English Strong Bitter

[WishboneBrewery]

you do like your Blacksheep clone type beers don't you

[leedsbrew]

Reminds me of home!

[Clibit]

Were you the black sheep of the family then?

[leedsbrew]

Undoubtably

[WishboneBrewery]

he's not fussy though, he'll have a White sheep just as soon as a black one :p

[leedsbrew]

Boom!

[Rookie]

Mangrove Jack M07 British Ale

Report back on this. I'm planning a rye best bitter using the 07 shortly after the new year.

[leedsbrew]

couple of crappy iPhone pics. It was dark and the head torch I was wearing threw out the camera a bit!

I've just taken a sample of this and its gone past the predicted FG to 1.011 (The predicted was only an estimate anyway as MJ don't give %). This makes the actual attenuation 80.5 and the ABV 6.3%

As for taste..........mmmmmmm this a big warming sonvabiatch! fruity esters of figs and dried stone fruit. Obviously its still a bit yeasty as its only 5 days old. I upped the fermentation temp to 20oC 2 days ago and its holding steady. Im hoping this will help the yeast clean up a bit without it going to much past the current SG. I'll leave it till tomorrow and then I'm going to crash it. This may even be on the hand pump by boxing day!

LB

[mozza]

That air lock has seen some action!

[leedsbrew]

You know it! It came with a load of stuff off free cycle. Something tells me they used videne!

[Clibit]

I like the second and third pics - abstract/artistic - nice.

[6470zzy]

I like the second and third pics - abstract/artistic - nice.

+1 I was thinking the same thing myself

[leedsbrew]

cheers chaps! Just iPhone snaps but not too bad!

This bee rid now crash cooling in the fridge! I'm hoping to get it clearish and then racked into a polykeg for a quick carb to cask levels and then have it ready for next weekend when I'm back up North with the rent and brothers.

[leedsbrew]

A quick update. Kegged this into one of my Polykegs. First time using these so was looking forward to it.


Taking the trub into account I reckon there is 23L in there. Nice to be able to keg an entire batch.


Away she goes




Going


Gone

The MJ British ale yeast has set like a rock on the bottom of the FV. If it hadn't just fermented a 6.6% beer I'd re use it, but I've also got most of the rest of the range to try out so I'll just buy another tone when I'm ready.

I'm quite impressed so far with this yeast. Set off like a rocket, fast ferment and drops like a stone! The flavour profile is nice and 'English' too. Although maybe a lighter ale would be a better judge.


I couldn't help but have a wee taste. Dropping the temp so soon after fermentation had finished has kept a fair bit of condition in the beer. I've set the reg to 20psi just to get a cask style condition into it by the end of the day, as I'm going to bottle a few 750s to take back up to Darlington this weekend for the family Christmas weekend.

As far as the keg goes, I'm impressed. No harder than corni kegs, just different. I've found I can vent the keg by slightly unscrewing the one way JG fitting on the gas in side and holding it'cocked' off the threads it vents. I was happy about this as I didn't want to oxidise the beer with me not filling to the top. I had purged the keg before filling but I still like to purge and vent post filling as well.

I'll post back once it's had a bit of time to condition and post some tasting notes.

Cheers

LB

[WishboneBrewery]

whats a polykeg?