diff --git a/content/article/smashed-it/index.md b/content/article/smashed-it/index.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d0c2d908 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/article/smashed-it/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +--- +title: "Smashed It" +date: 2021-08-17T12:24:30+01:00 +draft: true +Blog: [] +Categories: [] +Tags: [] +Image: +Type: +draft: false +--- diff --git a/content/article/under-whelming/index.md b/content/article/under-whelming/index.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e4ea9d0a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/article/under-whelming/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +--- +title: "Under Whelming" +date: 2021-05-30T12:34:26+01:00 +Description: "Notes from brew day #17" +Summary: "A brief departure from my series of SMaSH IPAs to attempt a fairly straighforward Oatmeal Pale Ale from Siren" +Blog: ["Brewshido"] +category: + - "Homebrewing" + - "Craft Beer" + - "grainfather" +tag: + - "Siren" + - "Undercurrent" + - "Oatmeal Pale Ale" +images: ["/images/under-whelming/banner.jpg"] +Type: ["article"] +draft: false +DisableComments: false +--- +I like to break up the slight monotony of a series of the same type of brews with a guest beer brew day, where instead of focussing on a technique or ingredient influence, I can just chill out and make a nice beer. For my 17th brew day, I opted for Siren's Undercurrent Oatmeal Pale Ale as something about the recipe resonated with me and I love oats in a beer. I don't remember ever sampling this beer before and perhaps if I had, I may have opted for something a little more interesting (for my taste), __my attempt at__ Siren's Undercurrent was disappointingly underwhelming. + +--- + +The brew day was pretty straight-forward with the only real difference to my normal routine being a slightly longer boil which, and I may be mistaken here, lends itself to a slightly sweeter finish. + +I wasn't able to get one of the hops (Palisade) so switched it out for Williamette. + +I was tired the night before so had decided to clean and sanitise the brewing kit in the morning before the brew, this is always a mistake but sometimes unavoidable and basically always leads to me struggling to get my head in the game. What should have been a very easy brew day turned out to be a series of micro-errors. + +* I had issues with recirculation during the mash stage which led to higher than desired temperatures for part of the process. +* Once _again_ the poorly designed additional filter around the grainfather inlet valve was swept to the side and rendered useless, leading to a little more grist getting into the wort. +* The hop spider got blocked and so required intervention post whirlpooling and cooling, +* And there were a disappointing lack of bubbles when transferred into the fermenter. Even after giving the wort a vigourous shake, the bubbles dissipated quickly leading to what I expected to be a fairly lacklustre fermentation. + +I did however, hit close to both original and final gravity targets but the resulting beer lacked a little character and as this was before I replaced the o-rings in my cornelius kegs it was ever so slightly oxidated. + +That said, every brew adds to my experience and knowledge and this one was no exception. + +Onwards. diff --git a/static/images/under-whelming/banner.jpg b/static/images/under-whelming/banner.jpg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..be651463 Binary files /dev/null and b/static/images/under-whelming/banner.jpg differ