joelw85

joelw85

joelw85

Member Since 12/27/2018
79 Recipes Created
26 Brew Sessions Created

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1/3/2025 Lager Czech Lager Czech
1/1/2025 Quad Threat Quad Threat
11/21/2024 Surpassing Serial Signature Red Surpassing Serial Signature Red
11/5/2024 Ancient Lizard NZ APA Ancient Lizard NZ APA
9/14/2024 Golden Otter English Pale Ale Golden Otter English Pale Ale
7/11/2024 Red Stratosphere at Night Red Stratosphere at Night
7/2/2024 Chilly Baltic Chilly Baltic
4/9/2024 Return of the Macs Black Return of the Macs Black
4/7/2024 Goodnight Vienna Goodnight Vienna
3/10/2024 Strength Will Rise Strength Will Rise
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Brew Session: Red Stratosphere at Night

joelw85 4 months ago
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Went well, hit my numbers (maybe slightly short on volume), looks a good colour. Strata smells good from the bag, very sticky yellow pellets.

Brew Session: Strength Will Rise

joelw85 9 months ago
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Brew went well, about expected on efficiency; slightly over on volume after using more grain. Great tasting wort and nice pale colour.

Brew Session: Goodnight Vienna

joelw85 11 months ago
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Despite fairly good brew day (lost temp during mash then increased temp and added longer to mash once at correct temp to compensate) efficiency terrible once again... really don't know what I can do better with the kit I have. Will need to add some dextrose if I want to get the correct gravity, or it will be a session vienna (which isn't really a thing!). Will stir much more next time even though I thought I did that OK but maybe getting dough balls? Or just loads of channeling in the mash tun?

Brew Session: Kiwi-As Pils Brit hop remix

joelw85 2 years ago
  • Water Infusion

Over-crushed grain from supplier so used mesh bag to line mash tun. No stuck sparge or excessive trub this time. Used pump this time, cut lines a little shorter.

Brew Session: Teevo Pils

joelw85 2 years ago
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Got interrupted mid mash and ended up with at least a 2 hour mash, had to cold sparge which took ages but seemed to be OK gravity-wise (on par with my usual somewhat dodgy efficiency). Wort tastes good.

Brew Session: Nelson Lakes IPA

joelw85 2 years ago
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My measurements were a bit sketchy for this but my better efficiency with a slower milling speed (grain was escaping uncrushed with my previous drill) means I'm a bit over gravity. Wort looked good and hops were lovely and fresh. Fermenting a a corny under pressure.

Brew Session: Ruby Mild

joelw85 2 years ago
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Changed the hops slightly. The late boil addition was 5g pilgrim, 5g first gold, 20g EKG. Got a really slow sparge and slightly under volume. But I like the slower speed drill I got for the malt mill, getting a better crush so can increase the gap slightly.

Brew Session: Confession Session Porter

joelw85 3 years ago
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First brew with my recirculation pump, it worked but I got low efficiency yet again, don't know whether it's my crush I'm getting or if I need to change sparge technique. Otherwise pretty decent, wort tasted like it should, maybe a touch light in colour might add some steeped carafa 3 just for visuals.

Brew Session: Sour Pale

joelw85 3 years ago
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Second beer of a double brew day; reiterated mash from a pilsner with some extra base and wheat malt, then some of the boiled pilsner wort added back (overshot gravity on this which helped). Will taste once fermented and see if it needs anything like fruit or a dry hop. Didn't really take measurements for this so information is scarce below.

Brew Session: Kiwi-As Pils v2

joelw85 3 years ago
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Massively overshot my mash temp with an error with my temperature probe. Brought it down as fast as I could but decided to chuck in more pilsner malt for the enzymes, hopefully it was enough to covert all the starches. Because of this I overshot my gravity and added back some water. Otherwise went OK, great tasting wort. Fermenting in a corny with 10psi pressure release valve fitted.

Brew Session: Weizenbock

joelw85 3 years ago
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Accidentally left my burner on during mash! Hopefully converted enough sugars... My BIAB efficiency was horrid as ever. A touch lighter than planned but decent tasting wort.

