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 Thursday, November 5, 2009,
Well the temperature here in Adelaide is expected to push up into the high 30's by easrly next week with over night temp's around 20 degrees. Seems like it could be the perfect time to do a test batch on a series of yeasts with higher temp tolerance to see if I can still get a crisp, tasty easy drinking beer. Plan is for a large single batche split into 4 smaller batches using different yeasts (biere de garde, saison, ardennes and golden ale - all Belgian).65% Pale Malt17.5% Vienna17.5% Munic... Continue reading ...
