“It is, quite simply, a wonderful beer. It is exceedingly pale (21-22 units colour), with just a hint of colour in its cheeks from the dash of crystal malt. It has a massive orange fruit aroma from the challengers, balanced by biscuity malt. “Juicy malt and tart hops vie for attention in the mouth while [...]
Categories: Brewing
Tagged: AG9, All grain, Challenger, Coniston Bluebird, Northern Brewer
My original hop filter was a length of 15mm copper pipe with a series of 3mm holes drilled into it. The design seemed to be fine for my first 6 brews but on the 7th and 8th it kept getting blocked up by the hops, both brews consisted of a large number of Challenger hops [...]
Categories: Brewing
Tagged: equipment, hop filter
Had an interesting brewday, I followed the recipe in Graham Wheeler’s book. The expected specific gravity reading differed from that of BeerSmith but this may be down to differences in efficiency, I didn’t have enough time to investigate. I added 83g of Torrified Wheat, used caster sugar and not granulated and went for S-04 yeast. [...]
Categories: Brewing
Tagged: AG8, All grain, Brakspear Special
My new pump for recirculating mash and boiled wort. It is from Solar Projects and takes a 12v DC input, adapter from Maplin. The pump runs with a rate of 6L a minute and slows down if a decreased voltage is used. It’s a tiny unit and there’s a beer bottle here to show that.
Categories: Brewing
