StrangeBrew
Senior Member
Although I have plenty of beer brewed and ready for Xmas
A chance purchase of a large quantity of hopped liquid malt extract and thoughts of the new year... not just the 1st but the whole month... with my beer guzzlin lot of family and friends I could be in drought by mid January !
So had a major brew Evening...
Used 6.5 Kg of the 23 Kg of hopped malt extract I aquired with short boils, after mashing the speciality grains, as it's already hopped and just tail end of the boil hops added to freshen up the brew...
5 gallons of porter with chocolate malts and black malt plus fuggles hops ... predicted 4.5% ABV
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5 gallons of bitter with crystal malt and a extra generous portion of pale malt extract and loads of east Kent goldings hops aimed at 5.1%
Are now in my fermentors... helped along with about 7 pints of various ales :-) and a few 'hot from the oven' sausage rolls to keep me sustained through this marathon brew :-)
Happy Christmas all and an even drunker New Year !
A chance purchase of a large quantity of hopped liquid malt extract and thoughts of the new year... not just the 1st but the whole month... with my beer guzzlin lot of family and friends I could be in drought by mid January !
So had a major brew Evening...
Used 6.5 Kg of the 23 Kg of hopped malt extract I aquired with short boils, after mashing the speciality grains, as it's already hopped and just tail end of the boil hops added to freshen up the brew...
5 gallons of porter with chocolate malts and black malt plus fuggles hops ... predicted 4.5% ABV
+
5 gallons of bitter with crystal malt and a extra generous portion of pale malt extract and loads of east Kent goldings hops aimed at 5.1%
Are now in my fermentors... helped along with about 7 pints of various ales :-) and a few 'hot from the oven' sausage rolls to keep me sustained through this marathon brew :-)
Happy Christmas all and an even drunker New Year !