What ya brewing?

[Quiet_Man]

Bit quiet on here recently, except for Mr Drankin and his very lovely, very shiney pots!........and his not so shiney fence/gate-post!

What you guys brewing at the minute?

I've just bottled a Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby Mild, 7% abv which I hope to be able to share at the next club meet.

Looking into brewing a White Ale next time. Anyone got a good recipe?

[Ciaran]

Currently in the middle of an extract version of a Goose Island IPA clone from Mitch Steele's IPA book.  It's spent 3 days now in the ferment-a-tron 5000 and is smelling great so far.   Planning to have a crack at a 1 gallon Basic Brewing Video inspired all grain stout later in the week and hopefully tweak it a few times over the next few months for an eventual large batch.  Also planning a hefeweizen for oktoberfest time of year

[mr.drankin]

Have nothing brewing but bought the ingredients for a brewdog punk clone.  Was meant to brew it this weekend to test my new set-up but bought the wrong solid state relay to power my heating controller/element(im not a spark)  so another wait for the finest Chinese electrics off ebay     

[Tom]

I'm on my annual brewing holiday! Can't trust the weather.

Having said that, I've 100l of red ale to get through, so I will be
hardly be running dry!

[Bazza]

I'm currently relaxing in sunny Cork, but have a Falconer's Flight 7c's single hop fermenting in the brewfridge back home.
Since the place we're staying is pretty much a craft beer free zone I've brought my own portable bar with me I.e keg, tap,  co2 cylinder and keg of regular Falconers flight pale. The missus packed pointless stuff like food and clothes  :

Btw, big thanks to Matthew for both bags of FF hops    Much appreciated.


-Barry

[sub82]

Nothing at the minute - but looking at doing something light and maybe low abv.

Dark ruby mild sounds good! Not sure about a white ale, is it like a Witbier?

[DubbelD]

Hello to the Belfast section - from a new member from Ballymena.

I've got a Bavarian weizen (Erdinger clone recipe) on the go since Sunday, currently sitting happy in the Big Brew Fridge and just starting to emit some lovely banana odours.

[sub82]

Hi DubbelD - that sounds great! Had a go at a hefeweizen a while ago but it didn't turn out that well!

[BrewBilly]

Hi Chaps

I bottled my american ale, I also have a brown ale in the secondary clearing - I should be bottling hat soon.

I also bought Graham Wheelers 3rd edition Brew your own british ale so going to try the Timothy Taylor Landlord recipe.

Cheers
Andy

[DubbelD]

I also bought Graham Wheelers 3rd edition Brew your own british ale so going to try the Timothy Taylor Landlord recipe.

Cheers
Andy

hi Andy,

I brewed a Tim Taylor Landlord a few weeks ago - check the AA% of your Styrian Goldings, as the ones currently on the market are really down on AA (like 1% rather than 3.5-4%). I didn't spot this till brew day so ended up having to use just EKG as bittering hops, with the Styrians (Bobek in my case) for later in the boil. It's come out OK, but the hoppiness isn't quite right.

Oh, and thanks for pointing me in the direction of this forum :-)

[Ciaran]

A fellow Ballymena man here (although I've now been living out of it longer than I was living in it).

[Tom]

Get the right yeast too. I think Yorkshire square is the one they
use. Someone will know.

[DubbelD]

A fellow Ballymena man here (although I've now been living out of it longer than I was living in it).

I was living away for twenty-something years, but now I'm back ! You can take the man out of Ballymena...

[BrewBilly]

Dubbel

Great to see you found the forum ok.

I will check the alpha acid before I brew and use GW's equation to adjust the hop weights.

Does anyone know if TTL is bottled and is it bottle conditioned?

Cheers
Andy

[DubbelD]

It's bottled but not bottle conditioned. It's also available on draught in Leeds where I am right now ;-)
It's got the easiest label to soak off of any beer I know, so buy a few samples and reuse the bottles.