Update #3: Landlubber

I’m taking a slightly different approach with the storage of this brew, so I thought I’d keep you updated. The reason is clarity, and the sticky issue of finings. Now, here’s the rub – I like to keep my brews vegetarian if at all possible. I never use gelatine or isinglass and prefer to use [...]

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Update #2: Landlubber

Just a quicky. The Landlubber fell below 1.010, and so needed to be taken off the crazy US-05 yeast cake. This American yeast makes for a clean crisp pint, but the FV is anything but. I can’t leave a beer that is fully fermented sit in an explosion of icky pancake mix for any longer [...]

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Update: Thinking Bitter / Landlubber

A quick update on the progress of our latest two brews and some idea of what’s up next. Thinking Bitter is so easy going and pleasant it tastes perfectly fine right out of the secondary fermenter. It’s finished, essentially, and is just sitting there dropping clear and waiting for me to get my finger out [...]

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Brewday: Landlubber 05/03/09

A nice brew evening this one, with everything going to plan as per the Landlubber recipe post. The very tiny amount of Black Malt did manage to raise that colour quite dramatically considering it was only 0.6% of the overall bill – very impressive. We reduced the IBUs in the end by taking out around [...]

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Recipe: Landlubber

I do realise that I didn’t provide a proper brewday account for Thinking Bitter (which is now happily in secondary). I did actually write a draft using what I thought at the time was a very handy iPhone WordPress app, but once I had saved it in Draft Copy it become invisible and inaccessible forever. [...]

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