Nov 15 2015
Brewed for League Of Homebrewer’s ingredient showcase. Brewed using 18.5% rye. Style Information Name: American IPA Recipe Type: All Grain Grains & Extracts Name Amount Notes Pale Ale Malt 5.5 kg Rye Malt 1.5 kg Crystal 60 0.6 kg Carapils (Dextrine) 0.25 kg Wheat Malt 0.25 kg Hops Name Amount Alpha Acid % AAU Time …
Sep 21 2015
Emergency Pale Ale – what’s the emergency? Running low on beer, that’s what. Came second in SOBA Nelson homebrew compitition (The Verdict, 24th October 2015). Style Information Name: American Pale Ale Recipe Type: All Grain Grains & Extracts Name Amount Notes Pale Malt 4 kg Munich II – Wyermann 1.625 kg Crystal 20 0.3 kg …
Jun 19 2015
Brewed with Karl Summerfield on his Grainfather system for the League of Homebrewers Manuka Smoked Malt Showcase. Came first in SOBA Nelson homebrew compitition (The Verdict, 24th October 2015). Style Information Name: Oatmeal Stout Recipe Type: All Grain Grains & Extracts Name Amount Notes Gladfield Manuka Smoked Malt 2.5 kg Pale Ale Malt 1.67 kg …
May 09 2015
Brewed with Gladfield American Ale malt for League of Homebrewers malt showcase.
Mar 14 2015
Brewed with freshly picked ‘wet’ hops. Split into 2 batches – batch A, the full strength 5.7% abv version and batch B at 4.5% abv included additional water used to rinse the copious amount of hops material left in the boil kettle.
Jan 19 2015
First brew of 2015. Just going after a straightforward easy drinking Pale Ale here and using up ingredients that I have on hand. First time using Rakau hops. Style Information Name: American Pale Ale Recipe Type: All Grain Grains & Extracts Name Amount Notes Gladfield Ale Malt 4 kg Gladfield Pale Crystal 0.5 kg Munich …
Nov 17 2014
Brewing Notes: Leaf hops caused a bit of trouble with transfer from kettle to fermenter, had to keep clearing blockage from ball valve. Didn’t account for the 90 min boil in water boil-off calculations so need to add 4 L top-up water. Add boiled cooled water after fermentation kicks off. Just used a single packet …
Nov 03 2014
I had planned to use S-04 yeast in this one but didn’t manage to pick up any on time so just made it with US-05 (hydrated this time). I also did a small split batch using Coopers yeast as I had more wort than would fit in the carboy. No hydrometer this time either so …
Oct 26 2014
After a bit of a brewing absence (over 5 months since I last put down a brew) my stocks were running low so it was time to brew. I went for my favorite beer type, a good hoppy American style Pale Ale, but with all NZ hops so a New Zealand Pale Ale to be …
May 12 2014
Most of my recent beers have been rich, strong and hoppy beers. So I brewed this one to have a lighter easy drinking beer in my lineup of beers. The base is a blend of pilsner and pale ale malt with a little wheat and carapils for body/mouthfeel, head retention and a little biscuit to …
Apr 13 2014
This is more or less the Foreign Extra Stout recipe from Brewing Classic Styles with Fuggles hops instead of Kent Goldings. The wort tasted realy nice and chocolatey so I’m expecting good things. I used 3 sachets of Coopers kit yeast as I didn’t have any other yeast on hand. Pitched at 22C and targeted …
Apr 04 2014
We had a bumper crop of apples this year so I decided to make a 10L batch of cider to use them up. We extracted the juice using an electric juicer. The apples were a combination of 4 different varieties – Egremont Russet, Prescilla, Granny Smith and Initial. I added campden tablets and let it …
Mar 24 2014
I brewed this at the Marchfest Nelson Beer Festival where I was one of twelve brewers brewing up a batch of beer in the Brew Zone brewing demonstration area. What a great day out that was! I really enjoyed chatting and sharing my knowledge with the people interested in home brewing. The Waimea hops were …
Mar 21 2014
I should have called this brew Hops Stew!!! 1.75kg of fresh hops in this brew – pure hop madness! I had to work hard just shove all those hops into the kettle, stuffing them down into the thick hops/wort porridge either side of the imerssion cooler coils. No bag this time, there is no way …
Feb 24 2014
My mash temperature started off lower than anticipated. My strike water temperature was 71C but my mash ended up around 62-63C instead of the 65-66 I had expected based on the calculator. So I added 1.5L of boiling water after 15 mins which brought it up to 64.5C and another 1.5L after 60mins which again …
Feb 11 2014
The last 2 beers were intense hoppy IPAs with quite dark malts so for this one I went for something lighter along the lines of the APA recipes in Brewing Classic Styles. I kept hops basic with NZ Cascade for flavour and aroma and Pacific Gem for bittering. I had to restrain myself to only …
Jan 14 2014
My last batch turned out so good that I decided to make more of the same, but of course I had to make a few tweaks. Hop profile is modified a bit, I scaled back on the Citra a bit to allow some of the other hops to come through more. I also upped the …
Jan 07 2014
This was a cobbled together kinda recipe. I chucked in a tin of Coopers instead of struggeling with a larger mash/boil size on my limited equipment capabilities. I have some Rye malt to experiment with so I just added a very small amount to see if it would do anything noticible, maybe impart a hint …
Aug 24 2013
This was my first time doing a lager. I mashed for 8o mins because a longer mash time is recommended at lower mash temperatures. Temperature at start of mash was 65.7C and at end was 63.9C with no heating during mash. Did a 90 min boil instead of the usual 60 since pilsner malt needs …
{ I have been making toucan brews for a couple years now. Until now I have only done beers of the same family, example Pale Ale... } – Mar 06, 5:02 AM
{ What happened in the end? Was the second batch tasty? Thanks for writing this up. } – Aug 24, 3:33 AM
{ is the water additions for all of nelson water? } – Nov 05, 7:23 AM
{ my gut feeling is that you get more out of the hops by letting them go 'free range' as opposed to constraining them in a... } – Mar 15, 9:29 AM { hi Aidan I have been using a hops spider in my kettle, makes for far easier cleaning than having hops clag up the elements. Definitely... } – Mar 15, 8:23 AM
{ I had a go at a Red IPA. Next one I do I'll use different hops with some lower AA varieties. Although it is still... } – Mar 12, 5:56 PM
