During this week I got to know this quite odd brewery at my university - the picture above. It has lot of weird quirks because it is just ~150l setup with same technology as 1000l+ setup. It sometimes doesn't make much sense but you can brew pretty much anything in it.

Yeah I will probably be down there quite a lot during my studies ;-)

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I've got some pseudo Sahti on tap. It was on nitro but I lent my nitro tank and tap to my FIL who brewed a Guinness clone for St. Paddy's Day.

For my next brew day I'm planning on a West Coast Pilsner and a fig leaf and chicory Blonde Ale.

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Yesterday, I bottled a batch of Kölsch-style ale. In a few days, I am going to try a new (to me) recipe for a Rhenish-style Altbier. After that, I'll be spending a few months focusing on various meads.

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Currently a couple of different apple based ciders in a second fermentation for residual complex sugars with brettanomyces. I'm trying out ciders with saison/farmhouse/brown beer style of funky funk without the lactic acid acid component.

I have just finished a small batch of rhubarb mead - my first time using rhubarb for brewing. turned out well, but a little cloudy.

https://goldendrop.blueether.net/recipes/eAXKGn7t3kf7XURALz22/rhubarb-mead

I have ~30L of Luisa mead, this had just a hint of Luisa, and on early tasting is going to be very nice

https://goldendrop.blueether.net/recipes/4a45MqhNsLIc5yIGKWrt/larissa-and-pear

Just found this community and happy to see it semi active as lemmy is a pretty quiet place for the niches I tend to frequent.

I started brewing a couple of years ago with a simple stovetop extract kit and a plastic barrel fermenter, but after only a couple of brews that way I went straight to all grain and a fermzilla.

I have 24L of a not-quite Neipa in the fermenter at the moment, should be ready to keg in a week, I say not quite neipa as I generally do them in the 6.5-7.5% range with tonnes of oats and wheat, rolled and whole malted, Golden naked oats (try it), chit and cara, lots of lactose and hop loads in the 7-10g/l range, etc, bit heavy dense things. but this one is much more down to earth at 5.8%ish (we will see when its done) and a more restrained form of my usual hazy grain bill. starting gravity was 1063 and expected FG is ~1017-1020, higher FG is by design as it is lighter in ABV than the ~8% recipe it is based on so it should balance out.

Should be pretty tasty, Golden promise, wheat malt, chit, carahell, golden naked oats, rolled oats and a bit of lactose has been my go-to for big neipas for the last few brews, just been playing with the hop bill and timings, and a few different yeasts, this one is more diluted overall (24L vs 21L) and more base malt in the ratio. still expecting a very hazy beer but not not to the extent of it looking like a milkshake or orange juice this time.

Here's a picture just as it was starting to take off. will update once it has cold crashed and I can put a nice sample in a glass. It will clear out and lighten a fair bit but still be a bit cloudy.

@plactagonic @homebrewing My cider is still aging.. poorly, I'd guess!

oh, I also have a cold brew coffee mead bulk aging

https://goldendrop.blueether.net/recipes/3FA5VXRlE9r3ozsxGKrV/coffee-with-a-punch

Right now, I have a strawberry mead in the fermenter. Hopefully it will turn out okay.
I also gathered just enough baja blast bottles to do a batch of mountain mead. I did a recipe with the original one years ago and a friend of mine really wanted me to try this variant.

These days I experiment with sugar brews. I used to make mead but anything other than the bottom shelf supermarket honey became too expensive. Over $10 per litre for mead I have to put all the work into and which might suck in the end just doesn't appeal to me.

So now I've got a hard lemonade, a hard limeade and a pseudo-ale going, all cane sugar based. I expect the lemonade will be drinkable, the other two might be going down the sink, who knows. It's only about a dollar in materials down the drain if it sucks.

But I am also considering getting one of those small capacity electric pot stills and making wacky experimental things with it, like the YT channel Still It.