A Podcast about homebrewing…
Inspired by a clone recipe for Samuel Adams Boston Lager but with added hops and a Munich Lager yeast. This produced a delicious amber lager with a wonderfully floral and spicy hop character, some drinkers even claimed it was superior to the original…
A very interesting article here on the American Homebrewers Association website about the bittering and flavour potential of different forms of hop stand:
ChemCast 4 – A discussion of my impressions of doing a 30 minute mash and a 30 minute boil as opposed to the accepted norm of 60 and 60.
Stick comments below, and let me know what your ideas, impressions, opinions are in the comments below…
A little video on making a hop tea to crank up the hops
Hey, just thought I would share this with you guys, the story of the worst brew day I’ve ever had…
Its a Monday, first day of the Easter holidays and I’m feeling great, I stick on a podcast (Time to get jacked for the UFC Event this weekend, and to hear the build up for the bout between Michael “The Count” Bisping and Georges “Rush” Saint Pierre) and start my day the same way as always…
Finally got around to doing another podcast after all the crap that’s been going off in my life recently. It’s more audio blog than discussion. Basically just treading water until the easter hols start and I can smash some brewing.
Used this recipe to try out Olicana hops for the first time, they were ok but not quite as exciting as the description makes out in my opinion…
So Brewdog have updated their DIY dog recipes for 2017 including beers not yet released, whatever you think of them as a company this is pretty cool (although watch out for the recipes which seem to be riddled with errors!). One of their beers I had last year and enjoyed was ‘Casino Rye Ale’ so I was happy to see this in the new book, I won’t be brewing it as its written because a) its wrong (stated grist does not give the correct OG) & b) the amount of hops is exorbitant IMO and the original did not taste like it had that much in it anyway. So here is my interpretation of what will give a similar beer with out having to spend the best part of £20 on hops alone!
Yep, I have a commonality in my nomenclature for beers, normally its named after the person I brewed it for, or some stupid name which lets me know what it is… So this one was a beer I did for the old man last November and its a remarkably simple and good pint. Not too bitter, not too sweet and a nice hop aroma. Simple seems to work really well with the Bitters Dad likes…
Well, what can I say. My brother in law is called Tom, but we call him Moose, and this was Moose’ Christmas present last year. A post went on BookFace saying that Weihenstephaner was his favourite beer and he loved it etc etc, so I thought, what do you buy an accountant who has everything? Nothing! You make him something! So I set about finding a decent clone recipe for that Weissbier and made it for him…