Monday, April 23, 2007
The Bar - Again
This idea is definitely on the backburner, as I'm living on campus at my Uni and only go home about once a month, if that. Sigh...
Sunday, April 08, 2007
4. Cooper's Bitter Take Two.
1 Can Coopers Bitter
1kg Dextrose
500g Light Dry Malt Extract
Brewing Notes
Brewed this one at Strathallan Brewing Co. Ltd. In other words at Mull's. Good fun brew-night. Same old basic process, boiled fermentables, took off boil, added can, poured into fermenter. Bob is obviously your uncle.
Tasting Notes
Sadly tasting has been delayed by a stupid mistake, namely me only priming half the longnecks. Bugger. So it shall be a good two weeks before I can start to sample them, and I am not expecting much, i can see it being very sweet. Meh, a few months should see it good, and in that time I will have to start brewing with hops. Woah Yeah!
Well, six stubbies were tasted over the last few weeks, with the last one going down about a month after brewing. Not bad really, considering the brew was unbalanced from the start. High alcohol, around 7-8% it feels like judging the buzz it creates. Should be quite passable (I won't say good) in a month or two. Now I gotta find which longnecks haven't been primed. Sigh.
8/5/07 Drank this last friday night, and from what I recall it wasn't bad. But then, I don't remember the trainride home from a jazz show in Northcote, and I do have a big split in my ear. So don't take my word as gospel. At least we only cracked the primed ones.
17/7/07 I think this beer needs a better-fitting name, given the vast majority of the times it has featured in a night I have ended up completely wiped out. It's all gone now, thank god, and towards the end it didn't really get much better, though to be sure all the primed ones went first, leaving only slightly fizzy syrups to contend with. Most of these were imbibed rather swiftly, so as to avoid tasting it, and this may have contributed to the state yours truly found himself in towards the end of the night. Carbonated equals good, uncarbonated equals bad when it comes to this brew then...
1kg Dextrose
500g Light Dry Malt Extract
Brewing Notes
Brewed this one at Strathallan Brewing Co. Ltd. In other words at Mull's. Good fun brew-night. Same old basic process, boiled fermentables, took off boil, added can, poured into fermenter. Bob is obviously your uncle.
Tasting Notes
Sadly tasting has been delayed by a stupid mistake, namely me only priming half the longnecks. Bugger. So it shall be a good two weeks before I can start to sample them, and I am not expecting much, i can see it being very sweet. Meh, a few months should see it good, and in that time I will have to start brewing with hops. Woah Yeah!
Well, six stubbies were tasted over the last few weeks, with the last one going down about a month after brewing. Not bad really, considering the brew was unbalanced from the start. High alcohol, around 7-8% it feels like judging the buzz it creates. Should be quite passable (I won't say good) in a month or two. Now I gotta find which longnecks haven't been primed. Sigh.
8/5/07 Drank this last friday night, and from what I recall it wasn't bad. But then, I don't remember the trainride home from a jazz show in Northcote, and I do have a big split in my ear. So don't take my word as gospel. At least we only cracked the primed ones.
17/7/07 I think this beer needs a better-fitting name, given the vast majority of the times it has featured in a night I have ended up completely wiped out. It's all gone now, thank god, and towards the end it didn't really get much better, though to be sure all the primed ones went first, leaving only slightly fizzy syrups to contend with. Most of these were imbibed rather swiftly, so as to avoid tasting it, and this may have contributed to the state yours truly found himself in towards the end of the night. Carbonated equals good, uncarbonated equals bad when it comes to this brew then...
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