Drinks

Bright Tank Farmhouse?

Bright Tank Brewing Co website

Local brewery made a Farmhouse ale? …it tastes pretty legit.

Bright Tank – Le’Myrtle Farmhouse ale, 7.5%ABV 375ml can.
This actually tastes farmhouse, this seems def made with bugs, which is really fucking cool. Wish there was more info on how this was made. It has Lemon Myrtle I guess, also says it has Citra hops. The hopping for the end result is “balanced” enough at least. It definitely has a lemony taste, but the yeast/bugs is the big thing here as far as character, and as above, not enough info on that. Has a slight viscosity, maybe thats a brett/pedio thing? This is good, could go a little lower on the malt bill and lower on the ABV, bigger on the myrtle and create some breathing room for the yeast/bugs. Its good tho, and seriously happy a local is doing the farmhouse.

Drinks

La Sirene – Praline

Finally got one of these. Brewed 12/5/20, drinking on 13/6/20, so unsure how much effect that has.

Praline – Oak aged cacao, hazelnut and vanilla stout. 5.8%

La Sirene lists this as Colour 5/5, Bitterness 1/5 and Decadence 5/5.

Its…interesting. On first sip I was not impressed, but this just keeps developing. Its a dark, very dark, opaque and turbid pour, with a small tan head, very light carbonation. The nose is cocoa, dark roasty malts and a hint of wild yeast funk. The taste is initially cocoa but followed up very fast with a noticeable wild sourness I assume from the barrels, that is melding with the dark malt bitterness. No noticeable hops. Theres vanilla that hangs around and after a few more sips the woody and rather dry barrel character comes out. The more sips the more the sourness transforms or is overtaken by the barrel and a red wine-like oakey dryness even on the lips. Still cocoa, still this lingering vanilla, still dark malts, all the aroma still there, but its a big red wine cabernet-like dry puckering oakeyness. I imagine super-fresh there would be more chocolate and vanilla character, but this was still very nice.

What a strange but enjoyable beer.

Brewing, Drinks

Brewing a beer with Kveik

Decided due to weather, and due to wanting to use this particular yeast, and wanting to make a beer, I would make a beer with Kveik yeast (WLP4045 Sigmunds Voss Kveik)

Nice!

Rather than the usual beer people seem to be making with Kveik, usually lighter flavoured stuff to let the yeast character shine, I thought I would make a UK Best Bitter, a Timothy Taylor Landlord type beer, and use this yeast because its summer and it works well at high temps. Any Kveik yeast characteristics will be an interesting result.

Above is the recipe. 10lt beer, 30minute boil. It came out a bit low on bittering hops, but we shall see how that comes out. Timothy Taylor Landlord is usually pure Golden Promise, I thought I would try some Shepherds Delight malt for character, plus it sounded interesting (and the recipe started as a more pure Landlord clone with Wyeast 1469 West Yorkshire Ale yeast).

Its about 1.035-ish, so Its going to be maybe 3.0% – 3.5% depending how the yeast goes.

19/1/20 – Its fermenting now, Was going very strong a few hours after pitching.
Will post again probably on the weekend when its done fermenting.

EDIT: I checked it 21/1/20 and it was about 1.005.

EDIT: I checked it again 23/1/20 and it was about 1.005-ish, I moved it to secondary to get off the excess trub and also dropped in 5g each of Cluster and Styrian. Will probably bottle on 26th.

19/1/20 Going bonkers