Big Brew Day

[crozdog]

I found this on the American Homebrewers Association site & thought some AHB'ers could use the excuse to put down a brew & have a gathering. :beer: As if we need the excuse!

The site is here

Here is a brief extract / summary from the site:

"WHAT IS BIG BREW?

Each year on the first Saturday in May, homebrewers unite non-brewing and brewing friends and family to celebrate National Homebrew Day, joining with thousands of homebrewers from around the world in brewing the same recipes and sharing a simultaneous toast at noon Central Time."

It has been running since 2001. Last year "7,347 gallons of homebrew brewed worldwide at 210 Big Brew sites by 2,956 participants."

The allgrain and extract recipes for the day can be found at this link.

Hopefully I'll have my AG setup finished by then. :super:

So, anyone doing anything on May 6th?

Cheers

Crozdog

 

[mikem108]

I'm willing to do one on the day for the eastsiders

 

[bradmcm]

It has been running since 2001. Last year "7,347 gallons of homebrew brewed worldwide at 210 Big Brew sites by 2,956 participants."

The allgrain and extract recipes for the day can be found at this link.
Cheers

Crozdog

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It's been running since at least 1998, that's when I started doing it. I still have the shirt from the 1999 Big Brew we did at Grumpy's.
We had a chat link to brewers in America running as well as thebrew and we have syncronised toasts with the Canberra brewers as well as homebrewers in Japan.


It's a great fun event and I suggest everybody register a site and get involved.

 

[tdh]

What's with 'high malt' and 'low malt'?

I haven't that before, anybody got an idea what they mean?

tdh

Poor Richards Ale All Grain Recipe1
For 5 gallons using a 6.5-gallon boil.
O.G.: 1.068
F.G.: 1.018
IBU: 26.9
SRM: 18.8
BU/GU Ratio: 0.39

Fermentables
6.75 lbs. Maris Otter (Low Malt) (53%)
2.75 lbs. Flaked Corn (22%)
1.75 lbs. Biscuit (High Malt) (14%)
1.0 lbs. Special Roast (High Malt) (8%)
2.0 oz. Black Patent (High Malt) (1%)
4.0 oz. Dark Molasses (2%) 15 minutes before the end of boil

 

[Borret]

Finally a recipe. The 2006 recipe link has been there for a few months now but always went to last years recipe. Thanks for teeh heads up.

Brent

 

[bradmcm]

tdh,
have a look at the link to the PDF file about the beer, bottom of second paragraph.

They are 18th Century US terms for lightly kilned and heavily kilned malts.
The Brits would have called them pale and brown malts.

 

[Linz]

Im gathering the level of interest for a BBD for the MALE group in the S/W of Sydney....anyone else here in the Macarthur Region or surrounds????

 

[recharge]

Well this could just be the incentive i need to get my ag setup running. Just waiting on a bunch of 1/2 bsp stainless sockets, weld em on by which time my mill should have arrived.
Could be a virgin brew day in the hills.

:beer:

Richard

 

[SteveSA]

Bit of slow day today so I've been converting Poor Richard's Ale into something a bit more useful to those of us in Oz.

Recipe: Poor Richard's Ale BB2006
Brewer: Steve Court
Asst Brewer: Drunken Adelaideans
Style: Old Ale
Brewed for Big Brew Day 2006

Recipe Specifications
--------------------------
Batch Size: 22.00 L
Boil Size: 29.57 L
Estimated OG: 1.068 SG
Estimated Color: 37.0 EBC
Estimated IBU: 31.2 IBU (Rager)
Brewhouse Efficiency: 73.0 %
Boil Time: 90 Minutes

Ingredients:
------------
Amount Item % or IBU
3.50kg Bairds Maris Otter Pale Ale Malt (5.3 EBC) 54.0 %
1.43kg TF Flaked Maize (0.0 EBC) 22.1 %
0.90kg Weyermann Caraamber (70.9 EBC) 13.9 %
0.50kg TF Brown Malt (149.9 EBC) 7.7 %
0.13 kg Molasses (157.6 EBC) 2.0 %
25g TF Black Malt (1270.7 EBC) 0.4 %

