The two next test beers are done. Summer of Saaz, a simple recipe of ale malt and a touch of wheat is now in secondary and tasting great and the Aussie Wheat is now in the bottle. It was tasting good when it got racked just before bottling. Hopefully it continues to do so. There was a hint of something on the nose when I tipped the yeast out from secondary. Stupidly I didn't taste at the time.

Neither of those beers got test yeasts in them, the focus was on getting the beers easy to drink for summer. So they got Nottingham and Kolsch. A bit more temp control needed but I wanted some control over the potential for infection.

The next beer also got done yesterday afternoon. More a beer for fine summer drinking than great Aussie summer brewing. It is a combination of New Zealand and Australian hops, Nelson Sauvin, Riwaka and Galaxy. Again it has gone onto the Kolsch yeast cake. I really like this yeast and the flavours it imparts but it doesn't settle well and needs temperature control.

The next planned beer is a Belgian Saison. I am going with a more traditional recipe for this one and plan to reuse the yeast in an Australian version. I am hoping it works out well otherwise I am going Lambic...