What are you brewing II ?

[Mantis]

Hey TB, I am just blown away by the size of that funnel, and how well you have it balanced on that wee flask.

Have you got Irish/Jewish bloodlines happening to try to wring the last drop out of the sludge

 

[Ross]

Brewing tomorrow....My first since the 2nd April last year

Carbrook Best Bitter
Special/Best/Premium Bitter

Type: All Grain
Date: 25/01/2009
Batch Size: 27.00 L
Boil Size: 35L
Boil Time: 90 min
Brewhouse Efficiency: 85.00

Ingredients
Amount Item Type % or IBU
4.10 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter (Thomas Fawcett) (5.9 EBC) Grain 84.54 %
0.50 kg Maize, Flaked (Thomas Fawcett) (3.9 EBC) Grain 10.31 %
0.25 kg Caraaroma (390.0 EBC) Grain 5.15 %
45.00 gm Goldings, East Kent [4.70 %] (80 min) Hops 21.4 IBU
45.00 gm Styrian Goldings [2.30 %] (20 min) Hops 6.0 IBU
45.00 gm Goldings, East Kent [4.70 %] (5 min) Hops 4.0 IBU
45.00 gm Styrian Goldings [5.40 %] (0 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops -
1.00 tsp Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate) (Mash 90.0 min) Misc
1.00 tsp Salt (Boil 90.0 min) Misc
1 Pkgs TTL (Wyeast #WY1469) Yeast-Ale
Beer Profile
Est Original Gravity: 1.048 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.012
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 4.4%
Bitterness: 31.4 IBU Calories: 430 cal/l
Est Color: 22.5 EBC

May put down my 1st attempt at an Aussie Ale as well....if the weather holds out..

cheers ross

I'm back B) ....Kegged tonight - This bitter is bloody beautiful

 

[Paul H]

I'm back B) ....Kegged tonight - This bitter is bloody beautiful

I think there'll be a few of us tomorrow night who'll be the judge of that :icon_cheers:

 

[goatherder]

Sparging this one right now. If I'm gunna swelter, I might as well do it brewing.

Aussie Pale Ale

87% TF Maris Otter
10% Wey Pale Wheat
3% Baird's pale crystal
Mash at 62 to 1.040
35 IBU EKG pellets at 60min
Coopers Yeast (recultured from CPA)

 

[cubbie]

Tomorrow morning

American Brown Ale

JWM Tad Ale 87%
JWM Dark Crystal 8%
JWM Choc 5%

Mash at 66 to 1.053
Chinook Pellets at 60min
Cascade ( and maybe Fuggles) Pellets at 15 min

total about 35 IBU

Wyeast 1332

 

[winkle]

Had to put the CAP on hold to next week (no yeast).
Just finished a batch of Acerola Ale, now mashing a APA

Galaxian APA
American Pale Ale

Batch Size: 22.00 L
Boil Size: 25.18 L
Boil Time: 75 min
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.00

Ingredients

Amount Item Type % or IBU
4.00 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM) Grain 80.00 %
1.00 kg Munich Malt (9.0 SRM) Grain 20.00 %
15.00 gm Galaxy [15.00 %] (Dry Hop 3 days) Hops -
15.00 gm Galaxy [15.00 %] (60 min) Hops 24.2 IBU
15.00 gm Galaxy [15.00 %] (15 min) Hops 12.0 IBU
0.24 tsp Koppafloc (Boil 10.0 min) Misc
0.25 tsp Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate) (Mash 60.0 min) Misc
1 Pkgs US-56 (DCL) Yeast-Ale


Beer Profile

Est Original Gravity: 1.054 SG
Measured Original Gravity: 1.054 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.016 SG Measured Final Gravity: 1.008 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 4.97 % Actual Alcohol by Vol: 6.00 %
Bitterness: 36.2 IBU Calories: 501 cal/l
Est Color: 6.2 SRM

Love this hop :icon_drool2:
Hope the've planted a sh*t load this season.

 

[Doc]

Brewed my second attempt at a hoppy red lite today.
Got started early before things got too hot.
Missed my colour again.
I swear all published SRM figures for Bairds Pale Choc are wrong (to light)

Doc

 

[BEC26]

Nothing.

Too bloody hot . . . . . .no fermenting fridge . .. . Grrrrr

Cheers

 

[schooey]

I think I may have stuffed up today...

