In my quest for more malt I tried this brew – and I love it! I think it’s mostly a Märzen style, or perhaps a kind of Maibock, but it is delicious. Very malt forward but easy to drink too. Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.046 SG Original Gravity: 1.049 SG Final Gravity: 1.011 SG ABV: 5.0 % IBU:…
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The grist for this beer came from my stuff-up at a home-brew store where I work. I was measuring grain for a customer and mis-measured. I couldn’t sell the grain to the customer so I was given the grain to brew with. I have no idea what the original plans for the grain were, but I…
This recipe came from James Spencer of Basic Brewing. James was one of the guest speakers at the first New Zealand Home-brewers’ Conference. We were going to brew this beer together at MarchFest for the brew demo, but decided against it as we weren’t sure what effect all that wheat and rye would have on…
I have been eager to try a more flavourful and interesting version of a New Zealand Draught. This is a style unique to New Zealand and commercial examples include beers like Speights, Tui, DB Draught and any number of other versions. The beers often carry historic labels that identify them as ales (or in the case…
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…
I was really using this beer as a giant über-starter for a Belgian golden strong ale I planned to brew. On an episode of the excellent Basic Brewing Radio podcast (I forget which one) the guest suggested that there were a lot of similarities between the golden strong ale yeast and the hefewizen yeasts and that…
Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.046 SG Original Gravity: 1.051 SG Final Gravity: 1.013 SG ABV: 5.0 % IBU: 50 IBU Colour: 25 EBC BU:GU Ratio: 0.9 Mash water: 20L Sparge water: 13L Grain (total: 5.95kg): Pilsner Malt 4.100kg (68.9%) Munich Malt 1.000kg (16.8%) Aromatic Malt 500g (8.4%) CaraMunich I 250g (4.2%) Carafa Special II 100 g (1.7%) Hops:…
As a bit of a rebellion after the Chur! pale ale, my next brew in the Grainfather was this malty little number. It’s a beer style that is being kept alive by home brewers as it is nearly extinct in the UK now. It’s a little like a very light porter. The chocolate malt gives…
I had wanted to brew a pilsner for a while. I discovered Pilsner Urquell & Budvar when we visited the Czech Republic a few years back. It’s the most popular form of beer in the world, and even though it’s been abused and watered down by the big mega-swill breweries, it’s a beautiful beer when…
No, this doesn’t have oysters in it. It is a lovely, smooth, easy drinking stout. It is very bitter, but the maltiness and unfermentable sugars from the high mash temperature hold it in check a bit. Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.038 SG Original Gravity: 1.041 SG Final Gravity: 1.010 SG ABV: 4.1% IBU: 57 IBU Colour: 60 EBC BU:GU…