What Are You Brewing III

[sponge]

Brewing my first two beers this weekend. A cherry breakfast stout and a blueberry Imperial Oatmeal Stout.

Throw those on the fermenters and then next week I'll start doing my small batch lambic, to put away for a few years.

Those are some bold and impressive brews for your first three...

Well in sir.


HUZZAH!



Sponge

 

[winkle]

Hey Winkle any chance of you posting your mild recipe? I've got one about ready but tried a little taster and I'm not happy with it.

Here's a link to the original one (1943 sorry - bloody long day) and a bunch of others
oat mild

 

[DKS]

Here's a link to the original one (1943 sorry - bloody long day) and a bunch of others
oat mild

Gee! That looks interesting winkle
Ill have a look at that recipe in kg/metric and put it into beersmith and see how it balances out. might give it a go.
1/2 smashed on black IPA ATM. A mild looks good ATM
Daz

 

[Rowy]

Here's a link to the original one (1943 sorry - bloody long day) and a bunch of others
oat mild

Thanks mate. Will shout you one on the 31st!

 

[lukiep8]

Those are some bold and impressive brews for your first three...

Well in sir.


HUZZAH!



Sponge

I'm brewing more to experiment, and to brew, then to supplement any kind of beer intake. I have some pretty crazy stuff lined up.

It will likely all taste awful, but that is life. IT WILL BE FUN!

 

[Kranky]

Brewing my first two beers this weekend. A cherry breakfast stout and a blueberry Imperial Oatmeal Stout.

Throw those on the fermenters and then next week I'll start doing my small batch lambic, to put away for a few years.

What are you going to keep your lambic in?

 

[sponge]

The main thing is that YOU made that awful tasting liquid.

Plus, itll most probably turn out delicious, just because YOU were the one that made it. (and because it will most likely turn out quite drinkable)

As you say, its all a learning curve and adds to the enjoyment of this fine hobby :chug:


Sponge

 

[Yob]

what am I brewing?? Not what I thought :lol:

Had to grab a fresh packet of amarillo out of the freezer and only realised too late that Id grabbed Hallertau Aroma packet instead...

Fk it... too late now will just see how it comes out...

was an APA bittered with POR and was sposed to be Amarillo Citra Wai Iti but is now Amarillo Citra Wai Iti Hallertau

there is always something to cock up h34r:

Yob

 

[vykuza]

Smashing out another "Face Slapper" before the weekend.

23L, 70% efficiency

5KG BB pale malt
800g Golden Naked oats
800g Caramalt
800g Munich II

50g Cascade AA7% at 60
90g Cascade AA7% cube hopped
45g Cascade AA7% dry hopped

 

[iralosavic]

Smashing out another "Face Slapper" before the weekend.

23L, 70% efficiency

5KG BB pale malt
800g Golden Naked oats
800g Caramalt
800g Munich II

50g Cascade AA7% at 60
90g Cascade AA7% cube hopped
45g Cascade AA7% dry hopped

What style do you categorise this as? Looks tastey!

 

[vykuza]

You could lump it as an American IPA, but I categorise it as delicious!

 

[manticle]

Oatmeal stout if I get my dark grains cracked and steeping by friday eve.

Otherwise a variation of this with heritage crystal (slightly less), a bit of a hopburst with the flavour additions, IBU up to 40 ish and a different yeast (maybe 1028)

http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/inde...amp;recipe=1372

Have sunday to consider the oatmeal stout, depending on what state I'm in from brewing and sampling HB* with wolfman on the saturday.

*from the december grain bulk buy

 

[fcmcg]

Here is my first post in this thread...
Was gonna run it through the blichman hopback with some Cluster, through the plate chiller and into the fermetor but managed ( pharked if i know how ) to strip the thread on the hopback...so just went straiht from the plate chiller into the fermentor......
Cubed Half into a jerry with 50 grams of Cluster flowers....

