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Hops

Harvesting Ellen’s Hops

Separating batches so I have predominantly green hops, for batch for a pale ale tomorrow.

There appears to be two varieties. Made a hop tea. Herbal and citrus on the nose, grassy bitter finish.

Smaller variety is more floral.

Made a hop

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Tasting

Mikes OMPA

Citrus on the nose, full mouth feel, big hops mid palate, finishes not too bitter, great drop

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Tasting

Lefebvre Hopus

Yeasty on the nose, fully mouth feel, complexity builds into malty notes, with slight hop finish.

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Bottling

Stout bottling

Base stout
1006
2x500ml
2ml sugar
so5

Milk stout
1010
4 750 3ml added 2.5ml lactose to sweeten up
1 500 l 2ml

Imperial
1010
4 500 2ml
4 750 3ml

Oatmeal
1010
6 500
3 750

Irish
1012
5 500
4 750

Extra bottle
1×500 sweet + Irish

B7.1 B7.2 B7.3 B7.4 B7.5
Base Stout Sweet Stout oatmeal Stout Irish Stout Foreign Stout Imperial Stout
1.040 1.040 1.040 1.040 1.042 1.084
1.006 1.010 1.010 1.012 1.010 1.022
4.50% 4% 4% 3.70% 4.30%  8.3 %
Too low  6 mar Bottled
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Recipe

Ordinary Bitter + Four

Using an ordinary bitter as base for 5 guild beers

Ordinary Bitter

26 litres
All Grain
1.040~OG→1.009~FG→4.0%ABV 30 IBU 9.4°L SRM
Yeasts
5 grams
S-04 – Safale S-04 – Wyeast 1968 ESB
Fermentis (Ale)
5 grams
Fermentables
4.85 kilograms
Maris Otter
34ppg, 4°L
4.5 kilograms
93%
Crystal 120L
33ppg, 120°L
0.2 kilograms
4%
Special Roast
29ppg, 50°L
0.12 kilograms
2%
Aromatic
36ppg, 4°L
35 grams
1%
Hops
50 grams
Bramling Cross
5%, Pellet
25 grams
50%
Super Alpha
12%, Pellet
25 grams
50%

B10.1 NZ Dark ale

Colour target: Amber to garnet
~5ml Sinamar Weyermann® (dark colouring) added (straight from fridge)

1.037 og

10 March
1004 FG  4.4%

B4.1 Ordinary Bitter

1.034 at 30c – 1.037
Fermentor 5l no 1
Pitched 2nd gen( Best bitter) ESB Wyeast 1968

Bottled 6 April
1002 fg – 3.8%

  • 4x Primed 750ml – 3ml syrup
  • 3x Primed 500ml – 2ml syrup

B4.2 Extra Special Bitter

Took ~5L from boil and boiled separately . Added 5g more bitter hops at 30mins

Fermentor 5l #2
1068 before blend at 30c
1045 Og at 30c -> 1.048 og
Pitched 2nd gen( Best bitter) ESB Wyeast 1968

Bottled 6 April
1004 fg – 4.7%

  • 4x Primed 750ml – 3ml syrup
  • 3x Primed 500ml – 2ml syrup

B9.1 Fruit Beer

1.032 og -> 1.035 og

Plan to add frozen raspberrys

Fermentor 15L water cooler ~ 10L

Pitched ~7g s-05

6 March
Add 500g frozen Raspberrys directly to fermenter

10 March
1.002 FG – 9.5L – 4%

  • 1x Primed 1L – 4ml syrup
  • 4x Primed 750ml – 3ml syrup
  • 7x Primed 500ml – 2ml syrup

B1.2 Low Alcohol

Diluted base with tap water

~1.023 og

Pitched ~2g s-05
Fermentor – 1L glass bottle
10 March

1.010 FG  1.7%

B1.1 Light Beer

Diluted base with tap water

~1.025 og

Pitched ~2g s-05
Fermentor – 1L glass bottle

10 March

1.010 FG  2.0%

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Kegging

Slow leak keg

I have a slow leak, where the keg would loose pressure over a few days. Eliminated the keg and posts by swapping the lid with another keg. Appears to be
The pressure release valve. It was done up very tight. It need vide grips to loosen. Squirted with star San and cleaned with a cotton bud. Reassembled and filled to 20psi (the keg has 14l of hoppy waimea ale in it)

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Recipe

Stout a Lout – 6 stouts – one batch

stout base

26 litres
All Grain
1.050~OG→1.011~FG→5.1%ABV 35 IBU 40.8°L SRM
Yeasts
5 grams
Gervin Ale 5 grams
Fermentables
6.26 kilograms
Maris Otter
34ppg, 2°L
5 kilograms
80%
Barley (Roasted)
27ppg, 500°L
0.5 kilograms
8%
Crystal 80L
34ppg, 2°L
0.4 kilograms
6%
Chocolate
28ppg, 350°L
0.36 kilograms
6%
Hops
70 grams
Goldings (Kent)
6%, Pellet
70 grams
100%
Miscellaneous
Boil
1 hour, 29.64 litres
Goldings (Kent) hops
6%, Pellet
70 grams
60 minutes (+0)
Add wort chiller 15 minutes (+45)
Ferment
14 days @ 17°C

5 Stouts:

B7.1 B7.2 B7.3 B7.4 B7.5
Sweet Stout oatmeal Stout Irish Stout Foreign Stout Imperial Stout

Gervin Ale Yeast

re-hydrated 15g in 100ml water with 2.5g sugar

Cooled wort, and get active before pitching.

Imperial Stout

5 L of the first runnings of mash.

1.040 at 60c = 1.056 pre boil

add 20g 6.1% Uk goldings

Milk/Sweet Stout 5L

Added 50g lactose – boiled in 200g wort

Irish Stout

200g uncrushed malted Maris otter in ~400g wort. Leave for 2 days. will boil once soured

partial mash on stove, sparged and boiled

  • 200g Flaked Barley
  • 200g Maris Otter

 

Oatmeal Stout

Partial Mash:

  • 40g Pale chocolate
  • 160g mid toasted grain
  • 200g Rolled Oats
  • 200 Maris Otter

 

Base Stout

Fermented in 1L carafe

 

 

 

27 feb
All pretty much finished accept Russian
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Review

8 wired haywired Wheat Beer

Honey on the nose, fizzy, great flavour, to hoppy for a wheat but a good hop.

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Review

Westmalle Trappist dubbel

Aroma – fresh yeast, full mouth feel, too cd. Needs to warm up!
Very tasty.

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Review

Peroni Nastro Azzirro – imported

No aroma, cold. Very mild, no hops. Lawnmower beer?

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$8 for 330 ml is a bit steep.