What are you brewing 2015?

[paulyman]

My first oatmeal Stout:

I plan on my first soon as well, it's currently 3rd in the queue behind Pratty1's Amber and my first Smoked Porter (Stone Brewery recipe).

 

[Brew Forky]

I plan on my first soon as well, it's currently 3rd in the queue behind Pratty1's Amber and my first Smoked Porter (Stone Brewery recipe).

Yeah, I'm getting a list up at the moment. Studying Strong Belgian Ale. I came to the conclusion a week ago that instead of being obsessed with keeping my stocks of session beers up, I should focus on creating some choice beers and if I have to buy a carton of Atomic to see me through, then so be it.

 

[Kumamoto_Ken]

Mashing an American IPA at the moment and using it to clean out some leftover hop quantities.

JW Ale 78%
Wey Munich 18%
Dark Xtal 4%

Aiming for an OG of 1.065

Horizon at 60 minutes to 20IBU.
Various quantities of the following cubed hopped to bring it up to 65IBU:
Centennial
Galaxy
Mt Hood
Citra
Chinook

Will dry hop with some combo of the above as well.
Two packets of BRY-97

 

[IsonAd]

Brewed an APA with the Epic pale ale hopping schedule, using home grown cascade and Chinook. First time brewing with flowers. Unless the flavour is amazing I don't think I'll be doing it again. Waaay too messy.

 

[Grainer]

BeerSmith 2 Recipe Printout - http://www.beersmith.com
Recipe: Grainers Pilsner
Brewer: John Hayman
Asst Brewer:
Style: American Amber Ale
TYPE: All Grain
Taste: (30.0) 26L preboil volume before adding reminder

Recipe Specifications
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Boil Size: 72.00 l
Post Boil Volume: 69.00 l
Batch Size (fermenter): 55.00 l
Bottling Volume: 55.00 l
Estimated OG: 1.051 SG
Estimated Color: 5.8 EBC
Estimated IBU: 38.5 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 85.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 85.0 %
Boil Time: 90 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
14.00 g Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate) (Mash 60.0 mins Water Agent 1 -
9.62 kg Pilsner (Weyermann) (3.3 EBC) Grain 2 90.9 %
0.50 kg Carapils (Briess) (3.0 EBC) Grain 3 4.7 %
0.46 kg Brewers Malt 2-Row (Briess) (3.5 EBC) Grain 4 4.3 %
42.01 g Magnum [12.00 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 5 25.5 IBUs
114.35 g Saaz [3.75 %] - Boil 15.0 min Hop 6 10.8 IBUs
57.39 g Saaz [3.75 %] - Boil 5.0 min Hop 7 2.2 IBUs
98.00 g Saaz [3.75 %] - Boil 0.0 min Hop 8 0.0 IBUs
1.0 pkg German Lager (White Labs #WLP830) [35.49 Yeast 9 -


Mash Schedule: Single Infusion, Medium Body
Total Grain Weight: 10.58 kg
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Name Description Step Temperat Step Time
Mash In Add 27.59 l of water at 72.4 C 66.0 C 90 min
Mash Out Add 15.45 l of water at 95.1 C 75.6 C 10 min

Sparge: Fly sparge with 39.55 l water at 75.6 C
Notes:
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[Grainer]

BeerSmith 2 Recipe Printout - http://www.beersmith.com
Recipe: Grainers Pale Ale
Brewer:
Asst Brewer:
Style: American Amber Ale
TYPE: All Grain
Taste: (30.0)

Recipe Specifications
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Boil Size: 60.98 l
Post Boil Volume: 50.79 l
Batch Size (fermenter): 46.00 l
Bottling Volume: 44.30 l
Estimated OG: 1.066 SG
Estimated Color: 22.4 EBC
Estimated IBU: 85.3 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 68.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 72.2 %
Boil Time: 90 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
11.80 kg Pale Ale Malt 2-Row (Briess) (6.9 EBC) Grain 1 81.4 %
0.90 kg Biscuit Malt (45.3 EBC) Grain 2 6.2 %
0.90 kg Crystal, Medium (Simpsons) (108.3 EBC) Grain 3 6.2 %
0.90 kg Wheat, Torrified (3.3 EBC) Grain 4 6.2 %
56.00 g Centennial [10.00 %] - Boil 30.0 min Hop 5 21.8 IBUs
56.00 g Centennial [10.00 %] - Boil 30.0 min Hop 6 21.8 IBUs
56.00 g Simcoe [13.00 %] - Boil 30.0 min Hop 7 28.3 IBUs
2.00 Items Irish Moss (Boil 10.0 mins) Fining 8 -
56.00 g Simcoe [13.00 %] - Boil 10.0 min Hop 9 13.4 IBUs
56.00 g Centennial [10.00 %] - Boil 0.0 min Hop 10 0.0 IBUs
56.00 g Simcoe [13.00 %] - Boil 0.0 min Hop 11 0.0 IBUs
1.0 pkg American Ale II (Wyeast Labs #1272) [124 Yeast 12 -
3.00 tsp Yeast Nutrient (Primary 3.0 days) Other 13 -
56.00 g Magnum [12.00 %] - Dry Hop 10.0 Days Hop 14 0.0 IBUs
56.00 g Simcoe [13.00 %] - Dry Hop 10.0 Days Hop 15 0.0 IBUs


Mash Schedule: Single Infusion, Light Body, No Mash Out
Total Grain Weight: 14.50 kg
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Name Description Step Temperat Step Time
Mash In Add 40.84 l of water at 72.7 C 65.6 C 75 min

Sparge: Fly sparge with 37.68 l water at 75.6 C
Notes:
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[QldKev]

Brewed an APA with the Epic pale ale hopping schedule, using home grown cascade and Chinook. First time brewing with flowers. Unless the flavour is amazing I don't think I'll be doing it again. Waaay too messy.

