Anyway, to the post. When it comes to my home brewing, I like to mess around with yeast strains rather than sticking to something like Safale-04, as well as coming up with recipes on a whim. So it was, on Saturday that I decided to pop down to Fifth Season Gardening to get some hops, some specialty grain and a packet of yeast in order to use up a couple of pounds of light malt extract I had knocking about.
The recipe ended up being:
- 2lb light dry malt extract
- 0.5lb American Caramel 120
- 0.5oz EKG boiled for 60 minutes
- 0.25oz EKG boiled for 15 minutes
- 0.25oz EKG boiled for 5 minutes
- Wyeast 1187 Ringwood Ale
This is my first attempt at a best bitter, and given the combination of Goldings hops and the Ringwood ale yeast, I am calling it Ring of Gold.
Sorry to hear about the clot. From what I've heard I know that can be serious. Great that you are doing well enough to do some home brewing.
ReplyDeleteI was rather surprised to hear that if I had ignored Mrs Velkyal's naggings to go to the doctor and it had gone undetected, then it could have shifted and caused a pulminary embolism or something equally deadly. Right now I am just happy to have it done with, although the drugs I am on at the moment mean no drinking for a month. Better alive than drunk I guess.
ReplyDeleteGlad you're ok, me old fella. they can be bad, for sure.
ReplyDeleteBlimey. Glad to hear you're OK and suddenly feeling very hypchondriac myself...
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