This is a slightly cheeky title (it's a re-imagining of TT's Boltmaker with a different hop-profile) but it was my first brewing session since March/April and I wanted to follow a recipe.
The recipe was:
Pale Malt: 4kg
Crystal: 200g
Black malt: 30g
I must admit: I was really happy to find that my brewing process was 'dialled in'. I absolutely loved mashing in, sparging and boiling with one eye on the tennis.
Hops were:
Goldings: 30g at the start
Flameout: 25g Styrian Goldings, 25g First Gold (get the pun?)
I might dry-hop with a few cones of Goldings or maybe Styrian.
Yeast: I used the re-jigged Hog's Back yeast which is probably on its 9th generation now. Still smelled good but I didn't have time to make a starter. As the OG was only 1040 I just lugged in what I had. It's been chugging away pretty merrily so let's hope all is well on that front.
Hopefully what I'll get is a beer with the malty background of Boltmaker with the hop profile of Landlord. Either way, I'm looking forward to putting it in the keg and supping it during the Olympics.
The recipe was:
Pale Malt: 4kg
Crystal: 200g
Black malt: 30g
I must admit: I was really happy to find that my brewing process was 'dialled in'. I absolutely loved mashing in, sparging and boiling with one eye on the tennis.
Hops were:
Goldings: 30g at the start
Flameout: 25g Styrian Goldings, 25g First Gold (get the pun?)
I might dry-hop with a few cones of Goldings or maybe Styrian.
Yeast: I used the re-jigged Hog's Back yeast which is probably on its 9th generation now. Still smelled good but I didn't have time to make a starter. As the OG was only 1040 I just lugged in what I had. It's been chugging away pretty merrily so let's hope all is well on that front.
Hopefully what I'll get is a beer with the malty background of Boltmaker with the hop profile of Landlord. Either way, I'm looking forward to putting it in the keg and supping it during the Olympics.
