Great G2G Pat, Brilliant tour of the brewery too. Shame about your numbers but you got another stunner on your hands for your festival. I hope it gets a lot of chips. Cheers \_/
I was lucky enough to try this at home and thought it was lovely mate, I remember an old timer telling me if putting a stout in a bottle you dont need to add any sugar/dme as they do keep going on their own. I've never tried it but maybe I will now. Your first on my list for beer mail mate. Thanks again Pat for all your vids. PS a double double batch brewday OMG ! Cheers Again \_/
Dark beers are really resilient. I’ve just done a 5+ year old porter vid and I’m still here to tell the tale. Looking forward to seeing your mammoth brew day and always look forward to Pattoberfest, loving the old beer vids cheers 👍🍻
Cheers Rick the mammoth brew day went ok although there was some difficulties towards the end of the day hopefully it will be a entertaining watch when it’s all ready cheers 🍻
Was lucky enough to try one as the winner last year, definitely a good beer then. Most of by brews are still being drunk over 12 months later, as I brew far more than I can drink..The flavour of most mellows over time but still happy to drink them .
At the moment I think I’m about even on amount brewed/drunk but I want to do more brewing so guess I’ll either have to age it or do more beer mail. Cheers 🍻
Love your bar Pat👍 I don’t have any old beers but I do have a few I am aging from last October. Most of the beers I brew reach a point where they don’t get any better for keeping but they have usually gone by then😂 The lagers I brew in December, January and February and I do my best to make them last until the summer. This year I have done well as there’s still some left😂 Cheers mate👍
Cheers, I’m surprised some of mine have been hanging around as long as they have, I do have a NEIPA that’s just short of a year old I’m expecting it to be be a tipper. Cheers 🍻
Do it ,I’ve just recorded a video of an out of date commercial porter and a Homebrew that inspired me to brew one both well OOD Do it definitely cheers 👍🍻
I’ll start recording the new mini series this weekend the more I look around the more old brews I find I have a homebrew wine bottle I have no idea what’s in it. 🍻
Was that a kegland bucket blaster at the start or a homemade one ? Thinking of ordering one. Interesting honest review nice one cheers 👍🍻 ps did you get your pipes bent successfully and without injury ? 🤣😂
It’s a homemade one but I recon the kegland bucket blaster would be worth the cost. Pipes did get bent with no injury but it was still eventful bent one of the pipes in the wrong direction 🤦♂️ cheers 🍻
Decent video I do like a bit of brewing footage. Interesting that your beer hasn't even cleared at all in that time. Do you think shorter boil might have done it?
Cheers I filmed a lot more brewday footage for my last brewday 30 min worth but think that might be a bit much. The shorter boil might have been a factor I made sure the boil was a vigorous one to try and compensate for the shorter time a rebrew will be the real test. Cheers 🍻
wow that is a very light colour, you might to rebrew but with more than the 20 minute boil to see if it's the same. Can't imagine there is much to the grain bill other than pilsner malt and just citra hops.
Great video Pat and a brutally honest review. I think it maybe needs a bit longer to condition. Having said that my latest lager has had three months today in the keg and is still a bit murky. I am hit and miss with those types of beers and as for my last NEIPA, well it looks lovely but is far too bitter and it doesn’t seem to be fading😩 Hoping the one currently in the fermenter is an improvement 🤞
Thanks, got to be honest and share the bad with the good or people won’t believe me when I say I’ve actually done a good beer. We’ll give it some time and might add some finings to see if that helps clear it up. I’ve only done one NEIPA which turned out well but realised it’s more complicated than I thought it would be. Fingers crossed your current one calms down and the one in the fermenter turns out well. Cheers mate 🍻
Nice one, sounds like a great event and looks like a right crowd turned up. Good work on your beer selling out first. You'll know if it was alphabetical influenced next year when people turn up with beers called 01Aardvark Pale Ale 😂 Its good that cask emptied over the garage floor and not his motor, imagine if that happened, would stink for ever.
It was such a good event. It’s when I rename the same beer Zyzzyva Pale and see how it does. When I was driving mine I suddenly became extra aware of all the potholes.
RIP Peter 🍻that Westie should have a number on the cap which will tell you which it is I think ? You could only get it from the monastery but I think you can buy it in shops now ? Lovely tribute. Cheers 👍🍻
I have a v2 beer come off my tap yesterday and somehow, despite it being the same recipe and yeast, it tastes different. I'm stumped. You should come to LCBF in August, you'll meet all us knobs in real life (and wish you hadn't) 😂
Sounds like it was a decent beer but marked down against style which is the rules of the game I suppose. Even as you were pouring I was thinking it looked a touch dark. I'm scoring that handwriting as a 2.
Yeah before submitting the beer I was thinking put it in as a Czech Amber but then my ABV would have been too high for that style. The handwriting was a 2 at most. Cheers 🍻
You should have drank the crud and pretended everything was perfectly normal 😂. I don't really worry too much about temperature as I reckon it's the time that has more effect. My keezer is usually 5 or 6c but I've left kegs in garage where it can swing between -5 and +10 in winter and they've been great.
🤣 I don’t think my acting would be good enough to pull that off. Yeah I don’t think the temp made that much difference but I’m glad I’ve still got most of the lagered keg still to go.
Hahaha. I literally lol'd when I heard it. Sods law for sure. 2nd keg looks a belter though! Always look on the bright side of life, now you have an empty keg that needs filled! ❤ Slàinte
Using something new for the first time usually turns into a fiasco for me. That may just be more me than the equipment. What was it you were brewing? don't think you said
I did almost leave the tap open on the kettle but caught it before disaster hit. Brewed a version of the vacant but with Amarillo instead of mosaic and tweak to the grain bill.
You can’t go wrong with saaz and tettnang hops in a pilsner I use both. Yours looks beautiful I try and have a lager,pilsner or kolsch type of beer on tap now always, thinking of brewing a citra lager for the first time with nova lager yeast very soon. As I commented when you commented on my video I’m watching you while you’re watching me brilliant 🤣. Really looking forward to seeing your adventures in 2024 brilliant cheers 👍🍻
I need to start keeping a pilsner on tap but maybe a lower %, citra lager sounds good. The you watching me while watch you was great. It’s when we both do a live steam watching each other, it’s a brewtube version of Inception 🤣 Cheers 🍻
'Chin-Rest' Pilsner. I am pissing myself as I type. May I ask, does the Bohemian pilsner malt taste noticeably different to, say, Crisp Europils? Happy Brewing!
Honestly I don’t know, it tastes really good but I haven’t done a direct comparison. It’s probably not that much different I used it because I have heard a few people talking it up. Cheers 🍻
It might be worth a try to put a spunding valve on the side cap that you are using for the gas input. Then after a bottle is attached, put the gas fitting on the top cap. Make sure the spunding valve is just releasing gas for a few second and it's an semi-auto purge. Then disconnect the gas and connect the beer line. As the beer fills the spunding valve will vent off the over pressure. Once the beer is up to the level you want disconnect the beer line as you do now.
Excellent video Pat. Need to do some tidying in my garage too! Planning to soon expand part of my brewing area into the garage for mashing / boiling purposes. Hope your Christmas was a good one. Cheers & Happy New Year! 🍺
