Fully automated brewing system using NodeJS
Date Afternoon of 13 August 2022. Tap List Keg NEIPA – 8.1% West Coast IPA – 5.4% Munich Helles – 5.8% Cask Best Bitter – 4.3% Imperial Stout (cask aged) – 10.1% Bottle Best Bitter – 5.9% Cider Continue reading 5 Year Anniversary
I recently bought a couple of 10 litre mini-kegs and started to think about split-batch experiments. I’ve long had a hankering to make cask beer which I’ve never done before. So I bought a hand pump (pump365) and started to Continue reading Keg v Cask
The star of this show was @VerdantBrew IPA yeast. It fermented vigorously and quickly. Not to mention the fantastic fruit flavours. After 3 or 4 days it was done! The 30g of bittering hops were a little too much. But Continue reading Hazy Dave
It was a good year for my garden apples this year. Both quantity and quality was better than last year. So maybe this years cider would be vintage. I used a different yeast this year, Young’s cider yeast instead of Continue reading Cider 2020
This brew was an experiment to ferment and serve from a Corny keg. This really came about through necessity because I just didn’t have any fermentation vessels left. There are of course pro & cons of doing so. Problems include Continue reading Crafty Pale: All-in-one brew.
This was an attempted clone of Brewdog’s Ten Ton Truck. It was planned to be 10% stout but my efficiency is not the same as Brewdog’s and it only came out at 7.5% However, because of this lack in efficiency, Continue reading Ten Ton Truck
This was my first attempt at a back to back brew. The idea was to plumb the output of the chiller from the drain into the mash tun. This recycles the hot water and saves heating water. With a small Continue reading Double Brew
After getting hold of the Fermzilla I couldn’t wait to drink fresh beer straight from the fermenter. But the Fermzilla was too big to fit into my beer fridge so I needed a kegerator/fermentation chamber that would be big enough. Continue reading Brew Fridge
I was pretty excited to try out the new Fermzilla pressure fermenter. because it promised so much, but would it deliver. I was attracted to the prospect of being able to: Ferment under pressure. Minimise oxygen ingress, Self carbonate finished Continue reading Fermzilla
This was a clone of the truly excellent IPA from Tempest Brewery in Tweedbank. It was inspired by New Zealand and contains a plethora of hops from that country. I made a couple of changes, the first of which was Continue reading Long White Cloud