Woodville NanoBrewery

Brew 25 - Princess RPA (Rye Pale Ale) Brew Day: 20/04/2022 Bottle Day: 05/05/2022 I've wanted to brew a Rye Pale Ale for some time. I'd had a few over the years but it isn't a common style and offered something a bit different to experiment with.  I based the recipe on Caterpillar by Brewfist - who used Columbus and Motueka hops in theirs. I couldn't get Motueka so after a little research, opted for Saaz hops instead - I'm not entirely sure why but I wanted to move beyond the usual citrus flavours with something a bit more floral or spicy to compliment the earthiness of the Rye malt.  I selected the Nottingham ale yeast to offer a neutrality in the flavour to allow the malt and hops to shine through.  Alice helped me to mash in again and loved getting hands on with the malts. She asked if she could name the beer, to which I agreed...  Mash in as follows:  23 litres strike water at 66 deg C  1/2 Campden 3 tsp of Burton crystals 60min mash After this, I mashed out at

Brew 24 - Evil Pea Rules (Black IPA) Brew Day: 09/01/2022 Bottle Day: 23/01/2022 A new brew bag and hop spider for Christmas that just needed to be used. I wanted to rebrew the Black IPA recipe from September 2020, this time working on increasing mash efficiency and reducing the need to supplement the wort with Demerara sugar. I've been a bit lax on the blog writing so this is being written in July 2022... good job I kept god notes on brew day! Mashed in with 22 litres of strike water at 66 deg C. 1/2 campden tab and 2 tsp of Burton crystals. 90 minute mash gave a 1.040 gravity (good start).  Mashed out by raising the kettle to 77 deg C for 15mins. I found the new brew bag offered the ability to keep the grain stirred and really helped get more sugar from the grain bed.  60min boil using the new hop spider - which was a superb addition to the day and proved so much easier to clean at the end. Hop additions as follows: 12.5g Simcoe at 60min  20g Simcoe at 30min  1/2 Protofloc at 15m