What are you brewing II ?

[winkle]

Don't forget being mid strength means it will be gone in half the time. biggrin.gif

Too right!
Judging by the interest level after I mentioned I was brewing it - double batch next time B)

 

[hughman666]

Brewed a fruity APA based on Tony's LCBA Clone on Friday. It smells fantastic at the moment, bubbling away happily.

Grain/Extract/Sugar

% Amount Name Origin Potential SRM
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
45.5 2.50 kg. TF Maris Otter Pale Ale Malt UK 1.037 3
45.5 2.50 kg. Weyermann Pilsner Germany 1.038 2
9.1 0.50 kg. JWM Crystal 140 Australia 1.035 74

Hops

Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
12.00 g. Cascade Plug 5.75 8.2 45 min.
10.00 g. Saaz B Whole 6.80 8.0 45 min.
15.00 g. Cascade Plug 5.75 3.9 20 min.
15.00 g. Saaz B Whole 6.80 4.5 20 min.
20.00 g. Cascade Plug 5.75 3.1 8 min.
20.00 g. Saaz B Whole 6.80 3.5 8 min.

Yeast
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WYeast 1272


and then today I had a spare afternoon so decided on a Summer Ale, seeing as the hot weather is continuing over here for some time yet. It's a hybrid Kolsch which should be refreshing!

Grain/Extract/Sugar

% Amount Name Origin Potential SRM
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
50.1 2.57 kg. TF Maris Otter Pale Ale Malt UK 1.037 3
34.3 1.75 kg. Weyermann Pilsner Germany 1.038 2
15.6 0.80 kg. JWM Wheat Malt Australia 1.040 2

Hops

Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
14.00 g. Hallertau Pacific Whole 6.00 11.4 60 min.
14.00 g. Saaz B Whole 6.80 6.6 30 min.
14.00 g. Saaz B Whole 6.80 4.4 20 min.
14.00 g. Saaz B Whole 6.80 2.6 10 min.

Yeast
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WYeast 2565

 

[Ross]

About to brew a green tea lager - Can't find the old thread on it, so any advice welcomed.

Green Tea Rice Lager

Type: All Grain
Batch Size: 26.00 L
Brewer: Ross
Boil Time: 90 min
Brewhouse Efficiency: 85.00

Amount Item Type % or IBU
3.00 kg Pale Malt, Galaxy (Barrett Burston) (3.0 EBC) Grain 54.55 %
1.50 kg Jasmin Rice (2.0 EBC) Grain 27.27 %
0.50 kg Vienna Malt (6.9 EBC) Grain 9.09 %
0.50 kg Wheat Malt, Pale (Weyermann) (3.9 EBC) Grain 9.09 %
30.00 gm NZ Saaz B [8.10 %] (60 min) Hops 23.2 IBU
10.00 gm Cascade [6.70 %] (20 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops -
10.00 gm Cascade [6.00 %] (10 min) Hops 2.1 IBU
0.50 tsp Koppafloc (Boil 10.0 min) Misc
1.00 tsp Yeast Nutrient (Boil 10.0 min) Misc
60.00 gm Green Tea (China) (Boil 0.0 min/steeped for 20 mins) Misc
2 x CraftBrewer Swiss Lager Yeast

Est Original Gravity: 1.054 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.014 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 5.20 %
Bitterness: 25.3 IBU Calories: 0 cal/l
Est Color: 6.0 EBC Color: Color
Mashed cool at 63c

cheers Ross

 

[warrenlw63]

About to brew a green tea lager - Can't find the old thread on it, so any advice welcomed.

Yep, leave out the green tea Yech! and replace it with extra hops.

Warren -

 

[sam]

G'day Sam, how's things?

Ringwood in an IPA? Not so sure. Going to have a few things to deal with... High FG, quite a bit of diacetyl (this yeast leaves quite a bit) and a "very" estery profile that's going to compete with your hops.

Probably be a little tempted in an English IPA. Maybe not American though.

Warren -

G'day

Things are good, back in Vancouver, riding my pushi in the snow again, after a trip back to Melbourne for the festive season. Caught up with John and Chris a few times in the shop, the conference sounds like its going to be a pretty big thing. Shame I'm not going to be there. Hopefully it becomes an annual do.

Yeah, I'll skip the ringwood this time. Apparently a heap of micros in Colorado use it extensively, I think it's an east coast thing as well.

Righty right.

sam

 

[roger mellie]

Following up from the Xmas case offering - changing 2 things.

