Crag View Brewery

04/10/2020

Brewed this a couple of months ago, it was supposed to be a marshmallow flavoured imperial stout, toasted some cacao nibs and soaked them in bourbon along with a couple of split and scraped vanilla pods, added them when it finished fermenting, then I got some marshmallow flavouring used for cakes etc which I dosed in very small amounts to try but I didn't like it- very artificial tasting so I left it alone till I figured out what to do with it.
Then I stumbled across and colab Norse Star in Morrisons and on the label it read cacao, vanilla and almond imperial stout, so that was the light bulb 💡 moment, looked for some almond extract but couldn't find any local so decided to use amaretto-an almond liqueur, dosed it up till it tastes right, there wasn't enough vanilla either so I added some vanilla bean paste.
Weighing in at 10% abv, this will hopefully be a lovely viscous imperial stout 🙂👍👌

17/07/2020

17/07/2020

Last bottle of this Baltic porter I brewed about 3 years ago, won a gold medal in a comp with this 🙂
Probably one of the best beers I've brewed, its sooooo full bodied and packed with flavour, savouring this one 🍻😋

01/05/2020

Brewday done, a nice session pale ale with simcoe and vic secret :)

11/04/2020

Brewery tap has had a new coat of uv resistant coating yesterday, brewed the 'All Together IPA' , seen breweries and home brewers doing , looks tasty so having a go :)

19/03/2020

My house oatmeal pale ale aka 'washburn valley pale ale' ,been kegged a couple of weeks now and its tasting great, bloody love this beer, brewing it again this weekend, kegging maple milk stout too 👍

08/03/2020

Maple milk stout done today, high mash temp so loads of body, dumped on a liberty bell yeast cake, going like the clappers tonight 😃

23/02/2020

Brewday done, Washburn Valley pale ale, my favourite american pale ale, citra , simcoe and mosaic hops 👍
Bit of a slow run off even with rice hulls, lots of oats and wheat but it came out ok in the end 😀

23/02/2020

Brewday collab from a few weeks ago with Charlie aka Dakinthepiss , brewed an imperial spiced marmalade tea saison, bottled it today, came in at 9.2%ABV😲
Used wlp564 saison blend, ramped it up to 28°
Tastes bloody lovely already 😜

12/01/2020

Brew day done, an american pale ale with Enigma and Denali hops, all from 20 mins onward with a 20 min steep 🙂