What are you Brewing 2016?

[Lord Raja Goomba I]

And using electric portable stove tops is the bomb!!!!

 

[Samuel Adams]

My first brew for 2016 was also an APA and I had my brother in law watching and helping as he was interested in the process. Hopefully converted another brewer !

Training Day APA

23L
No chill
OG 1.053 (Cal @ 70% eff)
35 IBU

5kg Marris Otter
250g Caramunich II
250g Biscuit

5g Simcoe @ 60
40g Amarillo in cube
40g Centennial in cube
30g Simcoe in cube

1272 starter ready to pitch today

Mashed at 65 for 60
Boil for 60

 

[goatchop41]

Split batch half for a saison, half for a Patersbier

BIAB, no-chill.
Batch size: 20L (split into 2x10L)
OG: 1.040
IBU: 25

85% pils
10% wheat
5% carapils

Mash at 66-67oC for 50 mins.
Raise to 72 for 10 mins then pull bag.
60 min boil.

15 IBU Styrian Goldings @ 30 mins
10 IBU Styrian Goldings @ 10 mins

The patersbier will get WLP500 (start at 20oC and gradually ramp up to 22oC after 2-3 couple of days), and the saison will be yeast from two bottles of Inbranata saison that I have cultured up (start at 20oC and gradually ramp up to 26oC after 3-4 days).

 

[Droopy Brew]

Different beers.
My first full year of AG saw me brew a lot of APAs, a few IPAs and other bits and pieces. With the exception of a couple of dark beers and Hefes, they were most hoppy.
Going to try and concentrate on brewing as many different styles as possible this year and more malt forward beers. I kicked things off with a Smoked Porter (Lucas' Smoked Choc porter) on Wednesday night and last night put down a Blonde (Simple Saaz blonde). Will try a couple of lagers this year I think (Pils, munich dunkel, rice) and have a crack at some big belgians or stouts just to mix things up. I will still turn out some hefes and Hoppy beers but will concentrate on some different styles.
I reckon that big hops can cover up foibles in beers so looking to improve my processes by brewing beers where faults are more recognisable while also expanding my tastes.

HNY brew folk.

 

[Kingy]

brewing up this tomoz. 2nd time round with a few adjustments. designed when the weather was ****. The forecast looks hot now. Ah well be good in a few months anyhow.

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[Coodgee]

Finished my first double brew day ever. Ah long day. Started heating water at 8.30 and finished about 5.30. A Bo pils and a Munich helles.

 

[Dan Pratt]

Little Brother IPA

OG 1043
FG 1010
ABV 4.3%
IBU 55 (no chill)
EBC 8

69% Pilsner
22% MO
8% Carapils
1% Light Crystal

( no wheat available and using the last of my MO sack )

Mashed @ 66c for 45mins, Mash salts - Calcium 100ppm, Sulfate 250ppm, Chloride 50ppm, pH 5.3

Boil for 60mins (no hops during the boil)

Warrior FWH addition = 24ibu

Into the cube 10g each of Amarillo, Cascade, Citra, Mosaic, Zythos

Fermented with English So4 @ 19c

Dry Hopped with Aussie Hops 100g Summer and 56g Galaxy for 5days.

 

[Judanero]

APA/IPA (No chill) 23L

Joe White Traditional Ale 67%
Best Maltz Munich 17%
Joe White Wheat 13%
Caramunich II 3%
4g CaSO4 2g CaCl

Mashed at 68 for 90 min

Amarillo FWH for 28 ibu

4g Brewbrite and 1 tsp yeast nutrient @ 10
Cube hop: 50g Amarillo (8.3%), 20g Cascade (7.6%), and 10g Chinook (13.3%).... totalling ~ 22 ibu

Will probably dry hop at the end of ferment for two days prior to CC for 3 days.. likely 2g/L of either Amarillo and Cascade or Citra and Cascade.