Type: All Grain Date: 3/03/2012
Batch Size (fermenter): 42l Brewer: Ferg the brewer
Ingredients
Amt Name Type # %/IBU
10.00 kg Pale Malt (2 Row) US Briess pale (3.9 EBC) Grain 1 87.0 %
0.50 kg Crystal (Joe White) (141.8 EBC) Grain 3 4.3 %
1.00 kg Caramunich I (Weyermann) (100.5 EBC) Grain 2 8.7 %
40.00 g Chinook [11.40 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 5 26.7 IBUs
40.00 g Simcoe [12.20 %] - Boil 15.0 min Hop 6 14.2 IBUs
40.00 g Simcoe [12.20 %] - Boil 5.0 min Hop 7 5.7 IBUs
200.00 g Chinook [9.00 %] - Mash 60.0 min ( flowers...)

And because i was **** and didn't get to my LHBS...
Pitched 2 pkts of nottingham at it.....ftw !
Look out...
Might be ***** or it might be good !
Cheers
Ferg

Well, well , well....
I've sneaked an early forced carbed pint of this bad boy and it is pretty bloody good....
Pity I only made 42 litres.....
Cheers
Ferg

 

[Lord Raja Goomba I]

Well, well , well....
I've sneaked an early forced carbed pint of this bad boy and it is pretty bloody good....
Pity I only made 42 litres.....
Cheers
Ferg

Doesn't it suck, sitting there on a thursday night with a force carbed pint and thinking "wish I made more" and "sheesh, I'm alone on a thursday night (SWMBOWIP (SWMBO who is preggers) doesn't count, she can do nowt but sniff), wish I could share this with a fellow beer nerd".

I've got a pint of Rajadom. Man alive, I don't like singing my own praises, but this is a seriously good beer.

I have this rule of thumb - the first beer after an abject failure ends up being a massively good cracker of a beer. I had an abject failure, I now have the cracker, and it is sooooo worth it.

Hoppy Hefe can suck my hairy date - for the cost of the last batch (the failure I needed)+ this batch - I got double the amount of beer (or more, too tired/drinked up to care to calc) and it is so much better than anything they've produced.

Goomba

Goomba

 

[Gar]

I've brewed 3 IPA's in a row and I want something different for the next batch but that Rajadom is seriously tempting the crap outa me Goomba :icon_drool2:

 

[fcmcg]

[quote name='Lord Raja Goomba I' date='Mar 22 2012, 09:49 PM' post='893642'
I have this rule of thumb - the first beer after an abject failure ends up being a massively good cracker of a beer. I had an abject failure, I now have the cracker, and it is sooooo worth it.

Hoppy Hefe can suck my hairy date - for the cost of the last batch (the failure I needed)+ this batch - I got double the amount of beer (or more, too tired/drinked up to care to calc) and it is so much better than anything they've produced.

Goomba
[/quote]
mate ...I hears ya...
Did an American brown outta the same fermentor that I did a wit in...
Cleaned brilliantly...except for that bit of crud in the tap..less than a pin heads worth of ****....
American brown wit anyone ?
Still got 5 litres left to drink of it and whilst it's not true to style , it's not that bad rofl
This IPA , however is gold ... Manna from heaven..in my opinion lol

 

[Lord Raja Goomba I]

I've brewed 3 IPA's in a row and I want something different for the next batch but that Rajadom is seriously tempting the crap outa me Goomba :icon_drool2:

Give in to the temptation. Not for my sake, for yours. It is seriously good.

You ever get it, that you try a beer from the fermenter and your brewer brain goes "dude, if that's not the best beer I'll ever make, it won't be far short" - and then you're so right.

This is that beer for me.

Look, I'm not saying I'm a fantastic brewer, or that everything I produce is gold, but that tiny bit of spice the stella is giving over the massive whack of fruity hops is seriously excellent.

And my first FWH beer, I'm happy - the bitterness is there, man is it ever, but it's the right type of bitterness, not that cidery, wormwood bitterness.

 

[sponge]

Got this planned for tomorrow...

92% GP
3% Caramalt
3% Light crystal
2% Acidulated

1.065

70IBU Cascade/Centennial/Amarillo @ Cube

US05.


Loving single cube hop additions atm.


Sponge

 

[hsb]

How's this looking for a Baltic Porter? It's not completely to style (Colour, IBU). Drop the Black Malt? Too much Choc/Crystal? Hops look OK? Thanks.