17g Goldings, East Kent (Plug) [5.20%] (60 min) 11.0 IBU
25g Goldings, East Kent (Plug) [5.20%] (45 min) 14.5 IBU
17g Goldings, East Kent (Plug) [5.20%] (30 min) 5.6 IBU

Scottish Ale (Wyeast Labs #1728)

Mash Schedule: Single Infusion, Medium/Full Body
Total Grain Weight: 6.35 kg
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Name Description Step Temp Step Time
Mash In Add 18.00 L of water at 78.7 C 68.0 C 75 min
Mash Out Add 8.00 L of water at 98.6 C 76.0 C 10 min
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Bitterness is slightly higher on my conversion but it appears the original recipe uses Tinseth - 26IBU is equal to 31IBU Rager.

Less Black Malt used to stay in colour range.

I've never brewed anyone's recipe to the letter before but this one looks like an absolute cracker so I'm inclined to leave it as is.
Although 900g of Caraamber is a lot, I expect the amount of Flaked Maize to balance this.
Having said that though I'm leaning towards dropping it by 300g and increasing the MO by the same.

Any thoughts/comments?

Happy brewing
Steve

 

[jayse]

Afternoon steveington,
I don't think there should be any type of crystal malt in it at all buy the looks of that recipe, looks like your subing the biscuit for the caraamber but i think TF amber malt would proberly be the correct sub of the top of my head.


Jayse

 

[roach]

Jaysington,
TF Amber would be way overpowering at 14% of the bill, and would turn out to be a toast beer. JW Amber might be OK tho as it is much more subtle.

Flaked maize would thin it out but also leave a residual corny sweetness.

I agree with you Jayse and drop the crystal and maybe sub in 500g of JW amber.

roach

 

[Shunty]

Damn i'm keen for this. Any other Wellington, NZ Brewers lurking on here?

 

[redbeard]

yes.

unfortunately my brewing area only accomodates 2 peeples (balcony). perhaps someone with a decent backyard & understanding swmbo could volunteer for syd ? perhaps we should all make the trip out to camden country where linz & pumpy reside, & have *acres* of backyard !

shunty - wellington has 2 brewers ??



(sorry, doc will hurt me now)

edit - speeling

 

[Doc]

shunty - wellington has 2 brewers ??

(sorry, doc will hurt me now)

With some backup from Guest Lurker

Doc

 

[Linz]

Any home brew shops putting these recipes together????

to sell as a pack???


OP knocking??

 

[Linz]

now known as site #20

http://www.beertown.org/events/bigbrew/Bigbrewselect.aspx

 

[SteveSA]

Afternoon steveington,
I don't think there should be any type of crystal malt in it at all buy the looks of that recipe, looks like your subing the biscuit for the caraamber but i think TF amber malt would proberly be the correct sub of the top of my head.


Jayse

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Jaysington,
TF Amber would be way overpowering at 14% of the bill, and would turn out to be a toast beer. JW Amber might be OK tho as it is much more subtle.

Flaked maize would thin it out but also leave a residual corny sweetness.

I agree with you Jayse and drop the crystal and maybe sub in 500g of JW amber.

roach

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Duly noted, mulled over and amended.

Jayse,
Info regarding the substitutions came from here http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/Grai...tion-t1277.html
After re-reading Wes' posts I agree with Roach's suggestion of using JW Amber but since I've only got 300g of JW on hand, I'll use 200g of TF as well - should be right considering the reduced amount.

Cheers gents
Steve

 

[jayse]

Looking forward to the brewday, i'll have to drink twice as much that day to make up for the pub crawl i'am gunna have to miss this weekend.

On the subject of amber is anyone stocking it anymore?

Born to booze
Jayse

 

[Ross]

On the subject of amber is anyone stocking it anymore?

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How much do you need Jayse?


cheers Ross...

 

[Borret]

Looking forward to the brewday, i'll have to drink twice as much that day to make up for the pub crawl i'am gunna have to miss this weekend.

On the subject of amber is anyone stocking it anymore?

Born to booze
Jayse

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Roast your own... easy as and it smells and tastes divine.

Failing that my LHBS stocks it.

Brent