This brewday is going to use up a lot of ingredients, 25kg of Maris Otter is now empty only have 500g of crystal and less than about 350g of cara gold.
After this I'll only have Willamette/Hallertau Hersbucker hops in the freezer.
And I'll only have 1 protfloc tablet left.
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Sunday, March 11, 2012
An uneventful bottling day- 2 mini kegs an 29 bottles.... this was tasting good when tasting the gravity samples so looking forward to this one. Gathered the yeast slurry to go forward for the next brewday.
This was the first brew where starting to cut back on the amount of pre-boil sterilisation. The beer coming out the fermentation bin was the clearest yet- so things looking good. To make things easier for next brewday I've invested a couple of quid in a mash paddle and modified the inner lauter tun to let a temperature probe to feed through the side of the buket to avoid the wire from catching the sparge arm.
This was the first brew where starting to cut back on the amount of pre-boil sterilisation. The beer coming out the fermentation bin was the clearest yet- so things looking good. To make things easier for next brewday I've invested a couple of quid in a mash paddle and modified the inner lauter tun to let a temperature probe to feed through the side of the buket to avoid the wire from catching the sparge arm.
Saturday, March 3, 2012
First brew for 2012
A respin of the Gold Goose but this time using Green Bullet for the bittering hop, with Willamette and Hallertau Hersbrucker. Thinking back I'm not sure if I prefer Glacier over Willamette but having 150g of Willamette in the freezer means the next few 2-3 will use Willamette.
I am in the process of converting the brewing software from a collection of python scripts, which then became a web interface until getting an android tablet and was a raw python xmlrpc server for an android client (with pickles), and not moving towards a google-appengine/sql xmlrpc server for the android client.
I am in the process of converting the brewing software from a collection of python scripts, which then became a web interface until getting an android tablet and was a raw python xmlrpc server for an android client (with pickles), and not moving towards a google-appengine/sql xmlrpc server for the android client.
Monday, January 9, 2012
Android Homebrew Recipe Viewer
Android Recipe Viewer now on Android Market, and has been updated to include a native QR scanner and to parse BeerXML recipe files.
Impressed with The Gold Goose and Green Bullet Pale Ale, the unnamed brew with yeast slurry is drinkable but hopefully if will get better.
Over Christmas I watched a lot of Dave Gorman, which inspired a graph of homebrew costs since starting in September 2008 to the end of 2011. The bottom line plots the cost of a pint @ 40p (below this line must be bad by definition), the middle line is the cost of a pint @ £1.50, ideally I'd be below this line.
The navy top line shows the cost of beer
Over Christmas I watched a lot of Dave Gorman, which inspired a graph of homebrew costs since starting in September 2008 to the end of 2011. The bottom line plots the cost of a pint @ 40p (below this line must be bad by definition), the middle line is the cost of a pint @ £1.50, ideally I'd be below this line.
The navy top line shows the cost of beer
The next graph shows the pints brewed vs pints drunk, showing the 2nd, 4th didn't cut it, and the 8th brew survive long enough to drink... happily the last brews have been consistent.
Friday, December 9, 2011
Android Homebrew Recipe Viewer
I have started a simple android app to provide electronic colourful labels/recipes for Homebrew. This has been an exercise in learning something more than anything else.
The idea is that with a web-page/qr code added to a bottle of homebrew a user could look to find details about the recipe. Ideas are to integrate with something to get feedback (ratings/reviews for when beer is left). If this was to go further there would need to be a web based view for those without android (I'm unlikely to pay $99/year to develop for IOS).
I might even get my brewing process software robust enough that the process could be published alongside the recipe for someone else to replicate. Given this has been a learning exercise how much motivation is left remains to be seen.
The app is fairly simple it takes reacts to an Intent providing a url to a BeerXMLv2 recipe file. There is an "extension" stanza adding a few extra bits of information.. longer term there should be a better answer.
An intent can be set as a link in a webpage, i.e. <a href="net.collie.mellon.recipeviewer://recipeviewer/recipeurl/">find recipe here</a>.
The recipeurl is a base64 encoded string providing the location of the recipe xml.
It would be nice to detect the useragent, if it's an android device link to the market or launch the application. I've got a few thoughts in that area but nothing robust yet.
The idea is that with a web-page/qr code added to a bottle of homebrew a user could look to find details about the recipe. Ideas are to integrate with something to get feedback (ratings/reviews for when beer is left). If this was to go further there would need to be a web based view for those without android (I'm unlikely to pay $99/year to develop for IOS).
I might even get my brewing process software robust enough that the process could be published alongside the recipe for someone else to replicate. Given this has been a learning exercise how much motivation is left remains to be seen.
The app is fairly simple it takes reacts to an Intent providing a url to a BeerXMLv2 recipe file. There is an "extension" stanza adding a few extra bits of information.. longer term there should be a better answer.
An intent can be set as a link in a webpage, i.e. <a href="net.collie.mellon.recipeviewer://recipeviewer/recipeurl/">find recipe here</a>.
The recipeurl is a base64 encoded string providing the location of the recipe xml.
It would be nice to detect the useragent, if it's an android device link to the market or launch the application. I've got a few thoughts in that area but nothing robust yet.
