What are you Brewing 2016?

[Judanero]

Not my preferred approach but current outside temps are like the fridge so I don't expect any drama.

******* element shat itself.
Need to finish 2 brews on stovetop.
****

The beer gods can be cruel like that sometimes.

 

[manticle]

If I grazed my knee skateboarding and you were my mum, you'd clean it with steel wool and salted white vinegar wouldn't you?

 

[Judanero]

Managed to get three consecutive brew days (all no-chill) in over the last couple days:

#1 Euro pils (23L)

4kg wey pils
1kg Vienna
100g Acidulated
4g CaCl

Mash @ 67 for 60

Tettnang FWH to ~ 24 IBU

80 min boil

15g Homegrown Hersbrucker flowers cube hop

Yeast will be from current fermenting Boh Pils using WLP800

#2 English Pale (23L)

100% Golden promise
4g CaCl

Mash at 68 for 3hrs (got caught out and about longer than anticipated)

Willamette (15.7 ibu) EKG (9.4 ibu) @ 60 mins

60 mins aggressive boil

Cube hop 10g EKG (5% AA)

Today I brewed the same English Pale recipe (only a 60 minute mash though), so I can compare 1768 with one cube and 1882 with the other.

I intend to fill two cubes with either a porter or stout over the next couple days and will reuse and compare the yeast (1768 and 1882) for those as well.

 

[Judanero]

If I grazed my knee skateboarding and you were my mum, you'd clean it with steel wool and salted white vinegar wouldn't you?

I would omit the salt, I'm not a monster :lol:

 

[manticle]

To top it off - whatever was causing the fuses to blow is still doing it.
That means I've thrown away a possibly perfectly good immersion element, have no working fan above the stove (which is struggling to boil that anount of wort) and most of the power points in the house are working like a 16 year old in his first job on a council roadworks gang. Thus heating my house in tas winter is not happening until we get it sorted.
First world problem and if I actually get 2 batches of ok beer after this, I'll wear it but pain in bum for sure.

 

[Matplat]

Thus heating my house in tas winter is not happening until we get it sorted.

**** that. We had some mild sense of heating in Dalby last winter, that was bad enough

 

[yum beer]

Heating water for a Pilsner
4kg Prem Pils
1kg Vienna
500g Munich
Saaz at 90, 20 and 5
Wyeast Urquel on the stir plate

Using 40% distilled water with tap water, calculator brings me very close to Pilsen profile, a little extra sulphate but that ain't gonna hurt.

 

[technobabble66]

To top it off - whatever was causing the fuses to blow is still doing it.
.... Thus heating my house in tas winter is not happening until we get it sorted.
....

Yep. **** that.
No heating in a Tassie winter is simply not acceptable. That's a call to action stations!
Commiserations on the loss of brew gear and possibly the brew(s).
But biggest sympathies for the total loss of warmth and generally copping a few kidney punches.

 

[manticle]

Fridge, some heating, fan over oven and entire sound studio out for the count.
Guests arriving Thursday, BBQ planned for saturday, real estate/landlord response typically not speedy.

Brews being boiled in stages, hops added willy nilly, far more break material than usually acceptabe making its way to fermenter.

On a good note though....um...

Nah.

 

[manticle]

Actually there is a good note - I'm a week ahead of myself. Guests thursday week, bbq saturday week. Heaps of time, heat pump in lounge still works. Oven and stove good.

I have both my balls (counted earlier).

 

[Lord Raja Goomba I]

Translation note: Heat Pump is Tasmanian for Reverse Cycle Air Conditioning.

 

[GABBA110360]

a modified imp stout
23l in ferm
biab

7 bb ale
1 carapils
1 flaked oats
0.9 black malt
0.9 roasted barley
0.5 choc
0.5 dark m/extract

magnum 45 g 60 41 ibu
willemette 40g 20 12 ibu
willemette 40 g 10 9 ibu

250g ground cacao @ 15
100g baking choc @15
85 g coffee @o

1.109
1.025 hoping !
64 ibu


full volume mash in 57l 3hour boil
us-05 6 packets

if its a disaster someone will drink it

 

[Dan Pratt]

^ ^ 6 packets of yeast?

Next time, make a porter with us05, keep all the yeast cake and repitch that, would be a much more cost effective method.

 

[GABBA110360]

^ ^ 6 packets of yeast?

Next time, make a porter with us05, keep all the yeast cake and repitch that, would be a much more cost effective method.

yeah your right but just gunna do it lol

 

[Weizguy]

perfect brew day. rainy as hell in sydney...and i'm not brewing.

please send me pity.

No pity from me. Same thing here. Pitching a no-chill beer today, and cleaning bottles and kegs

If I grazed my knee skateboarding and you were my mum, you'd clean it with steel wool and salted white vinegar wouldn't you?

No pity here either. Aren't you too old for skateboards? Anyway, you're old enough to get out the plastic scourer and antiseptic and fix yourself up, now.

 

[GABBA110360]

a modified imp stout
23l in ferm
biab

7 bb ale
1 carapils
1 flaked oats
0.9 black malt
0.9 roasted barley
0.5 choc
0.5 dark m/extract

magnum 45 g 60 41 ibu
willemette 40g 20 12 ibu
willemette 40 g 10 9 ibu

250g ground cacao @ 15
100g baking choc @15
85 g coffee @o

1.109
1.025 hoping !
64 ibu


full volume mash in 57l 3hour boil
us-05 6 packets

if its a disaster someone will drink it

well what a marathon day !
need to mod volume calcs
came in 5 l over plan and only 1.085 on refractermeter less the dme that I forgot to throw in
I guess live and learn for next time
just a note very little hot break 3 hour boil dunno ?

 

[AJ80]

Translation note: Heat Pump is Tasmanian for Reverse Cycle Air Conditioning.

I know it's off topic, but besides insisting on every road intersection bring called a junction, the phrase 'heat pump' is probably my favourite taswegian expression. It is beautifully literal.

 

[DU99]

Northern English Brown Ale

Recipe Specs
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Batch Size (L): 21.0
Total Grain (kg): 5.328
Total Hops (g): 55.70
Original Gravity (OG): 1.051 (°P): 12.6
Final Gravity (FG): 1.013 (°P): 3.3
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 5.01 %
Colour (SRM): 18.5 (EBC): 36.4
Bitterness (IBU): 28.2 (Average)
Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 70
Boil Time (Minutes): 60

Grain Bill
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4.080 kg Thomas Fawcett pearl (76.58%)
0.454 kg Simpsons Crystal 60 (8.52%)
0.454 kg Simpsons Golden Naked Oats (8.52%)
0.227 kg Simpsons Amber Malt (4.26%)
0.113 kg Simpsons Chocolate Malt (2.12%)

Hop Bill
----------------
28.4 g Fuggles Pellet (5.7% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil) (1.4 g/L)
27.3 g East Kent Golding Pellet (4.7% Alpha) @ 15 Minutes (Boil) (1.3 g/L)

Misc Bill
----------------
Whirlfloc Tablet @ 15 Minutes (Boil)
Yeast Nutrient @ 15 Minutes (Boil)

Single step Infusion at 66°C for 60 Minutes.
Fermented at 20°C with Danstar Nottingham

 

[sixfignig]

Brewing my first stout tomorrow, which I intend to be a Coffee Oat Milk Stout.

 

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