I thought I posted a few things here since November.. Guess not. Lets do a quick catch up.
I got the Blackfeather stout kegged up already. Remember this was my revised American stout. And it came out fabulous. The changes I made were minimal, but came out rather drastic. I moved the mash temp down 6 degrees and mistakenly didnt add the chocolate malt. (only a 1/4 lb)
What came out of this was a beer so different from the original, I think a name change may be in order. So different, but so good. And did everything I wanted it to do. It dried it out quite a bit, and why it bittered up like it did I dont know, but it fits the category more I think. Am going to keep this version as is for a while.
To my horror one night, I discovered that I was out of beer. And Christmas and New Years is a coming. I needed something quick. I chose a recipe that I wrote out a while ago. A Southern Brown. Having never had one, and not knowing anyone else who had one either, I guessed, and used American style ingredients.
- 7lbs 2 row
- 1/2 80L
- 1/2 lb 120
- 1/4 roast barley
- 1 oz fuggles @ 60
- 05 yeast
I wanted a sweeter raisiny kind of beer. And I couldnt have been further off. I was sooo expecting to have one kind of beer, that when I got another,, I hated it. But after I relaxed and drank 4 or 5 of them I came to realise that this may be the best damn beer I drank in a long time! I’m not sure what it is yet. (will need to drink,, I mean research more). A mild brown? A mild stout? Not sure yet, but after all of the beers I’ve considered,, this may be the closest to becoming the “house” beer.
And finally a cider update. I have not bottled yet, but have had a few Hydrometer samples. And this cider is damn good. The 04 left it sweet and appley, but it with all of the sugar and molasses its coming in at a 8%.
This was only a half batch, so it will bottle quickly. Which is good, because the next batch of it will go in almost immediately.
Got the ingrediants for a Schwartz and could be brewing tomorrow, definatly within the next few days. Gotta dry hop the 20Plato brown for the TTO. And start bottling up the rest of the entries. I got a busy week coming up.
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