Bought & Homebrew Beers, Lagers, Porters etc

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Originally Posted by guy

Just started a winter/Christmas "special" - I am getting a bit cocky with my results so far, so starting to experiment a bit.

My brother in law had a glut of plums this year, so I stoned and boiled about 4lbs then strained the resulting liquor in to a "Simply" stout kit along with 1.5kg "Morgans" dark roasted malt. Made up to 23litres with boiled tap water (hopefully to flash off any chlorine) and left to cool overnight.

Measured the OG this morning before casting the yeast and had a bit of a shock - if the brew ferments down well, I should be looking at 6.5/7.0 % :eek: I hadn't really expected to get get much sugar from the plums.

The brew smells delightful though, looking forward to having a few mates around for a Christmas beer sampling session:)

Photos to follow.

Just double checked calculation with an online app: OG 1056, if Final gravity is 1010 then 6% - not quite so frightening :lol:

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sounds delightful. plums make great wine so no reason not to do beer i guess..

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Originally Posted by struth

sounds delightful. plums make great wine so no reason not to do beer i guess..

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I was inspired by "St Peter's" Plum porter (local Suffolk brewery, make some very nice beers and sold in a quite distinctive "flattened" bottle).
The St Peter's has a slightly artificial twang to it, but still a pleasant brew - just wondered whether I could brew one with less of a "twang" (if you know what I mean :))

Trying to brew some lager at the moment. I have not made what I would call a beer which tastes like a "proper lager" before.
Previous attempts have been fine (and very drinkable :)), but didn't have that very clear bright "bite" to them.

Having read up on brewing it seems that i have been fermenting too warm, not a specific lager yeast and not "lagering" (prolonged cold temperature rest on the yeast). Hopefully, I will be able to cover all these requirements with this batch - my log cabin is cold enough at the moment, so may as well make the most of the time of year.

I will update this sometime in spring :cool:

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Originally Posted by guy

Trying to brew some lager at the moment. I have not made what I would call a beer which tastes like a "proper lager" before.
Previous attempts have been fine (and very drinkable :)), but didn't have that very clear bright "bite" to them.

Having read up on brewing it seems that i have been fermenting too warm, not a specific lager yeast and not "lagering" (prolonged cold temperature rest on the yeast). Hopefully, I will be able to cover all these requirements with this batch - my log cabin is cold enough at the moment, so may as well make the most of the time of year.

I will update this sometime in spring :cool:

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how did it go with the lager Guy?

Hi Grant

It has another few days "lagering" - keep at 1/2c for a month is usual, but I am only doing it for a week or so before bottling (making the most of the cold weather :)).
https://beerandbrewing.com/dictionary/rOqc2p417q/


Meanwhile, the plum porter that I made a while back is maturing quite nicely, although it has a bit of the same "twang" that the St Peter's plum porter has - must be some sort of characteristic of the plums (aparently, plums have high levels of Malic acid. I am hoping that longer maturation may take some of the edge off it. may be more to my taste by next Christmas :lol:)

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Originally Posted by guy

Hi Grant

It has another few days "lagering" - keep at 1/2c for a month is usual, but I am only doing it for a week or so before bottling (making the most of the cold weather :)).
https://beerandbrewing.com/dictionary/rOqc2p417q/


Meanwhile, the plum porter that I made a while back is maturing quite nicely, although it has a bit of the same "twang" that the St Peter's plum porter has - must be some sort of characteristic of the plums (aparently, plums have high levels of Malic acid. I am hoping that longer maturation may take some of the edge off it. may be more to my taste by next Christmas :lol:)

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dodnt know that... i know it is in apples tho.

First beer of the year outside (dog poo cleared, first cut of grass, despair at number of scorch marks in the lawn :)).

It's a St Peter's "Golden ale", not a lager but it seems to have benefitted from "lagering". None of that home-brew "twang" and a very good head. Just got to try to keep some (or make some more) for summer.

https://i.postimg.cc/KjRm0YM9/IMG-0860.jpg

Cheese is Ossau Iraty (Basque sheep's milk) with a bit of Tesco multi seeded sour dough - this is the life :)

looks great guy... the Ossau Iraty is one i like too..

That’s goals, right there Guy!

Luckily Syd much prefers to poo on a walk, although today’s challenge was he managed to finally work out how to climb onto the compost heap and started eating rotten vegetables! :doh: I think I managed to stop him in time before he swallowed anything, and it was mainly tomatoes and leaves I pulled out of his mouth, so hopefully nothing nasty like onions... it was at 11:00 this morning and he seems fine tonight so fingers crossed.


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Hopefully Syd will be fine, sounds like your going to have to stop putting onions on the heap - once he knows how to get there, he is bound to go back its what dogs do :)

Daphne has a thing about goose droppings at the reservoir, lots available at the moment :drool: