Back on track..........sort of!
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 1:58 pm
Well you may have noticed I haven't been on much for a while...............err O.K. never mind.
Today was an impulsive brew an will be using the last of some old ingredients which I would normally shudder at the thought of people using. I'm frightened to admit just how out of date the stuff is, but it's going to make beer and beer is something I'm very short of!
It is being fitted in around my seriously sick horse and other daily routines, so has been thrown together with estimated quantities,temperatures and very little thought. Probably how it was done centuries ago!
The basis is 4.5KG of pale malt 200g of Cara Munich and 300g of Wheat. EKG mid boil and Cascade at the end. About 40g of each.
It is in the boiler now but started of as kettles of hot water and an adjusted mash temp to about 65C and a sloppy mash at that! The runnungs have been boiled in two stages as I have collected the two batch sparges in between doing other things.
Of course, this will turn out to be the best beer I have ever made and I will never be able to replicate it................mmmm must look for some yeast ( I have some Young's multi purpose yeast for emergencies and regular Turbo Cider. I have had it for 4 years and it performs brilliantly in the TC.....super clear and very flocculant.)
If all else fails, my horse will eat the spent grains!
Today was an impulsive brew an will be using the last of some old ingredients which I would normally shudder at the thought of people using. I'm frightened to admit just how out of date the stuff is, but it's going to make beer and beer is something I'm very short of!
It is being fitted in around my seriously sick horse and other daily routines, so has been thrown together with estimated quantities,temperatures and very little thought. Probably how it was done centuries ago!
The basis is 4.5KG of pale malt 200g of Cara Munich and 300g of Wheat. EKG mid boil and Cascade at the end. About 40g of each.
It is in the boiler now but started of as kettles of hot water and an adjusted mash temp to about 65C and a sloppy mash at that! The runnungs have been boiled in two stages as I have collected the two batch sparges in between doing other things.
Of course, this will turn out to be the best beer I have ever made and I will never be able to replicate it................mmmm must look for some yeast ( I have some Young's multi purpose yeast for emergencies and regular Turbo Cider. I have had it for 4 years and it performs brilliantly in the TC.....super clear and very flocculant.)
If all else fails, my horse will eat the spent grains!