What did you brew today?

[Arrakus]

Strong bitter, 5.4%. Northdown bittering and bramling cross at the end (10 min and a hop stand)

 

[jayk34]

A user upper IPA with Maris otter, admiral, bramling cross, citra and cascade and m36 liberty bell.

 

[Donegal john]

An English ipa with fuggles and some bramling cross last Sunday
And a hoppy pale with sabro and mosaic yesterday.

 

[StoutWolf]

An English Porter to fit BJCP 13c. My first brew after a short break. After having issues with the kitchen stove controls on my last couple of brews, I've switched to an outside burner.

 

[samale]

Change for me ...daytime brew day.
Brewing a Black IPA , hops will be Chinook, Citra and Mosaic - yeast Imperial Joystick.
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Did you hit the colour you wanted, I have never used imperial yeast before

 

[dave_77]

Did you hit the colour you wanted, I have never used imperial yeast before

Looking good I think..wort didn't taste too roasty which was good

 

[andakeren]

Just brewed a simple Hefeweizen using my new fermentation chamber!

happy to read this post cheers

 

[foxy]

Brewed another batch of Coopers Sparkling clone yesterday. This morning the yeast is doing its stuff.

 

[NotSure]

Moved house recently and still have yet to do an all-grain batch. I figured I'd start with a kit so bought the Festive American IPA kit that was on sale at Brew UK. This is the first beer kit I've done in over a decade and I don't remember them being this easy. Hope it turns out well, but I'm looking forward to getting back to all-grain no matter the result.

 

[obscure]

4L of turbo cider probably the easiest drink possible in terms of “brewing”, 4 litres of Tesco Apple Juice, a small mug of strong black tea and a sachet of CML Cider Yeast, yet tastes damm good if the previous couple of batches are anything to go by.

 

[Weizenberg]

Today it's a Munich Dunkel.

All grain. Decoction. Biological Acidification (Sauergut). 50l

 

[Weizenberg]

Whoops.

 

[Baldylocks Brewery]

Deya hokum stomp clone yesterday. Tasted great as wort but messed up the water calc and ended up with 26l at 1044 rather than mid fifties! Going great in the fermenter.

 

[Baldylocks Brewery]

Today I brewed a modified version of last years damson wheat beer. Swapped 500g of MO for Munich and added 100g of dextrin and oats. Using 3kg frozen Damsons on day 3 after vos kveik has gone nuts after a 40c pitch and wrap.

Still wondering if North Kent water needs some more treatment than just campden to improve mash efficiency as my mash numbers are always low?

 

[dad_of_jon]

Well I was supposed to brew a doppel dunkel weizen bock. something a bit Aventinus-like.

3kg dwe
1kg extra dark dme
710g gs
500g extra dark candy sugar.

18.5 litres.

However I pitched MJ's Bavarian yeast which is good for 7.5% as it says on the packet. My og was 1.101 - whoops! - it looks like it could be around 10% so the yeast is not likely to finish the job. Guess I'll have to pitch another yeast to finish it .

 

[foxy]

Today a Bass Pale ale clone, of sorts.

The mash.


Ph after correction from room to mash temperature comes in at 5.2 5.4.


Vorlauf for 20 minutes


Squeeze the grain.


Always comes out around 2.5 litre mark

The boil.

1,052 OG as predicted



Safely tucked away in the fermenting room.


Time for a beer another clone, London Pride.

 

[foxy]

One thing I didn't mention was the cost of the brew day. During the time power was being used including a 1 hour vigorous boil, domestic kettle going on for cups of tea or coffee was $1.36 AUD or 80p. Total energy collected from solar was 3.82 kW-h with a feed in tariff of 0.68c /kWh to the grid = $2.60 rounded off so still in front with the brew day costing zilch.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

I brewed 22 litres of New Zealand IPA
5000g MO
300g Vienna
200g Carapils
200g Naked oats
100g Melanoidin
25g Southern Cross @60m
25g Rakau @15m
50g Māori mingle whirlpool @ 90C for 20m
CML Pia yeast
OG1063 BHE 76%

I can’t decide whether to dry hop with the other 50g of Māori.

 

[Nottsbeer]

I brewed 22 litres of New Zealand IPA
5000g MO
300g Vienna
200g Carapils
200g Naked oats
100g Melanoidin
25g Southern Cross @60m
25g Rakau @15m
50g Māori mingle whirlpool @ 90C for 20m
CML Pia yeast
OG1063 BHE 76%

I can’t decide whether to dry hop with the other 50g of Māori.

Go for it....I really like that hop

 

[Jordang]

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4L of turbo cider probably the easiest drink possible in terms of “brewing”, 4 litres of Tesco Apple Juice, a small mug of strong black tea and a sachet of CML Cider Yeast, yet tastes damm good if the previous couple of batches are anything to go by.

We do this alot. also chuck various bottles of squash in to flavour…