Beer for an 18th Birthday

Alton_Bee · Post by **Alton_Bee** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:15 am

In a few weeks (Sept 22nd) my nephew is 18 and having a party. For this I have decided to take along a barrel of homebrew.

Due to the lack of time to allow this beer to mature I am going for a Mild in the region of 1.040.

The grain bill I am using is:

Mild Malt 3 kg
Pale Malt 500g
Crystal Malt 250g
Flaked Barley 100g

If this was solely for me I would have this darker but allowing for his age and his preference for lager I am going to do this lighter than I normally would.

With this in mind I am going to use Saaz hops to about 20 IBU

I will be fermenting this beer with Nottingham Yeast.

I plan to have this in primary for a week to 10 days. Once Primary is finished I am going to keg it to allow it time to carbonate.

Seveneer · Post by **Seveneer** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 10:17 am

You brewing it today Vic?

/Phil.

J_P · Post by **J_P** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 11:20 am

I wish someone brought me a barrel of beer when I was 18, I could have saved myself around 5 years of drinking swill and got stuck into the real stuff from the outset.

Have a good one AB

Alton_Bee · Post by **Alton_Bee** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:02 pm

I am about to start the mash water heating so yes I am brewing this today.

iowalad · Post by **iowalad** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:53 pm

Have a good one!

steve_flack · Post by **steve_flack** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 3:24 pm

J_P wrote:I wish someone brought me a barrel of beer when I was 18, I could have saved myself around 5 years of drinking swill and got stuck into the real stuff from the outset.

Have a good one AB

Me too...how long did I waste drinking Stella?

Seveneer · Post by **Seveneer** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 3:40 pm

Alton_Bee wrote:I am about to start the mash water heating so yes I am brewing this today.

Hope it's going well Vic. I'm mid boil now with a standard bitter (1.038 and 30 IBU).

/Phil.

mixbrewery · Post by **mixbrewery** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 3:45 pm

Obviously its all for you Vic

How many circa 18's do you know who DON'T drink lager?

Enjoy your brewday.

Post by **Andy** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 4:38 pm

Seveneer wrote:(1.038)

DRB · Post by **DRB** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 4:44 pm

Very nice gesture of you alton_bee,hope it's going to plan.

Seveneer · Post by **Seveneer** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:49 pm

Andy wrote:
Seveneer wrote:(1.038)

Yes, I'm tired of falling over after 3 pints

Vossy1 · Post by **Vossy1** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 6:51 pm

Enjoy AB

Alton_Bee · Post by **Alton_Bee** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 12:53 pm

mixbrewery wrote:Obviously its all for you Vic
How many circa 18's do you know who DON'T drink lager?

Enjoy your brewday.

Yes it is for me - the choice was either to brew or buy some commercial stuff.

So I went for doing a brew - Good excuse in my book to do so.

Alton_Bee · Post by **Alton_Bee** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:14 pm

have ended up with about 18 ltrs in the fermenter at 1.042 - giving me 80% effiency so very happy with that.

I used protofloc for the 1st time on this brew and have to say I am impressed with it. Ended up with about 2 ltrs of what I can only guess is cold break - looks like very runny jelly !!!!

Post by **Andy** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:29 pm

Alton_Bee wrote:have ended up with about 18 ltrs in the fermenter at 1.042 - giving me 80% effiency so very happy with that.

You sure about that Vic ? With your recipe above, Beersmith gives 72% efficiency for 20 litres

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