edinburgh ale | Probably Due To Network Congestion

Posts Tagged ‘edinburgh ale’

I shall perform a brief brew-abstain, normal service will resume

Posted by: pdtnc on: August 19, 2012

In: Brewing
4 Comments

I shall be abstaining from brewdays for a while, normal service will resume once I’ve got through some of the beer!

This weekend I bottled my last two brews, Ta Moko II & Chinook Blonde and I’m still warm conditioning my Double IPA HopZilla IPA… so thats *6 crates of beer sat in our office/study/room/thing 🙂 *Crates hold 20 bottles of 500ml or 24 x 330ml

Garage beer stocks are pretty high with lots more full crates stashed in there too… the Temperature control on the fermentation fridge has been turned off and the HLT is empty! (Hop Freezer is Full!)

There are Whitelabs yeasts in the fridge to brew with once I get going again:

Brett WLP650 (Something with Flaked Oats and Wheat malt, lots of Cara/Crystal malts)
Belgian Blend (Might get some more Date Molasses)
Hefeweizen (I’ll go the whole decoction hog but hop with Amarillo & Nelson Sauvin +dry)
Kólsch (Ideas for an IPA, a Malty Smoke beer, and maybe a Red Rye)
San Diego Super (I’m sure I’ll have plenty of options for this one… US Brown re-brew with tweaks?)
Edinburgh Ale (Something British, might do a Fuggle IPA and a Coniston Bluebird-esqe bitter)

Malts are pretty plentiful too:

Pale Malt, Lager Malt, Caramalt, Choc Malt, Choc Wheat, Crystal, Extra Dark Crystal, Flaked Barley, Flaked Oats, Pale Crystal, Carahell, Roast Barley, Carapils, Cara-munich Type III, Carafa Special III, Special B, CaraAmber, Medium Peat Smoked, Roasted Wheat, Black Malt, Brown Malt, Roasted Rye, Crystal Rye, Cara Vienna, Pale Oat Malt, Melanoidin, Flaked Wheat, Muinch Type I, Munich Type II, Amber Malt, Rye Malt, Rauch Malt, Flaked Maize.

Bulging Hop Freezer:

UK Cascade, Columbus, Challenger, Fuggle, Bobek, Goldings, Magnum, Summit, Willamette, Apollo, Chinook, Hersbrucker, Simcoe, NZ Cascade, Tettnang, Green Bullet, Aramis, Junga, Mount Hood, Spalter Select, Marynka, Cluster, Amarillo, Lubelski, Centennial, Riwaka, Citra, Northern Brewer, Galaxy, Super Alpha, Summer, Stella, NZ Hallertau Aroma, Pacific Gem, Warrior, Delta, Topaz, Nelson Sauvin, Pacific Jade, Pacifica, Wai-iti, Kohatu, Wakatu, Motueka, East Kent Golding, Sticklebract.

I wonder how long I can go without firing up the HLT? 🙂 AG#88 will be a….????

Tags: Abstain, Amarillo, amber malt, apollo, Aramis, beer, belgian, Black malt, bobek, Brett, Brewdays, brown malt, cara munich type III, Cara Vienna, CaraAmber, carafa special III, carahell, caramalt, Carapils, centennial, challenger, Chinook, Choc Malt, Choc Wheat, citra, Cluster, Columbus, Crystal, crystal rye, Delta, east kent golding, edinburgh ale, Extra Dark Crystal, Flaked Barley, flaked maize, flaked oats, flaked wheat, fuggle, Galaxy, goldings, Green Bullet, Hefeweizen, Hersbrucker, homebrew, homebrewing, Junga, Kohatu, kolsch, lager malt, Lubelski, magnum, Marynka, Medium Peat Smoked, Melanoidin, Motueka, Mount Hood, Muinch Type I, Munich Type II, nelson sauvin, Northern Brewer, NZ cascade, NZ Hallertau Aroma, pacific gem, Pacific Jade, Pacifica, Pale Crystal, pale malt, Pale Oat Malt, Rauch Malt, Riwaka, roast barley, roasted rye, Roasted Wheat, rye malt, San Diego Super, Simcoe, Spalter Select, Special B, stella, Sticklebract, summer, Summit, Super Alpha, tettnang, Topaz, uk cascade, Wai-iti, Wakatu, Warrior, Willamette, yeast

AG#26 – Northern Blue

Posted by: pdtnc on: May 8, 2010

In: Brewing
3 Comments

I started out with the Coniston Bluebird recipe but I’ve not got enough Challenger in the Freezer, so Northdown will be taking the place of most of the Challenger and there’s going to be some late Fuggles also as I want to finish a bag off.
The Malts are a bit like this too and I’ve moved away a little from the original, I had a bag of Wheat malt that I have a plan for 2kg’s of (Wheat Beer with WB-06) so the remainder of that Wheat is going in this along with a part bag of Crystal Malt which is near as damn it right for a Bluebird clone 😉
Additions to the above are Crystal Rye & Crystal Wheat.

Malts:
Maris Otter 3450g 84.8%
Wheat Malt 264g 6.5%
Crystal Malt 154g 3.8%
Crystal Rye Malt 100g 2.5%
Crystal Wheat Malt 100g 2.5%

The Malts are weighed out and ready with 1 Tsp of Gypsum for the mash:

Hops are liable to change as I only roughly weighed what hops I’ll be using so anything over these weights will be thrown in at the end of boil.
Hops:
Northdown – 60 mins 25g (FWH)
Northdown – 30 mins 8g
Northdown – 20 mins 15g
Challenger – 0 mins 19g
Fuggle – 0 mins 28g

Mash on @ 7.45am for maybe 60 or 90 mins:

Pretty much hit my choice of Mash temperatures but found I have about a 1.5C variance across my three thermometers, 2 digital and 1 spirit:

Today’s hops all weighed out:

Beer profile:
Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.040
Final Gravity: 1.010
Alcohol Content: 3.8% ABV
Total Liquor: 32.4 Litres
Mash Liquor: 10.2 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 34 EBU
Colour: 21 EBC

I’ll be using some Thick Edinburgh Ale Yeast I skimmed off my fermenter the other day, should be raring to go 🙂

Filling the Tun with the 1st batch sparge:

Top-down view of the FWH+Gypsum in thw Copper, Mash Tun and Underback:

Chiller already been in the copper for 15mins to sanitise, Flame Out hops in for a 20 or 30min steep:

Lovely thick skimmed Edinburgh Ale yeast from my last brew:

OG 1042, 2 points more than needed but near enough:

A good colour and very clear wort, tasted pretty good too:

Updates are on my T.watter page as I remember http://twitter.com/pdtnc 🙂