Beer Beer everywhere but not a drop to drink...

I have 120 pints of beer conditioning at the moment with another 40 pints being brewed tomorrow but none that will be ready for 2 more weeks, so tonight i'm on the Ruddles County.

It's good but I wish it were a pint of homebrew.

Brewing Tomorrow

After about as much DIY and painting as I can stand on my week "off" I finally get to do a brew tomorrow.

So tomorrow i'll be having a bash at this one:

Toecutters Twist

5000gm Pale Malt (MO) Grain 98%
100gm Crystal Malt Grain 2%
26gm Fuggles [4.90%] (90 min) Hops 12.6 IBU
35gm Styrian Goldings [3.00%] (90 min) Hops 10.4 IBU
30gm Styrian Goldings [3.00%] (15 min) Hops 4.6 IBU
50gm Styrian Goldings [3.00%] (0 min)

It's a variation of my TLC Twist recipe a friend of mine tried the TLC and enjoyed it but said that he'd prefer it less bitter and to have more Styrian aroma. TLC Twist is normally around 37 EBU (by Beersmith calcs) this one should give me 27 EBU i've also upped the steep Styrians from 25g to 50g so I hope this will give me what I'm after.

Working at 75% efficiency i'd get OG of 1046 (4.4%abv)

Ronnie Wrigglers Honey Ale

Here is a picture of my Honey Ale "Ronnie Wrigglers Honey Ale"

It was brewed on 23rd June and is now coming to the end of the keg, it's crystal clear and tastes superb, the honey has really come through.








4000gm Pale Malt 86.0 %
100gm Crystal Malt 2.2 %
25gm Northdown [6.50%] (90 min) 19.0 IBU
43gm Styrian Goldings [3.00%] (90 min) 13.6 IBU
25gm Styrian Goldings [3.00%] (10 min) 2.7 IBU
550gm Honey (2.0 EBC) 11.8 % at Switch Off
1 Safale s-04 Starter
Primed the Keg with 100gm Honey

Itching....

I'm off work this week and I'm itching to get a brew (or two) done but I have loads of DIY to get out of the way 1st! If I do get to brew I'll do a variation of my TLC Twist (less bitter & more aroma hoppy - Styrians) and a stout to put away for Christmas.

Best get the DIY done!

A Couple of Brews

A couple of weekends ago I had a double brew weekend where I made a batch of TLC Twist and a Batch of Grumpy Bum. Here's the recipes for both:

Both 25L batches calculated at 75% efficiency using Safale s04 and a whirlfloc tablet 10 mins from the end.

TLC Twist.

5000.00 gm Marris Otter Grain 95.6 %
130.00 gm Wheat, Torrified Grain 2.5 %
100.00 gm Crystal Malt Grain 1.9 %
41.00 gm Northdown [6.50%] (90 min) Hops 26.0 IBU
25.00 gm Styrian Goldings [3.00%] (90 min) Hops 7.3 IBU
25.00 gm Styrian Goldings [3.00%] (15 min) Hops 3.8 IBU
25.00 gm Styrian Goldings [3.00%] (0 min) Hops -

I ended up with 25L at 1046 (73.5% efficieny)

Grumpy Bum.

4730.00 gm Marris Otter Grain 91.0 %
470.00 gm Crystal Malt Grain 9.0 %
60.00 gm Northdown [6.50%] (90 min) Hops 40.0 IBU
25.00 gm Styrian Goldings [2.00%] (15 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops

I ended up with 25L at 1054 (87% efficiency)

Both of these got down to 1010 so the TLC Twist is a 4.7% beer and Grumpy Bum is a 5.7% beer.

The Rider for Cider!

On Wednesday 18th July Tony set off from his Glasgow home on a 222.3 mile journey for a drink of home made Turbo Cider, the host Craig gladly welcomed the thirst quenched traveller with open arms into his den of turbo heaven, Aberdeen.

WezBrew says hats off to Tony for travelling the tortuous route in the colds of Scotland's summer. Here is the plucky travellers diary, be proud, be Strong for TURBO CIDER is for real MEN, like TONY! TONY the god of Rider Cider!

Tony's diary...

Day 1. Tony set off at 11am on Wednesday 18th July from Glasgow city centre, a man with a thirst a man who needed to get to ciders-ville. Day 1 Tony travelled through Aberfoyle, Calandar, Strathyre and Killin before finally reaching his day one resting place Aberfeldy some 98.3 miles into the journey, an impressive 1st days cycling, being strong, Tony did not drink any Turbo Cider that night, instead he ingested commercial alcohol, for which he had spent many months training his body to accept.

Day 2. The Hills have eye's. With visibilty down to only 50ft Tony continued toward the cousin who is the "apple juice fermentor". Tony battled through the mist and fog over the Glenfihee mountains and down into Braemar some 58 miles completed on day 2. Again no Turbo for Tony who tells us that he had a quiet night that he "Cann-ne remember" at the local watering hole.

Day 3. Turbo Bound. With the Tony taste bud's tingling focus for the day was on the cider capital of Great Britain, Aberdeen! Tony's steed had served him well until disaster struck at Ballater when both of the disk brakes on his bike failed! Most men in this position would have thrown in the towel, turned away, crumpled, become boys or been emotionaly shattered. Tony, with thoughts of small crystal bubbles rising from the bottom of a glass of 'Turbo' searched for the answer and found it in the form of a gift of nature, a small twig saved the day, using the twig against a front brake caliper Tony got on the road again. Battling headwinds Tony finally made it on day 3 after a 58 mile day a total of 222.3 miles at the cider house!

God bless you Tony!

Here he is....

Motorbike Show at Church End Brewery

This Saturday 21st July there is a motorbike show at Church End Brewery Hoping that the weather holds out so it's a good day but the weather forecast isn't great at the moment...

If the rain holds off and we get to go it should be a great day, I expect that they will have eight different CEB handpull ales on as well as their excellent array of bottled beers and ciders.

Fingers crossed for a dry day!