What did you brew today?

[samale]

Today's brew is a Belgian IPA with citra, cascade, and columbus. Optimistically hoping for something along the lines of Cloudwater's Belgian Citra.

Many grams of hops are you using for a Belgian IPA. Are they as hop forward as an American ipa

 

[strange-steve]

Many grams of hops are you using for a Belgian IPA. Are they as hop forward as an American ipa

They can be, often people will simply use an American IPA recipe but with a Belgian yeast. I've been a little more reserved with only about 200g of hops split between whirlpool and dry hop (plus a bittering addition).

 

[prog99]

OK so it's more of an oud bruin than a flanders red, it sounds delicious though. Keep us updated cos I might give this one a try soon :thumba:

Had an accidental taste of this tonight (I pulled the wrong keg when pouring a stout, the poor shed lighting made them look the same). Not bad at all, great head on the beer and very smooth. Hard to believe its over 8%. Sourness definitely restrained though, must try harder next time.

 

[Clint]

GH wit with coriander and bitter orange peel ..brew day like clockwork but suffered a bit of a hit on efficiency...

 

[SteveH]

Got a Farmhouse in your soul Saison on last night, hit all my numbers and everything went to plan... until the very end when my thermometer stopped working.

I couldn't measure water temperature to rehydrate the yeast (Belle Saison) so I pitched it dry at about 22c, hopefully all will be OK!

 

[Richard Lander]

Finding that here in the UK there are 100g vac-packed Hops for sale for £1 + VAT = £1.20, I have been brewing up all sorts of Hop flavoured "not beer" recipes. Turns out everything tastes better with hops in. The beer making materials involve £1 of hops and >£10 of malt to make 40 pints, which makes me upset when I have used up all the expensive Malt and drunk all the beer, need to buy more malt. Malt extract gets much cheaper in a 25L container, but that just makes it sadder every time I run out of it.

Recent brewing results using hops to flavour "country wines" are good. Turns out that for "Under £1 all in" I can brew up 5L batches of experimental recipes, with sugar, yeast, yeast vit, Hops and other ingredients.

Very pleased with: the tea+hops+spices; the cider+hops.; the ginger beer, with added hops. Other hops flavoured favourites to follow, I am sure.

 

[chrisb8]

This afternoon I brewed a 15ltr batch of Coffee Vanilla Porter. This is my first attempt at this style so I'm looking forward to seeing how it turns out

 

[Sadfield]

First brew in over a month. Knocked up a split batch brew using Wai-iti hops. Half is going to be fermented with Belle Saison and dry hopped with more Wai-iti. The other half will be fermented with a Belgian Abbey yeast (MJ M47) with sugar addition to raise the Abv by 2%, to hopefully end up with something in the spirit of Duvel Citra.

 

[Clint]

just straining Mrs Clint's gin... raspberry in progress,Tay berry done. Red currant to do and a black currant to set up.

 

[Oneflewover]

A lager - Munich Helles. Got a hankering for simple refreshing beers at the moment. 25 litres.

90% lager malt, 10% Munich malt. Soft water, mashed at 64*C. Hallertauer Mittelfruh at 60 and 5mins to 20 ABU. OG 1.055. Fermenting with 3 X 10g packs of MJ m76 Bavarian Lager (what I picked up for 50p each).

Uneventful brewday on the whole, except I used pellets straight into the boiler = clogged bazooka filter. Never again, only using whole hops in the boiler from now on.

 

[Jakeyboi]

Double brew day today! Stocks have been depleted, again.

Sorted out a few issues I was having with the grainfather, ditched the top plate during the mash, I found 99% of the recirculated water was going straight down the middle, this also allowed me to stir the mash more easily.

Used a hop spider during the boil, and when sterilising the wort chiller I ran it through the hop spider which removed some small particles, then did it again during the whirlpool. It worked excellently and cleared out the cold break.

Resulted in two fine looking brews,

20l of brown ale
20l of American wheat beer

Happy brewing

 

[dan125]

I brewed up the first of my two entries for this years Welsh national comp - a fairly straight forward APA with centennial and mosaic.

 

[An Ankoù]

Still on the quest for the perfect bitter that I remember drinking as a nipper. Actually the beer was shiite then, so I'm not sure what it is I'm trying to remember.
Have established a working malt profile which is flavoursome and light at the same time, and single hopped one batch with Pilgrim and the other with Endeavour. Just realised that neither of those hops were around in the seventies so it's back to the drawing board. Certainly something other than Goldings and Fuggles.

 

[MyQul]

Challenger Ordinary Bitter for me today

 

[iaincrosbie]

A vacant gesture recipe from youtube's harrybrew69.
A blonde ale bittered with centennial then double dry hopped with mosaic.
In the fermenter at 30 litres of 1036.
Clockwork brewday.
All done and cleaned in 5 hrs.
Few pints of my el dorado smash experiment while brewing. Doing that again

 

[BeerCat]

Did a Lager at the weekend and realised when cleaning up I had not added the kettle finings. Took an hour to heat back up and chill again. I should know better by now!

 

[BeerCat]

A lager - Munich Helles. Got a hankering for simple refreshing beers at the moment. 25 litres.

90% lager malt, 10% Munich malt. Soft water, mashed at 64*C. Hallertauer Mittelfruh at 60 and 5mins to 20 ABU. OG 1.055. Fermenting with 3 X 10g packs of MJ m76 Bavarian Lager (what I picked up for 50p each).

Uneventful brewday on the whole, except I used pellets straight into the boiler = clogged bazooka filter. Never again, only using whole hops in the boiler from now on.

Would love to swap a bottle if it comes out well. Save the trub, I have been reusing the yeast for over a year. Next Lager I will be trying the CML hells out. Looks like it attenuates well.

 

[The Baron]

Brewed 22 ltrs of Old Empire IPA clonish. It was a recipe I have found on the net but don't know how near it will be as it as the usual hops EKG and Fuggles but asked for 56g of cascade in the last five mins and 56g of cascade dry hop. I have omitted the cascade dry hop as I know it uses cascade but I do not think in that quantity

 

[Oneflewover]

Would love to swap a bottle if it comes out well. Save the trub, I have been reusing the yeast for over a year. Next Lager I will be trying the CML hells out. Looks like it attenuates well.

Sounds good to me! I bottled it last week and it is currently in the brewfridge at 11 Deg C so will need to leave it til next weekend at least to take a view on it. Will pm you if it's good. Trub was dumped, didn't think to save some......

 

[kevmogs]

4kg Maris Otter
500g Crystal
250g Chocolate malt
Cascade + Fuggles
Going to pour on 2kg plum pulp in the fermenter
Got about 50 mins left on the boil, trying the wort chiller for the first time, and pitching a Real Ale yeast from Crossmyloof.
Bottle or barrel, what do you think?