What are you brewing 2015?

[contrarian]

Just got this up to boil.

Christmas smoked porter.

Maris otter 55%
Brown malt 10%
Amber malt 10%
Smoked malt 10%
Abbey 5%
Shepard's delight 5%
Chocolate 5%

OG 1.060

20 IBU magnum at 60min
15 IBU styrian goldings at 15min

Yeast, probably s-04

Might soak some oak dominoes in port or scotch and add to secondary.

Hopefully will taste good with Christmas cake!

 

[SBOB]

Put this one on yesterday.. Had a couple of issues (like my hook on the basket I use to hold my BIAB bag coming loose and the lot splashing back into the urn) and missed the numbers a bit because I didnt do a mash out like normal... but hopefully it turns into a decent hoppy american wheat (verging in IPA)
Probably should have loaded the hops up later in the boil but it is what it is


Style: American Wheat
ABV: 5.4%

Original Gravity (OG): 1.056
IBU's (Tinseth): 35
Bitterness to Gravity Ratio: 0.62
Colour: 11.5 EBC = 5.8 SRM

Mash: 90 mins at 66 C = 150.8 F
Boil: 90 min

The Grain Bill
45.5% Wey Pilsner (3 EBC = 1.5 SRM) 2481 grams
45.5% Wey Wheat (4 EBC = 2 SRM) 2481 grams
4.5% Munich I (12 EBC = 6.1 SRM) 248 grams
4.5% CaraMunich I (80 EBC = 40.6 SRM) 248 grams

The Hop Bill
30.9 IBU Simcoe Pellets (13%AA) 21.5 grams at 90 mins
2.1 IBU Galaxy Pellets (14.5%AA) 32.3 grams at 1 mins
2 IBU Citra Pellets (14%AA) 32.3 grams at 1 mins

Galaxy Pellets (14.5%AA) 32.3 grams (Dry Hopped)
Citra Pellets (14%AA) 32.3 grams (Dry Hopped)

 

[Rocker1986]

Doing another brew day on Saturday, this one is a first for me - an IPA. I hope I have enough Centennial hops, otherwise I'll have to substitute those ones with something else (will check the freezer tomorrow), but this is what I've come up with so far. I basically just created a pale ale like I normally would but made it stronger. It's an experiment really but if my past experiments are anything to go by, it should turn out pretty well.

Type: All Grain
Batch Size: 25.00 l
Boil Size: 34.14 l
Boil Time: 75 min
End of Boil Vol: 28.08 l
Final Bottling Vol: 24.00 l
Equipment: Electric Urn (10 Gal/40 L) - BIAB
Efficiency: 72.50 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 78.3 %

Ingredients

6.500 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter (Thomas Fawcett) (5.9 EBC) Grain 1 94.2 %
0.400 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 80L (157.6 EBC) Grain 2 5.8 %
Mashed at 65-66C for 90 minutes

20.00 g Mosaic {11.70 %} - First Wort 75.0 min Hop 3 25.2 IBUs
30.00 g Centennial {10.00 %} - Boil 10.0 min Hop 4 10.2 IBUs
30.00 g Mosaic {11.70 %} - Boil 10.0 min Hop 5 11.9 IBUs
30.00 g Centennial {10.00 %} - Steep/Whirlpool 15.0 min Hop 6 7.0 IBUs
30.00 g Mosaic {11.70 %} - Steep/Whirlpool 15.0 min Hop 7 8.2 IBUs
1.0 pkg Safale American (DCL/Fermentis #US-05) Yeast 8 -
30.00 g Centennial {10.00 %} - Dry Hop 0.0 Days Hop 9 0.0 IBUs
30.00 g Mosaic {11.70 %} - Dry Hop 0.0 Days Hop 10 0.0 IBUs


Gravity, Alcohol Content and Color

Est Original Gravity: 1.063 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.012 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 6.7 %
Bitterness: 62.5 IBUs
Est Color: 19.6 EBC

 

[sponge]

Looking to cube a few different brews out of a brew day.

Base wort;

100% MO to 1.045
Willamette @ FWH to ~18IBUs

55/63/68/72'C
10/45/10/10min

Cube 1 (lager) - 10% sugar, fermented with either 2042 or 2005 @ 10'C

Cube 2 (APA) - 5% xtal, cube hopped with mosaic to 30IBUs (+ 2g/L dry hop), fermented with 1968 @ 18'C

Cube 3 (porter) - 5% dark xtal, 5% choc, 3% spec b, 2% midnight wheat, cube hopped with willamette to 30IBUs, fermented with 1968 @ 20'C. Maybe a little bit of port-soaked oak as well..

