Seasonal fruit and other whimseys.

It would seem that the Corktropolis City Brewhouse (CCB) has missed the window on Blood- Orange-ade. Tis a shame, it would have been awesome. However, it does mean that an alcoholic lemonade is much more likely, as we could really do with some practice using citrus in brewing. So stay tuned as there should be a lemonade recipie up here soon, and, given that uni is winding down and that summer is winding up, it's a mighty good time of the year to be brewing, so we should actually be getting around to it sometime very soon.

Further to that, the partial mash Pilsner attempt ended in some confusion(see "An Extractive Industrial Pilsner" here). However, after checking out some clips of all-grain brewing, confusion abdicated, as it were, and the ease with which a switch to basic all-grain brewing could be made was revealed.

Thus, a quest begins. The Brewhouse is in need of a large esky with a tap in the bottom, and a vessel in which to boil 25L of wort (note to self - compile a dictionary of brewing terms). You have your mission. See you on the other side of all-grain, Brewcave peeps.

An Extractive Industry

The Brewcave is a most industrious place.

Extractive Industrial Pilsner

3 kg Light Dry Malt Extract

1kg Pilsner Malt, mini mash.

0.5 kg CaraPils malted grain, mini-mash.

45g NZ Saaz - 1hr

25g Czech Saaz - 30 mins

15g Czech Saaz - 15 mins

German Lager Yeast, dried.

Brewing Notes:

24/10/2010. First mini-mash with malted grains. Seemed to go pretty well, managed to keep it steady in the 60-70 range. Ideally, it should be more steady than that, but as this was the inaugural CCB partial-mash, we shall allow for some leeway.

I subsequently learned that I cocked up the partial vibe, didn't sparge or anything. This mistake will not be repeated.

Bottling Notes:

Bottled two days before heading to Italy, on the 20th of Nov.

Tasting Notes:

Tasted two days after getting back from Italy, on the 12th of Dec. Bloody good. I think. See above.