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Honey Basil Beer ver 1.0

Sunday, September 11th, 2011

Happened to see this recipe in BREW! So I thought I would give it a try, if it turns out nice, will refine it as part of my future line of beers. (Only beer in it is my Rose Beer so far)

Light malt extract x 1
1 kg of light DME
0.5 kg of 2 row pale [...]

Archer’s Golden Bitter Clone ver 1.0

Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

Finally a chance to use my new equipment, unfortunately wort chiller could not be used as I did not account for the piping size to the hose.
Recipe:
1.       Maris Otter 1kg
2.       DME 1kg
3.       Light Liquid Malt Extract 1.5kg
4.       EK Golding 140g  in 2 separate packs.  First one at 60 min, the other at 0 min
5.       Wyeast [...]

Fat Tire Amber Clone ver 1.0

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

Been a while since I did partial mash, so this version is a partial mash with DME and liquid extract. Its an Amber recipe that i got from my usual Brew magazine. Based on the description, I am expecting the beer to turn out fairly malty beer with mild hops as I really added little [...]

Chrysanthemum Pilsner v1.0 – review

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Appearance: Amber, slightly cloudy (homebrews are usually unfiltered), Rather poor head retention.
Aroma: The is the presence of Saaz hops, in this version it is somewhat mild and earthly, can smell the grassy hops, but its not very distinct. The mini keg that I did dry hopping with was somewhat more distinct.  There appears to be [...]

Chrysanthemum Pilsner v1.0

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

This is probably the last time for a long while that i will be doing speciality beer, shall be going back to doing more basic standard brews to work on my basic techniques. I thought Pilsner would be a good pairing with flowers for a beer.
Chrysanthemum Pilsner v1.0
OSG = 1.050 (I measured and forgotten, this [...]

Beer Log #1 – Boddingtons Draught Bitter

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

I decided since I am brewing beer, I got to try as much beer as possible to understand them (great excuse to drink!). Hence I am going to keep an online log of all beers I drink.
I will improve my criteria as I keep trying and reading up on beer. Right now I intend to [...]

Rose Beer Ver 1.0

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

Been a while since I blog, so well I decided to get back at it again (at a slower pace now). So yea, this is the first beer I made since I got back from the USA.
Rose Beer Ver 1.0
Ingrediants
1) Canadian blonde liquid extract
2) 500g light malt DME
3) 2 small packs of saaz hops
4) [...]