The recipe changed a bit at the last minute due to not enough hops and no point in having a few grams of wheat left over etc. Pale Malt – 1800g Torrefied Wheat – 100g Wheat Malt – 3010g Munich Malt – 475g Cara Aroma Malt – 300g Jaggery – 250g Fuggle – 24g at …
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Jul
30
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Jul
18
AG15 & AG16 – Summer Ales
As it is not very summery at the moment I thought I’d inject a bit of summer into a beer. Having decided to do a light summer ale I was persuaded to do a honey ale. Rather than just a honey ale I decided to make a mash up and ferment out, split and add …
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Mar
10
AG14 – Admiral on Deck
I brewed this last week but only just got round to sharing it… The initial recipe was to be PDTNC’s Nelso Brucker but due to a few different ingredients I’ve given it the name of Admiral on Deck on account of the Nelson Sauvin hops. Fermentable Colour Grams Ratio Pale Malt 5 EBC 3650 grams …
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Sep
23
AG12 – Viking Clawfinger Mk II
I had intended AG11 and AG12 to be a double brew day but this was unable to happen. As it was I transferred AG11 to the secondary fermenter and then started with AG12. I used exactly the same recipe but this time I was meticulous with the amount of water used, previously I had done …
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Sep
19
AG11 – Viking Clawfinger Mk II
Some time ago I made a clone of the Hobgoblin ale based on Orfy’s recipe. I did make some slight changes but unfortunately I had a hard disk crash and lost my altered recipe. That ale got named Viking Clawfinger and was a success among friends and family. I have produced a new version of …
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Aug
02
What Is This Plant?
I was out on an evening stroll and a creeping plant took my eye. It was wrapped around an old telegraph pole. I instantly hoped that it was a hop plant. I took a leaf and what I think are some baby hops for identification. Any pointers appreciated.
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Jul
26
AG9 – Coniston Bluebird Clone
“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 …
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Jul
26
New Design For A Hop Filter
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 …
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Jul
20
Brakspear Special Clone
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. …
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Jul
16
12v DC Pump For Wort Recirculation
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.
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