I brewed a bog standard APA a couple of weeks ago, and for one reason or another I ended up leaving it in primary (18C) for the past 3 and a bit weeks. Anyway, I no chilled an RIS a little while ago and planeed to chuck it on the cake of 1056 that the APA came off. Anyway, I transferred the APA to the keg, gassed it burped it, gassed it again, shut the freezer yatter yatter... Then I drained the tiny little bit of wort left on the yeast cake, gave the slurry a little swish and poured in the RIS. Sprayed the lid with no rinse, airlocked it and in the fridge it went.

After a little bit of clean up, I thought... I wonder what that APA tastes like.... went to the keg freezer with a fresh glass and ran off a sample. It has this really slick mouthfeel... Not sure, but it feels like DMS bigtime. It also seems to have lost a lot of the hop intesity. Not really sure whats going on with it, but now I'm wishing I had of sampled it before I threw the RIS in...

 

[Tony]

Sounds like the same bug i get mate.

leaves the beer with a slick thin kind of feel and masks the hops and malt.

Doesnt taste bad.......... juts not as it should.

I have lost my last couple to this one after a great run of clean beers.

I have all my fermenters rinsed out and waiting for cooler weather next week to bomb with bleach.

cheers

 

[joecast]

Recipe Specifics
----------------

Batch Size (L): 23.00 Wort Size (L): 23.00
Total Grain (kg): 3.20
Anticipated OG: 1.040 Plato: 9.90
Anticipated SRM: 6.6
Anticipated IBU: 27.0
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70 %
Wort Boil Time: 45 Minutes

Pre-Boil Amounts
----------------

Evaporation Rate: 15.00 Percent Per Hour
Pre-Boil Wort Size: 25.92 L
Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.035 SG 8.81 Plato


Grain/Extract/Sugar

% Amount Name Origin Potential SRM
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
31.3 1.00 kg. Generic DME - Light Generic 1.046 8
31.3 1.00 kg. JWM Dark Munich Australia 1.039 13
31.2 1.00 kg. JWM Traditional Ale Malt Australia 1.038 3
6.3 0.20 kg. Cane Sugar Generic 1.046 0

Potential represented as SG per pound per gallon.


Hops

Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
18.00 g. Columbus Pellet 11.00 22.8 First WH
18.00 g. Centennial Pellet 8.00 4.1 10 min.
30.00 g. Centennial Pellet 8.00 0.0 0 min.

yeast: US05 dry

just about to start the boil and added the fwh columbus. love the smell right now. have used the same grain bill with columbus and amarillo and think its great. the centennial might make it even better!
joe

 

[drsmurto]

Brewed my second attempt at a hoppy red lite today.
Got started early before things got too hot.
Missed my colour again.
I swear all published SRM figures for Bairds Pale Choc are wrong (to light)

Doc

I have been shifting the EBC of Bairds Pale Choc up from 500 EBC to my current setting of 800 EBC.

I too found that a few beers i used it in were way over the predicted EBC.

Have a 3.5% Deuchars IPA on tap that tastes very nice but is SOOOO much darker than i was after.


Brewed twice yesterday, the first was an all-challenger IPA - first time using this hop and the cask ale yeast.

5.50 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter (Thomas Fawcett) (5.9 EBC) Grain 98.21 %
0.10 kg Chocolate Malt, Pale (Bairds) (800.0 EBC) Grain 1.79 %
40.00 gm Challenger [7.90 %] (60 min) Hops 35.1 IBU
15.00 gm Challenger [7.90 %] (20 min) Hops 8.0 IBU
15.00 gm Challenger [7.90 %] (10 min) Hops 4.8 IBU
20.00 gm Challenger [7.90 %] (0 min) Hops -
0.50 items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
1 Pkgs British Cask Ale (Wyeast Labs #1026) [Starter 2000 ml] Yeast-Ale

21L
OG 1.059
IBU 48
EBC 25

And then i mashed this h34r:

7.00 kg Pale Malt, Traditional Ale (Joe White) (5.9 EBC) Grain 53.85 %
6.00 kg Peat Smoked Malt (5.5 EBC) Grain 46.15 %
1 Pkgs SafWhisky-M1 (Fermentis #M-1) Yeast

16L
OG 1.100

Finally got a drill bit so i didnt have to hand mill all of that!

Also have a new tap on my HLT so i was able to underlet rather than lifting the bloody thing trying not to burn myself!

The day went very smoothly other than the bit where the hose popped off the plate chiller while i was chilling the IPA and showered me in water.

And for all the no-chillers out there, i struggled to get the IPA wort below 35C yesterday due to the rainwater tank being nearly empty and the temps being quite high of late so i ended up no chilling the 2nd 'beer'. Left it outside overnight and it was 18C this morning so pitched the yeast before brekky.

