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…
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A vienna lager recipe, brewed in my mate’s garage. Due to time constraints and the fact I brewed this 40 minutes away from my fermenter I decided to give no-chill brewing a try. The wort was pumped into a 20L plastic cube, and the cube was turned upside-down for a few minutes to sanitise the…
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…
I’ve been brewing this beer off and on over the years trying to get it right. My mate is from Holland and was brought up on this beer, so it was something we tried to brew right from the earliest days of malt extract and tiny pots on the stove-top. Most of our efforts were…
This beer was brewed for a church Men’s Group gathering. They were keen to see the process and taste the results. The beer is a hoppy, aromatic pale ale and pretty much tastes like what Kiwis have come to expect from a ‘craft beer’. It’s an American Pale Ale recipe, but with Kiwi malt and Kiwi…
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: 1.054 SG Original Gravity: 1.052 SG (I added some water to hit my numbers) Final Gravity: 1.015 SG ABV: 5.0 % IBU: 30 IBU Colour: 28 EBC BU:GU Ratio: 0.59 Mash water: 20L Sparge water: 13L Grain (total: 6.21kg): Gladfield Ale Malt 5.000 kg (80.5%) Gladfield Redback Malt 600g (9.7%) Medium Crystal 350g (5.6%)…
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:…