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brewing thoughts
I should be sewing, for a certain value of "should", but my brain has turned to brewing. I bottled and labelled the Vin Lager on Monday. Now both fermenters are now empty and clean. I now have three brews in development (yeh, I shall have to borrow a fermenter to do all of them at once).
-I've claimed the ~3kg of overripe apricots that 10B had picked and was storing for me in his freezer. These turned into 4L of defrosted volume that I then heated to a bare simmer, said heating might have been a mistake. That has now been separated into ~2.5L of mostly juice and ~1.5L of mostly pulp. The juice is being treated with campden tablet and pectinase* prior to being combined with a bunch of apple juice and being fermented into apricot cider. The pulp I reckon would be good in crumbles and pies, so that is back in the freezer.
-I've done the design, ordering and grain collection for a new lager. This will be a version of Brooklyn Brewery recipe for what they call a pre prohibition lager. I'm doing a bit of hop cupboard clearing again but the malts follow the recipe closely. Last time I combined this with a Vienna lager recipe. This time I'm going with Brooklyn's design. It has a combination of German and American hops.
-The new and third plan is to make a small beer off this lager. This would augment the 2 remaining PET bottles of small beer that is all I have to offer at the next tavern night (along with 5 bottles of "big" beer). Should I experiment and use the German hops from the lager brew? Thus far all my small beers have had English hops. This small beer plan meant that I didn't mash today because I couldn't start early enough. I think I'm going to save the double mash exercise for Friday and go button hunting tomorrow.
I have my fingers crossed for an EOFY sale at the brew shop. I have a proto list ready just in case. I think they did one last year but they don't advertise their sales in advance, for obvious reasons.
Next beer plans are I think for a new Scottish ale and some sort of English ale. More reading and thoughts required. I ought do a bottle review. Bottle stocks might not be up to my production plans.
At some point I should write up my thoughts and web search bits about early malt.
*to kill any wild yeasts and bacteria and remove haze compounds.
-I've claimed the ~3kg of overripe apricots that 10B had picked and was storing for me in his freezer. These turned into 4L of defrosted volume that I then heated to a bare simmer, said heating might have been a mistake. That has now been separated into ~2.5L of mostly juice and ~1.5L of mostly pulp. The juice is being treated with campden tablet and pectinase* prior to being combined with a bunch of apple juice and being fermented into apricot cider. The pulp I reckon would be good in crumbles and pies, so that is back in the freezer.
-I've done the design, ordering and grain collection for a new lager. This will be a version of Brooklyn Brewery recipe for what they call a pre prohibition lager. I'm doing a bit of hop cupboard clearing again but the malts follow the recipe closely. Last time I combined this with a Vienna lager recipe. This time I'm going with Brooklyn's design. It has a combination of German and American hops.
-The new and third plan is to make a small beer off this lager. This would augment the 2 remaining PET bottles of small beer that is all I have to offer at the next tavern night (along with 5 bottles of "big" beer). Should I experiment and use the German hops from the lager brew? Thus far all my small beers have had English hops. This small beer plan meant that I didn't mash today because I couldn't start early enough. I think I'm going to save the double mash exercise for Friday and go button hunting tomorrow.
I have my fingers crossed for an EOFY sale at the brew shop. I have a proto list ready just in case. I think they did one last year but they don't advertise their sales in advance, for obvious reasons.
Next beer plans are I think for a new Scottish ale and some sort of English ale. More reading and thoughts required. I ought do a bottle review. Bottle stocks might not be up to my production plans.
At some point I should write up my thoughts and web search bits about early malt.
*to kill any wild yeasts and bacteria and remove haze compounds.