Bluebird

[drjim]

I'm just having a few pints of my Coniston bluebird clone. Was watching Man City in champions league, it's the first time my 15 year old Son has really seen them lose properly - I having had a season ticket since 2003 remember a lot worse. Anyway the beer eased the result.

Previous Bluebird was all challenger but I was running a bit low, so I used some Magnum for the bittering and used the challenger later on. Sort of a userupper bluebird I guess.

Did the brew in the Buffalo 40L boiler as a BIAB. It finished fermenting, and was put into some of my big foil bags 77 days ago according to Brewfather. Two bags of about 14L each from my 30L fermenter.

One bag kept blowing itself up, was the bottom half of the fermenter and presumably had more yeast etc in it. That's the one I'm drinking. Pulled through a proper handpump of course.

It's nice, not quite the same as my previous Bluebird, but that was bottled (and slightly overcarbed). It doesn't taste much different to the real thing though. For completeness, I will state my tastebuds have been ravaged by a repeat Covid infection a few weeks ago so I'm not at the beer judge level, anyway it's nice.

I'd give you a picture but just imagine a pale bitter with good head, nice retention and lacing the glass, which tastes a bit like Coniston Bluebird. Eminently drinkable and worth making yourself.

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[bitter_dave]

Excellent. Really like Bluebird. Challenger is such a nice but underrated hop.