It’s been a while since I last brewed, mainly in part because I moved from my old residence and finding a new one took far too long. So, on a whim when I had a friend over we decided to throw some things in a pot and and a beer or two. We’ll see how this turns out.

Ingredients:

• 18 Cups Water
• 2lb 2-row
• 6oz Red Wheat
• 6oz Light Munich
• 1 Cup Rice Hulls
• 1oz UK Target Hopunion hops, half at boil other half after 30 minutes
• 12oz clover honey
• Safle US-05 11.5g
• pinch of Irish moss

So it seems it’s much harder to keep a steady temperature with my new glass top stove. Steeped the grains in a muslim bag for 45 minutes target temperature of 160 varied by about 10 degrees, oh dear. brought to a boil and flushed the grains with 5 cups of water into a bowl and re-added to the pot. After 5 minutes into the boil added half the hops & added the honey. 30 minutes in I added a pinch of moss and the rest of the hops. After 45 minutes of boiling we chilled the wort to 60 degree’s, activated and pitched the yeast into the fermenting jar and united it with the wort. Tossed the airlock on and set in the basement utility sink.

Original Gravity: 15 Brix%

This has been fermenting quite well in the basement, a little bit of overflow in the airlock. Switched out airlock with a hose to a cup of water about 2 days into fermenting.

I thought I put an update on this, this recipe turned out really good. So much so, my friends and I replicated this brew. Hopefully it turns out as good as we remembered.

June 6th 2018

Remade with as FIK #1 Australian, used an Australian hops couldn’t find other hops. Tasted during bottling tasted pretty good and hoppy. SG:1.085 FG:1.040  ABV:5.3%