B Saaz for the mash hop
35 IBU's instead of 45

Summer Pils
Brew Type: All Grain Date: 30/01/2008
Style: German Pilsner (Pils) Brewer: Roger Mellie
Batch Size: 23.00 L Assistant Brewer: Tom
Boil Volume: 33.33 L Boil Time: 60 min
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.0 % Equipment: Keg Kettle


Ingredients Amount Item Type % or IBU
4.50 kg Pilsner (2 Row) Ger (3.9 EBC) Grain 84.9 %
0.40 kg Rice, Flaked (2.0 EBC) Grain 7.5 %
0.30 kg Wheat Malt (Barrett Burston) (3.0 EBC) Grain 5.7 %
0.10 kg Cara-Pils/Dextrine (3.9 EBC) Grain 1.9 %
30.00 gm B Saaz Mash Hop 6.0 IBU
22.50 gm D Saaz [6.70%] (60 min) Hops 17.0 IBU
22.50 gm D Saaz [6.70%] (15 min) Hops 8.4 IBU
22.50 gm D Saaz [6.70%] (5 min) Hops 3.4 IBU
22.50 gm D Saaz [6.70%] (60 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops -
1.00 tsp Table Salt (Boil 90.0 min) Misc
12.15 gm Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate) (Mash 60.0 min) Misc
1 Pkgs SafLager German Lager (DCL Yeast #S-189) Yeast-Lager

Beer Profile Estimated Original Gravity: 1.053 SG (1.044-1.050 SG) Measured Original Gravity: 1.051 SG
Estimated Final Gravity: 1.014 SG (1.008-1.013 SG) Measured Final Gravity: 1.008 SG
Estimated Color: 7.1 EBC (3.9-9.9 EBC) Color [Color]
Bitterness: 34.8 IBU (25.0-45.0 IBU) Alpha Acid Units: 1.8 AAU
Estimated Alcohol by Volume: 5.1 % (4.4-5.2 %) Actual Alcohol by Volume: 5.6 %
Actual Calories: 472 cal/l

Ferment at 12 Deg C


Notes
Mash in with 15 Litres of 70 DegC water
Mash out with 8 Litres of 98 Deg C water
Sparge with 17 Litres of 85 Deg C Water

RM

 

[winkle]

Just mashing-in the first of two batches of hefe-weizen for the day.
Standard 50-50% grain bill.
Will use the Ross "banana method" in the first batch (sorry lonte)

 

[justsomeguy]

English mild tomorrow for SWMBO's birthday next week.

 

[T.D.]

Tomorrow I plan to brew a beer in tribute to the kinds of beers my grandfather brewed after WWII when beer supplies were rationed. I am "modernising" his process just a touch though! He used to boil up the wort in the wood-fired laundry copper! I will be using my usual boiler with "modern" 3-ring burner under it! He also used extract apparently, and I'll be using grain.

But in the spirit of those brews I have decided to use the most readily available Australian malt (JW Ale) and a commonly available English hop (Fuggles) that would have been around back in those days (it was a toss up between EKG and Fuggles but I thought I'd give old fuggles a run).

I'll use 100% JW Ale, but to get some colour and flavour I am going to vigorously boil the first runnings down to half their initial volume, and then sparge after that as per normal. For the hops I am going to measure out what a "hand full" of hops weighs and use that as my unit. So probably a hand full at the start of the boil and another hand full at the end. I am going to cheat a bit and check in Beer Smith what IBU that will give before I go ahead and do it.

Should be a really interesting brew, I'm really looking forward to trying it! I have named it "ANR", the initials of my grandfather.

 

[goatherder]

Tomorrow I plan to brew a beer in tribute to the kinds of beers my grandfather brewed after WWII when beer supplies were rationed. I am "modernising" his process just a touch though! He used to boil up the wort in the wood-fired laundry copper! I will be using my usual boiler with "modern" 3-ring burner under it! He also used extract apparently, and I'll be using grain.

But in the spirit of those brews I have decided to use the most readily available Australian malt (JW Ale) and a commonly available English hop (Fuggles) that would have been around back in those days (it was a toss up between EKG and Fuggles but I thought I'd give old fuggles a run).

I'll use 100% JW Ale, but to get some colour and flavour I am going to vigorously boil the first runnings down to half their initial volume, and then sparge after that as per normal. For the hops I am going to measure out what a "hand full" of hops weighs and use that as my unit. So probably a hand full at the start of the boil and another hand full at the end. I am going to cheat a bit and check in Beer Smith what IBU that will give before I go ahead and do it.

Should be a really interesting brew, I'm really looking forward to trying it! I have named it "ANR", the initials of my grandfather.

Sounds great TD. I made a post WWII era brew a while back from an old family recipe of a friend. The recipe was basically 50% malt extract, 25% honey and 25% sugar. I get the impression that the malt extract was expensive in relation to the honey and sugar, so maybe some kettle sugars might make yours a bit more authentic?

Here's the old recipe I used as a base for my brew. It makes for an interesting read.

