What did you brew today?

[Bitter_Dave]

Was planning a classis best bitter myself for my next brew (Monday) but then got sidetracked planning a American red ale recipe...what to do !

Make the bitter!*


* I may be biased!

 

[Madhouse]

Just dry hopped my latest brew, a bit of a last minute one that's on a deadline so need to break a couple of rules and keep my fingers crossed - only getting just over a week for fermentation - eek!!

It's a pale ale with Nelson, Moteuka, Mystic, Olicana and Vic Secret and Verdant's yeast so should be tropical and soft. iSpindel says fermentation's done already, so the dry hop's in and will keg on Sunday for carbing.

 

[Clint]

I'm brewing the bitter mentioned yesterday. Slight tweaks as the proposed crystal 240 addition turned into either 60,100 or 400. Plus the amber malt addition increased to 175g from 150g as that was all of it. Apart from that it's exactly the same!

 

[Clint]

All done though I missed my target OG by about 5 points (low)! I'm getting 1.034/5 ish. Dunno what's happened there,volumes are right. Mash was on the high side..67c.
Depending on the yeast attenuation,CML Midland,70% will give me a 3.2% beer,though the suggested is 76_82%.

 

[Appleton Brews]

Clint
I normally get an average 79% out of Midland but here is my actuals.

Midland
78%
76%
77%
80%
84%
84%
76%
76%
77%
81%
80%
82%
75%
74%
79%
82%
79% Average

 

[Clint]

So on that average it'll be about 3.5%..must try find out what's happened. I did scale the recipe on Brewfather back to 20 lit. Also first bag out of a new batch of Maris Otter from MM.

 

[6Trails]

Broke out the G30 for the first time in about 20 brews today to do this dry stout. Plugged up the hole in the bottom plate and did away with the centre pipe.

71% Maris Otter
11% Flaked Barley
6% Chocolate
5% Sugar
4% Roasted Barley
3% Crystal (145ebc)
For 1.044

28 IBU Magnum at 60
15g Fuggle at 15
Nottingham

Have to say it was the most painless brew day I've had in ages not having to watching temperatures like I do on the brewzilla, and knowing I wasn't going to block the chiller with hops. Cleaning was more of a pain though (Handles please Grainfather), and it is a lot slower to heat, but I think I'll stick with this for the foreseeable.

 

[stubrewworx]

Tonka stout. Missed my targets, which I'm blaming torrefied oats for. So it's probably gonna come in under 4%... not great for a stout.

And I just smashed my Hydrometer in the sink!

 

[Rwilts]

So with apologise to @Bitter_Dave I have decided to go with the American Red this morning. Mash water heating up . Throwing lots at this today - biggest grain bill for a while due to poor efficiency in recent brews , which I suspect is down to the pre crushed base malt. 5 different malts in my recipe for first time, hey at the end of the day ( 4 weeks ) It will be good beer..

 

[Begbie]

Forgot to update this thread on Saturday. I brewed a 15L batch of a Hazy Jane clone. It's based roughly on the Jon Finch NEIPA recipe, but I call it a Hazy Jane clone because my last brew of this turned out identical in colour, flavour and aroma as the original. Hoping that this scaled down version works out the same.

Excuse the state of the decking but when the first bit of decent weather appears, the priority is brew day, not washing decking.

 

[Madhouse]

21L of Marshmallow Stout. Basically a milk stout that I added marshmallows to (figured why not?), was loosely based on a previous milk stout I'd done but adjusted for the speciality malts I had on hand, will add cocao nibs and vanilla in secondary next week.

Tweaked my equipment profile for this one and only overshot the OG by 0.002 so happy with that.

 

[ale_crowe_holic]

Brewed on Sunday a 23l Festival kit.
Its the Razorback IPA which I've added 250g of lactose powder, put all of the kit hops in immediately and used Lallemands new Pomona yeast instead of the kit.
I'll dry hop it with 125g of Kohatu hops and when I transfer to my bottling bucket, I've got a sachet of BartHaas HopHaze Permanant Haze Producing Solution which I'll add to the priming mix before I transfer.

I like the Razorback kit to play around with.

Hopefully his year I'll get back to AIO instead of these kits, but money's needed elsewhere.

 

[Its 6pm somewhere]

Busy 24hrs, took advantage of a free house while herself was away at a conference and brewed 46l of a citra Ale yesterday evening and 46l of lager with Perle and Mittelfruh this morning. Hit all my numbers, 1033 for the Ale and 1034 for the lager. Should end up around 3.5% each which is where I want them. Both bubbling away at 10psi. Ale done with Voss and lager pitched onto Novalager slurry.

 

[Appleton Brews]

Today I brewed 15 litres of Sierra Nevada Pale on my Burco boiler and grain basket.
3000g Maris Otter
150g Medium Crystal
Cascade hops
30g 45m
30g 15m
40g to follow as a Dry Hop
US05 yeast
OG 1052 BHE 79%.
I never get a BHE much over 75% on my All in One.
Expecting ABV of 5.6%

 

[jof]

No brewing today, but transferred cider to 35 bottles & a 10l small pressure barrel.

 

[Agentgonzo]

Ooooh, that's nice. Random kitchen sink brew and turns out to be a 4.3% classic pub ale.

Looking forward to drinking this one

 

[jof]

Ooooh, that's nice. Random kitchen sink brew and turns out to be a 4.3% classic pub ale.

Looking forward to drinking this one
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Can't beat beer from a wine glass.
Classy

 

[Agentgonzo]

Can't beat beer from a wine glass.
Classy

It was bottling day. The wine glass was too taste the sample from the hydrometer

 

[Frisp]

Posh. Im the kinda peasant that glugs it down from the test jar !

 

[obscure]

Simply Stout kit subbing the sugar for golden promise (mashed for an hour then a quick fifteen minute boil yeast has being subbed with CML Midland), all being well will give me a good solid session stout.