1: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2: <beer_xml xmlns="urn:beerxml:v2" xmlns:ferm="urn:beerxml:fermentable:v2" xmlns:hop="urn:beerxml:hop:v2" xmlns:step="urn:beerxml:mash:step:v2" xmlns:mash="urn:beerxml:mash:v2" xmlns:misc="urn:beerxml:miscellaneous:v2" xmlns:rec="urn:beerxml:recipe:v2" xmlns:style="urn:beerxml:style:v2" xmlns:unit="urn:beerxml:unit:v2" xmlns:water="urn:beerxml:water:v2" xmlns:yeast="urn:beerxml:yeast:v2" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:beerxml:v2 BeerXML.v2.xsd" xmlns:extension="urn:aaa:extension">
3: <version>2.06</version>
4: <recipes>
5: <recipe>
6: <rec:name>WV Bitter</rec:name>
7: <rec:type>All-Grain</rec:type>
8: <rec:author> </rec:author>
9: <rec:batch_size volume="l">21</rec:batch_size>
10: <rec:boil_size volume="l">0.0</rec:boil_size>
11: <rec:boil_time duration="min">60.0</rec:boil_time>
12: <rec:efficiency>68.0</rec:efficiency>
13: <rec:style>
14: <style:name>None</style:name>
15: </rec:style>
16: <rec:ingredients>
17: <rec:grain_bill>
18: <ferm:addition>
19: <ferm:name>Maris Otter</ferm:name>
20: <ferm:type>grain</ferm:type>
21: <ferm:amount mass="g">4852.6</ferm:amount>
22: </ferm:addition>
23: <ferm:addition>
24: <ferm:name>Crystal 120</ferm:name>
25: <ferm:type>grain</ferm:type>
26: <ferm:amount mass="g">485.3</ferm:amount>
27: </ferm:addition>
28: <ferm:addition>
29: <ferm:name>Torrified Wheat</ferm:name>
30: <ferm:type>grain</ferm:type>
31: <ferm:amount mass="g">388.2</ferm:amount>
32: </ferm:addition>
33: </rec:grain_bill>
34: <rec:adjuncts>
35: <misc:addition>
36: <misc:name>Honey</misc:name>
37: <misc:type></misc:type>
38: <misc:amount mass="g">320.3</misc:amount>
39: </misc:addition>
40: </rec:adjuncts>
41: <rec:hop_bill>
42: <hop:addition>
43: <hop:name>Northdown</hop:name>
44: <hop:form>leaf</hop:form>
45: <hop:alpha_acid_units>8.60</hop:alpha_acid_units>
46: <hop:amount mass="g">19.2</hop:amount>
47: <hop:use>boil</hop:use>
48: <hop:time duration="min">60.0</hop:time>
49: </hop:addition>
50: <hop:addition>
51: <hop:name>Challenger</hop:name>
52: <hop:form>leaf</hop:form>
53: <hop:alpha_acid_units>8.50</hop:alpha_acid_units>
54: <hop:amount mass="g">38.5</hop:amount>
55: <hop:use>boil</hop:use>
56: <hop:time duration="min">60.0</hop:time>
57: </hop:addition>
58: <hop:addition>
59: <hop:name>Northdown</hop:name>
60: <hop:form>leaf</hop:form>
61: <hop:alpha_acid_units>8.60</hop:alpha_acid_units>
62: <hop:amount mass="g">19.2</hop:amount>
63: <hop:use>boil</hop:use>
64: <hop:time duration="min">15.0</hop:time>
65: </hop:addition>
66: <hop:addition>
67: <hop:name>Saaz</hop:name>
68: <hop:form>leaf</hop:form>
69: <hop:alpha_acid_units>3.80</hop:alpha_acid_units>
70: <hop:amount mass="g">18.0</hop:amount>
71: <hop:use>boil</hop:use>
72: <hop:time duration="min">15.0</hop:time>
73: </hop:addition>
74: <hop:addition>
75: <hop:name>Saaz</hop:name>
76: <hop:form>leaf</hop:form>
77: <hop:alpha_acid_units>3.80</hop:alpha_acid_units>
78: <hop:amount mass="g">18.0</hop:amount>
79: <hop:use>boil</hop:use>
80: <hop:time duration="min">0.0</hop:time>
81: </hop:addition>
82: </rec:hop_bill>
83: <rec:yeast_additions>
84: <yeast:addition>
85: <yeast:name>Yeast Slurry</yeast:name>
86: <yeast:amount volume="g">11.0</yeast:amount>
87: </yeast:addition>
88: </rec:yeast_additions>
89: </rec:ingredients>
90: <rec:notes>A bitter which will be brewed to start using some old hops.</rec:notes>
91: <rec:original_gravity>1.0512</rec:original_gravity>
92: <rec:final_gravity>1.0138</rec:final_gravity>
93: </recipe>
94: </recipes>
95: <extension> <brewDate>1318586400</brewDate> <bottleDate>1319972400</bottleDate> <extension:actualOg>1.0500</extension:actualOg> <extension:breweryName>Wards View Brewing</extension:breweryName> <extension:brewcost>19.21</extension:brewcost>
96: </extension>
97: </beer_xml>
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