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 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 ...
