What did you brew today?

[Appleton Brews]

Today I brewed 22 litres of Mena Dru Stout (it means Red Hill in the Cornish language) The genuine stuff is brewed by the St. Austell Brewery in Cornwall.

3500g Irish Pale Malt
300g Smoked malt
180g Roasted Barley
180g Naked malted oats
180g Chocolate malt
140g Medium Crystal Malt
Fuggles 46g at 60m & 30g at 15m
CML Midland yeast
OG 1.044 expecting ABV 4.5%

 

[Caramel Ox]

Kernel Export India Porter using the last mystery yeast pack I got from MM which is HBC431. This has been on my recipe list for a while so had to be attempted sometime. Currently I have significant doubts about being too strong in the roast flavour. Been a while since I made any porter so maybe it will change during fermentation.

 

[RichardM]

A Belgian Dark Strong Ale
It started out with the idea of doing a Chimay Blue clone.
I found a few recipes online, read Brew Like a Monk and then tweaked it.
It's about half way through the boil at the moment and should be ready to drink this time next year

 

[6Trails]

Just finished a dry Irish stout. Incident free so far.

 

[YeastFace]

Today I brewed 22 litres of Mena Dru Stout (it means Red Hill in the Cornish language) The genuine stuff is brewed by the St. Austell Brewery in Cornwall.

3500g Irish Pale Malt
300g Smoked malt
180g Roasted Barley
180g Naked malted oats
180g Chocolate malt
140g Medium Crystal Malt
Fuggles 46g at 60m & 30g at 15m
CML Midland yeast
OG 1.044 expecting ABV 4.5%

Not meaning to be a pedant but Du is Cornish for black, and with lenition or possession is Dhu. Cognate with Dubh as Gaeilge nó Gàidhlig.

Red is rudh/rua/ruadh (or dearg, if a deep red).

 

[Appleton Brews]

You are right it is black.

 

[jof]

I pressed 5 gallons of apple juice for cider making demo at the museum

 

[NotSure]

Kernel Export India Porter using the last mystery yeast pack I got from MM which is HBC431. This has been on my recipe list for a while so had to be attempted sometime. Currently I have significant doubts about being too strong in the roast flavour. Been a while since I made any porter so maybe it will change during fermentation.

Kernel is an awesome brewery and I appreciate that they still bottle as opposed to can. I've hijacked their Pale Ale yeast to make a beer before by using the residue at the bottom of three bottles and making a starter. If I tried cloning one of their beers, I'd probably do something similar, but understandable if you don't try that with bottles of their stronger ones. Almost like a big homebrewer and they do things right.

 

[ale_crowe_holic]

My DIPA has turned into a TIPA.
I'm assuming due to the extra oats and lactose I added at the start

 

[RichardM]

My DIPA has turned into a TIPA.
I'm assuming due to the extra oats and lactose I added at the start

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Lactose won't affect the ABV, it isn't fermentable.

 

[ale_crowe_holic]

Lactose won't affect the ABV, it isn't fermentable.

Ok, just the oats then.

 

[RichardM]

Ok, just the oats then.

Is the final gravity in your image what you have measured or what is predicted?

 

[ale_crowe_holic]

Is the final gravity in your image what you have measured or what is predicted?

Measured over the last couple of days. Going to check Tuesday morning as I'm going away for 2 weeks from then so hoping to bottle before I go.

 

[foxy]

I brewed a Pacific Ale clone today.
OG 1,045 FG 1,010 ABV 4.6% IBU 27 SRM 3.5 Mash pH 5.5
3 kg Weyermann Pilsner malt
1.5 kg Weyermann Wheat malt
0.5 kg Flaked wheat
8g Galaxy @ 20 minutes
20g Galaxy @ 10 minutes
10g Galaxy @ 5 minutes
30g Cascade dry hop in secondary.
Mash into 32 litres of water 40 minutes @ 64C 20 minutes @ 70C

Holding steady @ 64C
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Iodine test
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Double barrel squeeze and an extra 2 litres
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Boil and gravity check
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That will do me. What I am hoping for.
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I thought I was being conservative by adding my Galaxy Hops at 20 minutes, a side-by-side taste of the Stone & Wood Pacific ale mine is slightly on the bitter side. I have now read that no hops go into the Stone & Wood Pacific Ale before 10 minutes!
I have been looking online at other responses to Galaxy Hops and came across this article where Scott Hargrave of Balter Brewing discusses Galaxy Hops.
https://allaboutbeer.com/best-pract...'s got all this great,stay away from hot side.