What are you drinking tonight 2020.
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Starting with a New Season Saison!
This one was instantly carbonated as I described in my brewday posts. I only used 25psi (rather than 50) but it’s pretty good even at half pressure!
I might try a higher pressure with my next one.
This one was instantly carbonated as I described in my brewday posts. I only used 25psi (rather than 50) but it’s pretty good even at half pressure!
I might try a higher pressure with my next one.
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I don’t as a rule dry hop, I mostly make bitters stouts etc, where this isn’t the norm. But I decided to give @Hazelwood Brewery Summer Breeze a try, but rather foolishly when I saw use leaf hops for the dry hoping I thought pellets will do, so I tossed them in the fermentor and when the beer was ready for the keg turned on the tap and transferred straight to the keg.
A few weeks later I was eagerly anticipating a glass hooked up the tap, and got a spluttering of beer, then nothing. turned up the pressure no luck. Eventually I decided, to check the ball lock unscrewed it and found it full of hop derbies, cleaned it and reattached another spluttering of beer and then stopped. In the end I came to the conclusion I had no choice but to decant it into a new keg (through a siphon with a mesh filter at the end.
Well onto the beer itself it’s six percent (underestimated my efficiency and overcompensated on the base malt) hoppy and really easy to drink for a six percent beer.
I will make this again but will probably put the hops in a mesh bag in the fermentor and possibly run the beer through a muslim cloth when legging.
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Yeah I'm not sure on the dessert stout fad. Apparently Amundsen do some really good ones so I might give them a go.
Oh no! I’m pleased you like it at least. You can use either leaf or pellet but need to leave the hop debris in the fermenter. I use an auto-syphon with a filter on the end to decant the beer into a keg (as you did in the end).
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oh it’s an excellent beer, but a case of not thinking things through just glad I had a spare keg to decant into. Makes me wonder how exactly you are supposed to keg a NEIPA which have huge amounts of dry hops.
Another New Season Saison!
50 psi may just be a little too much!
50 psi may just be a little too much!
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Take-out from one of my my locals. The Farriers Arms in Mersham. Its a beer they brew in their own micro brewery. Very nice it is too. The chap kindly gave me one of their glasses too
I don't often frequent the pub but keen to support while they have to close for lockdown.
Take-out from one of my my locals. The Farriers Arms in Mersham. Its a beer they brew in their own micro brewery. Very nice it is too. The chap kindly gave me one of their glasses too
I don't often frequent the pub but keen to support while they have to close for lockdown.
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Sadly my local isn’t doing something like this as I find myself craving a pint of cask ale.
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Started with the first pint of Summer Lightning ts been in the corny for 7 days, really nice. Now on Aldi's anti establishment which is very good.
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Anorher glass of Summer Breeze (it is excellent) and a home made burger.
Cheers and (as cliche as it sound) happy Friday
Cheers and (as cliche as it sound) happy Friday
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Supermarket beers tonight as I don’t want to plough through my dwindling homebrew stocks before Christmas. Aldi Reinbacher Pilsner aka my guilty pleasure. Going to brew an IPA this weekend or next for Christmas to go with Dunkel and some sours.
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Early taste of this Youngs American IPA, hazey but clearing five days after barreling.
This pips the Razorback as my best kit yet - grapefruity, piney, malty with nice bitter finish.
Dry hopped with Simcoe, Centennial and Chinook before cold crashing.
This pips the Razorback as my best kit yet - grapefruity, piney, malty with nice bitter finish.
Dry hopped with Simcoe, Centennial and Chinook before cold crashing.
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As much as I am liking the Summer Breeze I wanted some a bit more session like so a Pint of ordinary bitter (3.9%).
Malt is just Marris Otter with a little crystal, hops are progress and whitbread. Flavour is very clean with a nice underlying bitterness. Despite how the glass looks carbonation is fairly gentle, I cranked the regulator up a little to high when dispensing.
The keg has just come out the garage so is perhaps a litter colder than ideal but overall a really quaffable pint.
Malt is just Marris Otter with a little crystal, hops are progress and whitbread. Flavour is very clean with a nice underlying bitterness. Despite how the glass looks carbonation is fairly gentle, I cranked the regulator up a little to high when dispensing.
The keg has just come out the garage so is perhaps a litter colder than ideal but overall a really quaffable pint.
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I think that means you need a clean glass.
Well..you will mess with contraptions! So you're force carbing them?
I did, I wanted to try it. I don’t plan to use this routinely though, just for those odd occasions when I need a beer carbonated right now.
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A nice refreshing American IPA lemon saison 
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