I've mentioned in the past several times that I would like to go into all grain brewing, as I've been using malt extracts (syrup) so far. I truly believe that all grain is the holy grail of beer making (or maybe holy grain??), allowing the most control, and all you need is o look and some of the more advanced recipes out there to understand that - but I don't think I can do … [Read more...]
Where is all the beer making?
As you probably noticed, throughout the time of this blog's life, I have yet to actually make beer! Very frustrating when you actually want to make beer....The last couple of months been my wife's last months of maternity leave, and the whole family been through many changes. Time, space and finance been all in low availability. I know this is not a good reason, but the problem … [Read more...]
Blog and beer goals
For a while I wasn't sure how to treat my beer making hobby, and was happy to try and make things as they come, but I realised that with my limited space and time, I need to choose what to do, so here it is:I want to focus on making the best beer I can using extract only (all grain takes way too much time and space), and experiment mainly with hops. I always loved hops and I … [Read more...]
My Black Ale recipe
My Black Ale recipe The name is still a work in progress, but for now that is all it is. This recipe came out from the malts experiment, and probably will be defined as a single hop black ale. The recipe will be in the simple version for the average amateur (so straight out of my note book). Usually recipes are in another, more professional version, but that involves details I … [Read more...]
Malts – My extract experiment, and how I’m picking my flavours
Last time I wrote about my water experiment, and how I ended up picking my great London Brita filtered water over all else. Today, I want to tell you about my second experiment - learning a bit about the basic ideas behind the different malts. Malt is made from allowing a grain to be germinating for a while, and quickly stopping the process by baking in a kiln. Malts can be … [Read more...]