What did you brew today?

[samale]

Time to brew @Pennine spring stout. Easily the best imperial stout I have tasted. Let's hope I can do it justice
The mash is on, I will update later with figure's.

 

[meirion658]

My first and last all grain lager!!!

 

[Banbeer]

My first and last all grain lager!!!

Why your last??

 

[meirion658]

Why your last??

It will take my wife an age to drink 23lts lol, so I be back to my ales lol.

Never say never tho just takes so long from bre to drinking time!!

 

[Banbeer]

It will take my wife an age to drink 23lts lol, so I be back to my ales lol.

Never say never tho just takes so long from bre to drinking time!!

I know what you mean, I'm making a Bohemian Pilsner from GH book this Saturday so hoping that will be good.

 

[Pennine]

Time to brew @Pennine spring stout. Easily the best imperial stout I have tasted. Let's hope I can do it justice
The mash is on, I will update later with figure's.

you'll probably have to call it autumn stout though

 

[meirion658]

I know what you mean, I'm making a Bohemian Pilsner from GH book this Saturday so hoping that will be good.

I'm doing the Mexican cerveza from the same book

 

[Pennine]

Time to brew @Pennine spring stout. Easily the best imperial stout I have tasted. Let's hope I can do it justice
The mash is on, I will update later with figure's.

how's it going @samale

 

[samale]

how's it going @samale

I don't like to rush stuff. I put the mash on and went out and did 40 miles on the bike. Just doing a quick mash out before getting the boil on.

 

[cushyno]

23L of Summer Lightning.

Never brewed this before but seen it in the GW book and mentioned a few times recently here. Subbed in a little sugar for some of the malt to help achieve a dry finish, though I managed to maintain a good 65.5°C throughout the mash.

Pearler of a Brewday with everything going like clockwork as I multi-tasked alongside a 4hr conference call.

Ran out of EKG so used what I had for flameout hop and subbed in some Styrian Goldings with a bit of EKG for the 10 mins addition. I'm sure it'll be fine.

 

[Pennine]

I don't like to rush stuff. I put the mash on and went out and did 40 miles on the bike. Just doing a quick mash out before getting the boil on.

nice that sounds like a perfect brew day! I do that too usually, get the mash going then out for the morning run.

 

[samale]

So I had a go at @Pennine spring stout. This was the recipe I went with
5kg Maris otter
560g caramunich 1
200g chocolate rye
140 chateau café light
250g porridge oats
250g golden naked oats
250 carafa 2 plus 150g carafa 3

50g cascade @60 mins
30g Chinook @ flameout
30g Chinook @ hopstand

My numbers are well out. I got 14 litres at 1.090 og. I mashed low so if it gets to 1.025 I have an 8.5% stout.
Over all I am happy, nice recipe to follow, I will add the vanilla extract at bottling.
It's cooling now before adding the T58 yeast. Played it safe it's in a 23 litre fermentor.

 

[Edison]

Wednesday brewed a Cascade Kveik SMaSH. 5.2kg of Crisp MO got me 21l of 1.051OG into the FV. Bittered at 60 minutes with 50g of 5.3aa Cascade with another 20g added at 5 mins. Im holding it at 39c until done then crashing to 1c to dry hop my remaining 30g for 2 days then straight to keg. Hoping all in to be grain to glass in 7 days.

 

[AMyd666]

14.5 litres of honey porter. OG 1.055.
1475g Pale Malt
400g Munich Malt
200g Chocolate Malt
100g Dark Crystal Malt
50g Roasted Barley
Mashed the above in 12 litres at 66°C

500g Light DME at flame out
200g Honey at flame out

20g Northern Brewer @ 60 minutes
10g Fuggles @ 30 minutes
10 Fuggles @ 10 minutes
50ml Vanilla Extract into FV
5g Kveik Voss sprinkled at 37°C

 

[MickDundee]

I’ve got a bitter on now. A user upper of sorts loosely based on the Graham Wheeler Boddingtons clone:

1kg Crisp Europils
2kg Crafty Maltsters Pops Ale Malt
302g Crisp Medium Crystal
200g Torrified wheat
1 squeezy bottle of Golden Syrup

40g EKG for 60mins
15g Fuggles for 10mins

Using London Ale III for the first time. It’s only the 3rd time I’ve used liquid yeast, and my first time in about 3 years.

 

[MickDundee]

Woah! Never had an enthusiastic Boil like this before!

 

[Clint]

No wandering off for you...

 

[MickDundee]

No wandering off for you...

Got to put the kids to bed SWMBO is out

 

[darkbright]

A wheat beer that will have fruit added to it. Depends on what fruit is cheap at Tesco next week.

 

[MickDundee]

I’ve got a bitter on now. A user upper of sorts loosely based on the Graham Wheeler Boddingtons clone:

1kg Crisp Europils
2kg Crafty Maltsters Pops Ale Malt
302g Crisp Medium Crystal
200g Torrified wheat
1 squeezy bottle of Golden Syrup

40g EKG for 60mins
15g Fuggles for 10mins

Using London Ale III for the first time. It’s only the 3rd time I’ve used liquid yeast, and my first time in about 3 years.

What I’ve heard about that Crafty Malt is spot on.

Target was 1.038, and I achieved 1.042 with it only taking up about 60% of the grain bill. Obviously the post-fermentation taste test will be the main indicator but I’m very impressed so far!