What did you brew today?

[RichardM]

An English bitter
Marris Otter
Crystal
Torriefied Wheat
A touch of Chocolate

Fuggles at start of boil, 15 and 5 minutes

In the fermenter now with Whitelabs Burton Ale yeast

 

[Cheshire Cat]

What's the FIVE yeast like Chesh? I used loads of their pale but got fed up of the poor floc.

Read their spec yesterday it says the floc is high.

 

[mitch]

Just freestyed an xmas TC.
200g extra sugar. 2 cinnamon sticks from the middle (y)east

 

[JCO]

20l Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby Mild - Graham Wheeler/Roger Protz recipe.

 

[Clint]

Finally got a brew on!
SAISON!WITH!SAAZ!
4KG pilsner malt
1kg Munich
250g terrified wheat
Magnum, Hallertau hersbruker and saaz.
M29.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Munich Dunkel 22 litres
4800g Munich light
200g Buscuit malt
100g Carafa 3
100g Chocolate malt
25g Northern Brewer 60m
15g HH @ 15m
Safale W34/70
OG 1054

 

[lupinehorror]

my second evil dog double IPA attempt.
shortfilled to 19L and 500g of brewer's sugar added to the LME.
OG seems only to be 1.068. i was hoping for/expecting higher.

 

[Clint]

Have you give it a good thrashing? Sometimes it doesn't mix in properly.

 

[lupinehorror]

Have you give it a good thrashing? Sometimes it doesn't mix in properly.

it did receive a fair thrashing plus pouring the top up water from a great height.
sure it'll be fine (and i've already got plenty hairs on my chest!).
it'll be getting bottled properly this time at least.

 

[lupinehorror]

thinking about adding a litre of 100% grapefruit juice to this one. anyone have any thoughts? it'll only be 77g of sugar but might give me that elvis juice vibe.
edit:
i may give it a miss now that i've thought about it some more. don't want to totally gub it.
edit 2:
not known for my common sense.

 

[Clint]

Not sure if Dutto tried this...have a look at his brew days.

 

[lupinehorror]

cheers. seems @Dutto did.

the only one i have access to is the golden grapefruit tropicana version (my usual SJW brews use more budget juices. right. i'm going to go for it. everything crossed. my heatpad is struggling with the volume. it's above 18C but this won't be a quick one. have wrapped some bubble wrap around the barrel.
edit (again):
this post has more detail
https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/what-kit-beer-are-you-drinking-tonight.57621/post-870551

 

[mitch]

Today im brewing a 5ltr AG kit from oakhomebrew which cost £8.

Buds IPA. 4.7%.

MO Crystal & Black Malts
Target & Goldings

Its described as a clone of flowers ipa.

I will review further in kits thread.

 

[Clint]

Easy brewday although I missed OG by a couple of points pushing efficiency down a bit. Might be the base malt as never used it before but I'm not bothered. Pitched at 26c.
Contemplating another brew for tomorrow...

 

[DavidDetroit]

250g terrified wheat

Was that left over from Halloween? A ghost story did the trick, perhaps?

 

[Clint]

Yes...plus I shout at it and the dog growls at it. I might lock it in the shed for a couple of hours later...

 

[DavidDetroit]

dog growls

I used to do an early morning paper route (up at 4:30am) when I was a kid. I swear, the random dog, no matter the size, that would sneak up on me and bark would scare me half to death. If I wasn't fully awake before then, I was afterward.
Also walking headlong into a full-blown spider web as I walked up a porch between two bushes was something I could have done without.

 

[samale]

Belgian imperial stout
3kg maris otter
2kg light Munich
500g medium crystal
300g chocolate rye
200g special W
200g carafa 3
300g porridge oats
200g flaked barley
20g magnum@60mins
30g Chinook@5mins
30g Chinook flame out

I might need to give it a slight bump with sugar. I am looking 15 litres and 1.090. mash temp 63.

Yeast WLP530

 

[Clint]

Today it's a second batch of Hazelwood Brewery best bitter.
This time I'm using Maris otter and I have some dark crystal. I've slightly increased the flaked barley as it's was the last of it...but it's only 50g or so and increased the torrified wheat a bit too.
Yeast...this time I've swapped from Notty to MJ liberty bell..

 

[Clint]

No dramas...three points OVER target OG...plus a litre extra to fv...gives me 73% bhe! Only change is base malt from Crisp pale to Crisp Maris otter...