I took some influence from the Red IPA that I brewed back in October 2018 but was going for something a little bit lighter in colour, bitterness and AVB. I also took some influence from the recently brewed NE IPA and Lazy Hazy by including some of my new favorite hops – Mosaic. Is it …
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Dec 03 2018
New England IPA
Equanot lupulin powder! 25% oats! Lazy Hazy, which was loosely based on the delicious hazy IPA that I had at Cameron’s, turned out great and got demolished in record time so I decided to have another go at it. But this time I followed the recipe specs a bit more closely. I originally couldn’t get …
Oct 21 2018
Red IPA
Style Information Name: Red IPA Recipe Type: All Grain Grains & Extracts Name Amount Notes Pale Ale Malt 4 kg Vienna 1.3 kg Gladfield Shepherds Delight 0.36 kg Gladfield Redback Malt 0.32 kg Gladfield Toffee Malt 0.25 kg Caraaroma 0.2 kg Gladfield Light Crystal 0.1 kg Hops Name Amount Alpha Acid % AAU Time Notes …
Oct 15 2018
Lazy Hazy
Inspired by Cameron’s Hazy IPA, this is a mid-strength (5-ish %) version featuring Mosaic hops and using up some Nelson and Waimea that I already had. Style Information Name: American Pale Ale Recipe Type: All Grain Grains & Extracts Name Amount Notes Pale Ale Malt 4 kg Flaked Oats 0.5 kg Flaked Wheat 0.5 kg …
Apr 18 2018
Marchfest Kaffir Chili Saison
Style Information Name: Saison Recipe Type: All Grain Grains & Extracts Name Amount Notes Pilsner 4.2 kg Wheat Malt 1.2 kg Munich II 0.6 kg Candi Sugar, Light 0.5 kg Hops Name Amount Alpha Acid % AAU Time Notes Triskel 0.02 kg 8% 0.16 30 Triskel 0.03 kg 8% 0.24 10 Triskel 0.05 kg 8% …
Mar 10 2018
Hops Harvest 2018
Over 2kg or wet hops, the entire harvest, ploughed into one batch of beer in hopes that it will be ‘hoppy’! Brewing notes: Big mess-up! I forgot to install the bazooka screen in the kettle (for filtering the finished wort off the hops) before the mash. To recover from this situation I had to transfer …
Feb 10 2018
Restock Pale Ale
A straight up basic mid-strength pale ale to restock my dwindling supplies. Style Information Name: American Pale Ale Recipe Type: All Grain Grains & Extracts Name Amount Notes Pale Ale Malt 4.5 kg Gladfield Light Crystal 0.4 kg Gladfield Redback Malt 0.2 kg Vienna 0.067 kg Gladfield Shepherds Delight 0.05 kg Rye Malt 0.035 kg …
Nov 04 2017
Dark Times III
Style Information Name: Extra Special/Strong Bitter (English Pale Ale) Recipe Type: All Grain Grains & Extracts Name Amount Notes Pale Ale Malt 5.3 kg Gladfield Light Crystal 0.3 kg Carafa II malt 0.13 kg Caraaroma 0.1 kg Chocolate, Pale 0.1 kg Crystal 120 (dark) 0.1 kg Hops Name Amount Alpha Acid % AAU Time Notes …
Oct 09 2017
Nelson Pale Ale
Style Information Name: American Pale Ale Recipe Type: All Grain Grains & Extracts Name Amount Notes Pale Ale Malt 4.5 kg Wheat Malt 0.5 kg Gladfield Light Crystal 0.3 kg Biscuit 0.25 kg Hops Name Amount Alpha Acid % AAU Time Notes Waimea 0.03 kg 16% 0.48 20 Nelson Sauvin 0.05 kg 11.5% 0.575 10 …
Aug 26 2017
Whiskey beer 2
Grains & Extracts Name Amount Notes Pale Ale Malt 8 kg Gladfield Pale Crystal 0.5 kg Yeasts Name Amount Notes Belle Saison Mash Steps Name Step Type Step Time Temperature Saccharification Rest Infusion 60 66 C Boil Amount: 25 liters Water Description: Time: minutes Target Batch Size: 25 liters Profile Estimated OG: 1.076 Estimated FG: …
