Based on my recent beer Zythos Session APA but with a few tweaks: NZ hops blend (The Bruce) instead of US hops blend (Zythos) 0.5kg more malt – 1kg of Vienna instead of 0.7kg and 0.2kg of Sour Grapes malt German Vienna and Munich malt instead of NZ Medium crystal instead of light crystal malt …
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Oct 01 2021
ZAPPA – A hazyish NZ/APA
Brewed this with Kveik yeast hotter than intended – got up to about 35°C! I had mistakenly left the temp probe OUTSIDE the frementation fridge and my hairdryer heat source was cranking up the temp for awhile before I noticed on first day of fermentation. I thought I had messed it up, but no, it …
Sep 12 2021
Riwaka Resurgence
Recipe kit from League of Brewers. Turned out very nice! Style Information Name: American Pale Ale Recipe Type: All Grain Type: Ale Grains & Extracts Name Amount Notes Gladfield American Ale Malt 4.2kg Golden Promise Pale Malt 0.4kg Gladfield Medium Crystal Malt 0.3kg Gladfield Sour Grapes Malt 0.2kg Hops Name Amount Alpha Acid % …
Jun 13 2021
Zythos Session APA
My plan here was to brew an APA/IPA with a lower ABV (around 4%) but tasting like a full-bodied tasty pale ale. I found a recipe on Brewer’s Coop that looked in line with what I had in mind so I went with it for the malt bill and used 200g of Zythos American hops …
May 29 2021
Marchfest IPA (based on Cameron’s)
Brewed at Marchfest, based on an IPA I had at Cameron’s place. His used Nectaron hops which was not available at LOB so I used Amarillo which was on the original recipe that he sent me. Style Information Name: American IPA Recipe Type: All Grain Grains & Extracts Name Amount Notes Pilsner 6 kg Gladfield …
Feb 06 2021
Cry Me A Loral, APA
I cobbled this recipe together while picking out some ingredients from the League Of Brewers website in a bit of a rush so that I could pick up the ingredients before they closed on Saturday. I hadn’t brewed in about 3 months and both my kegs had run dry and I even finished my last …
Oct 31 2020
Mosaic & Nectaron Red IPA
Grain bill based in LOB Red Rooster/Little Red Rooster Style Information Name: Red IPA Recipe Type: All Grain Grains & Extracts Name Amount Notes Pale Ale Malt 2.5 kg Gladfield Aurora Malt 1 kg Vienna 1 kg Gladfield Redback Malt 0.45 kg Flaked Oats 0.25 kg Gladfield Shepherds Delight 0.25 kg Acidulated Malt 0.15 kg …
Oct 26 2020
The Big Squeeze NEIPA
I named this beer from the big squeeze I had to do to the brew bag to get the juice out! All that oats and flaked wheat sure retains a lot of water and requires some extra effort to squeeze out the liquid. This beer has a similar malt bill to my 2018 NEIPA just …
Aug 23 2020
M&M Session Pale Ale
My plan here was to brew a lowish ABV beer that I could drink plenty of without too much consequence. Initially I was thinking maybe 3% ABV or even lower but then I decided to aim more for around the 4% mark as it’s easier to make a decent tasting beer at that level. However …
Jul 20 2020
Dry Irish Stout Mark II
A second attempt at a Guinness style Dry Irish Stout. The one I brewed at Marchfest went down well and fast so I just had to do another one to refill the keg. Pretty much the same recipe as the Marchfest one apart from an extra 100g of base malt, but I crushed the grains …
Jun 01 2020
Home Hops Ale
This year I didn’t have time to brew when my hops came ready so I picked them and dried them and then stuck them in the freezer until I was ready to brew with them. Malt bill was just base malt – Gladfield Pale Ale malt. It came out good and disappeared pretty fast! Style …
Mar 14 2020
Dry Irish Stout
Brewed in Brew Zone at Marchfest 2020. Grain crush looked very coarse but didn’t inspect closely until had mashed in and wet the grains, so it was hard to tell exactly how bad it was. But efficiency was unusually poor. OG came out at 1.040 instead of target 1.043. (I had measured it at 1.051 …
Feb 16 2020
Rye Pale Ale 2020
I brewed two batches of this recipe, one for Cameron and one for myself. My one came out pretty good but not quite as good as the one I did for Cam if memory of my tasting of it serves me well. I definitely can get the hint of ‘coconut’ from the Sabro hops and …
Jan 26 2020
2020 Red IPA
Adapted from an extract recipe I got from my mate Dave, who got it from Dan Hags. Got water additions from another red IPA – League of Brewer’s ‘The Rooster‘ recipe. Interestingly gypsum and calcium chloride were added to boil rather than mash as mash pH is taken care of with acidulated malt. I also …
Oct 14 2019
American Pale Ale
Got some advise from Michael Rhodes at LOB to calculate water additions and make a few other tweaks to the recipe (add a little sour grapes malt to adjust PH and reshuffle the hops additions a little – get rid of 10min addition). I did a flame-out addition which I let sit for 5 minutes, …
Sep 06 2019
Black Gold (an iStout Clone)
A Russian Imperial Stout following the 8 Wired iStout recipe which came directly from the brewer. Soren Eriksson gave the full recipe specs on The Brewing Network’s ‘Can You Brew It’ podcast (3 Jan 2011). I used a can of light malt extract to provide some of the fermentables and keep my grain bill to …
Jun 01 2019
Motueka Pale Ale
First beer for the keg! Overly bitter but drinkable. Made using almost 500g of dried whole leaf Motueka hops from Marchfest brew zone. Made a hop tea for dry hopping – I suspect this may have been cause of the harsh bitterness. Won’t do hop tea again. Style Information Name: American Pale Ale Recipe Type: …
Apr 27 2019
Fresh Hops Ale
Style Information Name: American Pale Ale Recipe Type: All Grain Grains & Extracts Name Amount Notes Pale Ale Malt 5.5 kg Hops Name Amount Alpha Acid % AAU Time Notes Cascade 0.135 kg 7.8% 1.053 10 Cascade 0.144 kg 7.8% 1.1232 1 Motueka 0.1 kg 7% 0.7 1 Yeasts Name Amount Notes Safale US-05 Mash …
Mar 20 2019
Fresh Hops Pilsner
Grains & Extracts Name Amount Notes Pilsner 6 kg Carapils (Dextrine) 0.4 kg Hops Name Amount Alpha Acid % AAU Time Notes Cascade 0.015 kg 6.8% 0.102 30 Cascade 0.056 kg 7.8% 0.4368 10 Cascade 0.055 kg 7.8% 0.429 5 Cascade 0.056 kg 7.8% 0.4368 1 Nelson Sauvin 0.07 kg 11.5% 0.805 0 Yeasts Name …
Mar 20 2019
Marchfest Porter
Brewed at MarchFest 2019 along with Karl Summerfield. The recipe was a slightly modified version of ‘Nick Danger Porter’ by Denny Conn (celebrity home-brewer and brewing author who was one of the speakers at NZHC 2018). One new technique I tried out here was ‘No Chill’. Since we were just after experiencing a drought and …