Brew day #7 and a couple of beers.

Pin It Now! I spent today brewing my Beggars Belief IPA. The recipe got modified slightly giving me a slightly higher IBU.
I managed to hit my OG of 1.062 perfectly. I did lose three litres of wort so I have 20 litres fermenting (I hope).
One mistake I made was with my yeast. I forgot to hydrate it and only remembered as I was transferring into the fermenter. I grabbed two cups and poured warm water from the tap in and in went the yeast for about 30 minutes. I did not sanitise. It should be fine though. The wort looks pretty dark so it will be less like Sierra Nevada or Galway hooker and more like The franciscan Well's Purgatory which is pretty dark.

Beggars Belief Pale Ale

Size: 23.00 L

Calories: 207.9 kcal per 12.0 fl oz

Original Gravity: 1.062 (1.045 - 1.060)

Terminal Gravity: 1.016 (1.010 - 1.015)

Color: 25.71 (9.85 - 27.58)

Alcohol: 6.14% (4.5% - 6.2%)

Bitterness: 48.6 (30.0 - 45.0)

Ingredients:

3000 g Dry Light Extract

500 g Dry Wheat

250 g Maris Otter Pale Ale Malt

500 g Crystal Malt

30 g Fuggle (4.1%) - added during boil, boiled 60 min

20 g First Gold (6.2%) - added during boil, boiled 60 min

15 g Fuggle (4.1%) - added during boil, boiled 30 min

15 g First Gold (6.2%) - added during boil, boiled 30 min

25 g Saaz (2.1%) - added during boil, boiled 15 min

24 g Cascade (Morgans finishing hops) (5.5%) - added during boil, boiled 15 min

1 ea Whirlfloc Tablets (Irish moss) - added during boil, boiled 15 min

25 g East Kent Goldings (4.0%) - added dry to secondary fermenter

1.0 ea Danstar 3767 Nottingham

It was a lovely day today and in between my 60 min and 30 min hop additions I went out to the garden for lunch. I had some frozen chicken satay skewers. Yum!










My drink of choice was this Greene King Strong Suffolk Vintage ale.
This was pretty good, not great but a decent beer. It would not be a patch on the likes of Fullers vintage ale.





sight - Dark ruby, almost black. Large tan head.
smell - fruitcake and some smoke?
taste - Malt, perhaps some oak and a little smoke hiding, Metallic.
sweet - 2/5
bitter - 3/5








Later I tried this Broughtons Old jock ale. As my wife said, it smells and tastes like an old jock. I would not go that far myself but I was not too impressed. It was ok but not my type of beer.



sight - Dark brown/ruby with white head.
smell - Sweet fruit, prunes?
taste - Prune juice, malt, hops, slight roast?
sweet - 2/5
bitter - 3/5