syelaw - Homebrewer Profile

Experiment with Saison Yeast!

First proper attempt at a lower % hoppy session ale.

XPA type beer for first time

Hose fell out early mash, added 750G extra ale malt and about 4 litres of water roughly, no idea what will happen now for OG!

Hop Hash Amber Ale

Very light Summer ale German Pils and Flaked rice

summer session ale with Riwaka Hops, Gladfield Pilsner Malt as base

A few odd amounts of hops to finish what was left in the bags!

Gladfield German Pilsner with hop hash at flame out

Single malt Gladfield Aurora, trial to check this malt out on its own before using it for next years Russian Imperial Stout

crystal 50 is Supernova

Similar grain bill as my great Vienna IPA from last year, a little more Vienna malt the only difference. More hops!

Maris Otter is Pilsner Malt

Half a kilo of fresh Saaz from my garden added with 10 minutes to go.

All Vienna with some Flaked oats, replicating my amazing Vienna IPA from last year.

Using up some old grain and hops on this one

This is the exact same recipe that i made and loved so much last year, 100g less dark chocolate, and less Pale Malt

My attempt at Kaiju Krush copy, far less hopping during the boil and a lot more flame out and dry hopping to keep the IBU very low.

No Northern Brewer Hops, so have used Nugget as a substitute. victory malt substitute is 200g of aurora and 100g of gladiator

Pilsner malt is Gladfield Light Lager Malt, Carapils is Gladfield Acidulated Malt. American Pilsner grain bill with modern German Hops

Using up some of the bits of hops i have to finish, hops added with 4 minutes to go instead of 5 to lower IBU

Predominantly Vienna with equal quarters of Ale and Pilsner malt

My first ever wheat beer in 8 years of brewing!

220g of cocoa powder added at end of the boil, 250g of cocoa nibs added to secondary

Victory Malt is Voyager Special Roast

Besmalz Red x is the base malt, i have adjusted the colour of Maris Otter malt on the grain bill to reflect the red colour of this as Red X is not listed.

Same IPA Malt & Hop method as my very popular Vienna IPA, using the most earthy and dank Hops i have.

This one was one of the best Pale Ales I've made.

No style guide to select Czech Dark lager, this is the closest one to that style. Alcohol is higher as i will be adding more water to dilute this. IBU & SRM both fit into the Czech dark lager BJCP guidelines.

Quick brew to top up the fridge, this brew had the crushing mill issue before the end of grain crush, OG was down a lot to what it should have been.

Experimental all Vienna IPA, with some flaked oats to enhance the mouthfeel of the finished beer. Also using Wyeast 1728 which should ferment to a lower FG and remove some of the sweetness of the Vienna. 1 BIG late hop addition!

Using up the loose malt and hops in the brewhouse! Voyager Amber is the Amber malt, very bad efficiency with the old grain used!

After 1 hour of the mash take off 6 pints and reduce in a rapid boil on cooker to 1 pint, add reduced wort back to boil with 30 minutes to go. Boil is for 2 hours. This is to increase the caramel flavours of this traditional beer.

Cara Amber is 200g of Redback and 200g of Aurora

Slightly more Dark & Pale Chocolate and Dark Crystal to increase colour from last time.

Experimental US Pilsner malt crossover with New German Hops

Cara Red is 500g of Shepherds Delight and 500g of redback

Almost the same as my previous one which i loved, main malt difference was swapping Vienna malt for Munich and no 60 minute hop addition. yeast is 1272 instead of 1056. other than that this is the same beer.

Simple Single Malt & Two Hop Pale Ale

250g of cocoa powder added at end of the boil, 250g of cocoa nibs added to secondary, 10g Galaxy added to increase bitterness. Also mashed 720g bottle of sour cherries, minus the cherry juice. Final gravity stopped at 1030, to give 7.1%

FG was 1016, giving 7.6% ABV

first full brew using gladfield malt

Identical Grain bill to first time, 10G of hops moved from 60 minutes to 15 minutes to bring down IBU into BJCP style guidelines

Identical clone of the Citrade Pale Ale i loved, but brewed with Centennial hops instead of Cascade this time around, 10G less hops at 60 minutes to bring down the IBU closer to the BGCP syle guidelines

OG for this was 1052, not sure why this software is so far our with this pilsner malt

Hops mixed together and put into the last 10 minutes of the boil at 1 minute intervals, at a rate of 18G per minute until boil completed. IBU taken in the middle of this process at 5 minutes to average out the bitterness over the final 10 minutes.

using german ale yeast to make this faster than with a lager yeast, grain and hops are as per a normal octoberfest recipe

quick recipe use up those spare hops in the fridge! using california lager yeast to experiment a little

Smoked malt is Gladfields Manuka Smoked

220g of cocoa powder added at end of the boil, 250g of cocoa nibs added to secondary

Probably right on the border of pale ale / IPA, but i've classed it as a pale ale due to the main grain ingrediant being maris otter pale.

This idea came from speaking to some of the brewers at a recent micro brewery festival i went along to. Many of them saying how 20 minute hop additions are all that is required as the IBU's come from late hop additions, but just in much larger quantities. Such large late hopping means big flavour as well as the bitterness, i'm making this at the weekend!

Big late edition American Hops used with Ardennes yeast, great combination!! Hops at 0 minutes are whirpooled and steeped for 15 minutes

Start dry hop 2 days after primary fermentation completes; I started at 10 days. Then add additional dry hop additions every three days. Keg/Bottle 3 days after last hop addition to get off hops and avoid and grassy flavors. Brewer uses Koppaclear tablets from Brewers Supply group as wort clarification agent. Whirfloc cleared mine up quite well, so I've substituted that in this recipe. Brewer uses Briess malts for all but 2-row and Honey. 2-row is Great Western, Honey is Gambrinus. Brewed with ...

Very good session beer, perfect for those hot summer nights!

Nicely hopped Amber Ale that i've had some great feedback about!

No northern brewer hops available, so i have used Columbus for the boil with small Cascade late additions