Yorkshire Brewday for a Yorkshire Beer

[White Rose Al]

2022 has kicked off well for brewday, if you can rule out the constant price increases to electricity and Co2!

Malt Miller Timothy Taylors Premium, around £20 these include liquid yeast. Packaged really well with an ice/cooling block for the yeast

Brewvolution 40L, digi boil 30 for the sparge.

A very easy AG kit to follow, this is a 90 minute mash, 90 minute boil so on the slightly longer side of a brewday. Got lucky and managed to do it all on the drive in good weather.

I actually stuck the recipe through brewfather to work out the mash volume, this finished spot on for volumes.

FV for a solid 2 weeks, I don't ferment for any less.

Corny key on 12psi at 10 degrees (garage) set and forget. Left for 3 weeks

Dropped to between 3-5 psi and placed on a Pint 365 beer engine (added an extra 2m of line to reduce fobbing)

Great pint, malt biscuit flavour, citra and a dry bitter back end. As we say in Yorkshire, this clone is "near as dammit is to swearing".

 

[Erik The Anglophile]

One of my favourite bitters, even though I prefer Boltmaker a bit more.
Got a bitter brew coming that will get a hefty dose of Styrian Golding/Bobek in a hopstand to hopefully mimic that TT floral, citrusy hoppyness.

 

[White Rose Al]

One of my favourite bitters, even though I prefer Boltmaker a bit more.
Got a bitter brew coming that will get a hefty dose of Styrian Golding/Bobek in a hopstand to hopefully mimic that TT floral, citrusy hoppyness.

Golden Best mine.

That sounds spot on, happy brewing

 

[White Rose Al]

A trip to Dark Rock and The Bosses Boss.

I was torn with this AG kit on adding the extra 1KG of brewing sugar or not, after reading a few reviews and also considering the health of my body (7% + with added sugar) I left it out.

As always with Dark Rock, the AG kit includes everything you need including Pure Brew and Finings




Nice sunny day for brewing in the garden, all this kit comes pre weighed, crushed and hops marked up with letters for the instructions.

I do just wish Dark Rock would label which hop is in which bag instead of just marking up with letters. I love completing my brewing journal and listing the timings of each hop variety in the hope of tweaking in future recipes.

Malt; Pale Malt, Flaked Oats, Wheat Malt
Hops; Simcoe, Citra, Amarillo
Yeast; US-05
Including; Britewort, Starbrite, Pure Brew (All Harris as expected)

20L Mash @ 66 degrees for 1hr
13L Sparge @ 76 degrees for 1hr

No mention of Mash out, however I always do one so mashed out for 15min at 75 degrees.



Very straightforward brew day (wish they all were!). 5 hrs from putting the kit on the drive to putting it all away clean and tidy.

Even had a neighbour ask for the spent grain for his composting

OG 1.060
FV 23L (on the money)
Brew efficency @ 79%.



Always stick to 2 weeks minimum in the FV. Fermentation kicked off with 12 hrs and no issues.

Down to 1.010 so a nice drink just above 6%. Interesting that the extra 1kg of brewing sugar I left out only lifted it by 1.5%!

Looking forward to serving this in a couple of weeks

Happy Brewing