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Evening brew session. Traditional Belgian pale.- hops Tettnang & EKG- yeast Wyeast Ardennes.
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Riggwelter today, from Graham Wheeler's 3rd edition. Oakham Bishop's Farewell yesterday, my own recipe, and I've got a pile of recipes to choose from for tomorrow, I think I might go with my Bishop's Farewell recipe with all Lórien hops (instead of challenger and cascade) since I've got 100g to try and the flavour descriptors are so utterly naff.
"The feeling of a Summer meadow near a cold mountain stream". No mention of whether there's the five-day-old carcase of a dead cow upwind of said summer meadow so only one way to find out.

Got some catching up to do as its been too hot to brew since July.
 
First brewday for 6 weeks or so. English IPA. My usual base recipe, but adding a bit of Torrified Wheat and a dry hop in this time.

91% MO
4% Crystal
3% Torrified Wheat
2% Amber

Challenger for bittering; EKG Aroma and dry hop.

Target ABV 6.3%
57 IBU
That looks like my kind of IPA. Not a great fan of too much crystal malt and 4% looks about right, especially with a bit of Amber.
 
IPA planned but low on hop choice and realised not enough MO, so…
2.6kg MO
1.9kg Vienna
0.26kg Crystal 109
0.25kg wheat
32g Cascade @60min
25g Chinook @10min
30g Cascade & 15 Hersbucker @ 0min
10g Chinook hop stand for 20 min
Result, 23l OG 1.055
Will report back when tasted!
 
22 litres of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
4700g Maris otter
300g Medium Crystal
16g Magnum @45m
30g Cascade @10m
40g Cascade 90C whirlpool @15m
CML Five yeast
OG1054
IBU 44
SRM 8.2
First ever 45 minutes boil and hit all the numbers.
Hi cc, almost identical to the one i did yesterday, do you give it a dry hop mine will get 50g cascade for 3 days
 
An early-ish start. Mrs Clint is now attending the Emporium and with little time to prep my gear for fishing I've decided to get a brew on. It #8 Tribute clone, as yet I haven't decided if I'll adjust the whirlpool addition.
I also got up to see the youngest off on his second day going out with a plumber friend..he starts college in September on a plumbing course so this will be "good" for him. He was very tired last night and like a rabbit in the headlights this morning bless him.
 
Not today but a couple of weeks ago, an imperial stout, finished around 12%abv and I’ve added oak soaked whisky barrel staves for a month and including the bottle of malt. It’s a copy of brewdogs Islay paradox
 

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Bit of a user-upper, based on pilgrimhudd's bitter recipe. (thanks!)

Aiming for roughly the same FG of 1049, which implies a BHE of around 66%:

For a 14 litre batch:

2940 g MO
70 g Special B
70 g CaraAroma
112 g Melanoidin
70 g Dark Crystal
35 g Choc Malt

11 g Challenger @60
18 g Styrian Goldings @-30
21 EKG @-15
35 g EKG Flameout.

Thinking S-04 for the yeast.
 
Original Thomas Hardy ale recipe from RonPattinsons blog and partigyled a 1.041 bitter as well.

Long day due to a few extra hurdles, but something to taste in few weeks and the rest in a few years.
Yeast thriving today
 

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My first lager (Lowenbrau clone) and first pressure fermentation. I had to do it in 2 batches because my boiler hasn't arrived yet. I also made a copper wort cooler for it to speed up the double brew
 

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