Kildare brewday specially for newbies/ kit brewers and kit modders

[brenmurph]

Normally we do mash but today was modded kit
Great day today again. Very impressed with the brews the lads brought. Diva is right in the mode now and cant get enough info and ideas from us.
Thanks to 3 HBC members + our locals; chilled day as in the brewday plan we didnt mash today but modded kit.
I have a few spruce beer recipies but decided a strange brew which so far is looking very good.

Step 1  pick the crop from the spruce tree ( 700 grams of fresh lime green twigs)
step 2   boil up the kettle with 15 litres water
step 3   add dana hops and spruce to BIAB bag.
step 4    boil spruce and hops with the MYOB wheat beer kit and 1 kg glucose
step 5    add finishing dana hop.
step 6   blast chill the wort after removing the BIAB bag
step 7  transfer to fermenter and  aerate to 23 litre
step 8  add the lager yeast @22c

The boil............what an aroma unusual but all agreed nice. Floral & fruity
the wort taster........very pleasent light herby/ citrussy flavour

The rational:

used the wheat beer kit to act as base malt driving off the kit makers aroma and flavour hops in the 40 minute boil leaving a very lightly bittered base malt
Added our spruce and hops to make a floral pale beer using a lager yeast at ale temp and will lager this brew.

food... kellie done a spread again


banter:
Diva learned loads
John seems more geared towards onwards and upwards in the brew scene and done some tasting based on BJCp guide
Gavin is planning an experimental batch with me and enjoyed the adventure today and the gadgetry

Hopefully a few more can jump onboard next brewday


another successful day all round