Posted by Jared Birbeck on Monday, January 4, 2010,
The new brewery is up and finished. I will post pictures as soon as I can. It has already had a couple of runs and it works well. Three tier gravity fed system with plenty of opportunity for an upgrade to include HERMS or RIMS functionality. Maybe sometime later.
Two Saisons have also gone down, both on the new system. The weather has been warm without being extreme so keeping the temps up have been difficult. The first Saison is a traditional type Saison using the Belgian Saison yeast from Wy... Continue reading ...
Posted by Jared Birbeck on Monday, November 30, 2009,
The two next test beers are done. Summer of Saaz, a simple recipe of ale malt and a touch of wheat i
s 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 ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Jared Birbeck on Monday, November 23, 2009,
The test beer with the various yeasts turned out to be a disaster. I am sure because of my continuing wild yeast problems. Fermentation temperatures were around the 26 mark which is well within the range for the chosen yeasts. But they all suffered from serious banana aromas and taste. Due to delays in getting yeast and fermenters in place I fear fermentation started thanks to wild yeast stuffing the whole batch. I'll do another trial later but on the weekend the Aussie Wheat got a run as wel... Continue reading ...
Posted by Jared Birbeck on Monday, November 9, 2009,
I have just received a few new hops in the mail for testing. The first is a new Australian variety, Summer Saaz. This will go into a small test batch to test the flavour in the same way I tested Topaz. If it is half as good as the other new Australian varieties I have tried, Galaxy and Topaz, then I'll be very happy.
The other variety I picked up was Millennium. From all all reports this make a great bittering hop and thats about it. the flavour and aroma properties are not strong enough to co... Continue reading ...
