Jul 24 2016
Style Information Name: Extra Special/Strong Bitter (English Pale Ale) Recipe Type: All Grain Grains & Extracts Name Amount Notes Pale Ale Malt 5 kg Gladfield Light Crystal 0.35 kg Gladfield Redback Malt 0.35 kg Gladfield Shepherds Delight 0.2 kg Hops Name Amount Alpha Acid % AAU Time Notes Willamette 0.085 kg 5% 0.425 20 Willamette …
Jun 26 2016
Style Information Name: Oatmeal Stout Recipe Type: All Grain Grains & Extracts Name Amount Notes Pale Ale Malt 4.8 kg Flaked Oats 0.55 kg Biscuit 0.355 kg Aromatic Malt 0.3 kg Chocolate, Pale 0.3 kg Crystal 80 0.275 kg Carafa II malt 0.16 kg Roasted Barley 0.16 kg Hops Name Amount Alpha Acid % AAU …
Jun 05 2016
Inspired by some interesting posts on Brulosophy.com I tried out a new ‘express’ approach to brewing – short mash (30 min), short boil (25 min), short final hops stand (5 min). This resulted in a nice short brew night and I didn’t notice any downsides apart from a small loss in efficiency so I think …
Mar 13 2016
Style Information Name: American IPA Recipe Type: All Grain Grains & Extracts Name Amount Notes Golden Promise Malt 6 kg Munich II 0.5 kg Crystal 30 0.25 kg Carafa II malt 0.05 kg Hops Name Amount Alpha Acid % AAU Time Notes Cascade 0.02 kg 7% 0.14 60 Cascade 0.02 kg 7% 0.14 30 Cascade …
Dec 21 2015
Pitched this onto the yeast cake of the previous pilsner. Managed to chill the wort down to 12.5°C by pumping ice water through the immersion chiller. Due to pitching on yeast cake there was a very short lag time – obvious fermentation activity within 12 hours (at 12°C). Result was just ok – tasted fine, …
Nov 15 2015
Basic Pilsner because it has only pilsner malt and Pacifica hops. Style Information Name: German Pilsner (Pils) Recipe Type: All Grain Grains & Extracts Name Amount Notes Pilsner 5.25 kg Hops Name Amount Alpha Acid % AAU Time Notes Pacific Hallertau 0.04 kg 5.8% 0.232 60 Pacific Hallertau 0.015 kg 5.8% 0.087 15 Pacific Hallertau …
Nov 15 2015
Brewed for League Of Homebrewer’s ingredient showcase. Brewed using 18.5% rye. Style Information Name: American IPA Recipe Type: All Grain Grains & Extracts Name Amount Notes Pale Ale Malt 5.5 kg Rye Malt 1.5 kg Crystal 60 0.6 kg Carapils (Dextrine) 0.25 kg Wheat Malt 0.25 kg Hops Name Amount Alpha Acid % AAU Time …
Sep 21 2015
Emergency Pale Ale – what’s the emergency? Running low on beer, that’s what. Came second in SOBA Nelson homebrew compitition (The Verdict, 24th October 2015). Style Information Name: American Pale Ale Recipe Type: All Grain Grains & Extracts Name Amount Notes Pale Malt 4 kg Munich II – Wyermann 1.625 kg Crystal 20 0.3 kg …
Jun 19 2015
Brewed with Karl Summerfield on his Grainfather system for the League of Homebrewers Manuka Smoked Malt Showcase. Came first in SOBA Nelson homebrew compitition (The Verdict, 24th October 2015). Style Information Name: Oatmeal Stout Recipe Type: All Grain Grains & Extracts Name Amount Notes Gladfield Manuka Smoked Malt 2.5 kg Pale Ale Malt 1.67 kg …
May 09 2015
Brewed with Gladfield American Ale malt for League of Homebrewers malt showcase.
Mar 14 2015
Brewed with freshly picked ‘wet’ hops. Split into 2 batches – batch A, the full strength 5.7% abv version and batch B at 4.5% abv included additional water used to rinse the copious amount of hops material left in the boil kettle.
Jan 19 2015
First brew of 2015. Just going after a straightforward easy drinking Pale Ale here and using up ingredients that I have on hand. First time using Rakau hops. Style Information Name: American Pale Ale Recipe Type: All Grain Grains & Extracts Name Amount Notes Gladfield Ale Malt 4 kg Gladfield Pale Crystal 0.5 kg Munich …
Nov 17 2014
Brewing Notes: Leaf hops caused a bit of trouble with transfer from kettle to fermenter, had to keep clearing blockage from ball valve. Didn’t account for the 90 min boil in water boil-off calculations so need to add 4 L top-up water. Add boiled cooled water after fermentation kicks off. Just used a single packet …
Nov 03 2014
I had planned to use S-04 yeast in this one but didn’t manage to pick up any on time so just made it with US-05 (hydrated this time). I also did a small split batch using Coopers yeast as I had more wort than would fit in the carboy. No hydrometer this time either so …
Oct 26 2014
After a bit of a brewing absence (over 5 months since I last put down a brew) my stocks were running low so it was time to brew. I went for my favorite beer type, a good hoppy American style Pale Ale, but with all NZ hops so a New Zealand Pale Ale to be …
May 12 2014
Most of my recent beers have been rich, strong and hoppy beers. So I brewed this one to have a lighter easy drinking beer in my lineup of beers. The base is a blend of pilsner and pale ale malt with a little wheat and carapils for body/mouthfeel, head retention and a little biscuit to …
Apr 13 2014
This is more or less the Foreign Extra Stout recipe from Brewing Classic Styles with Fuggles hops instead of Kent Goldings. The wort tasted realy nice and chocolatey so I’m expecting good things. I used 3 sachets of Coopers kit yeast as I didn’t have any other yeast on hand. Pitched at 22C and targeted …
Apr 04 2014
We had a bumper crop of apples this year so I decided to make a 10L batch of cider to use them up. We extracted the juice using an electric juicer. The apples were a combination of 4 different varieties – Egremont Russet, Prescilla, Granny Smith and Initial. I added campden tablets and let it …
Mar 24 2014
I brewed this at the Marchfest Nelson Beer Festival where I was one of twelve brewers brewing up a batch of beer in the Brew Zone brewing demonstration area. What a great day out that was! I really enjoyed chatting and sharing my knowledge with the people interested in home brewing. The Waimea hops were …
