So.. this one's about the beers you can never create again. A place to honour those beers that went so wrong, but persistence to rescue/finish/rdwhahb/not meddle with your beer/mop up led to the best beer ever. One that you won't be able to recreate. So - those beers that came back from the dead...
I'll throw my first one in the ring - a 5 gallon IPA during which the boiler cut out at 40 minutes just as I was going to start aroma hops. DEAD. I was THIS close to binning it. I finished off hurriedly in 5 different saucepans on my hob, with a frantic last 20 minute hopping schedule all hastily re-defined per pot size which all boiled at different times. Cooling was done by chucking the 5 pots at different times into the fermenter - trub/break and all arg! - in a bath filled with cold water. Cooling took 3 hours and the damn thing nearly tipped over twice too. Irish moss was forgotten in the panic.
Fermentation temperatures were all over the shop thanks to a sudden cold snap too.
Wouldn't you know it's probably the best beer I brewed despite a complete ignoring of my usually meticulous process haha. I'm so glad I didn't dump it.. No way I can reproduce my "Resurrection IPA" again. I'm thinking the secret ingredient must have been the swearing I did all the way through...
I'll throw my first one in the ring - a 5 gallon IPA during which the boiler cut out at 40 minutes just as I was going to start aroma hops. DEAD. I was THIS close to binning it. I finished off hurriedly in 5 different saucepans on my hob, with a frantic last 20 minute hopping schedule all hastily re-defined per pot size which all boiled at different times. Cooling was done by chucking the 5 pots at different times into the fermenter - trub/break and all arg! - in a bath filled with cold water. Cooling took 3 hours and the damn thing nearly tipped over twice too. Irish moss was forgotten in the panic.
Fermentation temperatures were all over the shop thanks to a sudden cold snap too.
Wouldn't you know it's probably the best beer I brewed despite a complete ignoring of my usually meticulous process haha. I'm so glad I didn't dump it.. No way I can reproduce my "Resurrection IPA" again. I'm thinking the secret ingredient must have been the swearing I did all the way through...
