Brewing With Total Confidence
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Did a spiced Bock that was mostly taken from a David Heath recipe. I had pretty much all of the ingredients to hand and only had to switch out a...
Christmas Bock is in bottles. No activity in the airlock for a good few days, so dragged it up to the apartment and got to bottling. It finished...
Put a Czech Amber Lager together last night with a big bowl of all the native hops I have picked from the garden this year (not many). Bittered...
I have a good relationship with the Mangrove Jacks yeasts, use them a lot, and their Hefeweissen one is good, despite me over-pitching too (easy...
Grains and stuff have arrived at the local post office! I#m now planning on take a WFH "leg stretch" so that I can go and collect them. Sadly they...
Currently waiting, not exactly patiently, for a delivery of Munich malt and yeast to replace the stuff I used in the Christmas Bok. When that...
Well, registered. I figured that I can spend time on that instead of other stuff in the run up to Christmas, then concentrate on it over the...
Why I am scared of 4-6 hours per week for 3 months? I should be all over this.
Glad to hear that you are over the acute phase, please do take care with your recovery! On the chilling front, I switched to a plate chiller when...
I had a taste of the wort (leftover OG sample) and the star anis and cinnamon are present on the initial taste, with a subtle nutmeg flavour in...
Managed to get a spicy Christmas Bok into the fermenter last night (after too much hassle) and down into storage where it is cool. It's still on...
Just finished planning my next brew, something approximating a Czech Amber Lager. Well, except that I could only get hold of German and U.K....
I have that holding the fairing on my motorbike. It makes it at least 2.6% faster! I really need to sit down and plan an end of season lager to...
I had the same questions when I was thinking about a plate chiller. Had zero issues with the immersion chiller I was using at the start, it just...
Nelson is a lot more blackcurrant, so not that, but I used Amarillo in a NEIPA with Citra (and Galaxy) earlier this month. It wasn't super-dry...
Bottled the elderberry wine that has been fermenting with leftover madeira yeast for the last... weeks. I came out dry. Really dry (0.997), for an...
Bottled the NEIPA-esq beer from last week. FG was one point higher than plan with an apparent attenuation of 76%. The beer itself looks hazy and...
The blow-off tube is something I may need to look into, but the normal 15L buckets have been so reliable for me that it never really crossed my...
No temperature control yet, but my plan is to get myself a small fridge and an inkbird when I get the space next year. For fermenters, I have...
First dry hop charge for the NEIPA is in. Verdant IPA yeast went off like a champ, so I took the opportunity to switch out airlocks at the same...