 

[warrenlw63]

And then i mashed this h34r:

7.00 kg Pale Malt, Traditional Ale (Joe White) (5.9 EBC) Grain 53.85 %
6.00 kg Peat Smoked Malt (5.5 EBC) Grain 46.15 %
1 Pkgs SafWhisky-M1 (Fermentis #M-1) Yeast

That should make some nicely-scented "essential oil" DocSmurt. :icon_drunk:

Warren -

 

[Thirsty Boy]

That's a mighty interesting sounding beer TB! Any chance of a look at the recipe?

Its also a mighty nice beer - details in my Whats in the glass? post for it.

The funnel thing was working really well, over a litre of really quite clear beer in there already when I heard a horrible crash.... so rather than any pre-view drink, I got to spend 45mins cleaning up a god awful mess of yeast, break and hops googe that managed to get into truly remote corners of the kitchen :lol:

Here's the recipe. Its Denny Con's rye IPA adjusted for local malts and my system. I normally adjust my sparge technique for "big" beers, but this time I stuck with no-sparge and got a horrible 69% eff... so I tweaked it back up to 1.071 (target 1.073) with DME and kept on going.

I changed Denny's recipe a little inasmuch as I subbed the 30min addition out for an NC-Cube addition, and I left the 0min addition out in favour of an Ultra Late Hop addition at the same time as the Dry Hop addition (75ish% through fermentation, in the primary) - 18C rising slowly to 21 during the last third, Terminal gravity of 1.014 (79% ADF), Chill, Silica Gel, filter, keg - bloody awesome.

View attachment Thirsty__s___DC_Rye_IPA.txt

 

[Jakechan]

The funnel thing was working really well, over a litre of really quite clear beer in there already when I heard a horrible crash.... so rather than any pre-view drink, I got to spend 45mins cleaning up a god awful mess of yeast, break and hops googe that managed to get into truly remote corners of the kitchen :lol:

Bugger! Not how I thought the story was going to end...

 

[drsmurto]

That should make some nicely-scented "essential oil" DocSmurt. :icon_drunk:

Warren -

In theory i could take the 'beer' once it has fermented out and purify it and then age it on oak.........

 

[Ross]

I have been shifting the EBC of Bairds Pale Choc up from 500 EBC to my current setting of 800 EBC.

I too found that a few beers i used it in were way over the predicted EBC.

Our current batch of Bairds Pale Chocolate is 800 EBC, so yes, it's right at the top of its colour range at present.

Cheers Ross

 

[devo]

With the cooler temp on Sunday I managed to find the time to squeeze out a 50lt batch of pilsner using D Saaz hops for flavour/aroma instead of Czech saaz(which i had run out of).

 

[drsmurto]

Our current batch of Bairds Pale Chocolate is 800 EBC, so yes, it's right at the top of its colour range at present.

Cheers Ross

Cheers for the confirmation Ross.

I love this malt :super:

 

[Ross]

Cheers for the confirmation Ross.

I love this malt :super:

so do I...using in an American Brown tomorrow.


American Brown Ale
Type: All Grain
Date: 10/02/2009
Batch Size: 26.00 L
Brewer: Ross
Boil Size: 38L
Boil Time: 90 min
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.00

Amount Item Type % or IBU
5.50 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter (Thomas Fawcett) (5.9 EBC) Grain 78.57 %
0.50 kg Wheat Malt (Barrett Burston) (3.0 EBC) Grain 7.14 %
0.30 kg Chocolate Malt Pale (900.0 EBC) Grain 4.29 %
0.25 kg Caraaroma (390.0 EBC) Grain 3.57 %
0.25 kg Carared (39.4 EBC) Grain 3.57 %
0.20 kg Brown Malt (112.0 EBC) Grain 2.86 %
60.00 gm Amarillo Gold [8.20 %] (60 min) Hops 44.3 IBU
40.00 gm Cascade [6.30 %] (20 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops -
20.00 gm Centennial [10.00 %] (20 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops -
20.00 gm Centennial [7.60 %] (5 min) Hops 2.7 IBU
30.00 gm Amarillo Gold [8.20 %] (5 min) Hops 4.4 IBU
20.00 gm Cascade [6.30 %] (5 min) Hops 2.3 IBU
2 Pkgs CraftBrewer American Ale



Beer Profile

Est Original Gravity: 1.063 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.015 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 6.25 %
Bitterness: 53.7 IBU Calories: 540 cal/l
Est Color: 54.5 EBC

Cheers ross