 

[SBOB]

Looking to cube a few different brews out of a brew day.

Base wort;

100% MO to 1.045
Willamette @ FWH to ~18IBUs

55/63/68/72'C
10/45/10/10min

Cube 1 (lager) - 10% sugar, fermented with either 2042 or 2005 @ 10'C

Cube 2 (APA) - 5% xtal, cube hopped with mosaic to 30IBUs (+ 2g/L dry hop), fermented with 1968 @ 18'C

Cube 3 (porter) - 5% dark xtal, 5% choc, 3% spec b, 2% midnight wheat, cube hopped with willamette to 30IBUs, fermented with 1968 @ 20'C. Maybe a little bit of port-soaked oak as well..

How do you achieve the sugar/spec grain additions to a common base wort?

 

[mofox1]

Looking to cube a few different brews out of a brew day.

Base wort;

100% MO to 1.045
Willamette @ FWH to ~18IBUs

55/63/68/72'C
10/45/10/10min

Cube 1 (lager) - 10% sugar, fermented with either 2042 or 2005 @ 10'C

Cube 2 (APA) - 5% xtal, cube hopped with mosaic to 30IBUs (+ 2g/L dry hop), fermented with 1968 @ 18'C

Cube 3 (porter) - 5% dark xtal, 5% choc, 3% spec b, 2% midnight wheat, cube hopped with willamette to 30IBUs, fermented with 1968 @ 20'C

Cube 'grained'? I was happily corrected on the feasibility of this a lil while ago.

Looks like a fecking awesome way to get all those different beers out of the one brew day!!

 

[sponge]

How do you achieve the sugar/spec grain additions to a common base wort?

Cube 'grained'? I was happily corrected on the feasibility of this a lil while ago.

Looks like a fecking awesome way to get all those different beers out of the one brew day!!

Just steeped spec malts and added the liquor to the cube.

A great way to get a range of beers out of a single sesh.

 

[jaypes]

Angry Man clone
MO + Amarillo SMASH

 

[mofox1]

Just steeped spec malts and added the liquor to the cube.

A great way to get a range of beers out of a single sesh.

Fair nuff - do you take wort from the kettle or just use water? Any post-boil of the steeped liquor?

 

[sponge]

I've only used warm water (just like a normal steep) rather than boiling kettle wort and haven't bothered to boil before adding it to the cube.

Haven't had an issue thus far. I guess I could always run off some wort from the kettle and cool it down first, but is easy enough just using water from my HLT around the mid 60's.

 

[DU99]

experimental Hop (American Pale Ale)

Original Gravity (OG): 1.050 (°P): 12.4
Final Gravity (FG): 1.013 (°P): 3.3
Alcohol (ABV): 4.91 %
Colour (SRM): 7.3 (EBC): 14.4
Bitterness (IBU): 35.6 (Average)

72.95% Pale Ale Malt
18.9% Wheat Malt
5.9% Caramunich I
2.24% Gladfield Toffee Malt

0.9 g/L Cascade (7.8% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil)
1.2 g/L Crosby Idaho Experimental #4 H (7.5% Alpha) @ 20 Minutes (Boil)
1.2 g/L Crosby Idaho Experimental #4 H (7.5% Alpha) @ 5 Minutes (Boil)


Single step Infusion at 68°C for 60 Minutes. Boil for 60 Minutes

Fermented at 20°C with Danstar Nottingham

Recipe Generated with BrewMate

getting floral/lemon citrus flavours...

 

[menoetes]

Double brew week,

Edelweiss Ale - a retake on a classic SMASH

OG: 1.049
Est. FG: 1.012
IBUs: 33.1
ABV: 4.8%

25% Briess Pale Ale Malt
75% Weyermann Vienna Malt

Centennial (USA) 100g 2014 crop 9.6%AA @ 60min to 21.9 IBUs
Centennial (USA) 100g 2014 crop 9.6%AA @ 15min to 11.1 IBUs
Centennial (USA) 100g 2014 crop 9.6%AA @ flameout - 25g in this case

1.5g of Brewtan B added to kettle before mash in.
1.5g of Brewtan B + 5g of Brewbrite + 5g of Yeast Nutrient added @ 5min

Simple Mash; Mashed in @ 65'c for 60min then mashed out @ 77'c

Mangrove Jack's Craft Series U.S. West Coast Yeast M44 rehydrated and pitched @ 18'c

