Thursday 10 October 2019
by Wulf
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Many moons ago (September 2014), I brewed up a version of Graham Wheeler’s recipe for Exmoor Gold, a pale bitter created entirely with pale malt. I christened that Autumn Gold and, a couple of months later, I made another batch … Continue reading
Wednesday 19 November 2014
by Wulf
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My Golden Crab beer (Autumn Gold with an infusion of crab apple juice) is now bottled and labelled. The label was created using Inkscape and a free image of a crab. Final gravity was 1.010 and the left overs tasted … Continue reading
Monday 10 November 2014
by Wulf
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My latest beer — the Autumn Gold with added crab apple juice — is now into the fermenting stage. My hydrometer made it about 1.050 @ 19.2°C and I’ve now got it sitting in my brew cupboard with about 6.5g … Continue reading
Saturday 8 November 2014
by Wulf
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I’ve got more going on in the brewery pipeline. Firstly, I’ve got my current batch of cider moved on from juice extraction to fermentation. I simply siphoned the liquid from the first vat (water and cut apples, left to sit … Continue reading
Sunday 26 October 2014
by Wulf
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Yesterday I compared my Tiny Tim homebrew with a bottle of Timothy Taylor’s Landlord. The two weren’t identical but both were good drinks. I had asked Jane to not tell me which glass was which. The more persistent foam on … Continue reading
Wednesday 15 October 2014
by Wulf
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I got my Autumn Gold brew in the bottle today or, more precisely, 11 swing-top Grolsch bottles with almost a glass (but not quite a bottle full) left over to sample as first runnings, including the beer that had been … Continue reading
Sunday 5 October 2014
by Wulf
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I’ve moved the Autumn Gold brew I started yesterday into the fermentor I’m using – the same pot I boiled it up in – along with 6.5g of Safale S-04 yeast. This time I’ve covered the top of the pot … Continue reading