#47 Lockdown Pale Ale

> 3kg pilsner malt 3kg pale ale malt Bags of dried homegrown hops: 2 @ 60 minutes 1 @ 25 minutes 1 @ 5 minutes 1 @ 0 minutes 1 @ +20 minutes hop stand 1 @ +30 minutes hop stand US-05 15L mash water 18.5L sparge water OG 1.052 FG 1.013 ABG

#45 ESBushey

> 4.1kg Golden Promise 500g Heritage 1823 Greenwich Crystal Malt 3.8g citric acid 2g gypsum 50g Bushey Cascade @ 60 mins 36g Bushey Cascade @ 15 mins 50g Bushey Cascade @ 3 mins OG 1.034 FG ?? Wind in the Willows yeast Very quick brew day. Start to finish in 3:

#44 Like a Duck to... No. 2

3kg Pilsner 3kg Golden Promise 40g Citra @ 60 mins 15g Citra @ 15 mins 15g Citra @ 5 mins 70g Citra @ 0 mins for 30 mins 60g Citra dry hop 5 days US-05 3.8g citric acid added to mash 2g gypsum added to mash OG 1.054 FG 1.012 ABV

#43 Like a Duck to...

I've been getting pretty sick of my stuck sparge over the past couple of years, so I decided to change my mash tun manifold. I replaced the braided hose with two mesh "bazooka" filters. 3kg Pilsner 3kg Maris Otter 40g Citra @ 60 mins 15g Citra @ 15

#40 Little Lion

This one was brewed for my son's "name day", a Lion King-themed alternative to a Christening. Recipe > 3kg Pilsner 2kg Golden Promise 30g Citra @ 60 mins 10g Citra @ 15 mins 10g Citra @ 5 mins 50g Citra @ 0 mins for 30 mins US-05 3.8g citric

#36 Great Wheat Hope

The third of my three wedding beers, and my second ever wheat beer. 3kg wheat malt 2kg pilsner malt 50g 2.19AA Saaz @ 90 min OG 1.045 FG 1.011 ABV 4.5% I heated 10 L of mash water and added 3g citric acid and 400g rice hulls

#39 Bushey Estate PA

This was my second attempt at a beer using entirely homegrown hops. > 4kg Maris Otter 2kg Pilsner 45g Dry Cascade @ 60min 66g Cascade between 10 and 0min The remainder of my 2016 crop that didn't make it into my 2015/16 Bushey Pale [https://smallscaleales.ghost.io/

#35 MBPA No. 4

This one of three beers I brewed for my wedding, now over 2 years ago. I didn't publish the details at the time and my memory of it is now a bit fuzzy, so what follows is for the sake of posterity only The Recipe 4.75kg Pearl

#41 Little Red Rocket

This one was for my godson's Christening (he's a redhead, what can I say?). My goal was something approximating a Meantime Yakima Red. Recipe > 3kg Pilsner 2kg Golden Promise 300g red rye Crystal 30g Galaxy @ 60 mins 20g Galaxy @ 10 mins 10g Simcoe @ 5 mins

#38 Lousy Smärzen No. 3

What a difference a day and changing your sparge routine makes. My previous brew, #39 Mitre Abbey Blonde [https://smallscaleales.ghost.io/2017/05/27/37-mitre-abbey-blonde/], involved the messiest of messy stuck sparges I've ever had the misfortune to encounter. But this brew – another take on the iteratively

#37 Mitre Abbey Blonde

I've been meaning to try to brew a clean, malty, straightforward Belgian pale for some time now. I like the occasional Leffe so after googling some recipes I landed on the following. Recipe > 4.5kg Pilsner 1kg Munich malt 250g Melanoidin malt 250g Biscuit malt 50g of

#34 Lousy Smärzen No. 2

Lesson of the week: It is literally impossible for a brew day to go off without a hitch. That wasn't intended to be a pun, but this was the first of three beers I brewed for my wedding. It's been an iterative development through my Kolsch

#26 Bushtoberfest

The Recipe > 46% Pilsner 2kg 23% Vienna 1kg 23% Munich 1kg 8% White table sugar 350g Saaz 30g 3.1% AA @ 50 min WLP540 Abbey IV Ale Yeast 1.050 OG 1.010 FG after 18 days ABV 5.24% I brewed this beer about a year ago, too

#28 Galaxy Pale Ale

I brewed this beer so long ago I've completely forgotten what the brew day was like. I wasn't going to bother with a write-up were it not for the fact that I'd been thinking recently that it was probably the best beer I'

#31 Rudyard's Marmalade Breakfast No. 3

It had been some time since my last attempt to brew the liquid version of marmalade on toast, and the quest for the ideal marmaladey hop continues. This time I thought I would try Summit hops. This brew also marked a total departure from brewing in a bag, having first

#33 '15/'16 Bushey Estate P.A.

I wasn't planning to brew this beer until I went outside in late September and saw what an incredible bumper crop my negligent hop farming had given me this year. Having read about the ostensibly incredibly fresh flavours that come from adding fresh hops to beer that'

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#32 Lousy Smärzen

Buoyed by the success of my Kölsch, I was planning to recreate it for my wedding at the end of this year, but as we've bought some 200 bottles of Peroni, I decided to make something a little more distinctive. I liked nearly everything about that beer, but

#30 Kölsch

I'm getting married in December, and I plan to be serving my own beer at the reception. It's come to my attention that not everyone loves a hazy, hoppy pale ale, and I've therefore tried to brew something on the lager spectrum that appeals

#29 Mosaic Pale Ale

When it came time to recharge my pale ale supplies, I decided to go for a straightforward Mosaic single malt/single hop. Recipe > 6kg Golden Promise 50g Mosaic @ FWH 150g Mosaic @ Dry hop for 3 days 33 L water Vermont Ale yeast For some reason I decided a first

#25 Peckham Rye August Saison

August is a good month for brewing saisons. The temperature means that unless you are lucky enough to have a special fridge to keep a handle on your fermentation temperatures, little else can handle the heat but saison yeast (not without spitting out unwanted byproducts anyway). This time last year

1er Anniversaire - Busy B Belgian Braggot

My early forays into brewing Belgian style beers suffered from a lot of exuberance and not a lot of knowledge [https://smallscaleales.ghost.io/2014/07/13/16-bad-habit-judgment-day/]. In the true style of trying to run before you can walk, my second attempt was a mad braggot – half beer, half

1er Anniversaire - Bad Habit Belgian Dubbel

What a difference a year makes! I cooked up my first Belgian style ale in April 2014, and for the first few months of its life I was prepared to chalk it up as a not-to-be-repeated disaster. It was flat, uninteresting, brown and ugly [https://smallscaleales.ghost.io/2014/07/

#24 Rudyard's Marmalade Breakfast Pale Ale No. 2

Around this time last year I brewed the first iteration of Rudyard's Marmalade Breakfast Pale Ale. I wanted a light, juicy, orange feast with which to wash down a late breakfast. Something aromatic and quaffable without the guilt of a full blown IPA. Call it a session IPA

#23 Squatch Jr Review

This beer achieved the main goal I set for it, which was getting some IPA back in under my roof. It landed square on 6%. The level of bitterness is what I would call friendly. It's not tongue-curling like its predecessor, which my more mature palate considers to

#23 Squatch Jr

Panic stations! Despite having cupboards and most available flat surfaces overflowing with beer, the start of 2015 saw me run perilously low on hoppy beer. A few bottles of Bad Habit Trappist, slowly improving as it nears the 1-year mark; my cup litearlly overfloweth with Busy B Braggot, tasty but