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Wood age Belgian blonde

Add 3g mid toast oak chips to 3l of kegged Belgian blonde

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19 may 2013

White film on surface! No taste of oak – yeast over powers.

2×500 with 2ml priming syrup

2×750 with 3ml priming syrup

1010 fg

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Mini ipa

Took 1L of the belg Goldern. Dry hopped with 5g NZ cascade.

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Beer Googles

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Force carbonate stout

Sam’s stout needed carbonation for next Wednesday.
Chilled on freezer, then increased co2 until it holds at 20psi, 16• surface temp

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Green hop pale ale

300g crystal
300g dark Crystal
6 kg NZ pils

Mashed at 66c

60 min 30g
42 min 30g no hoppy taste yet
32 min 30g
23 min 30g
12 min 30g
4 min 30g
0 min 30g

1040 at 26c
Too dark for a pale ale

22.5l main fermenter
Pitched light and low, NZ dark yeasts after activating in wort s-05 2nd gen

Aerated with ken wood triblade.

Fermenting at 19c

Conical fermenter 1.5L
Pitched 3rd esb yeast

Round fermenter 1L
Pitched onto fruit beer yeast including fruit.

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29 march Bottling

Green hop
1004  fg – 4.8 %

Keg 15l approx

6 500ml 2g
3 750 3g

Conical green hop raspberry
750
Fg 1036!

Has not started!

Green hop flask
1002 fg  5.1 %

 

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Skylanders Portal Cake

For Bryn’s 8th Birthday

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Waimea Dmash (Double malt and Single Hop)

Single hop with Gladfield Malts, with 8 hop editions the new Waimea hops (grandaughter of Pacific Jade) – 67IBU!

As used by Epic’s – first batch nzipa

Waimea Dmash

26 litres
All Grain
1.054~OG→1.015~FG→5.2%ABV 67 IBU 8.0°L SRM
Yeasts
5 grams
S-33 – Safbrew S-33
Fermentis (Ale)
5 grams
Fermentables
6.5 kilograms
Gladfield Ale
35ppg, 5°L
4.6 kilograms
71%
Gladfield Vienna
34ppg, 7°L
1.9 kilograms
29%
Hops
0.1 kilograms
Waimea
15%, Pellet
0.1 kilograms
100%
Miscellaneous
2 grams
koppa Flock
Fining
2 grams
100%
Boil
1 hour, 29.64 litres
Waimea hops
15%, Pellet
10 grams
60 minutes (+0)
Waimea hops
15%, Pellet
10 grams
50 minutes (+10)
Waimea hops
15%, Pellet
10 grams
40 minutes (+20)
Waimea hops
15%, Pellet
10 grams
30 minutes (+30)
Waimea hops
15%, Pellet
10 grams
20 minutes (+40)
Waimea hops
15%, Pellet
10 grams
15 minutes (+45)
koppa Flock
Fining
2 grams
15 minutes (+45)
Add wort chiller 15 minutes (+45)
Waimea hops
15%, Pellet
10 grams
10 minutes (+50)
Waimea hops
15%, Pellet
10 grams
5 minutes (+55)
Waimea hops
15%, Pellet
20 grams
0 minutes (+60)
Ferment
14 days @ 17°C

9 Feb

1.002 fg


 

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Hop growth

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