%
Efficiency 71%
ABV (Expected) 4.33%

The basic aim is for a nice light Summery beer that I can drink two pints of on a Sunday afternoon and still be in a fit state to do something. As nice as the Saison I have is you can’t really drink it in any volume. Plan to leave this fairly highly carbonated and drink young so hopefully will be ready for late July/early August.

Brew day went fairly smoothly, though I seriously underestimated the impact of the black malt, at just under 2.5% of the grain bill I was expecting it to still be fairly light but the wort is a nice deep amber. Efficiency was a fair bit higher than expected at 71% (my norm seems to be about 62%j) I found I had the same issue with a batch of Mild (which had a similar sized sub 2.5KG grain bill) so starting to think that I may need to recalibrate my recipes when they have smaller grain bills to account for a higher efficiency. Was planning on an ordinary bitter like beer but depending on how much the yeast attenuates may have to treat as a Best Bitter.

 

[NormanHurst]

Chilled out brew day as we are isolating and can't go out even if we'd like to.

An adapted clone recipe of Deya's Hokum Stomp Oatmeal Porter.

Very complex grain bill with MO, oats, Amber, Aromatic, Crystal, Carafa 3, Choc Malt, Pale Choc Malt and Dextrin. Magnum for IBUs and Bramling Cross for flavour. US05 yeast.

The recipes all say it will have a FG of 1018 which seems high for US05 even with a bill that has low diastatic power.

We will see.

 

[LesTom]

Here's a few photos of my Bluberry Wheat beer.
700 grams Pilsner malt
700 grams wheat malt
Mashed at 66°C for an hour, mashed out at 72°C for 10 minutes and boiled for 30 minutes. 10 grams EKG added at 30 minutes and then 10 grams at 15 minutes.
150 grams of lightly smashed Bluberries added post boil.

Mashing

Boiling

Bluberries added

5 litre BIAB batch.

 

[Cheyne_brewer]

We are in the process of packing stuff up prior to moving. I did another MYO AIPA to fill a corny so I’ll have something to drink once we get to our new abode. It will be getting 100g Citra dry hop. It might not be all grain but it’s a bloody lovely pint.