What did you brew today?

[gar]

Dandelion PA.
Small 5L batch. It was great in last year's heat wave.

 

[chrisb8]

Hop House 13 clone from a recipe I cobbled together from various bits of information found online. Partial mash, 15ltr batch.

 

[Ajhutch]

Hop House 13 clone from a recipe I cobbled together from various bits of information found online. Partial mash, 15ltr batch.

Was your clone recipe from @pvt_ak?

Hop House 13 - it’s ***** !
Banana esters etc ...
shocking a big brewery can get away with filth ?

 

[pvt_ak]

Was your clone recipe from @pvt_ak?

It wasn’t a homebrew mate , it was the real McCoy. If it was an AG Brew it would have pissed all over it no doubt.

 

[Ajhutch]

I know, it just made me laugh was all! Let’s hope it doesn’t turn out as a clone and instead is much better!

 

[pvt_ak]

I know, it just made me laugh was all! Let’s hope it doesn’t turn out as a clone and instead is much better!

 

[chrisb8]

Was your clone recipe from @pvt_ak?

It didn't include any bananas, I can say that much!

I feel there is some history there. When I say clone, it was more a recipe inspired by the original using hops I already have...

 

[Richie_asg1]

American IPA kit from the range. 20 Bottles. Includes bucket for £24. Not sure if that is good value or not...but I needed the 15L bucket.

 

[Mungri]

Mosaic Rye Beer.
Last time I made this the mash stuck like a ba***rd in the Grainfather. Used 250g rice hulls this time around and it made a big difference.
Also used the Robobrew false bottom in the Grainfather for the first time, as recommended by David Heath. Really pleased with how it worked.
The pump pushed the wort into the fermenter quicker than normal and I got about 1L extra of beautiful ale.

 

[Richie_asg1]

Red summer fruits WOW. Only bought the airlocks yesterday and have the bottom drawer of the freezer to clear out before this years fruit.
Found these which I saw someone using on a youtube clip. Seemed ideal for the first stage of a 5L wow.

 

[DaryllLand]

Mosaic Rye Beer.
Last time I made this the mash stuck like a ba***rd in the Grainfather. Used 250g rice hulls this time around and it made a big difference.
Also used the Robobrew false bottom in the Grainfather for the first time, as recommended by David Heath. Really pleased with how it worked.
The pump pushed the wort into the fermenter quicker than normal and I got about 1L extra of beautiful ale.

Do you fined you get a lot of trub/hop and grain residue using the pump to rack to FV?

 

[Mungri]

Do you fined you get a lot of trub/hop and grain residue using the pump to rack to FV?

Not really no. I started off doing biab, then had a go at a 3 vessel setup and I’ve been using the Grainfather for the last 8 months.
Trub’s been about the same with all the methods.
It’ll be interesting to see what the trub in this brew is like after using the false bottom.
I definitely got more wort into the fermenter than I normally do.

 

[DaryllLand]

Not really no. I started off doing biab, then had a go at a 3 vessel setup and I’ve been using the Grainfather for the last 8 months.
Trub’s been about the same with all the methods.
It’ll be interesting to see what the trub in this brew is like after using the false bottom.
I definitely got more wort into the fermenter than I normally do.

My thinking is that because the bottom is where all the sh*t would be, using a pump which sucks from the bottom you’d get it all in the FV. I recently pumped from my Brewster bacon into my FV and thought that the wort was very cloudy/hazy. I just wondered if I could do a side-by-side comparison where I transfer from the top of the wort in the boiler and compare to the pump would it make a difference?

 

[GerritT]

Didn't brew anything new, just racked an ESB (Bulldog English Ale, suprisingly compact flocculation!), for bottling tomorrow, and I took care of the hops.

 

[samale]

Just bottled a Belgian ale if you would call it that. 4.5 kg Minch ale malt , 500 grams of cara-munich 1. Cml Belgian ale yeast. Single hop with 100 grams of sladek hops between flame out and dry hop. Never used the hops or yeast before. It smells like nothing I have ever made before. Looking forward to try it

 

[DragonHeadBrewery]

Started up a Woodfordes Wherry in a hurry =)
Good Brew!
Cheers!

 

[Banbeer]

AG#2 on Brewster Beacon

Exmoor Gold, AG kit

4.6Kg Maris otter Pale Malt
47g Challenger-90 mins
16g Goldings-10 mins
10g Goldings-flame out, cooled to 80c and steeped for 20 mins
11.5g Nottingham Ale Yeast

SG 1.045 added too much on sparge so ended up with 26L
Hoping for around 4-4.5%

 

[chesters-mild]

Just 20min. into a 90min. mash for a22lit. batch
2kg. Maris Otter
2kg. Wheat Malt
500grm. Munich Malt
Will add 500grm. sugar to the boil
50grm. Perle hops 5% AA for 30min.
20grm Perle Hopstand at 75c.
Mangrove Jack Saison yeast
3rd Brew of the year.
Cheers

 

[Longhead23]

Razorback IPA. First time with this good. Heard decent things about it. Any tips welcome...

 

[Andrew Chapman]

Greetings all,

Made a small batch of pineapple cider testing out Pat Macks homebrewing caps. They seem to be a great piece of kit.