8 brews from 4 cheap kits!

[lee1]

Less brewing more gardening

[Monkeybrew]

Here goes.......

Hops

Amarillo
Boadicea
Brewers Gold
Challenger
East Kent Goldings
Fuggles
Galaxy
Goldings
Liberty
Nugget
NZ Cascade
Progress
Saaz
Celeia (Styrian Goldings)
Target

Grains

Amber
Black
Caramalt
Cara Red
Chocolate
Crystal 120
Roasted Barley

Just ordered a 100g pack of Nelson Sauvin whole hops to add to this list as they have finally come back on the market. A must try hop that is very different to anything else that I've tried

[Monkeybrew]

As you can see from my sig, I need a session brew to go into a keg.

I'm thinking of a Fuggled Session Wherry

1 x can of Wherry
12L Brewlength (equivalent to 24L full brew)
10g of Fuggles Leaf Hops 5.0% AA boiled for 10mins
10g of Fuggles Pellet Hops added to the keg in a mini mesh bag (courtesy of a Festival kit)
Coopers Ale Yeast
Ferment @20C

Hopefully it'll end up at around 3.5%

MB

[Stomach]

As you can see from my sig, I need a session brew to go into a keg.

I'm thinking of a Fuggled Session Wherry

1 x can of Wherry
12L Brewlength (equivalent to 24L full brew)
10g of Fuggles Leaf Hops 5.0% AA boiled for 10mins
10g of Fuggles Pellet Hops added to the keg in a mini mesh bag (courtesy of a Festival kit)
Coopers Ale Yeast
Ferment @20C

Hopefully it'll end up at around 3.5%

MB

Hmmm I like the sound of that mate!

[Monkeybrew]

The Dark Wherry was still at 1.012 on day 11, so it got racked into a clean FV and was then chilled until yesterday morning when I placed the FV on my kitchen worktop to warm up, ready for another racking and then bottling.

All bottled up on day 19 and batch primed at 3.5g/L.

Tasted like fruity toffee and looked like muddy water in the clear bottles!

I'll reserve any kind of judgement on this one for a few weeks.

MB

I have tried a bottle of this tonight and although it isn't fully clear yet, I'm quite happy with how it's tasting after a month in the bottle.

I tried a little taster bottle a couple of weeks ago and it was still muddy and dry - not nice!

The best way to describe the colour is like coca cola, infact SWMBO thought that I had poured myself a pint of JD and coke.

What is clear, is that the small amount of chocolate malt has added colour and nothing else, which is actually a good thing because I can still taste the Wherry in there. The Brewers Gold hops have added a heightened citrus edge to the finish that seems to blend well with the Wherry hopping.

All in all I'm pretty happy with this so far.

MB

[Monkeybrew]

As you can see from my sig, I need a session brew to go into a keg.

I'm thinking of a Fuggled Session Wherry

1 x can of Wherry
12L Brewlength (equivalent to 24L full brew)
10g of Fuggles Leaf Hops 5.0% AA boiled for 10mins
10g of Fuggles Pellet Hops added to the keg in a mini mesh bag (courtesy of a Festival kit)
Coopers Ale Yeast
Ferment @20C

Hopefully it'll end up at around 3.5%

MB

Just got this brew on!

Changed it slightly and went for a 12.5L brewlength, 15g of Fuggles in the boil and will be fermenting with a 7g sachet of yeast left over from a Coopers Aussie Bitter kit that is a mix of ale and lager yeast @19C.

Got an OG of 1.036.......perfect

MB

[lee1]

hi monkey did the same thing miself with 1 of those bags i stuffed it full of target and dropped it into a cornie full of stout it was very nice by the way put a couple of sterilized marbles in there to weigh it down

[Monkeybrew]

As you can see from my sig, I need a session brew to go into a keg.

I'm thinking of a Fuggled Session Wherry

1 x can of Wherry
12L Brewlength (equivalent to 24L full brew)
10g of Fuggles Leaf Hops 5.0% AA boiled for 10mins
10g of Fuggles Pellet Hops added to the keg in a mini mesh bag (courtesy of a Festival kit)
Coopers Ale Yeast
Ferment @20C

Hopefully it'll end up at around 3.5%

MB

Just got this brew on!

Changed it slightly and went for a 12.5L brewlength, 15g of Fuggles in the boil and will be fermenting with a 7g sachet of yeast left over from a Coopers Aussie Bitter kit that is a mix of ale and lager yeast @19C.

Got an OG of 1.036.......perfect

MB

I checked the gravity on Friday (day 8 ), and it was down to 1.009.

Going to keg the lot on Thursday (day 14)

MB

[Monkeybrew]

The Dark Wherry is coming along well now!



It's rounded off into a really nice brew. Brew 1 of 6 is definitely a success

MB

[Monkeybrew]

My mind is obviously always thinking about ale recipes, as this idea popped into my head this morning for my 3rd cheap Wherry brew

I've got various odd hops, dme and dextrose to use up.......

Wherry IPA

1 x can of Woodfordes Wherry
250g of Light DME
250g of Dextrose
10L Brewlength (with treated tap water)
15g of EKG hop pellets boiled for 15mins
12g of Celeia (Styrian Goldings) steeped for 30mins from 80C
25g of Celeia (Styrian Goldings) dry hopped from day 7

I'm not sure what yeast to use yet, maybe S-05 for the full hop experience.

MB

[Monkeybrew]

As you can see from my sig, I need a session brew to go into a keg.

I'm thinking of a Fuggled Session Wherry

1 x can of Wherry
12L Brewlength (equivalent to 24L full brew)
10g of Fuggles Leaf Hops 5.0% AA boiled for 10mins
10g of Fuggles Pellet Hops added to the keg in a mini mesh bag (courtesy of a Festival kit)
Coopers Ale Yeast
Ferment @20C

Hopefully it'll end up at around 3.5%

MB

Just got this brew on!

Changed it slightly and went for a 12.5L brewlength, 15g of Fuggles in the boil and will be fermenting with a 7g sachet of yeast left over from a Coopers Aussie Bitter kit that is a mix of ale and lager yeast @19C.

Got an OG of 1.036.......perfect

MB

I checked the gravity on Friday (day 8 ), and it was down to 1.009.

Going to keg the lot on Thursday (day 14)

MB

Due to holiday prep tomorrow night, I've kegged the Wherry tonight on day 13 @1.008 with 50g of priming sugar (4g per L).

I am also now dry hopping in the pressure barrel with 10g of Fuggles hop pellets that are in a small fine mesh bag, that came in my Festival Pilgrims Hope kit. The pellets also have a large marble for company to keep them weighed down.

Fuggles hop depth charge!



The depth charge infusing my priming solution in the PB.


Cheers

MB

[timbo41]

Love this thread MB
Perhaps you'd look at this and see how it fits in with your multi brew philosophy

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=59810

[Monkeybrew]

Love this thread MB
Perhaps you'd look at this and see how it fits in with your multi brew philosophy

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=59810

Cheers timbo, and that's an interesting thread too mate.

[timbo41]

Yesterday put on the wherry to full brewlength,slight modification by using a west coast ale yeast cake plus kit yeast. Gone off like the clappers! Will rack to two smaller fv for secondary, and mess about with different dry hopping. Like the fuggles idea with priming..not seen that method before

[Monkeybrew]

The Fuggled Session Wherry is finally fully clear after 6/7 weeks in the keg.

Still a bit confused as to why it took so long, because it was brewed with Coopers yeast that normally drops clear very quickly?

It's got a decent body and is full of flavour for a 3.8% bitter.



MB