Still Smarter

Brew number 32 in 2019 version

Cheers mate!

Robert.

I am reading my way through the brewdog list, will find the low alc. beer soon

Go the whole hog. Find out how they make Punk AF. But don't come back and tell us its a centrifuge.

Mash wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2020 6:43 am

I am reading my way through the brewdog list, will find the low alc. beer soon

Go the whole hog. Find out how they make Punk AF. But don't come back and tell us its a centrifuge.

Punk AF is made the same as Nanny State, both are 0.5%. BD uses negligible grain bill but variety for flavour. As an example Nanny State is

Munich - 0.13kg
Caramalt - 0.19kg
Crystal - 150 0.06kg
Amber - 0.03kg
Dark Crystal - 0.13kg
Chocolate - 0.06kg
Wheat - 0.06kg
Rye - 0.13kg

with the usual water and yeat etc. Otherwise it's made the same as any other beer, no centrifuge in sight.

oldman56 wrote: Sun Jan 26, 2020 10:42 pm I,m with you there,my father used to make elderflower wine,it looked and smelt like cats p

Hum? actually there's 2 specific strains of elderberry. One is good for flowers/cordial/etc, the other good for wine.

Smell the flowers when they're open, if they smell floral then fine those would be the ones for cordial etc.

If the flowers smell like cats piss, leave them be and let them develop into fruit, then pick the fruit and make that into wine (sure, some previso, that it can be very tannic, so may need quite long aging i.e. some years)...........

DorsetScott wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2020 9:09 pm For any beer brewers, if you like the brewdog type beers I've got the recipe for their 0.5% beer*. It's quite good to be fair.

*well actually every beer they have ever brewed but that's because they publish them all

Ha! dunno if their beers are any good, as the only place I know that sells them is their pub locally.

What I can say, is that filled kegs and cases of bottles are heavy as F***!

Mash wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2020 6:43 am Go the whole hog. Find out how they make Punk AF. But don't come back and tell us its a centrifuge.

Used to move stuff for Alfa Laval. They make a brewing centrifuge and unless ED has dropped the lottery, the only centrifuge he'd have would be a used chem lab model.

New and decent sized ones are bloody fortunes (the A.L. one I saw was over 5k)........

I'm loving a beer named Nanny State.
I may have to give it a go.
I could drink gallons of it.
1/4 unit per pint!

Robert.

I have tasted it and it's OK. Bet it ferments quick with such a small amount of grain.

It does make want to try it. But as with all BrewDog recipes the hop bill (in $) is stunning.
You have gotta like - cos a £5 /100g bag of hops 6 varieties £30 on a good day!

That said it is gonna make a few brews, so you better like it...

Mash wrote: Thu Feb 13, 2020 8:09 am I have tasted it and it's OK. Bet it ferments quick with such a small amount of grain.

It does make want to try it. But as with all BrewDog recipes the hop bill (in $) is stunning.
You have gotta like - cos a £5 /100g bag of hops 6 varieties £30 on a good day!

That said it is gonna make a few brews, so you better like it...

Hop price seems to vary greatly based on variety. I've found the trick is to get a substitute chart, and if it's a non too cheap variety find one which you can swap which is cheaper. Doesn't always work, but I'd suspect most couldn't tell the difference in the final product.

I was actually pretty lucky with hops (and grain). My local HBS decided not to compete with some of the big guys who can provide freshly milled so they had a blind clearance, mixed box for £20. I got 2 boxes and ended up with 8.2kg of hops and 50.5kg of various grain (although 19 of that was carapils!!)

Either way I'm set for hops for a while

Brewdog do like their hops.
I am not really a hop man.
It is putting me off making Nanny State.
Mash must be buying really good hops, I pay almost half that..
Just don't really like them beyond the bittering stage..

Robert.

£2.50 for hops? where?

Malt Miller current price range between 2.95 and 9 quid depending on variety/year.
Similar on most sites

Mash wrote: Fri Feb 14, 2020 6:24 am £2.50 for hops? where?

OK, I lied, a little.
I use lots of this one, from here.
And as the quntity goes up, the price drops.
https://www.geterbrewed.com/fuggles-hop-pellets/
https://www.geterbrewed.com/fuggles-t90 ... p-pellets/

Check one of your own fav's
https://www.geterbrewed.com/cascade-us- ... p-pellets/

Don't know if you are a leaf man as opposed to a pellet blaster?

Robert.

Does it really taste any different? If not the pellets are
easier and normally cheaper.

Taste is about the same, pellets make more mess.

I only use pellets.
I catch the mess in a spider, or seperate after the run off.
No problem for me.
Not being a hop taste lover, I don't dry hop.
I may find pellets a problem if I did?

Robert.

Nope, pellets work just fine for dry hopping too.

Ive started sticking pellets directly into the boil rather than using the hop spider, but draining the kettle through the hop spider. Works to both ensure nothing gets into the fv and aerates the wort at the same time.