What did you brew today?

[UKSkydiver]

Today I brewed a Pelforth Brun clone, originally a recipe by @IPA, formerly of this parish (I only say that as it appears he hasn't posted for a while)

My next door neighbour keeps banging on about this bloody beer, and how difficult it is to get hold of, so I thought I'd try and recreate it.

From the research I've done, it sounds a bit like Leffe Brun, but without the Belgian yeast notes. Seeing as its origins are northern France, could be more like a Biere De Gard or a dark saison, if such a beast exists.

More details on my Brewday post when I can get around to doing it.

 

[prog99]

It’s very much like leffe brun. Hope it turns out

 

[NormanHurst]

The elderflower tree at the bottom of the garden is in full bloom so trying an 11.5L Elderflower Pale Ale. Mix of maris otter (to finish a bag) and golden promise with a few % of crystal. Challenger and EKG hops with a few elderflower heads added late in boil. S04 Yeast. We'll see how it goes....

 

[prog99]

We've been watching them just begin to get ready for flowering near us. Yours must be a good week or so ahead

 

[Neil1987]

Festival red vienna lager

 

[Keruso]

Bit of a first today,

1st time using liquid yeast, WLP051California V Ale
1st time making a 1.5 litre yeast starter
1st time using mash and boil salt additions
1st time using @strange-steve online water calculator and suggested values for an IPA, thanks Steve
1st time making Bell's Brewery Two Hearted Ale clone

I have high hopes..

 

[strange-steve]

Bit of a first today,

1st time using liquid yeast, WLP051California V Ale
1st time making a 1.5 litre yeast starter
1st time using mash and boil salt additions
1st time using @strange-steve online water calculator and suggested values for an IPA, thanks Steve
1st time making Bell's Brewery Two Hearted Ale clone

I have high hopes..

Really interested to hear how this one turns out, keep us posted

 

[Benfleet Brewery]

Bit of a first today,

1st time using liquid yeast, WLP051California V Ale
1st time making a 1.5 litre yeast starter
1st time using mash and boil salt additions
1st time using @strange-steve online water calculator and suggested values for an IPA, thanks Steve
1st time making Bell's Brewery Two Hearted Ale clone

I have high hopes..

a few firsts for me today too:

First ever all grain stout
First time dumping the whole contents of the Kettle into the FV after the boil
and, First time for me using @strange-steve water calculator too.

 

[Keruso]

a few firsts for me today too:

First ever all grain stout
First time dumping the whole contents of the Kettle into the FV after the boil
and, First time for me using @strange-steve water calculator too.

I hope you were able to cool it first

 

[Benfleet Brewery]

I hope you were able to cool it first

Yep, cooled it but just didn’t leave a couple of litres of wort in the Kettle with the trub like I usually do

 

[AMyd666]

My first stab at a Californian Common, AG #2.

1500g Lager Malt
750g Pale Malt
250g Munich Malt
200g Crystal Malt

Aimed for 10 litres, got 10 litres, OG 1.064, which judging by brewers friend made it 75% efficient (yay, better than AG#1! - Lesson; Better sparging this time round).

However I have made a mistake with downscaling from a 20 litre recipe, as I put 14g northern brewer at 90mins, 18g at 15mins. 18g at 1min. The calcs say an IBU of 71 when it should be 35!! It also calculated ABV at 6.7%.
To reduce the IBU, I topped up to 15litres with 2 litres leftover runnings and 3 litres water. OG now 1.044. Calcs now estimate an ABV of 4.8% and IBU of 52.
5g of MJ m54 rehydrated and added.

Hopefully it tastes OK. I've just finished my IPA which was about 56 IBU and that was fine.

 

[Andrew Elliott]

Did a NEIPA yesterday with no early boil hops just late and hopstand additions of Citra Mosaic and Galaxy. The Kviek Voss is tearing through it at the minute so will Probably dry hop Wednesday night and key next weekend. Looks and smells great this morning.

 

[Cestrian]

Had a go at making Shere Drop Champion Beer of Britain 2019 - Pioneer, Cascade and First Gold hops
and the second brew was an NEIPA with El Dorado, Ekuanot, Vic Secret, Mosaic & Citra. Used coastal haze WLP067 yeast blend. Love this yeast, I used it a lot last summer and it gives everything an added juicy pineapple flavour.

