BrewDog Recipes

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Plum Lambic - 15 days after Brettanomyces bruxellensis and plums added

Bottling Day for Plum Lambic

Removing the Plums

Hydrometer Reading

Plum Lambic - The Process

If you have a plum tree in your back yard and you get tired of eating plums for every meal, why not brew a Plum Lambic!

We based our recipe from the BYO website here. The original uses apple but no one had an apple tree. 

The brewing isn't yet complete. We have now racked to a second vessel containing 1.7kg of quartered plums and added the Brettanomyces bruxellensis. 

For the second phase of fermentation the beer is taken to a cellar to be kept at a constant temperature of 20°C for another 10 to 15 days before bottling. 

Below are some photos of the process so far. 

Liam watching the boil.

Home grown plums.

Plums waiting to be introduced to first phase fermented beer.

Picture of beer after the first phase of fermentation.

Beer over plums with Brettanomyces bruxellensis being added. 

Beer in the cellar for phase two of fermentation.

Back to Black

While the All Blacks were destroying Australian pride the water was heating up. This brew is a Coffee infused Stout. 

Below are some photos of the boil and the cooling of the wort.

Joe Junior - Amber Ale

The three of us got together to brew an amber ale in celebration of Joe and Hannah's new baby.  Joe was too busy getting the homestead all homey.

The beer worked really well and was based of the Hallertau's Logg Cabin recipe in the Big Book of Home Brew: A Kiwi Guide. I highly recommend this book for beginners, some easy to follow recipes from some of New Zealand's best craft beer breweries.

Below is a picture of the label.

Double HOPnob IPA

Craft beer brewers/lovers love wordplay. We decided to call our latest brew Double HOPnob IPA.


Definitions from Urban Dictionary.

Hobnob

Hobnob v 1. to mingle, usually with the upper class of society.

The verb hobnob originally meant “to drink together” and occurred as a varying phrase, hob or nob, hob-a-nob, or hob and nob, the first of which is recorded in 1763.

"After the opera, we hobnobbed with the foreign heads-of-state."

Hobnobbing

To hobnob means to chat and share a laugh and a drink in the presence of other people at a function or party.

I do love hobnobbing at all those various hobnob do's that I do go too.

Or

Quit yo hobnobbing beeatch before I bitchslap you round the face!!

Hop(s)

Brewers use hops, a small bitter flowering plant, to provide a counterbalancing aroma and taste to beer. The basic idea is not unlike what you would find in a good wine. As you drink, the malty beer washes over your tongue, bringing you body and sweetness. As you swallow, the hops hit the bitter taste buds in the back of your mouth, serving as a tonic, leaving (hopefully) a refreshing taste.

You hate beer — if you do hate beer — because most of the beers you've tried are unbalanced. All you can taste is hops. And with nothing to balance them, hops taste nasty.

Nob

British slang term for the penis. Typically used as an excellent cheap insult. Used in jest (above "moron", just below "twat", and well below "cunt"), or used to describe someone who is doing something you think is annoying or a bit crap.

Scenario 1: one of your friends walks into the room and throws an apple at you. You reply: "Don't be a nob."

Scenario 2: your aging boss thinks he has broken his laptop because the battery ran out. You say: "Hah. He's such a nob."

Scenario 3: you have gonorrhoea, and it's making your nob hurt. 

Obviously there is more to this name then we are telling you but it's an 'in' joke. Perhaps not the best name for a commercial beer (lucky it isn't one!) . 

Below is the label and a poster you can print out and stick to yr wall.

Design by Louis N Campbell

Design by Louis N Campbell

Double IPA in Carboy Picture

The latest brew after 9 days in carboy.

Photo by Joe Henderson