Gyle 40 - New World Black Guard Beer

I've not brewed for a while, other things have taken a leading role in my life (nothing important, I started reading Game of Thrones). I had a free day yesterday, so I decided that I had to brew. I've got quite a few ingredients, so it was imperative that I got a brew on. This was slightly chaotic, and most decisions were made on the fly. It was a bit of fun though. I did have a pump to test as well, so that was fun.

Gyle 38 - Sunny Garden Pale

I’m not generally arsed with low ABV beers, there’s so many shite sub 5% beers around, and I’ve had very little luck the 6 times I’ve tried to go below 5%. So I generally set the lower limit at 5%.  All that’s changed with all these lower ABV beers that have the body and taste of a higher ABV beer. A little hoppy gnome zombie if you will.

Gyle 36 - India Red Ale #InsultToHistory2

I took delivery of a new sack of Marris Otter from our dear friends at The Malt Miller and so thought "I've got a few hours whilst I'm writing this report up, I'm sure I can get a brew in, and maybe even get the hops right this time.

Gyle 29 - UK grown Columbus US IPA

I was given some UK grown Columbus hops by @_aka_hige that were grown by by some of his friends, and so I thought I would make a nice US IPA body to try and showcase them.

Double Brew Day - Double lesson learned day. On strike temperatures for mashing

This was meant to be a blog post on the double brewday that I did yesterday. I finally got round to re-brewing the Nelson Sauvin stout that I brewed in January for AG0010, and then whilst I was brewing that, I tasted a bottle of AG0020, the First Love, Fruit Salad IPA. It was bitter as all hell as I’d not scaled the amount of hops with the lower grist bill.

It was meant to be a discussion on all of that, but it’s not going to be. That may be later, today, this blog post is about a very important lesson I learned yesterday. Mash Strike Temperatures.

Howto: How I do my brewing calculations, and my Brew Sheet.

Everyone has a different way to record what and how they brew, it's the only way you can both be consistent, and get better at what you do. Initially, I started out trying different brewing apps and software like the majority of people out there in homebrew land, but it left me feeling underwhelmed, and uniformed.

Then I saw a tweet by matthew clark ‏(@thornbridgematt) that said "Homebrewers! Ditch those brew calculators and learn to work it out by hand. http://tiny.tw/38L9 "