Shamus O'Sean Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 1 hour ago, disgruntled said: I love my stouts, even when it is hot Gotta agree. I can drink a well made stout any time. Glad yours turned out well (was there ever any doubt). I remember your brew day notes and was interested to hear how the PoR went. The Saison yeast would give it a different twist too. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classic Brewing Co Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 2 hours ago, disgruntled said: Stout. 7%, 70 ibu. 9 malts, PoR and saison yeast. It's AWESOME Your'e just showing off @disgruntledthat looks too good to be real, 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Chop Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 Sampled my first brew yesterday at 17 days in the bottle since taking up brewing again. It was a rush effort to get something on and going ASAP while the weather was still cool here as I was still shopping for a brew fridge at the time. It was a simple Coopers Canadian blonde kit, a pack of brew enhancer 3 and the kit yeast that was rehydrated. I managed to keep it below 20C for the 14 days without effort and I must say I am very surprised at how good it tastes at this point. It's still a little green but very drinkable and I look forward to tying it again after some more bottle conditioning. In other news I bottled again today and now have three brews bottled up to condition, another FV ready to bottle in a couple of days and a new FWK just firing up with some Nottingham in the brew fridge. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pale Man Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 6 hours ago, disgruntled said: It is marvellous. Suitably malty. I love my stouts, even when it is hot Agreed 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stquinto Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 First tasing of Coopers Vintage ‘21, bottled on 14th October. My oh my what a brew Will be looking forward to these. Glad I went light on the carbing sugar… 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricky Micky Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 12 hours ago, disgruntled said: It is marvellous. Suitably malty. I love my stouts, even when it is hot Looks incredible mate, AG? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricky Micky Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 3 hours ago, stquinto said: First tasing of Coopers Vintage ‘21, bottled on 14th October. My oh my what a brew Will be looking forward to these. Glad I went light on the carbing sugar… Looks the goods Sainter. What g/l did you carb that one at? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stquinto Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 1 hour ago, Mickep said: Looks the goods Sainter. What g/l did you carb that one at? I think I went for 5 or 6g/l instead of the normal 8. About right for a keeper IMHO mate 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iBooz2 Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 On 11/14/2021 at 6:27 PM, iBooz2 said: Second taste test of my Royal Lager (Crown Lager clone) recipe which was a partial mash done back in October. My first taste test really showed up that this beer was a kit tin brew and was different from my AG brews, a background something which I had forgotten about. It has become better after about 3 weeks in the keg but it’s just a tad malty and maybe a bit on the sweet side for a 5.0% ABV beer, even though I threw 6 kg of grains at the two Coopers kit tins so suspect Coopers use crystal malts in these tins. In hindsight I should have upped both the bittering hops and the late aroma hops (both Hallertau Mittelfrueh) to get it closer to where I reckon it should be. Don’t get me wrong it is a great beer to drink but just think I missed the perfect mark by a whisker. No mash salts where used, just filtered rainwater so probably could have tweaked that a bit to enhance the hop. Maybe could have used a late PoR in it to give that Crown Lager touch too. An update on this Royal lager. Well I have slowly gotten through the first of the 2 kegs of this and boy am I regretting not throwing 500 g of Carapils into this mash because the head retention is crap. Looks good when first poured but after about 1 minute it looks like a urine sample. Because this was a 50 % K & K and 50 % all grain I thought I had the persistent K & K head issue covered by using so much grain to make up the malt side of the recipe rather that using DME but alas it failed. And its still got the underlying kit tin taste too, should've done a late hop or dry hop to try an cover that as well. There has to be something in the kit tins that is the head killer, the ISO hop oils? Its not the glass as the next beer of something else holds the head and lacing just as you would want it. 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classic Brewing Co Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 I sometimes wonder why we actually go to the Pub ! Coopers have nailed this Bootmaker PA, it is awesome, this is now going to be a stock drink for me, so satisfying, I used Centennial for this one which is great but also keen to try it with POR & maybe Chinook. This probably will be the last beer on the bar in this place as hopefully the bars/stools will be going down the Bay. Lot's of work setting up but I am looking forward to it. Cheers. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tone boy Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 New world lager while watching the ashes. Doesn’t suck. cheers Tone 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popo the Reprobate Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 12 minutes ago, Tone boy said: Doesn’t suck. That's always good I do like a new world lager. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pale Man Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 2 hours ago, Classic Brewing Co said: I sometimes wonder why we actually go to the Pub ! So we can drink VB on tap!! 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classic Brewing Co Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 2 minutes ago, Pale Man said: So we can drink VB on tap!! Well that's all good, I had a few Carlton Draughts from the tap the other day, quite enjoyable !! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozdevil Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 16 minutes ago, Pale Man said: So we can drink VB on tap!! theres that naughty word again VB arrrgh well some people like drinking out of the dogs bowl lol hmmm i do drink carlton draught with friends but never that word that shouldnt be thought of 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pale Man Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 1 hour ago, Classic Brewing Co said: Well that's all good, I had a few Carlton Draughts from the tap the other day, quite enjoyable !! Yep. Its a tasty drop from the keg. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamiek86 Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 @Tone boy very nice photo and tasty looking lager well done. @iBooz2 maby you just have done all grain so long that any kit beer will seem this way? In my limited experience with GCL tin it has a great head. Also as you said it doesn't always hold as long but I usually do slightly different things each brew so makes it hard to pinpoint why. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pale Man Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 1 hour ago, ozdevil said: hmmm i do drink carlton draught with friends but never that word that shouldnt be thought of VB 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozdevil Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 14 minutes ago, Adam Ant said: VB your going to be a squished ant if you keep repeating those to letters 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamiek86 Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 16 minutes ago, ozdevil said: your going to be a squished ant if you keep repeating those to letters not a whole lot of difference between Carlton draught and vb. If one acceptable the other not far off. If anything vb taste better from a stubby or can draught might just have it on tap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pale Man Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 14 minutes ago, jamiek86 said: not a whole lot of difference between Carlton draught and vb. If one acceptable the other not far off. If anything vb taste better from a stubby or can draught might just have it on tap. VB is quite a bit sweeter than Carlton Draught in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tone boy Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 1 hour ago, jamiek86 said: @Tone boy very nice photo and tasty looking lager well done. Thanks Jamie. Was a very tasty drop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamiek86 Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 39 minutes ago, Adam Ant said: VB is quite a bit sweeter than Carlton Draught in my opinion. I get the complete opposite even the colour of carlton draught is like it's had a small amount of specialty malt and taste sweeter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stquinto Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 Another Coopers Vintage 21. This one had a bit more fizz…. Still, lovely drop, very happy with it. Keeps me going whilst I knock up dinner - Moroccon couscous, and I made up some kefta (lamb meatballs) 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stquinto Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 (edited) And following that, and Old Speckled Hen extract clone. Lovely clarity and colour but a bit meh. Next time I follow a recipe from the CAMRA (campaign for real ale in the UK) I’ll double the hops. Also serving at a higher temperature (about 13C) suits this type of ale, unless it’s summer where you are. Which it ain’t for me, even if you b*ggers are off sunning yourselves on the beach - but I do have the ice cream cone at least… Edited December 19, 2021 by stquinto 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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