Brew Day: Nuka Berry II
Since my last blog post, I’ve brewed a few more beers:
- A Saison smash for the Smash-Off 2018 competition/beer-swap. This didn’t turn out as well as I’d hoped, so that’s being disposed of and I’ve brewed a replacement.
- An English Barleywine for the Black Beer of Christmas 2018 beer-swap. At time of writing, this has been in the FV for just over 2 months and I’m planning on bottling it this week.
- My Eyes Are Pies! – A Brewdog Jet Black Heart clone – This is just about ready to drink and has turned out really nice. Click the link for the name reference 🙂
- Another smash beer for the Smash-Off – I’ll pop details up once the competition has finished.
I had a day off work, so with nothing else to do I brewed up another batch of Raspberry Wheat beer for Carter’s stag do:
| Amt | Name | Type | # | %/IBU |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.50 Items | Campden Tablets | Water Agent | 1 | – |
| 2.70 kg | Lager Malt (Muntons) (5.9 EBC) | Grain | 2 | 33.8 % |
| 2.30 kg | Wheat Malt, Pale (Weyermann) (3.9 EBC) | Grain | 3 | 28.8 % |
| 35.00 g | Challenger [5.40 %] – Boil 60.0 min | Hop | 4 | 21.0 IBUs |
| 0.50 Items | Protofloc (Boil 15.0 mins) | Fining | 5 | – |
| 1.0 pkg | US West Coast Yeast (Mangrove Jack’s #M44) | Yeast | 6 | – |
| 3.00 kg | Fruit – Raspberry (After 4/5 days) | Adjunct | 7 | 37.5 % |
Not much to report for this one – Everything went smoothly and I had possibly the quickest brew day of all. However, I did miss my target OG by .005 points, so the finished beer will probably be around 4.6% ABV rather than 5.2ish.
I’ve also got a new gadget, an iSpindel digital hydrometer. This thing floats in your fermenting beer and based on the amount of sugar/alcohol present, the tilt angle changes. The device wakes up every so often, connects to my wifi and reports it’s tilt, temperature etc to a remote server. Combined with some funky maths, you can get accurate gravity readings and monitor your fermenting beer without taking any samples.
Everyone loves a graph, so here’s a live graph showing the progress of my beer 🙂