What are you Brewing - 2018

[Coodgee]

why SO4? I always use US05 for hoppy beers. and cloudiness is in fashion

 

[Dan Pratt]

^ aiming for lower attenuation and also some of the esters its produces.

Also, the previous beer was 002 so trying to replicate as much as i can.

 

[Coodgee]

Style: Czech Pale Lager
Batch Size (fermenter): 23.00 l
Estimated OG: 1.042 SG
Estimated Color: 7.5 EBC
Estimated IBU: 29.3 IBUs


Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
3.00 g Calcium Chloride (Mash 60.0 mins) Water Agent 1 -
3.60 kg Pilsner (Weyermann) (3.3 EBC) Grain 2 86.2 %
0.22 kg Carared (Weyermann) (47.3 EBC) Grain 3 5.2 %
0.18 kg Carapils (4.0 EBC) Grain 4 4.4 %
0.18 kg Wheat Malt, Pale (Weyermann) (3.9 EBC) Grain 5 4.3 %
14.00 g Magnum [12.80 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 6 19.8 IBUs
25.00 g Saaz [4.00 %] - Boil 15.0 min Hop 7 5.5 IBUs
20.00 g Saaz [4.00 %] - Boil 5.0 min Hop 8 1.8 IBUs
55.00 g Saaz [3.75 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 5.0 min Hop 9 2.3 IBUs

 

[Gloveski]

double brew day

Doing @Dan Pratt American Amber Ale with some 4th gen wyeast 1968 for the yeast mashing as we speak , really looking forward to this one

And someone elses recipe of here for the life of me I can't remember who's it was ? Think it might have been @Coodgee
Whoever recipe it was they had me at the citra and galaxy dry hop
Stripper Ale

Pale Ale, Golden Promise 95.6
Caramunich III 4.4%

Centennial FWH 3 IBU
Galaxy 15min 24.3 IBU
Citra Whirlpool

Citra and galaxy Dry Hop

With some 4th gen uso5 for yeast
ABV about 5%

 

[Matplat]

Pre-work brew sesh? ha ha ha!

 

[Coodgee]

double brew day

Doing @Dan Pratt American Amber Ale with some 4th gen wyeast 1968 for the yeast mashing as we speak , really looking forward to this one

And someone elses recipe of here for the life of me I can't remember who's it was ? Think it might have been @Coodgee
Whoever recipe it was they had me at the citra and galaxy dry hop
Stripper Ale

Pale Ale, Golden Promise 95.6
Caramunich III 4.4%

Centennial FWH 3 IBU
Galaxy 15min 24.3 IBU
Citra Whirlpool

Citra and galaxy Dry Hop

With some 4th gen uso5 for yeast
ABV about 5%

Yep that's him, my house pale ale! let me know how you like it!

 

[Coodgee]

Pre-work brew sesh? ha ha ha!

I am brewing tomorrow but it's not a good one for a brew day at yours unfortunately... It's a lager for the next babbs mini comp. I'm going to do a decoction and chill with ice water and need to be on my game. I got my first sub 30 score last mini comp so time to get my game face on. Pulling out all stops and doing that Czech pale lager a few posts up. That should stick out over all the ordinary bitters. Zzzzzzzzzzz

 

[Matplat]

Are you pressure fermenting? Bit late to start fermenting a lager surely???
My american lite entry has already been lagering for 6 weeks!

 

[Matplat]

Sub 30 stings... [emoji21]

 

[Coodgee]

American light, wow that is a challenging beer. How is it tasting? With my big re-pitches of yeast I am getting the krausen dropping after about 4 days, raise to 18 for another 3 days, cold crash for a week, add a bit of biofine clear and keg after a total of 2 weeks in the fermenter. Drinks beautifully after another 2 weeks in the keg. I will be cutting it fine but the Czech beers are meant to be a bit less refined and more flavourful. I think it will actually be better a bit fresh to preserve the saaz aroma. We shall see

 

[Dan Pratt]

^ are you using RO or rain water with that beer Coodgee?

 

[Gloveski]

Yep that's him, my house pale ale! let me know how you like it!

Awsome will do mate

 

[Coodgee]

^ are you using RO or rain water with that beer Coodgee?

Ro. The recipe calls for upwards of 120ppm chloride which i think is too high. That's 5g of cal chloride in the mash and 3 more in the kettle. I was thinking more like 3 grams total to get the calcium to 40ppm

 

[Matplat]

American light, wow that is a challenging beer. How is it tasting?

Despite finishing at 1009 and using 1kg of rice, I think it has too full of a mouthfeel, and just too much flavour in general for the style....its super tasty to drink though!

Make sure you bring a spare bottle of the czech, I'l bring the belgian (and probably ESB and red ale)

 

[Coodgee]

Mix it with a bit of soda water?

 

[Dan Pratt]

Making a easy keg filler of summer ale this weekend.

Got a feeling it may be # 200 for my brewing but will have to check the records.

Triple Threat

OG 1039
FG 1007
ABV 4.1%
IBU 18
EBC 5
VOL 20Lts

85% Bohemian Floor Malted Pilsner
15% Wheat Malt
Acidulated Malt for pH reduction, approx 160g

Mashed for 60mins @ 66c - target pH is 5.2

60 Min boil

FWH - Amarillo = 4ibu

Amarillo (USA) = 4ibu
Galaxy (AUS) = 4ibu
Nelson Sauvin (NZ) = 4ibu

Fermented with US05 @ 20c under 5psi pressure

Dry hopped with same whirl pool combo - 2.2g/L

 

[tj2204]

Cream ale

40% BB Ale
40% wey premium pils
20% flaked maize

Saaz @ 60 for about 15 ibu

Mash at 64-65

OG 1.052

Prob Nottingham for the yeast, maybe us05

 

[Coodgee]

about to pull my first ever decoction... wish me luck!

 

[tj2204]

about to pull my first ever decoction... wish me luck!

Sounds like a great way to ruin an otherwise pleasurable brew day!

 

[Coodgee]

Sounds like a great way to ruin an otherwise pleasurable brew day![/QUOTE

It went alright. The half hour of boiling on the stove was no trouble. No mess and no scorching. But I made the mistake of lifting the grain basket on the grain father and just spreading the decocted mash over the rest of the grain bed and then started sparging straight away. I should have put the basket back down and recirculated for another 10 minutes to get the grain bed to re-establish. When I sparged it just seemed to channel straight through and I ended up with quite low efficiency. So now just getting to the end of a 2 hour boil.