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The BrewJam Not sure of the best way to start the write up of this brewday, as to be honest the brewday was a bit of an after thought to the main event of the day – our please come drink our homebrew as we are running out of Corny kegs party.  Here is our bar setup: On tap we had, 2 kegs of each of our latest 4 IPAs, the last keg of wheat beer and the last keg of hodgpodge goblin.  We used the awesome reg that I picked up that has 3 outputs, so we can have 3 different pressures – we had the wheat and hodepodge at slightly higher PSI.  Plus we didn’t have to arse about with a billion JG fittings to split Click here to read rest of article.

Beer:  100L IPA – split into 4 differently hopped 25l batches. Brew Date: 19/02/12 Brew Time: 12 till 2am. Grain Bill – 100L Aim: 5.8%ABV  1.055 @ 70% efficiency 25kg Pale Malt (100%) Total grain bill: 25kg We are still experimenting with hops, so we decided to do a basic IPA and then split it down into 4 batches and hop each differently.   This is based upon our tale of 2 IPAs recipe using Maris Otter malt.  However we removed the wheat from the grain bill, as while it gave the IPAs a better head the beers ended up very cloudy.  We also decided to use irish moss to combat this cloudiness, which isn’t something we use very often.  There is no problem taste wise with cloudiness, but it Click here to read rest of article.

Beer:  42L IPA – Split Hopping with Tettnang and Cascade 5.8% 60IBU Brew Date: 02/12/11 Brew Time: Late Friday A big fan of BrewDog and their stonking high-hopped IPAs, James wanted to brew something similar. We both agree that we want to learn much more about hops in order to have some real conviction in blending and creating new beers. In so many of the beers that we drink the blends of hops stop us from really being able to appreciate the individual character of each (and in some cases we don’t even know what hops have been used), so this beer will lead us into a series of future single hop brews. I’ve personally found that formulating recipes to generate a consistent and specific Click here to read rest of article.

Smith’s Dark (aka INDESTRUCTIBLE) is our own evolution of a tried and tested recipe. We wanted to brew a malty dark beer over christmas with some complex malt and grain flavours, with the proviso that it had to be strong.