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PostPosted: Thu Sep 21, 2017 20:57 
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Cottage brew 1 is a bit 'meh' but i need an Old Hooky to compare it to.

Cottage Brew 2 just been dry hoppes with 30g Bramling Cross

Cottage Brew 3 is on the go. 5kg Golden Promise, 175g crystal malt, 25g Citra in at start of boil, 35 in at end, and I'll dry hop with 40g.

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Yes. Brought it to Meatup couple years back.

It was fucking rank from what I remember

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Yes. Brought it to Meatup couple years back.

It was fucking rank from what I remember


Yes.

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It was okay. It had ribena in

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1.049 was OG.

Heat eXchanger split a hose and was a clusterfuck. I was able to hotfix it. Very hotfix it as it was the hot side needed replumbing.

Anyway. All good.


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Cottage brew 1 is a bit 'meh'


This is completly wrong.

I have had 2 other bottles and it's probably the best i have made so far.

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Cottage brew 2 is sat cooling in the sink at the moment. It is a single hopped ale, Bramling Cross. Malt base was 5kg pale, and then some crystal and black malt because eveeythig is relative really isn't it and I was in a rush so didn't weigh it. 40g hops in at start of boil, 30g at end. Will dry hop with 30g.
Flund my hop bags, which was nice, as it keeps loads of gunk out of the pans.


Going to be a strong one it seems. 1061 OG so if it goes to 1.01 then it is 6.8%


6.3% abv.

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A light one then.


Yeah. Hmm.

I think the citra could be about 5%.

A few beers in and I think "who would homebrew weaker stuff?"

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Cottage Brew 3 is 5.24% and very hoppy. It might be ready for cottage.


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Make sure someone coming south brings me some! :)

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This is not strictly home brew, but just knocked up this years batch of Quince Vodka :)

A Quince looks the same as a pear, but like sloes are not something you can eat from the tree. The texture is like a hard potato.

However adding them to booze with sugar in a jar gives you a superb liquor.

Colour is a golden yellow.

Not sure where you would get these from if you want to buy them, never seen them for sale, I have a tree in my garden that I planted a few years ago, bought from a place that specialises is big plants so its produced fruit since year one


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You can also poach Quince these were done in the Sous Vide for a good 12 hours, just the fruit and some sugar.

This time the colour goes more red, great on cereal or with a bit of cheese


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Oh, maybe that's why our "pears" aren't ripening!


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Cottage Brew 3.
It's pretty good.


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Good colour


Thanks. Balancing the malts. If I were more data minded, I'd correlate the %age crystal malt in each beer to the photos i took.

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 Post subject: Re: Homebrew-me-do
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Been a while, and I've run out of beer!

So. I'm going to make a clone of Landlord, but better.

Golden Promise malt, touch of black malt, flaked maize, goldings hops and some bobek hops.
I'll end up adding fuggles in, too.

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Protip! Add flaked maize in to the middle of your grain mix, as it forms a paste and blocks the holes in the mash tun.

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Mash tun clogged! 45 mins behind now!

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Tidying up, now. If the maths stack up, it should be 7.2% and taste a bit like Landlord. I could have diluted it down to 5%, but I can buy that in the shops. Everything that could have gone wrong, did.

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My brother (who some may remember from a music quiz some many years ago) is thinking of maybe looking into home brewing in the new year as his travels abroad have given him a fine appreciation of brewing and ales. I said I’d link him to this thread for some of Mali’s posts as he progresses into developing his processes, but Mali if you get any time in the coming days to distil (huh) some knowledge down into a good starter guide of what he should get for a first brew that has room for expansion to add kit to as he goes that would be particularly great x

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Will do. Will stick together a guide for basic equipment to do a kit, and all grain.

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My mate does recipes and science, possibly useful as a supplementary - dmonbeer.co.uk

He's head brewer at a brewery now, dontchaknow.


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My mate does recipes and science, possibly useful as a supplementary - dmonbeer.co.uk

He's head brewer at a brewery now, dontchaknow.


That looks awesome.

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I did think I'd mentioned before - but it's probably not as beginner-accessible as the stuff you've posted on here over the last couple of years.


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TurboCider 4 done. This seems ok.

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Why don't I drill a hole on either side of my huge beer boiling pan and plumb in a heat exchanger? Add wort to pan, boil, remove from heat, attach to cold water supply and a drain and off we go.

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Why don't I drill a hole on either side of my huge beer boiling pan and plumb in a heat exchanger? Add wort to pan, boil, remove from heat, attach to cold water supply and a drain and off we go.


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Why don't I drill a hole on either side of my huge beer boiling pan and plumb in a heat exchanger? Add wort to pan, boil, remove from heat, attach to cold water supply and a drain and off we go.


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Can't you just dump a mass of 10mm copper pipe in the thing with the 2 ends poking out over the edge? Then you don't need to drill holes and it'll be removable.


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Why don't I drill a hole on either side of my huge beer boiling pan and plumb in a heat exchanger? Add wort to pan, boil, remove from heat, attach to cold water supply and a drain and off we go.


This idea brought to you by TurboCider4

Can't you just dump a mass of 10mm copper pipe in the thing with the 2 ends poking out over the edge? Then you don't need to drill holes and it'll be removable.


I could,and have the stuff to do that,but we're all about unnecessary complications, aren't we, otherwise, what is the point?

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... you're welcome I guess.


Sorry,mate, I came over as a bit terse, there. My apologies. I meant, "I have this already, I should integrate it!"


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Is fine, wasn't being grumpy!
In that case integrate it and bash in some hozelock connectors for speedy state changes.


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Wine's done and bottled.


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Done my cherry beer. About 5.5%


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That looks really good!

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That looks really good!


Cheers. Made it in 2nd May, then moved it to secondary fermentation tub which had the 1kg cherries in and left it for a month.

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Latest homebrew is walking in at 6%. Should bottle it up on Tuesday, triesies a week on Sunday!

Pale malt, bit of crystal malt, Eureka and Bramling cross hops, and then dry hopped with cascade.

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29x 500ml bottles 6% ale bottled up. Need to get a kit on tomorrow night and then safety stocks might recover come september.

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29x 500ml bottles 6% ale bottled up. Need to get a kit on tomorrow night and then safety stocks might recover come september.


This appears to be infected, it'll end up down the sink.

In the meantime, there's 15 bottles of rhubarb wine ( over two batches) on the go.


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I have heard good things about the Mangrove Jack kits, so have stuck 40 pints of their Grapefruit IPA on, and 40 of their New Zealand pale ale. Having the malt in a pouch is great.

https://mangrovejacks.com/products/pink ... ed-edition

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Rhubarb wine is bottled.


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Is this the same rhubarb wine you stated making 10 months ago?

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This is excellent. Clear and crisp

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Is this the same rhubarb wine you stated making 10 months ago?


No, this is better

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