Yeast will either be 1272 or 05/1056

 

[zeggie]

ESB
OG 1056
22L

MO 87%
Biscuit 7%
Crystal 60 3.5%
Crystal dark 2.5%

68 for 70 mins
78 Mashout

EKG at 60,15
IBU 35

WLP002

 

[droid]

House APA - Kaleidohop Spider*

1.048
1.010
4.99%
37.23ibu

Gladfield Ale 93.9%
Gladfield Turkish Delight 3.6%
Belgian Candi Sugar** - Clear/Blond 2.5%

20 g Columbus Pellet 60 min 12.79 ibu
20 g Columbus Pellet 20 min 7.75 ibu
20 g Columbus Pellet @0/Whirlpool at 95 °C 0 min 4.69 ibu
20 g chinook Pellet @0/Whirlpool at 95 °C 0 min 3.67 ibu
20 g galaxy Pellet @0/Whirlpool at 95 °C 0 min 4.15 ibu
40 g Cascade Pellet @0/Whirlpool at 95 °C 0 min 4.18 ibu

66deg for 60min @3L/kg

Yeast slurry
Mix of Danstar Nottingham 25%
US 05 75%
ferment @ cellar temp between 18-20

taste the first keg then dry hop in the keg at time of chilling and carbing keg to serve with a mix of different hops on hand x repeat for each keg

*spiders - did a PBW run through the system yesterday and the mash-tun or 2nd pump was blocked - finally a spurt of spiders came out! egad!! so with the big mix of hops these finished beers will have, I decided to call it Kaleidohop Spider hehe
**using up some candi sugar for the hell of it, coz hung up on IPA brew I didn't do - prolly the same with the hops

 

[shacked]

My first brew day of 2016 was yesterday. A simple Vienna / Nelson Sauvin SMASH. Mashed it on the cool side and will ferment cold with WY2565. 60, 5 and cube additions to 31IBU.

Today is a double brew day:

Rye Saison - mostly Pilsner, Rye with about 2% each of wheat and caramunich I. Simple sugar for about 10%. Hops are Saaz and Hallertau Mit for 20 IBU. I've got yeast bay Saison I on the stir plate

Euro ale - Pilsner 60%, Munich 20% and Vienna 20% with a 100g of Caraaroma. Hallertau Mit for 25 IBU.

 

[DJ_L3ThAL]

First brew of 2016, whoop whoop! Recipe courtesy of the Mayor

Stoutly Stout

Type: All Grain
Batch Size: 34.00 l
Boil Size: 47.06 l
Boil Time: 60 min


Date: 09 Jan 2016
Equipment: 3V RIMS Rig - Double Batch Single and a half batch
Efficiency: 72.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 82.6 %

Est Original Gravity: 1.066 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.018 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 6.3 %
Bitterness: 46.1 IBUs
Est Color: 119.3 EBC



Amt Name Type # %/IBU
4.00 kg Munich I (Weyermann) (14.0 EBC) Grain 1 40.0 %
4.00 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter (5.9 EBC) Grain 2 40.0 %
1.00 kg Pale Chocolate Malt (Bairds) (550.0 EBC) Grain 3 10.0 %
1.00 kg Roasted Barley (Joe White) (1398.7 EBC) Grain 4 10.0 %
74.00 g Centennial [10.00 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 5 46.1 IBUs 1.80

Items
Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 mins) Fining 6 1.00 tsp
Yeast Nutrient (Boil 10.0 mins) Other 7 2.0 pkg
Safale American (DCL/Fermentis #US-05) [50.28 ml] Yeast

 

[Eagleburger]

Just had a taste, out of the fermenter, of last weeks brew. My immediate reaction was "**** this is terrible". Then I remembered I made a semi Tooheys clone for a mate. I was happy then as I thought it was close to the mark.

8kg BB ALE
1kg wheat
1.5kg dex


2hr mash @ 62

90min boil

POR to 19 IBU

50L of 1.052 dumped on us-05

19degC

Gonna leave it there for another week, two weeks total. Then I will make a tasty brrew.