For taste, I'd never choose pellets over fresh flowers. I wish I could get more fresh flowers.

 

[Dan Pratt]

Zythos Ale

OG - 1.058
FG - 1.011
ABV - 6.1%
EBC - 7.3
IBU - 46
Vol - 20Lt
Mash Eff - 92%
BH Eff - 70%

90% - Breiss 2 Row
10% - Wheat Malt

Mash - 55c/10m, 65c/40m, 73c/30m, 76c/30m

Cascade @ 60m - 32ibu
Zythos @ 5m - 14ibu

Fermented with WLP007 - Dry English Ale @ 18c

Dry Hopped with Zythos - 6g/L ( 2 separate additions, 56g for 5days then another 56g for 5 more days )

Misc - Yeast Nutrient, Pure O2, 15g Gypsum.

:super:

 

[Tahoose]

Heavy hop load!!

I love it

 

[fletcher]

never tried el dorado so decided to give it a crack in a hoppy pale ale.

trad ale
crystal 60
wheat
magnum at 60
massive dump of el dorado at 5
massive dump of el dorado dry hopped.
no chill
us-05 or m44

 

[peekaboo_jones]

Currently in the twin vessels are:
- stock Coopers Mexican cerveza
- Abbey blonde (Coopers website recipe) with both S-33 and T-58

Plan to brew a hoppy American brown ale, a malty English bitter and might give the lagers a crack this year... Probably a pilsner and hopefully an easy drinking Aussie lager.

 

[Dan Pratt]

never tried el dorado so decided to give it a crack in a hoppy pale ale.

trad ale
crystal 60
wheat
magnum at 60
massive dump of el dorado at 5
massive dump of el dorado dry hopped.
no chill
us-05 or m44

Hi fletcher,

Got your text and we should have made time to share our beers, top day thought right?

Hey this recipe with El Dorado looks good, make sure you get some Gypsum and add 10g to the mash and 5g to the boil, make those hops shine!!

 

[Blind Dog]

1st brew for a while yesterday. Lots of niggles (could not find the malt pipe nut, 1st boil over in a while etc) but put down a session IPA with about 25% wheat, 15% Munich and then MO. Aiming for 3.4% ABV with 40IBU from Amarillo, galaxy and simcoe at flameout and cubed. Will use wlp007

 

[fletcher]

Hi fletcher,

Got your text and we should have made time to share our beers, top day thought right?

Hey this recipe with El Dorado looks good, make sure you get some Gypsum and add 10g to the mash and 5g to the boil, make those hops shine!!

hey mate,

yeah. absolute cracker of a day. i would have come and tried a lot more than those of the brewers beside me but had a mate who was going to help serve flake out on me on the day! all good though. so happy about my result too!

 

[hwall95]

My brother ask him to make him a hoppy red ale, somewhat similiar to Nail's Red Ale, so based off what the bottle/tap decal said it had in it I thought up a recipe (Centennial instead of Citra though cause I had none) however then altered it slightly to add roasted barley as from my quick research it apparently gives a nice redness when paired with caraaroma. Well anyways it came out black so I guess he's getting a hoppy dark ale..

OG: 1.060 IBU: 35
FG: 1.014 Colour: 31 EBC
ABV: 5.9% Size: 23L

Malt Bill:
4.7kg Maris Otter
1.25kg Dark Munich
0.2kg Caraaroma
0.05kg Roasted Barley

Hops:
12g Centennial @ 60min
54g Centennial @ Cube
40g Dry hop

Yeast:
2 packs of MJ M44 - West Coast.

Mash, Boil and Pitching:
Mashed at 68 for 60min, mashout at 78, sparge at 78, 70min boil and pitched at 18.

Will be interesting how it turns out, hoping that it doesn't become too roasty despite the colour but if so, at least I've found centennial to go alright in darker beers.

 

[Blind Dog]

you may well find it's more deep ruby than black once done and clear.

 

[hwall95]

you may well find it's more deep ruby than black once done and clear.

Hope so, deep ruby would be great! Next time Ill drop the colour down to be a brighter though

 

[pat_00]

Interested in how this goes. I'll be doing an AB clone soon too but with caraaroma instead of special b, and I'll prob add a good chunk of flameout hops.

I've never had an arrogant *******, so I'm not sure how close it is.

It's pretty young still, but I think I could have been more heavy handed with the late hops, or my home grown hops weren't picked at their peak.

Still delicious, if a little bit sweet for my liking. Ended at 1.17.

 

[crowmanz]

after work brew day, re-doing the sticks and stones pacific ale clone as I lost almost a full keg of it 2 weekends ago due to a loose john guest fitting in my portable keg set up.

hopefully this one last a bit longer.

 

[Brew Forky]

after work brew day, re-doing the sticks and stones pacific ale clone as I lost almost a full keg of it 2 weekends ago due to a loose john guest fitting in my portable keg set up.

hopefully this one last a bit longer.

I imagine the heartache is worse than the 2 sentences typed on the Internet. Good luck :beer: