Monday 24 October 2011

C'mon Pilsner

Lagers take ages! I need a second fridge to get another brew going!

The current candidate names are:

Hanoverian
Oldenburg
or
Holsteiner
Currently Oldenburg is proving the most popular but we'll see.
In the meantime I need to start jotting down my recipes for the next brews in the hope of making them repeatable. So recipes should soon start appearing on the blog which is a lot more interesting that me wittering on about random rubbish. It's like talking to myself really.


Wednesday 12 October 2011

Barrel Racer has run out!

Showcasing your beers is very satisfying as you prove to many that homebrewing doesn't produce the yeasty slop that many experience on their first and only outing into homebrew.
The down side is that the beer gets drunk and you run out ...fast! I've managed to retain three bottles which I'm meant to conserve until Christmas...fat chance!

Here's the only photo I managed to capture of it: *sigh*

You have to move on and I have. The pilsner is coming along nicely I replaced Spalt with Tettanger but otherwise I remained true to the recipe which I will be putting up here. - watch this space!- and letting you know how it tastes too. Although the lagering is going to take this brew up to Mid- Novermber which wont leave much time for the steamship porter I have planned.

My engineering department (read Dad) has made a counterflow chiller for the next batch with is very exciting. After this set of ingredients is used up I'm thinking of getting the equipment for all grain. I'm scared.