What did you brew today?

[alefric LeHendz]

Dark mild today, hit the target OG

 

[foxy]

India Pale Ale 21 litres
OG 1,052 FG 1,011 IBU 50 SRM 9.2

5.50 kg Schooner Pale Compass.
0,500 kg Schooner Pale Compass (toasted)
0,300 kg Crystal 60 L late addition
0,200 kg Gladiator Dexrtrin malt Late addition.
20 g Northern Brewer 60 mins
41 g Willamette 30 mins
27 g Progress 15 mins
28 g Fuggles Dry hop 3 days during C/C

 

[Tanglefoot]

Or any suggestions would be welcome

I recently made a rather nice Cali common with a similar malt bill ; extra pale MO, MO,
Cara, Munich and extra dark crystal.

 

[Donegal john]

Went with a simple but hopefully tasty brew
5kg pilsner malt
30g wakatu leaf hop 60 min
70g wakatu leaf hop 10 min

will ferment with crossmyloof Belgian yeast

see how it goes !

 

[foxy]

India Pale Ale 21 litres
OG 1,052 FG 1,011 IBU 50 SRM 9.2

5.50 kg Schooner Pale Compass.
0,500 kg Schooner Pale Compass (toasted)
0,300 kg Crystal 60 L late addition
0,200 kg Gladiator Dexrtrin malt Late addition.
20 g Northern Brewer 60 mins
41 g Willamette 30 mins
27 g Progress 15 mins
28 g Fuggles Dry hop 3 days during C/C

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Like a kid on a Christmas morning getting up and checking the brew first thing. No matter how much I brew still get the same buzz to walk into the fermenting room and seeing the ferment underway.

 

[Donegal john]

Like a kid on a Christmas morning getting up and checking the brew first thing. No matter how much I brew still get the same buzz to walk into the fermenting room and seeing the ferment underway.

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Ha ha I was the same
I normally use a stainless fermenter but I did a small batch of brown ale and fermented in 2 glass demijohns and I’ve opened the fermenting fridge a dozen times to watch the yeast doing its thing lol

 

[foxy]

Ha ha I was the same
I normally use a stainless fermenter but I did a small batch of brown ale and fermented in 2 glass demijohns and I’ve opened the fermenting fridge a dozen times to watch the yeast doing its thing lol

Not just me then.

 

[phildo79]

Actually made this late Wednesday night. Started fermenting yesterday lunchtime. And this happened an hour ago. Thank eff I was awake when it happened.

 

[NormanHurst]

Actually made this late Wednesday night. Started fermenting yesterday lunchtime. And this happened an hour ago. Thank eff I was awake when it happened.

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Feisty!

 

[NormanHurst]

Mash is on.

V2 of my Oatmeal Porter. Loosely adapted from a Deya Hokum Stomp recipe

71% MO
7.5% Oats
7.5% Amber
5% Aromatic
5% Chocolate
2% Dextrin

First Gold to about 30 IBU at 60m with a further addition at 10 and again at flame out to finish about 37 IBU

US-05 yeast

Aiming for 1053 OG and a final abv around 5.4%

 

[NormanHurst]

Mash is on.

V2 of my Oatmeal Porter. Loosely adapted from a Deya Hokum Stomp recipe

71% MO
7.5% Oats
7.5% Amber
5% Aromatic
5% Chocolate
2% Dextrin

First Gold to about 30 IBU at 60m with a further addition at 10 and again at flame out to finish about 37 IBU

US-05 yeast

Aiming for 1053 OG and a final abv around 5.4%

Brew day done.

OG a touch low at 1051 but an extra half litre or so in the bucket. Perhaps the boil was a little less vigorous today.

Ah well, an extra bottle is a fair exchange for a small drop in ABV!

I also put the flame out hops in a bit late, trying to minimise bitterness. They were still largely undissolved pellets at the end. May need to rethink my hopsteeps. Not too worries though given a Porter won't depend wholly on the hops and the wort tastes good. Every brew day is a school day.

 

[moto748]

Small batch of Admiral IPA, as per @Tanglefoot. First time I've done a 'small' batch (10 litres nominal) in the boiler for a while.

 

[Tanglefoot]

Small batch of Admiral IPA, as per @Tanglefoot. First time I've done a 'small' batch (10 litres nominal) in the boiler for a while.

Hope it turns out well, I still have a couple of bottles left so could send you one later to compare If you like

 

[Donegal john]

Small batch of Admiral IPA, as per @Tanglefoot. First time I've done a 'small' batch (10 litres nominal) in the boiler for a while.

It is such an easy brew day isn’t it. But not a lot of beer at the end

 

[moto748]

Hope it turns out well, I still have a couple of bottles left so could send you one later to compare If you like

Sure, thanks, I had it in mind to send you one, but obviously it'll be a while yet.

 

[moto748]

BHE a bit poor on the Admiral IPA, ended up with 9.5 litres @1053 OG. I suspect this is down to the batch size, and relatively high grain/water ratio compared to normal. But, on the other hand, it looks and tastes fine, decent colour, pretty clear, so all good, I think.

 

[foxy]

Old Speckled Hen clone by orfy. Using ANZ ingredients.
5.7 kg Gladfield Ale Malt
0,300 kg crystal 60 L
0.250 kg Gladiator malt
0.450 kg invert sugar #2
0.080 kg brown sugar.

15g Pilgrim hops 60 mis
18g Challenger hops 60 mins
20g EKG 10 mins
15g EKG dry hop.
Overshot OG so will be diluting with 420 ml of boiled water.

 

[moto748]

That Admiral IPA, it's gone from 1053 to 1010 in 48 hours!

I'm not sure I'm entirely happy about that. Anyway, it got racked to demi-johns pdq.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Double brew day for the first time.
21 Litres Tokyo Lager
11 Litres Traquair House ale

probably won’t repeat the double brew it can get confusing as I used two sets of equipment and ran almost in parallel one in garage and one in utility room. I staggered the boils to reduce the electrical load. But forgot the brown sugar addition in the Traquair until I spotted the lowish OG. Added in with some boiling water. The OG’s were
1046 and 1071 respectively.

 

[dave_77]

Late night brew day today.
Brewing another hoppy Belgian Pale. Low colour MO, Spelt & malted wheat. hops- Challenger & Adeena in the boil and will have a dry hop of Idaho Gem and Adeena.
Experimenting with a 50/50 dry yeast combo of T-58 & CML Norsk. Seen some feedback that T-58 is a bit variable with its attenuation so I'm hoping Norsk will help it along and mellow the Belgian character a little.