A user upper, pilsner malt biscuit and oats with jester
What did you brew today?
- Thread starter MyQul
- Start date
Help Support The Homebrew Forum:
Agentgonzo
Landlord.
- Joined
- Aug 23, 2021
- Messages
- 3,621
- Reaction score
- 3,935
I don't know why, but user-uppers always seem to turn out better than regular planned brews via some kind of word weird alchemy
You are spot on, some of my best brews have been chuck it in and see
- Joined
- Nov 13, 2013
- Messages
- 6,445
- Reaction score
- 6,257
I ended up with 22 litres into the fermenter.
Version 2 of Helles (following guidelines in the Helles book I bought). Did a protein rest and the mash went solid at the bottom of the malt pipe, really hard to get it back into suspension. Had to keep stirring it while heating to the saccharine rest.
Mash was stable at 68.
One of a neighbour's chickens paid me a visit, had a wander around the brewshed (gave it some of the grist) and then it settled down in some hay.
Big bubbles in the boil.
Mash was stable at 68.
One of a neighbour's chickens paid me a visit, had a wander around the brewshed (gave it some of the grist) and then it settled down in some hay.
Big bubbles in the boil.
After no-chilling overnight, transferred to the fermenter to stick in the brewfridge to get down to pitching temperature. Had my little assistant again helping herself to the spent grain...
1.075 after hydrometer adjustment. Raspberry and pineapple sour. 3kg extra light dme 500g lactose. 1.8kg raspberry's 2 litres pineapple
juice the dregs from two bottles of marriage parfait and juice from fage greek yogurt.I don't normally add fruit just do a plain lambic but thought why not. I'm spending a fortune on vault city beers it would be good if I can get a stock of my own similar beer.
Last edited:
Interesting
Tasty
)
Half brewed an IPA today - mash and sparge with boil tomorrow. Was 93% pale malt and 5% crystal 40 EBC and some chit thrown in. A whole load of Centennial and Simcoe tomorrow, looking for around 1.056.
It's a really unpleasant looking colour pre boil though.
It's a really unpleasant looking colour pre boil though.
Attachments
I've gone full circle and just brewed a SMaSH beer, a repeat of pretty much the first beer I ever made. Maris Otter and Mosaic, although it's going to be all hops in the dry hop so currently it's just the hop free wort fermenting away in my downstairs loo (in a bucket, just to be clear!).
Getting a brew in before the new bairns arrive in a few weeks
Getting a brew in before the new bairns arrive in a few weeks
- Joined
- Oct 6, 2019
- Messages
- 2,326
- Reaction score
- 3,895
I haven’t used Mosaic for a few years but would agree that it makes a really good SMASH.
As for me I brewed a 23L batch of ‘CML Tropical England Grain Kit’, this used a rather nice blend of the ‘modern’ US like British hops Jester, Olicana, Godiva, Mystic, Archer & Harlequi, which ai will be fermenting with Hornindial (a Kveik Yeast). I’ve made this kit a few times and it makes for a really nice easy drinking Summer IPA.
Busy busy day today.
Bottled the Dark Rock "Hazy Daze". Looks and smells amazing.
Then made an American Wheat Beer (well, half a one). Didn't quite get the water right (too much) so came in around 1.050 rather than 1.057 the recipe suggested. But it should come down to 1.010, so 5.5.
A little disappointed, because this is a small competition.
Also tidied out my shed.
I don't currently have a proper inkbird setup and I'm concerned it's going to be too warm and I'm going to get some weird aspects. Using Safale S05. It's fairly hardy, I know, but I'm trying to do this right.
Bottled the Dark Rock "Hazy Daze". Looks and smells amazing.
Then made an American Wheat Beer (well, half a one). Didn't quite get the water right (too much) so came in around 1.050 rather than 1.057 the recipe suggested. But it should come down to 1.010, so 5.5.
A little disappointed, because this is a small competition.
Also tidied out my shed.
I don't currently have a proper inkbird setup and I'm concerned it's going to be too warm and I'm going to get some weird aspects. Using Safale S05. It's fairly hardy, I know, but I'm trying to do this right.
Don't think I'll be continuing this one...
Similar threads
