{"id":5871,"date":"2012-08-04T21:12:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T20:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=5871"},"modified":"2026-06-01T10:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T08:38:10","slug":"buchwider-brau-%ce%b4%e2%82%81-is-a-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/buchwider-brau-%ce%b4%e2%82%81-is-a-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Buchwider Br\u00e4u \u03b4\u2081 is a failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had hoped to be able to announce my 4th successful brew &#8212; an Irish red called Buchwider Br\u00e4u \u03b4\u2081?.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, something went terribly wrong:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Buchwider Br\u00e4u \u03b4\u2081\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZMLuUtk_GVY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Already when I was bottling it, I noticed the brew was strangely thick, like thin syrup.  I&#8217;ve no idea what caused this, but I think it must have been a mashing error.  At this point, the taste was OK, so I decided to proceed.<\/p>\n<p>However, now it&#8217;s just horrible.  It generates far too much foam (as is clear from the video), and the taste isn&#8217;t good at all.  Interestingly, some bottles taste much worse than others, so I presume it must have something to do with wild yeast in my bottling equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I must not let failure hold me back, so I&#8217;ll brew something else soon.  One day I&#8217;ll make another attempt at brewing an Irish red again, but for now I&#8217;ll return to the continental brews that I seem to be better at brewing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had hoped to be able to announce my 4th successful brew &#8212; an Irish red called Buchwider Br\u00e4u \u03b4\u2081?. Unfortunately, something went terribly wrong: Already when I was bottling it, I noticed the brew was strangely thick, like thin syrup. I&#8217;ve no idea what caused this, but I think it must have been a mashing error. At this point, the taste was OK, so I decided to proceed. However, now it&#8217;s just horrible. It generates far too much foam (as is clear from the video), and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,159,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brewing","category-en","category-fooddrink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13744,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871\/revisions\/13744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}