View attachment boydsbestbitter.pdf

 

[oldbugman]

Doing 50L of AnrewQLDs Cooper Pale Ale clone

something to fill the taps with easy drinking fluid.

 

[browndog]

Got a leave pass this morning and couldn't wait to get into the brewery. Knocked up this aussie ale.

BeerSmith Recipe Printout - www.beersmith.com
Recipe: POR Aussie Ale II
Brewer: Tony Brown
Asst Brewer: Jess
Style: Australian Pale ale
TYPE: All Grain
Taste: (35.0)

Recipe Specifications
--------------------------
Batch Size: 24.00 L
Boil Size: 32.79 L
Estimated OG: 1.049 SG
Estimated Color: 8.3 EBC
Estimated IBU: 33.7 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 80.00 %
Boil Time: 75 Minutes

Ingredients:
------------
Amount Item Type % or IBU
3.25 kg Pale Malt (Barrett Burston) (3.9 EBC) Grain 74.71 %
0.30 kg AA Wheat Malt (Barrett Burston) (3.0 EBC) Grain 6.90 %
0.15 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (78.8 EBC) Grain 3.45 %
30.00 gm Pride of Ringwood [9.00 %] (60 min) Hops 29.4 IBU
12.00 gm Pride of Ringwood [9.00 %] (10 min) Hops 4.3 IBU
0.65 kg Corn Sugar (Dextrose) (0.0 EBC) Sugar 14.94 %
1 Pkgs US05 (Safale) [Starter 200 ml] Yeast-Ale


Mash Schedule: Single Infusion, Light Body, Batch Sparge
Total Grain Weight: 3.70 kg
----------------------------
Single Infusion, Light Body, Batch Sparge
Step Time Name Description Step Temp
90 min Mash In Add 9.66 L of water at 74.7 C 64.0 C

I know the IBUs look a bit high for POR, but the previous one I did to 27 IBUs and comparing it to a coopers pale ale, it lacked a lot of bite. I think this one will be a lot closer.

cheers

Browndog

 

[winkle]

Finally finished cleaning up after brewing the double batch of weizen. It would have made a entertaining brew day demonstration of "Brewing outside in a tropical downpour 101". My sparky mate, who dropped in for a beer, was most amused <_<

 

[MVZOOM]

Starting the boil on an Amarillo / Cascade Ale. Bittering with PoR at 60mins, then 15g of both Amarllo and Cascade at 20mins and another 30g of Amarillo @ 5mins.

Other than that, just 4.5kg of JW Ale and .5kg of wheat.

Hope she's got a nice summary type flavour and aroma!

Cheers - Mike

 

[T.D.]

Sounds great TD. I made a post WWII era brew a while back from an old family recipe of a friend. The recipe was basically 50% malt extract, 25% honey and 25% sugar. I get the impression that the malt extract was expensive in relation to the honey and sugar, so maybe some kettle sugars might make yours a bit more authentic?

Here's the old recipe I used as a base for my brew. It makes for an interesting read.

View attachment 17513

Thanks for the recipe goatherder. Its fascinating looking at old recipes I reckon. Yep, bit of sugar probably would make it more authentic. I'll see what I have down in my stuff, might throw some in.

Just about to finalise the recipe and get things rolling. But first, I need a coffee!

 

[goatherder]

I'm having a go at a Zwickel Pils today. First shot at a step mash.

100% IMC pils. Steps at 53, 63, 72 and 78. OG 1.048
NS at 60 and 15 to 35IBUs
Wyeast 2001

Here's hoping it will be good.

 

[Adamt]

Just mashed in my first house beer today. Meant to do it last week but.. I was lazy.

20-22L batch

5kg Galaxy
Metric handful of Caramalt

25g B Saaz flowers FWH
25g B Saaz flowers 5 min

S-189 yeast

Currently mashing at 64C, bewdiful.

EDIT: Just got off the phone with my mate... he's bringing over some quality lamb sandwiches. The day can't get much better!

 

[Steve]

Well its my first AG since moving into our new house in December....what a f^%$^%kin nightmare trying to find all me bits n pieces!

Just pulled this one outta me arse as usual

4kg BB Pale
1kg Weyermann Pilsner
500gms Weyermann Caramunich 1

35 gms Cluster @ 60
15 gms Saaz @ 30, 15 and 0

Whirlfloc @ 15

Mashed at 64

Yeast: US05

Cheers
Steve

 

[Kai]

Very simple English brown ale this evening.

OG 1.046
22 IBU
42 EBC

92% JW trad ale
5% TF medium crystal
3% TF choc

Goldings bittering
0.5g/L Goldings @ flameout

Nottingham

 

[Kai]

And it looks like efficiency has bumped to 80% or so. Not sure I want an OG 1.053 brown ale, I'll have to mull it over a little.