I managed to brew a berry gose today. Aiming for around 2.8% ABV for Christmas and summer thirst quencher. I am cheating by adding acid instead of a proper lacto souring. I also cheated by adding the fruit at a 80C “hop stand”, a fruit stand if you so will.
Ain’t nobody got time for traditional techniques.
I am as usual a bit late, but my excuse is that my bier de garde needed an extra week in the fermenter.
In the end, the beer became a donation for a fund raiser. It's still great and @trekkie3k and some friends donated for the first ten bottles 😅
Dear Homebrewers,
I'm getting ready to buy a kettle to use as a mash tun for 3-gallon (11.3 liters) batches of ale and am trying to decide if a 5-gallon kettle will be large enough or if I need an 8-gallon kettle.
How much volume, would you guess, does a mash take up for a 5-gallon (19 liters) batch of an average pale ale?
Tak! (Thanks!)
Gravity is down to about 2.2°P and I am amazed how much the flavor of the Schwarzbier changes over two days. Today it tasted more like a Stout 😋
Today I am at the People’s House in Rågsved near Stockholm and serving my dark mild beer that I brewed about a month ago.
I have a website with the recipes to all the beers I’ve brewed, including this one.
Brewday complete, the kettle gong has been rung!
Heating up more cypress infusion for the sparge water. First runnings gravity is a lot lower than I expected, probably the 20% flaked barley is to blame 😬
It's been way too long since I brewed a tree beer. Leyland Cypress boughs are in the strike. I'm brewing a saison and a kveik pale ale with this.
From the Celebrate Oregon Beer newsletter:
"FH Steinbart [Portland, Oregon] to Close"
"Another sad announcement from FH Steinbart, America's oldest homebrew store, that they would be closing at the end of the year. Founded in 1918, it seemed to be spared this fate a year ago, but sadly not."
😢
Their announcement on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/portlandbeer/comments/1pco8r9/rip_steinbarts/
7 days later, aka today... Wednesday, the Red ale is at 1.014, it's still bubbling very slowly and 1.012 would hit the estimated numbers so I'll check it over the next couple of days to see if it's moving.
stojg
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