Heiðrún brewery – Not that baaad!

September 13, 2017September 20, 2017

Brewday #70 – Imperial IPA

Sorry for not blogging the last brews. Also I’ve been pretty lazy brewing the past years.

If you read this you might notice I updated the web site theme. I think I lost some features, but those was from a time when I hacked the theme to get them in. I don’t have time or interest to do this anymore so they are gone.

I realized I have too much hops and best way to use it is making a well hopped Imperial India Pale Ale. So here we go!

I’m trying a new technique and hope I get better efficiency than before. I’m emptying the Grainfather after the mash-up to a kettle, it was about 9-10L. Then added 10 L 74°C water to the malt bed. Then pour the wort back into the boiler after mash out.

Also boiling for 120 minutes to caramel the malts more. You can see the hop bill above, basically

– Columbus bitter hops
– Centennial aroma hops
– Bunch of Citra, Columbus and Centennial at boil out

I used 585g hops, too much for the Hopspider which caused some problems I had to solve.

Dry hopped after 5 days with 300g Chinook and Calypso.

Thats five C-hops.

Vol 13 Liters
OG 1077
FG TBA
IBU 163,8
%ABV TBA

June 10, 2016

Brewday #67 – The Wind That Shakes The Barley

#Brewday67 – 2016-05-16.

23 litres batch with OG1070 was split up in three parts for the second fermentation. Lots of caramel malts, Columbus bitter hops and Aurora aroma hops.

A) Session Ale; 9 litres + 9 litres of water + Dry hopped with 100gr Aurora.

B) India Red Ale; 7 litres + Dry hopped with 100gr Centennial.

C) Barleywine; 7 litres + Hershey’s Caramel Syrup + Muscovado Sugar + Coconut Palm Sugar

November 3, 2015November 15, 2015

Brewday #66 – Dandelion (Chocolate & Vanilla Swirl Stout)

Dandelion

When a crazy black woman becomes obsessed with a preppy white woman and starts stalking her. She calls her ‘dandelion’ and they become a chocolate and vanilla swirl

Dandelion is a Chocolate And Vanilla Swirl Stout with kakao and vanilla. The plan is to barrel age half of the batch in cognac. Hops is Galaxy.

OG 1082
FG 1026
ABV% 7.4
IBU 40
VOL 18L

Batch#1 10 L Added extra Bourbon Vanilla Extract
Batch#2 7 L Added Cognac Oak Chips

July 16, 2015July 16, 2015

Brewday #64 – Mango/Papaya/Vanilla Oatmeal Ale

It has been a long time since I had time and felt like brewing something. I was getting bored with the complexity using all the equipment. So I bought the Grainfather. So much easier, and less things to worry about.

The first beer with the Grainfather is an Oatmeal Ale with Mango, Papaya and Vanilla bean.

5K g Pale malt
0.5 kg Oat malt
Columbus Bittering hops
Columbus Taste hops
Centennial Aroma hops
1 big Papaya
8 Mango fruits
1 Vanilla stalk

2015-07-14
19 Liters
OG 1051
FG 1016 (estimated)
ABV% 4.8 (estimated)
IBU 24

I forgot to mash out, that’s why the lower abv% (which is fine actually)

November 11, 2014November 11, 2014

Brewday #63 – 11:11/14 Infinite and Unknown

Now a curse upon Because and his kin! May Because be accursed for ever! If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops & does nought. If Power asks why, then is Power weakness. Also reason is a lie; for there is a factor infinite & unknown; & all their words are skew-wise. Enough of Because! Be he damned for a dog! But ye, o my people, rise up & awake!

-The Book of the Law II:28-34

This is the second time I’ve had time to brew this year, I’ve been busy and I also been pretty lazy when I had time. Anyway it is that time of the year, actually precise date it is. It’s the day I’m doing magickal beer.

As usual the beer is 11%ABV, 111 IBU is too little so this time I pushed it over 200 IBU all thanks to Columbus hops. It will be flowery and citrusy all thanks to Centennial hops and Citra hops.

The colour is black and brown, or blue and golden for those that can see. For it is a magickal beer.