 

[strange-steve]

Just getting prepared for this quad which will be mashed overnight tonight, and will have brett B added to it after fermentation. It's been a while since I brewed a quad so looking forward to this one:

Bretted Quad

Recipe Specs
----------------
Batch Size (L): 20.0
Estimated OG: 1.090
Estimated FG: 1.011
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 10.4 %
Colour (SRM): 30
Bitterness (IBU): 24

Grain Bill
----------------
5.55 kg Pilsner Malt (70%)
0.50 kg Wheat Malt (6%)
0.45 kg CaraMunich I (6%)
0.20 kg Carafa Special II (2.5%)
Boil additions:
0.75 kg Homemade Candi Syrup - Dark (9.5%)
0.50 kg Cane Sugar (6%)

Hop Bill
----------------
12 g Zeus (15.3% AA) @ 60 Minutes
35 g Hallertau Mittelfruh (4.3% AA) @ 20 Minutes

Water Profile
----------------
105 ppm Calcium
56 ppm Sulphate
150 ppm Chloride
40 ppm Alkalinity

Notes
----------------
Single step Infusion at 67°C overnight
Fermented with Abbey Ale Yeast WLP530
Pitch at 18°C and ramp up to 25°C over 1 week
Rack to secondary and add brett b and leave for 8 weeks
Candi syrup is made by heating 500g refined beet sugar with 200ml water and 2 tsp of lemon juice gradually to 130°C and simmering for 1 hr

 

[Cheshire Cat]

10 litres Munich Dunkel Pale Ale
1500g Munich
1000g Pilsner
100g Special B
50g Melanoidin
50g Choc malt
10g Styrian Wolf 60 minutes
10g Cascade 10 minutes
CML Hog Norsk yeast
OG 1070 , this was totally unexpected as efficiently was 83% I was expecting 68%.
The reason it's a PA is I have a Budvar clone lagering in the fridge. Fingers crossed its ok.

 

[strange-steve]

10 litres Munich Dunkel Pale Ale
1500g Munich
1000g Pilsner
100g Special B
50g Melanoidin
50g Choc malt
10g Styrian Wolf 60 minutes
10g Cascade 10 minutes
CML Hog Norsk yeast
OG 1070 , this was totally unexpected as efficiently was 83% I was expecting 68%.
The reason it's a PA is I have a Budvar clone lagering in the fridge. Fingers crossed its ok.

Dunkel pale ale is a bit of an oxymoron. Your recipe looks like a cross between a bock and a dunkel, or possibly a doppelbock considering the manly OG thumb

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Dunkel pale ale is a bit of an oxymoron. Your recipe looks like a cross between a bock and a dunkel, or possibly a doppelbock considering the manly OG thumb

According to Brewers friend it a dark PA, but it's let's see what it's like so only 10 litre and I've no lagering capacity left but I wanted to brew with Munich.

 

[Alastair70]

James Morton's Totally Tropical Pale Ale. After all the recommendations on here I thought I should give it a go.
Went with Wyeast 1056, American Ale Yeast. 22L in fermentor, OG bang on 1.065.
The garage smells amazing, particularly after the big hop steep at the end.

 

[strange-steve]

Bretted Quad

Recipe Specs
----------------
Batch Size (L): 20.0
Estimated OG: 1.090
Estimated FG: 1.011
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 10.4 %
Colour (SRM): 30
Bitterness (IBU): 24

Grain Bill
----------------
5.55 kg Pilsner Malt (70%)
0.50 kg Wheat Malt (6%)
0.45 kg CaraMunich I (6%)
0.20 kg Carafa Special II (2.5%)
Boil additions:
0.75 kg Homemade Candi Syrup - Dark (9.5%)
0.50 kg Cane Sugar (6%)

Hop Bill
----------------
12 g Zeus (15.3% AA) @ 60 Minutes
35 g Hallertau Mittelfruh (4.3% AA) @ 20 Minutes

Water Profile
----------------
105 ppm Calcium
56 ppm Sulphate
150 ppm Chloride
40 ppm Alkalinity

Notes
----------------
Single step Infusion at 67°C overnight
Fermented with Abbey Ale Yeast WLP530
Pitch at 18°C and ramp up to 25°C over 1 week
Rack to secondary and add brett b and leave for 8 weeks
Candi syrup is made by heating 500g refined beet sugar with 200ml water and 2 tsp of lemon juice gradually to 130°C and simmering for 1 hr

Just got this wrapped up in the fermentation fridge, OG was a few points higher than expected (not a bad thing for a quad) at 1.093. If the brett reaches the same attenuation as last time then this will end up over 11% abv

OG shot, I love seeing a hydrometer at >1.090

 

[Clint]

After much musing I've decided to reattempt a Tribute clone as posted by Cheshire Cat on the drinking thread...
My original recipe had fuggles,celeia and Willamette. Willamette is the stand out hop in Tribute to me...
Cheshire's went with challenger and late addition of Willamette.
I have no challenger so bittering with Magnum,I have a little celeia left and Willamette..so going for late addition and a 80 degree hop stand on these.
Yeast... I'll use Gervin/Notty.
Water on...