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Decided quite late on to get a brew on due to the weather being fit for bugger all else
This is a test brew for a local pub who wants some beer brewing, the name of the pub is the Greyhound but known
as The Dog, hence the beer name.

Naughty Dog
7kg MO Pale
460g Crystal
330g Wheat
45g Challenger @ 60 mins AA 7.9%
40g Fuggles @ 30 mins AA 5%
20g Fuggles @ 10 mins AA 5%
26g Challenger @ 0 mins AA 6.3%

The aim is for 46 ltrs @ OG1038
FG 1009 making a 3.8% ABV
31 IBU`s and a colour of 14 EBC

Just waiting for the boiler to start boiling so thought i`d pop on and post.

Bottled this Tuesday night, 80 bloody bottles what a long winded affair that was, but a few weeks supplies now
this tasted fairly good out of the FV so hopefully nothing drastic will happen to it between now and when its ready for drinking,
4 weeks approx,but true to form i`ll sample one in a couple of weeks

Mmmm mm looks tasty. 80 bottles must be an absolute nightmare!

don't be so soft lad. Last lot I did took about 90 mins including setup and clean up, 100 bottles.

recipe look good haz.

Garth wrote:don't be so soft lad. Last lot I did took about 90 mins including setup and clean up, 100 bottles.

recipe look good haz.

Care to share your secret Garth

I don't think there's a secret really - I always bottle and its about having plenty of bottles in soak in no-rinse sanitiser solution and working in batches.
I have a 20 bottle crate which hold my bottles once out of the rinse, I fill them as they are standing on the kitchen lino (its slightly cushioned) and cap them with my bog standard twin lever capper. These 20 go into boxes to warm condition for a few days (living room) whilst i grab another 20 clean ones from the soak and fill the brew bins with more clean bottles needing the soak....

Seemples.

If I was bottling 100 I can imagine it would take a bit longer but with a bottling stick - actually not massively longer.

It's true there's no real secret, it's just being organised and doing two things at once if you can.

I use a Blichmann beer gun and peracetic acid as sanitiser.

I make sure that the beer isn't too frothy as this costs you precious time when filling.

I can sanitise a bottle on the squirter thing and put it on the tree to drain while with the other hand I'm filling a bottle.

I fill them on a tray, if there's a spill it dosen't get too messy. Then I rinse down all the full/capped bottles.

Those bottle tree's do look bery useful! i alway struggle draining more than a handful of bottles on my draining board! would u recommend Garth?

The Naughty Dog beer sounds great! Will the bar staff put some cash on a tab for you in return for the brew?

Oh also, did you prime your beer? If so how much sugar did you prime with? I'm bottling my first AG this weekend which is a pale ale so was curious.

This was only a test brew
The next one will fill a firkin instead of bottles, and yes i`m giving it to the pub for free, but i can have free pints in return
I primed the bottles with a 1/4 teaspoon of sugar, just your normal Tate n Lyle stuff

nice one, thats a cool deal you got with them . thanks for the info on priming. I've only bottled my beer once before and it was so gassy it was hard to drink!

ive got a few bottle trees there very handy.

when you get a pallet of bottles commercially theyre pre sterilised

thats even more bloody handy

I gotta try and get myself one I think

I'm lucky enough to have sampled one of the Naughty Dogs! Thanks Haz!! It was a superb drink. Very well carbonated (mini volcanoe but nothing to worry about if you've got a pint glass handy!) First thing that hits you is the hops - lovely and fruity. There is plenty of sweetness too, to make an all round, well balanced ale.
As I said to haz, I'm jealous as most of my recent ales haven't been anywhere near as nice as that! Put it this way, I'd be happy if my local had it on tap!

I like the look of the recipe too, so might be one to brew in the near future.

I've just been looking at the recipe to perhaps have ago at something simular I love the name of this one.

beermonsta wrote:I'm lucky enough to have sampled one of the Naughty Dogs! Thanks Haz!! It was a superb drink. Very well carbonated (mini volcanoe but nothing to worry about if you've got a pint glass handy!) First thing that hits you is the hops - lovely and fruity. There is plenty of sweetness too, to make an all round, well balanced ale.
As I said to haz, I'm jealous as most of my recent ales haven't been anywhere near as nice as that! Put it this way, I'd be happy if my local had it on tap!

I like the look of the recipe too, so might be one to brew in the near future.

Thanks for that Ben, but i gotta say that yours were as equally as good even though you may not think so, it was as clear as a bell
in the glass and very clean and crisp, tasted more like a bottled beer you`ed buy it was that clean, i liked it soo much i had to drink
the other one as well

L2wis wrote:I've just been looking at the recipe to perhaps have ago at something simular I love the name of this one.

The name is a two pronged thing, one for the pub its intended for (The Greyhound) and the other is because i was a big Crash Bandicoot fan on the Playstation
and it was made by Naughty Dog.