Today I brewed the 2nd edition of my “Gimp Biscuit” ESB. Changes from the first version include:
Reduced base grist weight to reduce OG. Reformulated hop additions to keep BU/GU near .8. Substituted Fuggles in place of Challenger as the aroma addition. Continue reading
Today I racked my Hoppy Gnome IPA off the yeast cake and onto the substantial amount of dry hops. It’s almost reached the target FG, looks great, smells great, tastes great. The citra hops smell amazing. This is going to be a good one. In about two months….
Today I brewed the first version of my Hoppy Gnome IPA. It’s a modified version of a Green Flash West Coast IPA clone that I made a few months ago (the clone was actually my first all-grain batch and was very successful). I dropped the amount of 60L crystal to lighten the color a bit, and swapped out some of the late hops for Citra. I hope this will give it a softer hop profile. Continue reading
I finally got around to bottling my oatmeal stout this week. Because I have been sick and still don’t have a lot of energy, I split the bottling work between two days (one half-batch per day). Continue reading
Today I brewed my Ghostly Juror Oatmeal Stout. The brew went very well. I missed the mash-in about a degree and a half on the low side (meaning the beer will end up a little boozy). But I hit my target gravities and volumes dead-on. Continue reading
I finally got around to bottling the Bavarian Dunkel. Looks great, clear as a bell, and tastes fantastic too (which is, of course, far more important). Got a pretty good yield out of it, too, just shy of five gallons total. I finally feel like I’m getting my system dialed in.
Got a yeast started going this morning for my upcoming Bavarian Dunkelweizen brew. I’ll be using the SafBrew WB-06 wheat beer yeast. Continue reading
I opened the first bottle of my Gimp Biscuit ESB tonite. It’s only been two weeks, but I’m too impatient to wait any longer. Continue reading
Today I bottled my Gimp Biscuit ESB. I’m pretty excited, since this is my first self-designed recipe. Yield was good: 49 12-ounce tall boys, including one that shattered in my hand as I was capping it (no harm done aside from a wasted beer).
