A slightly delayed write up of my latest batch 'Brann's Breakfast Stout' which was actually brewed last Friday 26th May.
Why/What is a breakfast stout?
A breakfast Stout is brewed with flaked oats, chocolate and coffee, which can also have lactose (giving a creamy milky mouthfeel) with the stout smelling like a freshly brewed coffee.
The reason why I brewed it was a combination of things, 1 was that my Dad and I tried various stouts (see 'Beer Research' posts) and I thought [.....]
Bottle Conditioned
Its been 3 weeks since I bottled Saison of Love. I finished the keg in quite quick time, mainly due to it being 1/2 full, my attention is focused on the bottles.
Thursday I had one of my smaller sized test bottles that were bottled with some of the remaining beer left in the bottling bucket once I finished bottling all the other allocated bottles.
The beer has turned out very well in the bottles. Nicely carbed up, having a nice white 1 [.....]
Two weeks ago was brew day for my go to Saison - Saison of Love. I brewed this first last year, when I was only using a large pan on top of the stove.
A recent purchase of a grain basket was used instead of a grain bag and it worked out really well, I was even able to place it on top of the Ace Boiler and do small sparge easier too.
The hop break was pretty intense, more than my recent brews. I should [.....]
Since my last update I've been drinking Red Panda, brewing and bottling a new batch of 'Saison of Love'.
This post will cover Red Panda and a following post will cover how the brew day and keg test of Saison of Love turned out.
What can I say about this Red Panda? Unfortunately it didn't improve from my earlier week one taste test. When I was working my way through the keg (or trying to) it was so overly bitter for my tastes, like the feeling [.....]
In my other most recent post ( A gift that has kept on giving ) I mentioned that the recent beers I've brewed have been somewhere over ...
