Gloves Are Off And Bribie G Reaches For Can Opener

[Shed101]

Wow, my girlfriend also loves creamy head!

Sorry, what forum is this?

BTW - for what it's worth, I'd go a highly attenuative yeast for a stout. Guiness, while creamy, is also dry if that makes sense. There's no residual sweetness, just a creamy mouthfeel. Hard to achieve without mashing/steeping and/or using nitrogen

Adding nitrogen to beer is a terrible thing indeed.

... alternatively you could just marry your girlfriend, she'll soon change her mind about the 'Guinness' :huh:

 

[Bribie G]

So the third & final keg blew <_< and apart from a couple of dozen bottles, BribieG is staring down the barrel of either Oettinger or Goon. So into action with the last spare fermenter. To recap, so far a Hallertau lager in the ferm fridge that will take a month. And two stouts now hammering away at 23 on the garage floor.

So: 20L batch, slightly higher ABV and keg only. Just got back from Woolies:

1 Coopers Lager
1 BE2
500 dex

250 BB Caramalt steeped and currently boiling for 20 mins with 30g Centennial pellets

US05

23 degrees should do ok as well, as I don't believe the US05 chucks too many esters, and I'll probably dry hop with Cascade to take the emphasis of the kit/LDME twang.

So in around a week I should have the stouts kegged and an APA-ish beer a few more days away. Good gap plugger, hopefully :beerbang:

 

[lastdrinks]

There's no shame in dropping back from AG to kit and bits. Sometimes you just have to get down into the trenches and play dirty, cant alwasys be highbrow and live the high life. I'm on the finishing touches of a 18 month home owner build and havent done an AG for 5 months and surviving on kits and bits.

I made time all the way through the build for 6 hours of AG brewing until compromised brewing conditions made two successive brews more light bodied IPA's than the APA's they were meant to be.

I thought stuff this 6 hours for beer i'm not that happy with....**** i can do that in 1 hour with kit and bits

Soon my beer space will be ready!!!

 

[petesbrew]

I was going to knock up an APA tongiht, but today I'm thinking Dammit, I need a stout, so I'm going back to the old fave:
Stout/Dark/500g Brown Sugar/2 x kit yeasts.
But this time I'll throw in 15g styrian dry hopped. Better use a blowoff tube as well.