Padden’s Craft Brewing Adventures

Entries from June 2009

Western Sydney Brewers

28 June, 2009 · Leave a Comment

A bunch of us brewers in Western Sydney have started the Western Sydney Brewers club. We had our first get together at Paddy’s Brewery on Saturday 28th June 2009  which was a huge success. Details can be found at http://groups.google.com.au/group/western-sydney-brewers?hl=en

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Email Subscription Service

9 June, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I have just added the option of an email subscription service to the website. Simply click on the link on the bottom of the right pane, and you can enter your email address!

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Brew No.25 – Golden Ale

2 June, 2009 · Leave a Comment

1st June 2009 – The new batch of Amarillo hops have arrived in Australia from the US so what better time to jump in and brew a nice Golden Ale using 100% Amarillo hops. This is also a good opportunity to try out my slightly smaller Boiler that I bought a few weeks ago…so…

  • 3.6 kg Joe White Pilsner Malt
  • 0.7kg Joe White Wheat Mallt
  • 0.2kg Weyermann Caramunich I
  • 20g Amarillo Hops @ 45 min
  • 20g Amarillo Hops @ 5 min
  • 20g Amarillo Hops @ 0 min
  • 1 Whirfloc tablet @ 10 min
  • Safale US05 – American Ale Yeast

Mashed with 16L of water at 72deg which settled at 62deg in the Mash.I wanted 64-65 so dumped in 1.5L boiling water which got me to 64 deg.  Mashed for an hour and a half .

Drained and sparged with extra 13.5L of water at 76deg. OG was 1.041 before the boil

Boiled for around 10 min in kettle till hot break (bloody huge, almost boiled over!) then for another hour with hop addition as above.

Transferred to 20L cube after flameout for no-chill.  Not surprisingly, I was  bit off due to a new boiler. This coupled with lack of pick up tube gave me a little less in the actual cube.

2 June 2009 – It’s getting pretty cold here, so threw the cube in the fermenting fridge in the morning to get up to 19 deg, then pitched tonight with a rehydrated yeast

8 June 2009 - Dry hopped with 20g of Amarillo….mmmm tastes so good I could eat them!

15 June 2009 – Man I really dicked this one up tonight. Cut a long story short I ended up with 1/3 of the brew on the garage floor and most probably infected the brew….any way whats left is bottled and we’ll see how we go.

28 June 2009 – very surprised, no infection and masses of flavour and aroma from the Amarillo. Quite a lot of carbonation as I lost some of the brew while bulk priming therefore using too much sugar. A pretty good beer

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