Back by popular demand (well, a misplaced comment from one person who had been drinking). Like an Adele album this post is tedious, massively self-indulgent and continues the theme of previous work. The debut, Though-ty Brews covered the first 40 brews, so here’s a rundown of the next 25 brews.
| Name: Another Dimmension |
Inspiration: Fancied brewing another Black IPA after enjoying the previous one, 1P Halley. Keeping the Space theme with reference to the hops and Beastie Boys ‘Intergalactic’. |
Brewing Development: No real development, more a test of repeatability. the only change being to swap Mosaic for Galaxy hops. |
| Style: Black IPA |
| Name: 10 Minute Job |
Inspiration: Intended for a Homebrew Club low ABV beer competition. Low ABV IPA inspired by Proper Job. |
Brewing Development: Last minute brew fermented in a bucket usually used for grain storage. Lesson Learnt as pellicle formed and beer ditched. |
| Style: English Session IPA |
| Passionista |
Inspiration: Obligatory New England style beer, using Citra, Mosaic and Galaxy hops. |
Brewing Development: Creative use of water treatment and trying new dry hopping techniques as per the style. |
| Style: NEIPA |
| Name: 1847 William Younger 100/- |
Inspiration: Ron Pattinson recipe brewed for a talk by the man himself. |
Brewing Development: Recreating an historic recipe. |
| Style: Shilling Ale |
| Name: Tilley’s Brown Ale |
Inspiration: For a Easter/Chocolate themed club competition. Chocolate Lime sweets were the inspiration, the flavour provided by Chocolate malt, Wai-iti and Citra hops. |
Brewing Development: First attempt at Brown Ale. |
| Style: American Brown Ale |
| Name:Tessellation DIPA |
Inspiration: Taking the uniformly hopped IPA idea of Tessellation IPA and making it into a bigger beer. |
Brewing Development: First attempt at Double IPA. |
| Style: DIPA |
| Lemon Tea |
Inspiration: Little Earl Grey with a sour Lemon Tea twist. |
Brewing Development: Using Acidulated Malt to lower the mash pH to get perceivable sourness.
First beer to be Force Carbonated in a keg and bottles with a beer gun. Reducing packaging oxidation. |
| Style: Gose/Pale Hybrid |
| Name: Manc’y Bitter |
Inspiration: Modern hop forward Bitter, inspired by Manchester brewers Marble, Track and Brewsmith. |
Brewing Development: Secondary fermented in corny keg using a Spunding valve to naturally carbonate itself. |
| Style: Bitter. |
| Name: XIPA |
Inspiration: Historic IPA recipes and brewing techniques, using modern ingredients (all the bag ends of hops in the freezer). Heavily hopped at start of boil. |
Brewing Development: Long term aging (8 months) with Brettanomyces Claussenii, in a corny keg. |
| Style: Heritage IPA |
| Name: Little NEIPA |
Inspiration: Lower ABV New England style beer. |
Brewing Development: Refinement of my NEIPA water treatment. Experiment with fermenting in a Corny Keg with Dry Hop additions. |
| Style: NEIPA |
| Name: Redskin |
Inspiration: Hoppy Rye beers such as Beavertown Magic 8 Ball. Chinook hops used throughout, hence the Washington/Native Amaerican connection in the name. |
Brewing Development: Brewing with Rye. Dry hopping in a keg and using Hop aroma oil. |
| Style: Rye IPA |
| Name: Pliny The Leightweight |
Inspiration: Pliny the Elder at a more sessionable ABV. |
Brewing Development: Refining of hopping, carbonation and bottling technique in order to improve hop aroma and aroma stability. |
| Style: IPA |
| Name: RAW Saison |
Inspiration: Lars Marius Garshol’s Blog. Brewing a farmhouse ale without boiling. |
Brewing Development: No Boil brewing. |
| Style: RAW Ale/Saison. |
| Name: Sorachi Saison |
Inspiration: Brooklyn Sorachi Ace. |
Brewing Development: SMaSH Saison recipe development using a different hop and a new Saison yeast (Safale BE134). |
| Style: Saison. |
| Name: Teochreasach |
Inspiration: Heritage brewing and Stouts that were shipped to the tropics. |
Brewing Development: Split secondary fermentation to assess the impact of Brett C and Oak aging on a Stout. |
| Style: Export Stout. |
| Name: Chai Latte Mild |
Inspiration: Leek Homebrew “Brew a beer you’ll hate” Competition. Ticking boxes with a Mild, Spiced Beer with a Chai Tea flavour. |
Brewing Development: Experimenting with Spices. |
| Style: Pale Ale |
| Name:Digital Vats of Urine |
Inspiration: Brewdog Nanny State. How low can I take the ABV to make a sub 1% (legally alcohol free) beer without removing alcohol. |
Brewing Development: Testing all aspects of brewing technique to make a beer without alcohol. |
| Style: Alcohol Free Beer. |
| Name: Tilley’s Brown Ale/Morph Series 1 |
Inspiration: Split Batch of a re-brew of favourite recipe and the start of a long term Solera beer project. More info here. |
Brewing Development: Recipe repeatability test and the start of a barrel aged, mixed fermentation project. |
| Style: Brown Ale. |
| Name: River Bed Pils |
Inspiration: American Adjunct Lager using wild and Basmati rice. |
Brewing Development: Cereal Mashing technique and also fermenting under pressure to reduce esters. |
| Style: Lager. |
| Name: New Old IPA |
Inspiration: Recreating Heritage IPA using heritage Chevallier malt. Cheshire Brewhouse Govinda. |
Brewing Development: Using heritage malt and brewing techniques. |
| Style: Heritage IPA |
| Name: The Bramble. |
Inspiration: Brew By Number Bramble IPA, an IPA using Blackberries and Bramling Cross hops. |
Brewing Development: Using fruit in the boil. |
| Style: IPA |
| Name: Sidelong Frailty Brew. |
Inspiration: Barley Wines. I wanted to make a Citrussy (Orange) barley wine and age it ready for the winter months. The name is an anagram of First Gold Barley Wine, it’s 10% Abv will help get a wobble on. |
Brewing Development: High ABV brewing. Using subthreshold Black Pepper addition to boost hops (idea from Fuller’s). |
| Style: Barley Wine. |
| Name: Sladek |
Inspiration: Homebrew club “Hop Lucky Dip” competition using Sladek hops. |
Brewing Development: Primary fermentation with a mixed culture, Saccharomyces/Brettanomyces yeast blend. |
| Style: Farmhouse Ale. |
| Name: Three’s a crowd/Morph Series 2 |
Inspiration: Split batch between a Tart IPA and progressing the Solera Project. |
Brewing Development: Development of fruit IPA idea, using Gooseberries to achieve a tart/sour IPA. |
| Style: Sour IPA |
| Name: Sambucas Blanc |
Inspiration: Duvel Triple hop series and Sauvignon Blanc. The idea was to brew a belgian pale ale with the Gooseberry, Passion Fruit, Elderflower aromatics of Sauvignon Blanc. |
Brewing Development: Infusion step mashing. |
| Style: Belgian Pale Ale |
