Whitbread SSS 1892 4/16/16

Another beer from Ron Pattinson's blog/books. Buy his book, it's interesting.

https://books.google.com/books?id=mRnLAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA160&lpg=PA160&dq=Whitbread+SSS+1892&source=bl&ots=25EfL5IXSc&sig=BNTiVW8OmNupO9ZOOnJqBXdWeQk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwit7qDPw5TMAhUJOj4KHSPcDpgQ6AEIIDAB#v=onepage&q=Whitbread%20SSS%201892&f=false

This is a stout called SSS - Imperial Stout.

I subbed the Whitbread yeast out as I had two others on hand and split the batch between the two yeasts. This is the first brew since I rewired the brewery control panel after the issues with the boil kettle plug. No problems today and the brewery smelled of dark roast during the brew. 

This should come in around 8% ABV, so my baby brother will have his 2016 Sledwrecker for Christmas Eve...

Courage X 1918 - Mild - 3/25/16

Every once in a while I like to drop back in time and brew a beer that hasn't been around in a long time. How about a little 100 year old English Mild for the recently repaired beer engine? Pale, mild, crystal, invert sugar, caramel coloring. English and German hops. Around 4% abv. I really like these low alcohol beers. 

Here's the recipe from the brewery log master - Ron Pattinson http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2009/03/lets-brew-wednesday-1918-courage-x.html Tasting Notes


4/15/16 update: WLP002 Yeast: A little coffee in the nose, burnt sugar, caramel, a little malt, a little hop.

Jasus, Mary, and Joseph, this is nice.

 Why don't breweries make this kind of beer any more?

Brewery update: Had a problem with kettle plug melting. Looks like a loose connection in the wiring. I may have caused this when replacing the PID. Replaced wiring and the plugs.

The Bloodthirsty Cock 3/11/16

English style Barley wine 1.092 OG 1.029 FG 8.4 ABV Golden Promise 50% Maris Otter 33% Pils 3% Amber malt 3% crystal dark 2% crystal extra dark 2% caramunich III 1% 71 IBU - belma and EKG You don't think your going to see this type of thing Christmas morning. A heritage rooster head in the middle of the front yard. A fox must have got into the hen house down the street.
 Inspiration comes from the weirdest places...
 
Brewery update: Had a problem with the boil kettle PID controller/SSR. Continuous boil at high boil off. Replaced the SSR and the problem was the SSR controller on the PID. Corrected.

Spare Tire tasting notes 4/15/16

Spare Tire 1.0 WLP005 - Little fruit off the yeast, closest to Fat Tire. But the recipe has pale chocolate and New Belgium doesn't use it. Best beer of the three. Biscuit comes through nice. Spare Tire 1.0 WLP001 - But the recipe has pale chocolate and New Belgium doesn't use it. Not enough biscuit. Spare Tire 2.0 WLP001 - Not enough biscuit. I would increase biscuit and munich next time.

Spare Tire 2.0 - Fat Tire Clone - 2/26/16

I brewed my amber ale Fat Tire clone based on BYO's recipe. I read New Belgium website and found a few things that didn't mesh with BYO's recipe. So I made a 2.0 version tonight. The malt bill consisted of: 2 row Munich Victory Amercian C80 Belma (subbed for Nugget) bittering EKG 15g@15 Williamette 15@0 I used a repitch of WLP001 from the first Spare tire brewery. In a few weeks, I'll buy a few Fat Tire cans and have a blind taste test with my BYO WLP001 and WLP005 and my WLP001 versions.

Spare Tire - Fat Tire Clone - 2/6/16

New Belgium's Fat Tire is new to the Philadelphia market. I've been enjoying this beer for a long time when I travel out west. I decided to try to make a beer in tribute to Fat Tire based on BYO's recipe. The malt bill consisted of: 2 row Munich Victory British C80 Pale Chocolate EKG and Williamette Hops. I split the 5 gallon batch between WLP001 and WLP005. New Belgium has a house strain of WLP001. So in a few weeks, I'll buy a few Fat Tire cans and have a blind taste test.

4c7 APA - 2/20/16

Brewed up a Pale Ale in preparation for April 2016. I turn 47 this year, so I named the beer 4c7. I am using 4 American C hops (Chinook, Cascade, Centennial, Columbus -28 grams each) then whirlpool hops-recirculation for 15 minutes). Malt grist was: 1# Carafoam .5# British Crystal 60 9# Golden Promise 3# Best Pils. 2 dry hop charges for 3 days after fermentation: 15G each Cascade/Centennial 15G each Chinook/Columbus Then Biofine. No bittering hops, just whirlpool and dry hop.

Tasting notes: 4/5/16

Hop explosion of citrus and a little dank. APA with IPA flavors and less alcohol.
Happy birthday to me.