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Gallipoli Grog tasted, partay!
The Aussie Lager brew from last month was definitely good enough to drink, even after only 3 weeks. We thought it could be crap because it didn’t taste too good to start with but it has matured very well!
We polished off about 10 bottles on Saturday for our friend’s engagement party which was great. After we spent the night drinking in the park with a small fire, huge sound system and good company. At some point the cops came around to check on us but since no complaint had been received they left us alone!
It’s now Monday, and I still feel pretty ordinary. Probably because of the range and quantity of different beers drunken throughout the evening.
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Gallipoli Grog Lager
Chief brewer Mark, another mate Josh and myself met up for pasta and beer. Mark showed his new skill of pasta making, cooking up some great spinach and ricotta thingys, very enjoyable along with the now mature Extra Dry and Cascade Spicy Ghost Draught brews. After dinner it was time to prepare a new batch.
This time we used the Morgan’s Australian Lager extract to make a Fosters Lager type brew (hopefully). Since it was the ANZAC day long weekend, we are calling this batch Gallipoli Grog.
After sanitising the equipment, we mixed 2L boiled water with the extract and a 1kg Ultra pack (250g Maltodextrose, 250g Dextrose, 550g Pale Malt), and added another 250g Dextrose/sucrose mix.
Filled to 24L mark with cold filtered water, added the yeast mix, and stirred for 30sec (rather than letting it sit on top of the mix like previous brews. Final temperature was 28C.
Since it is getting close to winter and we’re in a cold snap at the moment, we wrapped the fermenter in a blanket and left it downstairs.
Initial SG 1040