MrsGrumpy is going away for 2 weeks.

[GrumpyPaul]

Element - Your fault.
Flooding bathroom - Your fault.
Near boil over - Well, I must come clean on this one, your fault.
Cube hops - Pretty sure we can follow the pattern here....


Good brew day though, looking forward to fermenting this fruit salad up!

Cheers

I dispute those claims....

Element...your farking system, about time you learnt which switches mean on or off.

Flooding and boil over....all I did was stand around drinking your beer. I don't recall bring given any responsibility other than measuring hops.

Cube hop additions...Ok I had one job.

Is it possible to blame MrsCocko....she was putting way too much pressure on us to hurry up. I cracked under the pressure .

 

[Cocko]

Thats right, ok MrsCocko has a lot to answer for when I get home!!

Sorry for falsely accusing you of things, mate, when obviously my own Mrs was the one clearly at fault.

 

[GrumpyPaul]

Thats right, ok MrsCocko has a lot to answer for when I get home!!

Sorry for falsely accusing you of things, mate, when obviously my own Mrs was the one clearly at fault.

Apology accepted...

Come to think of she may have been in the vicinity of that element switch too.

(She wasn't really - but I can hardly blame MrsGrumpy for inadvertently switching it on she's on the other side of the plant.)












pattern forming here.....me pointing the finger of blame at everyone but me.

 

[Nullnvoid]

(She wasn't really - but I can hardly blame MrsGrumpy for inadvertently switching it on she's on the other side of the plant.)

Well, you probably could blame her if she was only on the other side of the plant

 

[GrumpyPaul]

A bit belated....but On Tuesday I helped bump plan number 7 along with 2 brews in the one day.

Plan 7
Brew enough to fill all my cubes.

Kohatu Otter SMASH
American Pale Ale

Recipe Specs
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Batch Size (L): 22.0
Total Grain (kg): 4.625
Total Hops (g): 90.00
Original Gravity (OG): 1.050 (°P): 12.4
Final Gravity (FG): 1.013 (°P): 3.3
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 4.91 %
Colour (SRM): 5.7 (EBC): 11.2
Bitterness (IBU): 33.0 (Average - No Chill Adjusted)
Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 75
Boil Time (Minutes): 60

Grain Bill
----------------
4.625 kg Maris Otter Malt (100%)

Hop Bill
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20.0 g Kohatu Pellet (6.8% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (First Wort) (0.9 g/L)
40.0 g Kohatu Pellet (6.8% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (Boil) (1.8 g/L)
30.0 g Kohatu Pellet (6.8% Alpha) @ 0 Days (Dry Hop) (1.4 g/L)

Misc Bill
----------------

Single step Infusion at 66°C for 60 Minutes.
Fermented at 18°C with Safale US-05


Recipe Generated with BrewMate


and this one...my take on White Rabbit Dark Ale


Grumpy's Black Rabbit
Brown Porter

Recipe Specs
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Batch Size (L): 23.0
Total Grain (kg): 5.072
Total Hops (g): 90.00
Original Gravity (OG): 1.050 (°P): 12.4
Final Gravity (FG): 1.013 (°P): 3.3
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 4.91 %
Colour (SRM): 43.8 (EBC): 86.3
Bitterness (IBU): 23.3 (Average - No Chill Adjusted)
Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 75
Boil Time (Minutes): 60

Grain Bill
----------------
2.891 kg Golden Promise Malt (57%)
0.659 kg Caramunich II (12.99%)
0.456 kg Carafa II malt (8.99%)
0.304 kg Crystal 120 (5.99%)
0.254 kg Carapils (Dextrine) (5.01%)
0.254 kg Chocolate (5.01%)
0.254 kg Crystal 60 (5.01%)

Hop Bill
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20.0 g East Kent Golding Plug (4% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil) (0.9 g/L)
25.0 g Cascade Pellet (7.8% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (Aroma) (1.1 g/L)
25.0 g Simcoe Pellet (12.2% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (Aroma) (1.1 g/L)
10.0 g Cascade Pellet (7.8% Alpha) @ 0 Days (Dry Hop) (0.4 g/L)
10.0 g Simcoe Pellet (12.2% Alpha) @ 0 Days (Dry Hop) (0.4 g/L)

Misc Bill
----------------

Single step Infusion at 66°C for 60 Minutes.
Fermented at 18°C with Wyeast 1098 - British Ale


Recipe Generated with BrewMate

 

[GrumpyPaul]

Sadly brewers this epic adventure is drawing to an end. MrsGrumpy gets home tomorrow night. (I will be glad to have her back).

So here is a list of my brewing related plans

Plan 1
Finally put together my 3v rig and make the leap from BIAB.
DONE New rig is up and running. 6 brews under my belt in the last 2 weeks. Getting used the the HEX. It will be a sad thing that I have now brewed enough cubes to last me to Xmas - so it might be a while before I brew again
Plan 2.
Get a length of copper, coil it up and turn my little 8 litre urn into a HEX
DONE Hex was one of the first things done - and it works a treat.
Plan 3
Build myself a computer fan stir plate
FAILED Sadly I failed on this plan....everything but the computer fan arrived.
Plan 4
Case Swap tasting night
DONE - about 16 swap beers consumed in one night between 3 of us.
As per last night I will be getting my son and a couple of mates together to have a tasting night of the swap beers
Plan 5
Melbourne Brewers Annual dinner
DONE Great night 4 course dinner, 9 beers. One of them was my Oaked Scottish Ale. Pretty happy that it was well recieved by guys at the club.
Plan 6
Brewday Play-date
DONE An afternoon of brewing debauchery spent with the one an only Cocko
Plan 7
Brew enough to fill all my cubes.
DONE - 6 brews on my rig and one with Cocko....so seven cubes all up

• Marris Otter Simcoe SMASH
• Golden Promise Kohatu SMASH (currently fermenting)
• Red IPA
• Black IPA
• ESB
• White Rabbit Dark Ale clone
• Hop Hog Clone

Plan 8
Ferment my swap Cube
DONE - fermented, racked onto raspberries, kegged, force carbed and drinking.
Swap meet Stout, Scottish Ale yeast and Raspberries - so not sure but I think makes it a "Scottish Rasberry Stout"

Plan 9 (not brewing related)
Attend my first ever proper big name concert.
TO BE DONE - heading off to the Queen & Adam Lambert concert tommorow night.

Hope you all enjoyed the updates.

 

[SimoB]

Nice to meet you last night mate. That brew stand is great!

 

[Tahoose]

Good stuff, I think that's a fair effort am I'm sure you enjoyed it.. Learnt abit along the way.

Queen should be good, have fun.

 

[GrumpyPaul]

and now if you'll excuse me I have a house to clean up......

 

[Cocko]

Mop the floor.. you how it goes

 

[GrumpyPaul]

It's happening again....stay tuned for a new thread "Home Alone II - MrsGrumpy is going away - the sequel"

For two weeks mid May - I will be Home Alone

 

[WarmerBeer]

I suspect you may look more like "Weekend at Bernie's 2" by the end of your 2 weeks solo.