This recipe is a version of the Tahunanui Export recipe. I’ve simplified the grain bill, and changed the hops and yeast. It is a malt forward beer, but with some late hops to keep it interesting. Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.047 SG Original Gravity: 1.052 SG Final Gravity: 1.012 SG ABV: 5.3 % IBU: 30 IBU Colour: 13 EBC…
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Named after our kitten, who has odd-coloured eyes and is very blonde! Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.051 SG Original Gravity: 1.055 SG Final Gravity: 1.010 SG ABV: 6.0 % IBU: 24 IBU Colour: 12 EBC BU:GU Ratio: 0.43 Mash water: 22L Sparge water: 12L Grain: 5.8kg Pilsner Malt (90%) 300g Wheat Malt (5%) 300g Aurora Malt (5%) Hops: 15g Nelson Sauvin…
This is a Belgian Dubbel grain-bill, but without the extra sugar. I’m calling it a patersbier (the beer normally reserved for use in the monastery and not sold to the public). Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.047 SG Original Gravity: 1.050 SG Final Gravity: 1.011 SG ABV: 5.2 % IBU: 20 IBU Colour: 22 EBC BU:GU Ratio: 0.42 Mash…
Brewed for a mate’s wedding. He wanted “something light, like a Pilsner or something”. Well, if it’s a Pilsner he wants… This lager turned out very firmly bittered, with a lovely bready flavour from the pilsner malt and the Sauvin hops adding their own fruity aroma. It’s a good ‘un! The name comes from paragliding…
Another beer for the League of Brewers Showcase! This time it was using Pacifica hop extract. I have been keen to brew a very malty German-style lager for a long time. I based this recipe on the Dortmunder Export recipe from Jamil Zainasheff’s excellent book Brewing Classic Styles. It started that way, but then I had just bought…
Another version of my Kiwi Pale Ale recipe. For this one I moved all the aroma hops to a ‘hop-stand’ at the end, fermented with different yeast and eliminated the dry hops. This is a test batch to see if it’s the sort of thing my mate would like me to brew for his wedding….
This beer was developed and brewed with my good mate Andrew. It was good enough to take third place in the Manuka Smoked Malt Showcase! And then it took 1st place in the MarchFest brewzone competition. 1100 litres of it was brewed and sold at MarchFest 2016! Wicked! You can see its ratings here It was brewed…
This beer was brewed with fellow brewer Aidan for the Manuka Smoked Malt Showcase. We wanted a beer that wasn’t too roasty so the smoke flavour could come through. The name arose because my first mouthful of the beer (sampled at bottling time) reminded me very strongly of sheeps wool or lanolin. Aidan thought it…
I wanted a lower alcohol beer, but with lots of flavour and mouthfeel. I didn’t want to cram it full of hops, rather I wanted it to have a big malty flavour. I’m not 100% sure I achieved it with this particular beer, but it is malty and it does have a good mouthfeel. It…
Belgian beers are a bit of a passion of mine. My first foray into ‘proper beer’ was my mate from the south of Holland. He grew up on Belgian beers and one day he said “Here, try this!” It was a Duvel. It was a lot stronger and more bitter than what I was used…