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Kegging

Apa finings

3g Davis gelatine
200g cold tap water
Wait 30 mins

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Hops

Growing hops

Here are last years rhizomes, seem to be quite established. Looks like I need to get longer stakes soon.

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Recipe

Bye Bye American Rye

rye-ale
1kg raw rye from Ellen 
(Breadmaking)
6.5kg gladfield pils

mashed 90 mins at 66
40g  simcoe hops 12.9%

10 min
20g perle 7.5%

0min
13g Amarillo 14g 8.2%
10g perle 7.5%

1052at30c = 1.056 = 6.1%
26L

Airated with ken wooed tri blade soup attachment, foam 5cm high

5g s05 started in boiled wort
Fg 1010
Added 3G in 200ml beer, 50g from other keg finings

Bottled 8 dec 

Pico brew 1.5
On ben's wyeast ringworm first gen
Drew off tall jar, from fermentor put in fridge and discarded top 1/2, leaving trub

Did not start. Added wheat yeast WB-06
Categories
Tasting

Belgian Bruin Sour

Tasting the soured version of the bruin. This was a pico brew. No pun intended it started as wort in fridge which started spontaneous fermenting. I keep 1/4 of this wort and boiled the rest, adding to bruin wort.

The 6.1% tastes sharp.
The sour has more body 9.3%, musty on the nose, with sour on the finish.

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Fran describes the nose as smells like urinal!