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Otterman IPA

OG: 1.051
Est. FG: 1.013
IBUs: 42.3
ABV: 4.9%

82% Bairds Maris Otter Pale Ale Malt
8% Bairds Medium Crystal Caramel Malt
5% Bairds Amber Malt
5% Bairds Soft Red Wheat Malt (Torrified Wheat Malt)

Chinook (USA) 100g 2013 Crop 13.0%AA 3.8% Beta @ 25min to 23 IBUs
Nelson Sauvin (NZ) 100g 2013 Crop 13.0% AA @ 15min to 13.5 IBUs
Cascade (USA) 100g 2013 crop 7.6%AA @ 5min to 5.8 IBUs

1.5g of Brewtan B added to kettle before mash in.
1.5g of Brewtan B + 5g of Brewbrite + 5g of Yeast Nutrient added @ 5min

Mashed in at 54'c for 15min then raised it to 67'c for 60min then I took my eyes off the thermometer for two minutes and ended up mashing out a bit too high at 80'c.

Mangrove Jack's Craft Series Burton Union Yeast M79 rehydrated and pitched @ 20'c, then I adjusted the brewfridge to drop down to 18'c over the next few hours.

NOTE: The smell of the Otterman IPA boiling was nuts! That very strong 'warm weetbix' smell I will always associate with the XXXX brewery in milton - having lived not far from it as a child. It's not a mental association I want to make; between XXXX and my own delicious homebrew but my more ration parts tell me not to sweat it, it's just this particular wort boiling.

You could easily smell it out of the street! I don't think my brewing has ever smelled that strong. SWMBO powered through it with nary a nag like a champ

 

[Kingy]

Mashing in now double batch
AIPA
Digital timers are great to wake up to near mash in temp


OG 1.066
FG 1.012
IBU 55

Pale malt 88.61%
Carapils 5.70%
Munich 1 4.43%
Caramunich 2 1.27%

Magnum 60gm 40min
Centennial 60gm flameout
Simcoe. 60gm at whirlpool
Cascade 60gm dry hop ?days

 

[droid]

APA today
1047
1008
5.02%
37ibu

American ale malt 95%
5% light crystal
55/63/67/72/76
5/10/60/20/10
Magnum to bitter 27ibu
Mosaic @20 for 10ibu
1/2 g/l mosaic at 0
1/2 g/l mosaic @ whirpool
1g/l dry hopped

Maybe a bit light on for hops however the mash looks to be much thicker than antisipated

Bloody westy pup decided to use the crushed grain as her bed all in the space of packing up the drill and mill. She gets into everything!!!

 

[Curly79]

Oh shit! I think I would have footed It in the arse before I had time to take a photo mate.

 

[Curly79]

Hair of the dog APA ?

 

[Helles]

Yesterday
95 lts of Blonde No chilled
@ 1.055
17 kgs JW Ale
3 Kg Wheat
3 Kg Honey going primary
70 g Warrior FWH
150 g Mandarina cube hopped
50 g Sorachi Ace in one cube

And

90 lts of APA No chilled
@1.063

2kg JW Vienna
2 kg Amber
2 kgs Wheat
3 kgs Munich
11kgs JW Ale
100g Warrior FWH
200g Simcoe cube hopped
200g Cascade cube hopped

 

[paulyman]

APA today
1047
1008
5.02%
37ibu

American ale malt 95%
5% light crystal
55/63/67/72/76
5/10/60/20/10
Magnum to bitter 27ibu
Mosaic @20 for 10ibu
1/2 g/l mosaic at 0
1/2 g/l mosaic @ whirpool
1g/l dry hopped

Maybe a bit light on for hops however the mash looks to be much thicker than antisipated

Bloody westy pup decided to use the crushed grain as her bed all in the space of packing up the drill and mill. She gets into everything!!!

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Mine thankfully can't fit in the bucket. But I did find her head in the bucket munching on some grain a few brews back when i got back to the brew rig after I'd gone to pack up the mill. Can't blame her really, it is delicious freshly milled.

 

[mofox1]

Mine thankfully can't fit in the bucket. But I did find her head in the bucket munching on some grain a few brews back when i got back to the brew rig after I'd gone to pack up the mill. Can't blame her really, it is delicious freshly milled.

Efficiency drop?

 

[technobabble66]

Oh shit! I think I would have footed It in the arse before I had time to take a photo mate.

But she's sooooooo cute!!
:lol: