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Yay. I did all the beer things tonight that I hoped to.
Three things bottled:
Scottish Ale
4doz and 7. ~4.5% alcohol.
A nice, clean, not very dark, ale. Still suspicious that it and the festival big beer might have had their specialty malts mixed up in some random way. Maybe, maybe not. Still, this one seems to taste pleasant and we drank almost all the festival beer.
American (very) Pale Ale
5doz. 5.1% alcohol
This is a brew from scratch version of the American pale I once made from the G+G "artisan wort". I liked it lots. 10B made special mention that he liked that one too. The more true to style American pale ales are bigger, fuller. This is closer to what I think of an Australian craft APA.
Weird small batch small beer
2x500ml. <2% alcohol.
Made from 1L wort left over from festival brewing, with a hefeweizen yeast I didn't expect to otherwise use. Brew vessel was a 1.25L PET bottle :-). I haven't tasted this yet. I'll wait at least the 2wks carbonation time and then choose some brave fellow tasters.
I've also set up the new mash rig ready to go for tomorrow's brew. There is a new proper eye bolt for the pulley, new rope with an experimental detachable and therefore washable bit. This is to be able to clean off the sugary wort so the rope doesn't stay perpetually manky. There is also a new (to me) metal chair that will be used as the urn bench, so I don't have to carry out my medjeeval box, or get it covered in sticky wort.
Clean up and labelling can happen in between brewing tasks tomorrow. Too tired now.
Three things bottled:
Scottish Ale
4doz and 7. ~4.5% alcohol.
A nice, clean, not very dark, ale. Still suspicious that it and the festival big beer might have had their specialty malts mixed up in some random way. Maybe, maybe not. Still, this one seems to taste pleasant and we drank almost all the festival beer.
American (very) Pale Ale
5doz. 5.1% alcohol
This is a brew from scratch version of the American pale I once made from the G+G "artisan wort". I liked it lots. 10B made special mention that he liked that one too. The more true to style American pale ales are bigger, fuller. This is closer to what I think of an Australian craft APA.
Weird small batch small beer
2x500ml. <2% alcohol.
Made from 1L wort left over from festival brewing, with a hefeweizen yeast I didn't expect to otherwise use. Brew vessel was a 1.25L PET bottle :-). I haven't tasted this yet. I'll wait at least the 2wks carbonation time and then choose some brave fellow tasters.
I've also set up the new mash rig ready to go for tomorrow's brew. There is a new proper eye bolt for the pulley, new rope with an experimental detachable and therefore washable bit. This is to be able to clean off the sugary wort so the rope doesn't stay perpetually manky. There is also a new (to me) metal chair that will be used as the urn bench, so I don't have to carry out my medjeeval box, or get it covered in sticky wort.
Clean up and labelling can happen in between brewing tasks tomorrow. Too tired now.