What did you brew today?

[obscure]

Fullers London Porter Clone (Graham Wheeler Recipie) scaled to 11L (expected yield 9.5L)

I did a batch of this a while back and while not a spot on clone of London Porter it makes for a decent fairly strong (5.2%) beer.

Single hop beer (fuggles) with two additions at 90 and 10 minutes. Its now in the fermentor and being left to cool over night so will pitch the yeast tomorrow, and hopefully should be drinking this by late October early November.

 

[Rodcx500z]

Just mashed in a 21L bitter/pale ale with challenger, ekg, and first gold, i really do like my bitters/ pale ales, think i need to try something different soon may be some largers over the winter months

 

[Furry Shark Brewery]

Greg Hughes' Californian Common, which is the first time I have made this one. Packaged a Vienna Lager yesterday which was my new glycol chiller's maiden voyage. Worked like a champ and the Lager looked and tasted fantastic. And the sun is shining. Can't beat a quiet me-time brew day to decompress.

 

[Rodcx500z]

All done will pitch yeast later, only got 20L but i did have a problem my normal bucket i use for the dunk is occupied so i did a normal sparge not to worry all else was good

 

[yrhendystu]

Just bottled a 23L Cooper's kit, it's their northern European lager.
I then bunged a load of lemonade and orange juice on the slurry. Blended two ginger roots and a lime to add to it.

Should come out at around 3% before priming.

 

[NormanHurst]

Just turned the gas on to start a Vienna APA - 50% 50% ish Maris Otter and Vienna with a touch of Carapils. To be late hopped with Cascade, Ekuanot snd Mosaic. Us05 to ferment. First time using Vienna so looking forward to how this turns out.

 

[Hanglow]

Brewing a bitter today for the first time in ages.

80% crisp low colour pale ale
13% invert
7%crystal
1.040

Not decided on hops yet, probably just one addition then maybe a dry hop.
Step mash

Yeast was going to be windsor for flavour and k97 for attenuation, but the last beer I made with k97 took an age to clear so I will try us05 this time. Not the quickest to clear either but better than k97

 

[MickDundee]

Just turned the gas on to start a Vienna APA - 50% 50% ish Maris Otter and Vienna with a touch of Carapils. To be late hopped with Cascade, Ekuanot snd Mosaic. Us05 to ferment. First time using Vienna so looking forward to how this turns out.

50/50 Vienna and pale is what I do for my APAs. Gives it a nice malty backbone

 

[PaisleyExport]

Brewed a partial mash Wee Heavy. It was a nice chilled morning and in the fermenter by mid day. 5th batch I’ve done and getting a good rhythm to the brew day. I Have dreams of All grain In the future. Czech Lager next so I have a selection for Christmas. Welcome any extract recipe recommendations, I’m thinking pilsner urqell clone ( I had it in Prague couple of years ago in Lokal, best pint of lager I’ve ever had, bottles don’t do it justice)

 

[PaisleyExport]

Today I did the Cornish Tin Miner's Ale from Greg Hughes' book. Some changes were:

No Caramunich, oddly enough (:lol:), so Caramalt instead.
Hop schedule was 20g Herkules for bittering, then used the last 35g of a Bramling Cross and about 27g of First Gold, half of each at 15 mins and 0 mins.
Used a new, dry sachet of US 05. As the temp at nearly 6 hours after pitching is still 26C, maybe that is for the best.

I may have under-chilled this one, but have every confidence that it will be OK.

Greg Hughes book worth an amazon purchase? I’m currently Extract/Partial Mash brewer is it mostly All Grain?
thanks JP

 

[NormanHurst]

50/50 Vienna and pale is what I do for my APAs. Gives it a nice malty backbone

Might have been inspired by your recipes here, Mick! Maybe I should call it The Ferry APA - my wife spent her teenage years in Broughty Ferry and the in laws only moved away 3-4 years ago. Lovely spot.

 

[MickDundee]

Might have been inspired by your recipes here, Mick! Maybe I should call it The Ferry APA - my wife spent her teenage years in Broughty Ferry and the in laws only moved away 3-4 years ago. Lovely spot.

It’s a great place. My parents have been here 35 years next year (so have I obviously but I was only 18m old when we moved so I don’t really count it, I also spent 3 years in Edinburgh for my accountancy training). Dundee is supposedly the next “up and coming” city as well, or it was before Coronavirus.

 

[Furry Shark Brewery]

Greg Hughes book worth an amazon purchase? I’m currently Extract/Partial Mash brewer is it mostly All Grain?
thanks JP

I have an older edition and, as do many, rate the book. It covers partial extract too, as per the pic.

 

[NormanHurst]

Just turned the gas on to start a Vienna APA - 50% 50% ish Maris Otter and Vienna with a touch of Carapils. To be late hopped with Cascade, Ekuanot snd Mosaic. Us05 to ferment. First time using Vienna so looking forward to how this turns out.

Managed to chill to 22-23 and now in fridge to come down a bit before pitching. 11.5L at 1052, couple of points over target but good enough.

 

[Davetomo41]

Just done a mangrove Jack's American pale ale added 1kg brew enhancer, yeast was MJ empire ale , brewed short 20lts, start gravity 1.046. Can't wait

 

[PaisleyExport]

I have an older edition and, as do many, rate the book. It covers partial extract too, as per the pic.

I don’t take much convincing when I comes to brewing these days - ordered on amazon along with Palmer. Cheers JP

 

[brumbrew]

My mate gave me a large parsnip that was growing rouge in his allotment. Chopped it up, boiled with a lemon, around 500g sugar and a cup of cold tea.

I can only find half a pack of mangrove jacks mead yeast. So that will have to do.

Haven't brewed for a few years, so all my stock is way out of date.

 

[Keruso]

Made a “contains no juice” clone, using WLP518 Opshaug Kveik. Given the lack of consensus on pitching rates I made a 1.5 litre starter, it managed to blow the foil top completely off the flask, and made a lot of yeast. Hopefully it will be an improvement over dried Voss which was like drinking alcoholic orange juice.

 

[cushyno]

Just mashed in a 21L bitter/pale ale with challenger, ekg, and first gold, i really do like my bitters/ pale ales, think i need to try something different soon may be some largers over the winter months

I do like a bit of both first gold and challenger, they always seem to produce a good beer to my liking, though the honey and orange of first gold often seems to dominate. Not 100% happy with anything I've made so far with EKG, but that may be just the recipes I've done.

 

[Hanglow]

I ended up using 100g of Bramling cross and 100g of homegrown hallertau mittelfruh from last year in my bitter. Lot of hops but low AA so the beer is probably about 40IBU I think.

Here's a couple of pictures

invert colour changing as it cooks in the oven. low and slow over the brewday, each sample is about an hour apart from start to finish. No idea what EBC it is

nice clear runnings from mash tun