The Wheaty turns Seven!!

Double hopped Lobethal bierhaus Ale, a Moo Dark Ale and birthday cupcake for good measure. Hops, roasted malt and small cakes.... Heaven! Giles

VF# 23 Lotsa Hops!!

V F 23

Harvest Ale

21kg Joe White Pilsner Malt
2kg Carapils
1.5kg Light Crystal
0.5kg Medium Cystal
0.5kg Oatmeal


WYeast 1272 American Ale II


Fresh home grown Chinook and Cascade hops.

60 minutes -- 370gms Chinook Fresh Dried Flowers
90gms Cascade Fresh Dried Flowers

15 minutes -- 110gms Cascade Fresh Dried Flowers

Flameout -- 600gms Chinook Fresh Picked Flowers (wet)

Specific Gravity 1050

Skipper

Beers on Tap...

Some immature hop flowers atop the font at The Wheaty...

Sierra Nevada Torpedo IPA - My golly gosh what a beer!  Apparently they have a license on the variety of hops that are used in this explosive ale! Thanks Jonty!

Epic Mayhem Ale, from the NZ brewery that brought you the Armageddon IPA with 42 count'em 42 hop varieties in the mix - and it is very drinkable.  I think the Mayhem is such a good beer, so well balance so clean in its flavour, and what tremendous flavour!!  Cheers Coops!!

Giles

VF # 22 - PALE ALE

Malt:
22Kg 2 Row Pale Ale Barley %85
2.1Kg Cara Pils %8
1.8Kg Crystal Malt 60L %7

Yeast:
Wyeast: American Ale II 1272, 1125322 / MFG 30th November '09

Hops:
Pacific Jade 200gm @ Boiling.
Cascade100gm@ 15mins to go...
Cascade100gm@ Flame OUT...
Dry Hoppping:
80gms (20gms per 25L Fermenter)

Mash Regime:
Mash 80L @ 70 deg C
Sparge 70L @ 75 deg C

S G 1050 for 110 Lts
F G 1016

Tasting notes to come:
Skipper

Harvest ale hits the bottle!

Every year the VF Brewers make a Harvest Ale with the hop harvest from their hop garden at Bordertown in the SouthEast of SouthAustralia. This year the harvest was effected by severe hot weather and not as potent as we wished. Nevertheless we brewed and finally it is in the bottle. A single malt recipe with the selection of Cluster, Chinook & Columbus flowers across the boil. The resulting flavour when fermented with a British Ale yeast is a clean, slightly grassy and fruity ale that will be perfect for the pending summer. It stared at 1.054 and finished after a week of cold maturation at 1.012. So hopefully we have an easy going harvest ale to suit the hops and their effected character.



Giles

New Season's growth - Hop Garden.

Columbus Hop Plants bursting out of the ground!

Cascade on the way!!

Giles