Demig
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Last Sunday saw the inaugural first joint brew of Demig and F00b4r.
We had planned a joint brew of the Graham Wheeler BYOBRA Sarah Hughes Ruby Mild but having won Slovenian hops from Get'erbrewed we decided that we should test some of these hops using a base test beer.
The recipe for the hop test comes from Brulosophy : http://brulosophy.com/recipes/hop-test-bitter/
The plan was to brew this and split it into batches and produce 1 beer for each hop. This is will allow us to see what each hop is like and also to potentially make some blends and plan for another full batch.
The plan was to test 6 hops:
The grain ready for the hop test bitter:
Giving it all a stir before leaving to mash, can you spot the mistake? (We're doing BIAB)
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.
.
.
Did you spot the mistake?
There is no bag in that pot, hard to do BIAB with no bag!
This lead to a right palaver transferring things around but it was definitely very useful having 2 of us brewing together at this point!
At this point we got the peco boiler ready WITH BAG! We set this off mashing with a delay in between to give us time to do the boil on the hop test.
Whilst this was going we were off with the boil on the hop test. The plan was to get this as far as possible in the buffalo boiler and then split it into pans when the time came to add the slovenian hops.
It was all getting a little hectic at this point and another mistake occurred which could have ended the day with a hospital trip. We ran off the test bitter wort into pans to take into the house and finish the boil on the stove. F00b4r filled the first pan and passed it to me holding the pan handles. I took it from the base, it was extremely hot! Fortunately f004br was alerted to this by my whimpering and didn't let go of the handles!
We had enough wort to fill 5 pans which were transferred on to the stove
The first three batches got these hops:
Once they were done we got them into demijohns and chilled the Sarah Hughes mild, first time using an immersion cooler, worked really well, maybe 15mins to pitching temp.
Back to the split batches and 2 more pans this time with these hops:
We got the yeast (WLP005) pitched into the mild and left the demi johns to cool whilst we went to the pub.
"Wait you said 7 beers!" I hear you say, well yes we did:
Here is the 7th:
I cleared off home and left F00b4r to pitch the Nottingham into the 5 test bitters and get them put to bed. It was a chaotic day but brilliant fun, brewing with someone else is great. Next time we will be slicker as this took us about 8-9hours.
It's currently all fermenting really well. F00b4r has cropped some of the WLP005 from the mild for future use and we are looking forward to tasting it. Facts and figures to follow later but despite some miscalculation when we used the mild figures for the hop test bitter we are pretty much where we need to be.
Love this hobby:) Thanks to ManseMasher and Get'er brewed for the competition and the hops. We'll be posting a full review on these hops as soon as this is ready and we still have the other hops to do
Demig
We had planned a joint brew of the Graham Wheeler BYOBRA Sarah Hughes Ruby Mild but having won Slovenian hops from Get'erbrewed we decided that we should test some of these hops using a base test beer.
The recipe for the hop test comes from Brulosophy : http://brulosophy.com/recipes/hop-test-bitter/
The plan was to brew this and split it into batches and produce 1 beer for each hop. This is will allow us to see what each hop is like and also to potentially make some blends and plan for another full batch.
The plan was to test 6 hops:
The grain ready for the hop test bitter:
Giving it all a stir before leaving to mash, can you spot the mistake? (We're doing BIAB)
.
.
.
.
Did you spot the mistake?
There is no bag in that pot, hard to do BIAB with no bag!
This lead to a right palaver transferring things around but it was definitely very useful having 2 of us brewing together at this point!
At this point we got the peco boiler ready WITH BAG! We set this off mashing with a delay in between to give us time to do the boil on the hop test.
Whilst this was going we were off with the boil on the hop test. The plan was to get this as far as possible in the buffalo boiler and then split it into pans when the time came to add the slovenian hops.
It was all getting a little hectic at this point and another mistake occurred which could have ended the day with a hospital trip. We ran off the test bitter wort into pans to take into the house and finish the boil on the stove. F00b4r filled the first pan and passed it to me holding the pan handles. I took it from the base, it was extremely hot! Fortunately f004br was alerted to this by my whimpering and didn't let go of the handles!
We had enough wort to fill 5 pans which were transferred on to the stove
The first three batches got these hops:
Once they were done we got them into demijohns and chilled the Sarah Hughes mild, first time using an immersion cooler, worked really well, maybe 15mins to pitching temp.
Back to the split batches and 2 more pans this time with these hops:
We got the yeast (WLP005) pitched into the mild and left the demi johns to cool whilst we went to the pub.
"Wait you said 7 beers!" I hear you say, well yes we did:
Here is the 7th:
I cleared off home and left F00b4r to pitch the Nottingham into the 5 test bitters and get them put to bed. It was a chaotic day but brilliant fun, brewing with someone else is great. Next time we will be slicker as this took us about 8-9hours.
It's currently all fermenting really well. F00b4r has cropped some of the WLP005 from the mild for future use and we are looking forward to tasting it. Facts and figures to follow later but despite some miscalculation when we used the mild figures for the hop test bitter we are pretty much where we need to be.
Love this hobby:) Thanks to ManseMasher and Get'er brewed for the competition and the hops. We'll be posting a full review on these hops as soon as this is ready and we still have the other hops to do
Demig