 

[technobabble66]

First brew of 2016, whoop whoop! Recipe courtesy of the Mayor

Stoutly Stout

Type: All Grain
Batch Size: 34.00 l
Boil Size: 47.06 l
Boil Time: 60 min


Date: 09 Jan 2016
Equipment: 3V RIMS Rig - Double Batch Single and a half batch
Efficiency: 72.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 82.6 %

Est Original Gravity: 1.066 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.018 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 6.3 %
Bitterness: 46.1 IBUs
Est Color: 119.3 EBC


Amt Name Type # %/IBU
4.00 kg Munich I (Weyermann) (14.0 EBC) Grain 1 40.0 %
4.00 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter (5.9 EBC) Grain 2 40.0 %
1.00 kg Pale Chocolate Malt (Bairds) (550.0 EBC) Grain 3 10.0 %
1.00 kg Roasted Barley (Joe White) (1398.7 EBC) Grain 4 10.0 %
74.00 g Centennial [10.00 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 5 46.1 IBUs 1.80

10% Roasted Barley??
Followed with 10% pale choc? Fk a Duk!

Are you/he sure about that? I'm assuming this was drinking well at the last Swap, but it seems awfully high!


82.6% efficiency?! Wow, look at you with the flashy 3V system! [emoji106][emoji1][emoji41]

And when's the next Roger's clone?

 

[Tahoose]

And using electric portable stove tops is the bomb!!!!

Still going to two bucket method? Welcome back to brew days.

 

[Lord Raja Goomba I]

Still going to two bucket method? Welcome back to brew days.

Yeah,

I got the one for free (thanks Bradsbrew) and a 2nd one basically brand new from gumtree for $10. Most of the stuff has been gumtree freebies or purchased from brewers at a good cost (or given for free).

I haven't the space nor the budget to go bigger, though it was tempting. As it stood, it worked because I picked up a couple of bits and pieces for kegging cheaply, and so the re-directed budget has paid part of this.

 

[Nizmoose]

First Batch of the year and shes nothing special, something for the megaswill drinkers but I'm hoping it'll turn out a nice blonde regardless.

14L Post boil

2.3kg Gladfield Ale Malt
200g White sugar

9g Magnum @ 60 mins

1.046 OG
1.010 FG
23 IBU

US-05 at 18c

Mashed for 120 minutes at 63c then mash out for 10 mins

Just completed the mash and was blown away with 94% mash efficiency! Highest Ive ever had was 87 but this is by far the longest mash I've done. Used german ale as the preset in brewers friend, not sure what the gladfield's potential is in comparison but german gave the lowest eff for my numbers. If I plugged in american 2 row she came in at 98% efficiency which I refuse to believe.

 

[Grott]

Another 1300 plus litres, I hope!
(46 so far)

 

[mofox1]

Mashed for 120 minutes at 63c th
Just completed the mash and was blown away with 94% mash efficiency! Highest Ive ever had was 87 but this is by far the longest mash I've done. Used german ale as the preset in brewers friend, not sure what the gladfield's potential is in comparison but german gave the lowest eff for my numbers. If I plugged in american 2 row she came in at 98% efficiency which I refuse to believe.

I've found gladdy malts to be very friable compared to others I've used. Meaning the grain material gets crushed very easily. If you have good flow through the mash then you should get a high mash eff.

Possibly helps my imperfect crushing (power drill plus 2 roller mill), but I've found efficiency has improved after I started using gladdy malts.

Simpsons and Thomas fawcett were good as well... although the TF was better than the Simpson's.

Looking forward to using my new mill motor... be interesting to see what diff it makes.

 

[DJ_L3ThAL]

10% Roasted Barley??
Followed with 10% pale choc? Fk a Duk!

Are you/he sure about that? I'm assuming this was drinking well at the last Swap, but it seems awfully high!


82.6% efficiency?! Wow, look at you with the flashy 3V system! [emoji106][emoji1][emoji41]

And when's the next Roger's clone?

Yeah it was amaze balls. It's pale choc. But yeah can get loads of roast from the wort we made.

Got 1.061 (but 37L...) so probably need to curb my optimism next brew as well as keep both elements running the entire boil...... Hah.

Rogers clone will be soon mate actually. Got camping beers to brew next weekend but after that I think will be a good time to knock out a couple Rogers cubes