Home Brewing

[Papa Smurf]

I haven't brewed in over a month, lekker lazy

 

[GreGorGy]

I haven't brewed in over a month, lekker lazy

How are your stocks? I was down to zero, hence the 60L last weekend. I am so chuffed with the performance of the harvest that I am considering a 10L this weekend sometime so I can put more work towards perfecting my stout recipe before I up its quantity to 20 or 30L.

 

[Papa Smurf]

How are your stocks? I was down to zero, hence the 60L last weekend. I am so chuffed with the performance of the harvest that I am considering a 10L this weekend sometime so I can put more work towards perfecting my stout recipe before I up its quantity to 20 or 30L.

i still have those 2 batches i made 5 weeks ago with everyones help here
havent had any of it yet, too scared to try it out
so its been aging nicely now in a very cool spot for 5 weeks

Been living on Black Labels

I still have 3 unopened cans of Coopers as well, keeping them in the fridge as backup should we hit a 2nd wave and go back to Level 3 or 4

 

[GreGorGy]

Been living on Black Labels

Ja - I have been enjoying the Guinness life myself since the last emptying of my homebrew pantry.

I still have 3 unopened cans of Coopers as well, keeping them in the fridge as backup should we hit a 2nd wave and go back to Level 3 or 4

I am down to one - the porter - but the irish stout is currently in the bucket and should be done by Sunday or Monday.

 

[Papa Smurf]

Well Well Well
What do you know?
I bottled this 5 weeks ago, it was my own recipe I came up with

1 week later I cracked open a 330ml bottle to taste test

It looked and tasted like a leftover beer from the previous night, zero fizz

I almost cried and just walked away, its now been bottled for 5 weeks in total in cool dark place.

Just cracked 1 open now and wow I am amazed, brilliant head retention, very clear and tastes like beer. Not the best beer, but its beer and very drinkable.

 

[Papa Smurf]

And here is the batch I made the day before. Not as bitter, unique, tastes like beer

this is ROI's recipe, thanx a million

 

[Snyper564]

Leffe clone done with Oslo kveik. It's 6.5 percent. Fermented 2 weeks and conditioned for 1 week now. Conditioned and fermented at 33deg

 

[biometrics]

I cleaned 40x440ml bottles today in preparation to bottle the Coopers Hefe Wheat tomorrow. It's been in the fermenter for five weeks I think. Guess we can consider it fermented and conditioned since it's been so long! Glad I bought the bottle brush some time back as it was necessary after the bottles have been standing so long. Works well. Figured out a technique on withdrawing it to not spray my face each time.

Now that my 2nd fermenter is being freed up I can make the grain weiss recipe that Droid helped out with. Pitty he has bailed on us.

 

[GreGorGy]

I need to get my grain stout recipe right. So today I did an experimental 10L. I know I said I had no capacity but the 30L clone (since I have modified it enough, I will no longer call it the clone) was done by Wednesday so its FVs are available today. Which means I can do this 10. I am going to use the harvested Ragnarok again. It has served me well so far.

 

[biometrics]

I need to get my grain stout recipe right. So today I did an experimental 10L. I know I said I had no capacity but the 30L clone (since I have modified it enough, I will no longer call it the clone) was done by Wednesday so its FVs are available today. Which means I can do this 10. I am going to use the harvested Ragnarok again. It has served me well so far.

I don't recall any of us doubting you...

 

[biometrics]

I made a Coopers can today but with DME (hoping it will taste better now). Boiling water may not have been a good idea, like with table sugar, as it clumped badly in large rock hard clumps. Managed to get it broken up and dissolved eventually but I suspect cold water would have been better?

Anyway, will do my first grain BIAB either tomorrow or next weekend. Think I'll do the weiss as I won't need to clarify that with irish moss (which is on it's'way).

Quoting for the date Aug 9, 2020. So 40 days. Still burping occationally. Should be tasty!

 

[GreGorGy]

I don't recall any of us doubting you...

There was one - myself. Holy shit - I brewed 30L of what will become known as EdenvAle and kegged it Thursday. Managed to get about 26L into that keg. I am sad to report that there is about 11 or 12L left. We drank it. My god. We drank it today. It is so smooth. I have to learn discipline. The last one, I kegged on day 6 and gassed until day 14 when I served it to rave reviews - it really gets better with time. I wish I had patience.

If I can hit the same successes with a stout, I will be delighted. I have come to accept that the Nitro tap loves milder beers. The stronger stuff I was brewing earlier just did not work well with nitro. It tastes great bottled gassed but nitro is shit on it. I gotta get my recipes 100% so I can push it at the club. Time will tell...

Which reminds me, did anyone here head to Brewcraft today and buy a grainfather?

 

[biometrics]

Quoting for the date Aug 9, 2020. So 40 days. Still burping occationally. Should be tasty!

Coopers Hefe Wheat bottled. Never measured the OG but the FG was 1.020 so could have left it a bit longer. But I did add 1.5kg of DME rather than 1kg so is likely potent.

 

[GreGorGy]

Coopers Hefe Wheat bottled. Never measured the OG but the FG was 1.020 so could have left it a bit longer. But I did add 1.5kg of DME rather than 1kg so is likely potent.

Ouch. That could be something special but it could also be a 3-pint pissup. One of my earlier stouts was like that. By the third one you start slurring.

 

[biometrics]

Ouch. That could be something special but it could also be a 3-pint pissup. One of my earlier stouts was like that. By the third one you start slurring.

I think we were at the end of level 3 at the time I brewed it and more alcohol was considered a positive then.

 

[GreGorGy]

I think we were at the end of level 3 at the time I brewed it and more alcohol was considered a positive then.

My motives were precisely that: Taste, but not at the expense of ABV, given shortages and government's habit of flipping the rules as the pleased. Now, I am focused again on taste. The stout I made yesterday was simpler and the beginning of my work to perfect a good stout. I have not used DME in anything except coopers cans in the last month or so...

 

[[)roi(]]

And here is the batch I made the day before. Not as bitter, unique, tastes like beer

this is ROI's recipe, thanx a million

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Looks good... mine is a bit darker (colour of the bottle); the difference is probably down to the darkness of my roast and also the darkness of the Belgian candi.

Anyway how's the taste -- hopefully enjoyable nevertheless.

 

[biometrics]

Looks good... mine is a bit darker (colour of the bottle); the difference is probably down to the darkness of my roast and also the darkness of the Belgian candi.

Anyway how's the taste -- hopefully enjoyable nevertheless.

Welcome back.

 

[[)roi(]]

Welcome back.

Very briefly; see my profile post update for a summary.
In short it's been a very busy time, and it only going to get worst leading up to December -- assuming the travel bans are lifted.

I try to pop in every now and then; but it will probably be only on weekends.

 

[Papa Smurf]

Looks good... mine is a bit darker (colour of the bottle); the difference is probably down to the darkness of my roast and also the darkness of the Belgian candi.

Anyway how's the taste -- hopefully enjoyable nevertheless.

Very drinkable
Little on the bitter side, very hoppy
I left the hops in the bucket overnight for the wort to chill before i transferred to fermenter the following day.

I now have hop socks and will use those in future and see if that makes a difference.

But otherwise I am very happy, tastes like beer and gets me drunk