Aug 08 2017
Rule-breaker Ale
This one is a bit of a mix-up not following any particular style guidlines – a Belgian, amber/pale ale. Although having said that, it’s along the lines of an APA/IPA as it’s a fairly hoppy beer. Brewed with a Belgian trappist ale yeast, Safale BE-256, but fermented at 17°C for a cleaner profile. Gladfield Redback …
May 06 2017
Dark Times 2
This attempt to re-create my previous Dark Times beer went a little awry – the gravity came in much lower than expected, 1.042 instead of 1.050. At first I put it down to the no-sparge process instead of my usual BIAB with sparge process. But when I was crushing grains for my next brew, I …
Mar 26 2017
Marchfest Rye Pale Ale
Brewed at Marchfest 2017 Brew Zone. Brewed this as a home brewing demo at Marchfest 2017 in Brew Zone. It deviated considerably from the plan but the resulting beer was a top notch pale ale that I was very happy with. First major deviation was I ended up with an extra kg of base malt! …
Mar 12 2017
Hops Stew 2017
Split batch at bottling time, added hops tea made with the dried homegrown hops to one batch and bottled the other batch without any additional hops. I was a bit unsure about the hops tea, hence the 2 batches, but it worked well and imparted the hops character that I felt was missing in the …
Mar 12 2017
Workhorse Blonde
Style Information Name: Blonde Ale Recipe Type: All Grain Grains & Extracts Name Amount Notes Pale Malt 2 kg Pilsner 1.5 kg Wheat Malt 0.5 kg Carapils (Dextrine) 0.2 kg Gladfield Toffee 0.2 kg Gladfield Pale Crystal 0.1 kg Hops Name Amount Alpha Acid % AAU Time Notes Waimea 0.01 kg 17% 0.17 30 Willamette …
Jan 23 2017
Dark Times
A dark ale for dark times… Based on a beer that I made in 2014 – Fuggles Gem Dark Ale (which was based on Hobgoblin). Similar base but with Willamette hops (the American version of Fuggles) instead of Fuggles and Pacific Gem. Came out good, can’t remember if it was as good as the Fuggles …
Dec 22 2016
Kaffir Chilli Saison
A Saison with a hint of kaffir lime and chilli. Got this one really clear by racking to secondary, then racking again at bottling time. Made a tea with 7 kaffir lime leaves and added to secondary after some taste testing to make sure it wasn’t going to be too over-powering. Soaked a chopped up …
Dec 03 2016
WWPA
An American style pale ale featuring a combo of Waimea and Willamette hops plus a little Dr Rudi. Style Information Name: American Pale Ale Recipe Type: All Grain Grains & Extracts Name Amount Notes Pale Ale Malt 3 kg Pilsner 1 kg Wheat Malt 1 kg Gladfield Toffee 0.3 kg Carapils (Dextrine) 0.2 kg Gladfield …
Oct 30 2016
Blonde
An easy drinking lager-like blonde ale for summer. Style Information Name: Blonde Ale Recipe Type: All Grain Grains & Extracts Name Amount Notes Pale Malt 3 kg Pilsner Malt 1 kg Wheat Malt 0.5 kg Pale Crystal 0.3 kg Carapils (Dextrine) 0.2 kg Hops Name Amount Alpha Acid % AAU Time Notes Waimea 0.015 kg …
Sep 05 2016
Swamp Monster
First use of new grainmill and new grainbag. Big gain in efficiency: 93% mash efficiency compared to typically around 80% with old bag. Old bag was under-sized for pot, new one is plenty big so better able to mix grain and water, also temp appears more even. Retroactively named this one ‘Swamp Monster’ due to …