On Tuesday I brewed up what I am hoping will be a nice hoppy, citrus-ey, tropical type NEIPA. Perks of being a teacher is I get all week off with the kids (!!!!!!!) but the mother in law wanted them on Tuesday (weirdo!) so had a full free day - Bonus!
Had a nice chilled-out brew day with no need to rush around, and just used whatever I had around. Grain bill was 5kg Pale malt, 250g Wheat malt, 250g oats. Hops 30g Chinook at 60 mins, 50g each mosaic and amarillo at 0.
Thanks to another thread I thought I'd play around with the water chemistry, using tesco ashbrook as starting point and getting ppm's up per @Braindead and @asha23 conversation in the Verdant Putty thread page 5.
Brew went well, apart from when I went to move a near boiling urn which was still plugged into the wall. Lucky only got a little spillage on my hand. New, larger (and self made) wort chiller and chilly outdoor temps got the wort down to 25ish C in about 15 minutes which I'm pleased with. 2 points under 1.060 TOG but hey hoo!
Pitched re-hydrated S-04 (was all I could get at short notice) at 22C and is chugging away happily in the FV. The FV is opaque but looks like the krausen has dropped already (not sure though - is this likely/possible).
ADVICE - All I have hops wise is amarillo to dry hop, but last few beers have been amarillo heavy. Any suggestions about what hop I should get to DH this thing? Was thinking galaxy but everywhere seems out of stock.
Most important thing is, after a few months without brewing, got the bug back. Roll on next brew day.
Had a nice chilled-out brew day with no need to rush around, and just used whatever I had around. Grain bill was 5kg Pale malt, 250g Wheat malt, 250g oats. Hops 30g Chinook at 60 mins, 50g each mosaic and amarillo at 0.
Thanks to another thread I thought I'd play around with the water chemistry, using tesco ashbrook as starting point and getting ppm's up per @Braindead and @asha23 conversation in the Verdant Putty thread page 5.
Brew went well, apart from when I went to move a near boiling urn which was still plugged into the wall. Lucky only got a little spillage on my hand. New, larger (and self made) wort chiller and chilly outdoor temps got the wort down to 25ish C in about 15 minutes which I'm pleased with. 2 points under 1.060 TOG but hey hoo!
Pitched re-hydrated S-04 (was all I could get at short notice) at 22C and is chugging away happily in the FV. The FV is opaque but looks like the krausen has dropped already (not sure though - is this likely/possible).
ADVICE - All I have hops wise is amarillo to dry hop, but last few beers have been amarillo heavy. Any suggestions about what hop I should get to DH this thing? Was thinking galaxy but everywhere seems out of stock.
Most important thing is, after a few months without brewing, got the bug back. Roll on next brew day.
