This is my next home brew project. I found the original recipe for George Killian's Irish Red Ale from Pellforth.
The interesting thing is that it is supposed to have an alcohol content of 6.6% ABV. The ones I have drunk in the United States have an alcohol content of 5%. Maybe George Killian had to water down his recipe so it could be legally sold in the United States?
Let's see how I fare with this attempt.
Am currently brewing Festa Brew Blonde Lager kit made by Magnotta.
I made this lager last year and really liked it and since my basement is almost 10ºC (all cool from the cold winter), it is a perfect location for me to age my lager for two weeks before bottling.
This is one of the first lighter coloured ales I am attempting to do. I have been doing a lot of dark beer so I want to try and work on my skills with lighter coloured beer.
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This is the second of the two premium kits I bought on sale n things should be fine.
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This is the first of the two premium kits I bought on sale at CAD$5 when they were originally priced for CAD$29.95! I have been satisfied with my Festa Brew Lager so I am betting those premium kits are a lot better than those standard kits that range from CAD$7 - CAD$15.
The reason they were on sale were because they passed their expiry date by 2 or 3 years, but knowing sugar does not go bad unless it is exposed to oxygen things should be fine.
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Since I am almost out of CRC Imperial Stout and this is a beer I really liked, I decided to brew it again. This will be my first time to attempt to do the same type of beer again. This time I will do it a little differently by using slightly less Chocolate Raspberry Coffee, omitting the gypsum and use Chinook hops.
Today I finally had time to brew another grain/malt extract beer. Since the summer is starting, I want to try and improve my skills with light coloured beer.
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07.04.18:
On Tuesday March 20 I had a meeting at CHS in London and on my way back home I was tempted to stop by one of the wine and beer making supply stores. In the store I saw a lager kit so I decided to purchase that kit. I have always wanted to try brewing lager, but have been swayed away from doing so due to the low temperature that is usually required for brewing lager.
That kit is unique because all I had to do was sterilize my equipment, pour the kit into my fermentation pail and pitch the yeast. No water or extra malt extract needed.
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Today I finally had time to brew a new batch of beer. This batch is unique because I brewed it from scratch with no kit to start with. After drinking Brooklyn Brewing Co's Black Chocolate Stout, I was inspired to try brewing a batch of Imperial Stout. Looking through Charlie Papazri's Complete Joy of Home Brewing, I found a recipe for Imperial Stout.
Ingredients:
* Original recipe did not include these ingredients, I added gypsum to try and get more body in the head and thought chocolate raspberry coffee would add interesting flavours to my Imperial Stout.The Brewing Process (07.03.03):
After discovering the beer kit my father's friend gave him, FrecklesFly discovered this beer kit sitting way back in the corner of my parents' pantry. There was no expiry date, but to my best guess this kit dates back to a time when my father was still in college or university. I googled up the name and not no matches.
The ingredients I used for this kit are:
My father specializes in making wine and a friend of his gave him a beer kit, Morgan's Royal Oak Amber Ale. I noticed it sitting on his wine counter and asked if he was planning on brewing beer. He explained that his friend gave it to him and he thought it passed his expiry date, indeed it was one already two months past the expiration date. I believe the expiry date is only for those who are too fussy and believe there is an expiry date for everything.
I proceed and collected the necessary ingredients to brew that kit.
Today FrecklesFly and I went to Burlington to meet her father who was bringing some of her stuff for us to pick up. Since we were making a 1.25 hour trip, I decided to see what beer making retailers were near by. There was one called Better Bitters Brewing Co. that called itself the largest one in Ontario. I wanted to check it out to see if it had the stuff I needed to try my first Imperial Stout recipe. It did not have everything so I guess large is not always better.
On the way back home, we stopped in Woodstock to get the chocolate malt and roasted barley I needed and FrecklesFly chose her first beer kit to make. Today I led her through the process of brewing her own beer. The beer she chose was Mountmellick's Irish Style Newkie Brown Ale.
The recipe she used to brew this is:
I have decided to try and work on combating the sweetness taste of my home brews. To do this, I believe I need to work on the balance of the sweetness / bitterness of my beer, since my beer is sweet, I suspect I need to experiment with bittering hops. I am using Muntons Premium Bitter with my first experiment with bittering hops.
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