Steam Ale Bottled

Steam Ale Bottled... 41 bottles without much fuss.

The last brew has come on well, the dregs from the bottom of the fermentation bin have conditioned well after 5 weeks. Time to name it and get some labels printed.

Thinking about a lemon flavoured brew next, probably will use the the goose as a base, but adjust it to just Centennial and Halleratu Hops. 

Steam Ale in the fermentation bin

Everything went to plan with the steamale... could have taken more from the copper's but had disturbed the hop trub. 

Ended up with 23 litres of wort @ 1.048 instead of 22 litres of wort @ 1.052. pretty close to targets all day. 

Hopefully this will turn out to be the best yet.

Steam Ale

Picked up some more malt ready for the next brew, and put together a tentative  recipe with my very own python cli/web-based brewing app.

AG4

All Grain Number 4 completed

"A copy of 'White River Goose' but using Cascade in place of Centennial and Caragold instead of a Caramalt. The golden syrrup is replaced by a bigger malt content"

I've used up some of the older hops, and used new equipment and my own brewing software.
Original Gravity and volume was lower than expected, but the proof will be in the drinking.

Some of the first all grain have conditioned well and are quite drinkable. Not quite as good as the original white river goose, but that has had much longer to condition. hop monster is doing quite well, still bitter but not so much that it's not drinkable. The bass ale clone has suffered with the keg not keeping pressure to dispense... at some point I'll get around to bottling and using it for steak/ale pies. I'm doing well at not starting on the still unnamed all grain number 3... the aim is to keep as much as possible until end of Feb.

new home brew needed soon

only have 1 bottle of white goose left and 1 bottle of orange river goose left.

time to brew more beer!

Bottled

Drinking samples out of the fermentation vessel was drinkable so hopefully this one is a good one.

Set half the bottles aside to condition slowly (going to wait until Feb 2011).  The other half are in a water bucket heated to 22degC for a couple of days to kick start the bottle conditioning... maybe they will be drunk over Christmas.

17L of wort getting ready to boil

... hopefully I can sustain the rolling boil once the lids are off.... want as much of the DMS to escape.