Woodville NanoBrewery

Brew 11 - No More Lands to Conquer?  (Golden Ale) Brew day: 31/10/2020 Bottle day: 14/11/2020 I'd been chatting to my father in law for months about doing a brew day and had been pestering him to let me know which style of beer he would like to make. He'd tried a few of my previous brews and isn't a huge fan of the citrus hopped varieties so I suggested we make something a little more traditional. I've recently enjoyed a few Golden Ales and find that the style is quite underrated in the current world of dank NEIPAs and full on Stoats.  I started of with a bit of research. I knew what a Golden Ale tasted like and I enjoy a few quite a bit (Bay's Devon Dumpling springs to mind). The brew should be pale/light with very low SRM. I selected a base Extra Pale Malt and then chucked in a small amount of Light Crystal to raise the colour just above what it should be (I don't like to follow convention too much).  Next job was to select some hops. I wanted to add a decent ...

  Brew 10 -  Incognito IPA (First Gold Extract Kit) Brewday: 10/10/2020 Dry hopped: 14/10/2020 Bottle day: 27/10/2020 Venturing into the extract world again - we decided to experiment with a Wilkinson's First Gold IPA kit. I've had some success with this brand before (a Chocolate Stoat) and our last kit experiment (Brew 8 - Sheepstor IPA) wasn't too bad. We are adamant that we can improve so here goes. The kit came with a standard packet of yeast and a tiny (less than 10g) bag of First Gold hops. A quick pop onto Get 'Er Brewed and we selected some hops to add. We decided to up the bittering hops with some extra Golding hops (East Kent) and then dry hop with some Ekuanot and Bavarian Mandarina (neither of which I have used yet). To add the bittering hops we made up a 'hop tea'. Boiling up the hops in some water for about 45mins will have given the Alpha Acids from the EKG hops chance to isomerise adding the desired flavour profile. The rest of the hops are added...

Brew 9 - Evil Pea IPA (Chocolate  HopNob Revisited) Brew day: 25/08/2020 Bottle day: 08/09/2020 I'm going to revisit Brew 3 - a Black IPA. The brew was a bit of a disaster from start to finish - the beer wasn't black and it ended up very, very cloudy and full of trub. The ABV was very low and my mash efficiency was lower back in April. The hop flavour was actually pretty good so I think with some tweaks, I can make this much better.  Firstly, the malt bill. I need more dark malt to bring out the black colour. I'm going to double the amount of Carafa I and increase the content of Carmalt and Light Crystal slightly, as well as slightly more of the base Pale Malt. This looks to give me a target ABV of 5.5%.  I'm also upping the hop bill - going with the amount from the Brewdog recipe - 256g of hop pellets on order - most of which is dry hop. This is going to be a hop bomb! I saved brew day for a rainy day in August - saves wasting a sunny day indoors. I'm using 2 new a...

Brew 8 - Sheeptor IPA (Extract Kit Experiment)                                                                                                              Brew day: 02/08/2020 Bottle day: 16/08/2020 Another brew, another collaboration. I brewed with my Dad a few weeks ago and the outcome (Gardener's Glove IPA) was superb. My dad has been amazed at the results of all grain brewing and each and every beer surpasses what he has managed with the old extract kits that he used to use. We talked at length about having a little experiment to see if we could get an extract kit to taste half decent...

Brew 7 - Off The Cuff (Hazy IPA)                                                                                                                                         Brew day: 22/07/2020 Bottle day: 04/08/2020 So, up to now, I have brewed beer based on the recipes kindly provided by Brewdog. I've learned a lot and have had great success and naturally some not so successful brews (See Brew 3...). This time, something a little different for me. I'm going to piece together a recipe that brings together some of my favourite things in beer in the form of a Hazy IPA. I guess you could call it...