Brew Session: Fuggled Mind Mild

joelw85 3 years ago
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Was going great until I dropped something unsanitised into my chilled wort that I was using to weigh down my pot lid during the chill... so I heated it back up to pasteurisation temperatures (just under 80c) then rechilled. So it's probably more bitter than it says. But it's the right gravity after liquoring back and right colour and the wort tastes good, yeast started fast too.

Brew Session: Haze for Daze Pale Ale

joelw85 4 years ago
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Horrible brew day, guessed water volumes wrong, mashed too thin, got awful efficiency. But the beer will probably be just fine. First pressure ferment and closed transfer, will use a keg as a dry hopping vessel the transfer back to the serving keg. The Nectaron is another example of the wonderfully fresh NZ hops you sometimes get, mmmmn! The Galaxy from crossmyloof though, it's verging on the cheesy side, like most of their hops grrr. Next year I'm only using malt miller and get'erbrewed as ...

Brew Session: Like It Like That DIPA

joelw85 4 years ago
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Original conceived this to taste like Lilt, it's evolved a little but hoping for pineapple, citrus and tropical flavours. Brew day was OK, got about my usual BIAB efficiency. Just about hit my numbers.

Brew Session: Challenger Tank English Pale Ale

joelw85 4 years ago
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Was going well until I forgot to heat my sparge water... Got 20l into the fermenterj

Brew Session: Rice Lager

joelw85 4 years ago
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Brew-day went smoothly, sparged a bit extra as I realised my boil off was going to be high, worked out the right volume but way over gravity, gonna have to liqour back some, this is meant to be my hot weather beer for the summer, not a strong one! Wort in the fermenter looks a bit darker than I imagined, like I accidentally caramelised some of my wort. No scorching on the fermenter though. We'll see what it tastes like in a few months, fingers crossed!

Brew Session: English Stout

joelw85 4 years ago
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All went well until I couldn't find a connection for my chiller, eventually located, hopefully no damage done! As planned liquored back in the fermenter.

Brew Session: Autumn Saison

joelw85 5 years ago
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The low gravity of this is because it's purely a second runnings beer, a bonus from my Quad. No extra grains were added. The rosehip syrup should make it slightly sour and fruity. Boil was interrupted by a Zoom call, had to turn down heat and come back later, so bitterness may be increased a little. Otherwise went to plan.

Brew Session: Quixotic Quad

joelw85 5 years ago
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Double brew day with a table saison from the second runnings. Wort tasted fantastic! Gravity was close but not great efficiency as usual, slightly under volume. At least I'm consistent...

Brew Session: Every hop NE PA

joelw85 5 years ago
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Under volume again but over on gravity, need to put a couple of extra litres into my sparge!

Brew Session: West Coast APA

joelw85 5 years ago
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Brew day went pretty well, missed gravity by a couple of points (but maybe a bit over volume) but generally getting on top of my system now. Thought I was under gravity so pulled the bittering hop bag a little early, probably didn't need to in the end! Looking forward to drinking this, the Moutere looks superb quality, sometimes you get amazing quality from NZ hops.

Brew Session: Heady Topper Clone half batch

joelw85 5 years ago
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Man I ended up really short on volume, that wheat must suck up wort... Obvs the mega hop stand soaks some up too. Got 9l just over OG (minus the sugar though), gonna add sugar in a bit of water to try and get 2 nearly full mini kegs out of it.

Brew Session: First Gold ESB

joelw85 5 years ago
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Brew day was mercifully uneventful. Did a quick sparge and no recirculation this time. Still getting poor efficiency, might tweak my mill again and pay more attention to sparge next time.

Brew Session: Kiwi-As Pils

joelw85 5 years ago
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Ok, so I screwed my efficiency again, ended up with OG of about 1.044, will add a touch of sugar to bump it up. Wort smells and tastes great though.

Brew Session: Simcoe Porter

joelw85 5 years ago
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First brew with the grain tube etc of my grainfather clone. Next stage will be to get a pump. Not sure of what efficiency to expect.

Brew Session: Tropical Juice IPA

joelw85 6 years ago
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  • Fermentation

Nearly hit my numbers. My boiler has a big boil off rate!

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