Type: All Grain Date: 23/03/2012
Batch Size (fermenter): 23.00 l Brewer: hsb
Boil Size: 39.22 l Asst Brewer:
Boil Time: 90 min Equipment: Stainless Kegs (10 Gal/37.8 L) - All Grain
End of Boil Volume 27.86 l Brewhouse Efficiency: 72.00 %
Final Bottling Volume: 20.16 l Est Mash Efficiency 83.9 %

Ingredients
Amt Name Type # %/IBU
4.51 kg Pale Malt, Halcyon (Thomas Fawcett) (5.9 EBC) Grain 1 54.9 %
2.01 kg Munich I (Weyermann) (14.0 EBC) Grain 2 24.4 %
0.80 kg Crystal, Medium (Simpsons) (108.3 EBC) Grain 4 9.8 %
0.80 kg Chocolate Malt (Simpsons) (847.1 EBC) Grain 3 9.8 %
0.10 kg Black Malt (Simpsons) (1083.5 EBC) Grain 5 1.2 %

50.00 g Northern Brewer [11.40 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 6 51.9 IBUs
15.02 g Saaz [4.00 %] - Aroma Steep 10.0 min Hop 7 0.0 IBUs

Beer Profile
Est Original Gravity: 1.079 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.019 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 8.0 %
Bitterness: 51.9 IBUs
Est Color: 90.1 EBC

 

[jyo]

Hoping to crank this one out tomorrow in time for ANZAC day.

ANZAC Ale.
Australian Pale Ale

Recipe Specs
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Batch Size (L): 23.0
Total Grain (kg): 4.450
Total Hops (g): 35.00
Original Gravity (OG): 1.046 (P): 11.4
Final Gravity (FG): 1.010 (P): 2.6
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 4.66 %
Colour (SRM): 6.8 (EBC): 13.4
Bitterness (IBU): 31.7 (Average)
Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 74
Boil Time (Minutes): 90

Grain Bill
----------------
3.200 kg Pale Malt (71.91%)
0.500 kg Flaked Oats (11.24%)
0.300 kg Wheat Malt (6.74%)
0.250 kg Golden Syrup (5.62%)
0.200 kg Biscuit (4.49%)

Hop Bill
----------------
25.0 g Pride of Ringwood Leaf (11.1% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil) (1.1 g/L)
10.0 g East Kent Golding Pellet (4% Alpha) @ 5 Minutes (Boil) (0.4 g/L)

Misc Bill
----------------

Single step Infusion at 66C for 60 Minutes.
Fermented at 18C with WLP009 - Australian Ale

Notes
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NOT BREWED YET

Dark Brown sugar is golden syrup added last 10 minutes.
Oats are toasted in oven until golden.

 

[vykuza]

Brewing the second half my my lambic/sour, and going US style. High alc, high bitterness.

23L 70% Efficiency
6.5KG pilsner malt
0.5kg Fancy porridge (rolled oats, barley, triticale, rice and rye)

50g of Saphire at 60 minutes for 28IBU

Not doing a turbid mash as I did with the first batch. I broke my mash paddle yesterday. (and life is too short.. seriously, what a pain!)

 

[bradsbrew]

Will brewing this up this arvo, might even have a crack at some stepped mashing to see what all the hoo haa is about.

lager lager lager
Bohemian Pilsener

Recipe Specs
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Batch Size (L): 44.0
Total Grain (kg): 7.750
Total Hops (g): 180.00
Original Gravity (OG): 1.045 (P): 11.2
Final Gravity (FG): 1.011 (P): 2.8
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 4.42 %
Colour (SRM): 3.8 (EBC): 7.5
Bitterness (IBU): 33.9 (Average - No Chill Adjusted)
Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 82
Boil Time (Minutes): 60

Grain Bill
----------------
6.000 kg Pale Malt (77.42%)
1.000 kg Munich I (12.9%)
0.750 kg Wheat Malt (9.68%)

Hop Bill
----------------
60.0 g Tettnanger Pellet (4% Alpha) @ 45 Minutes (Boil) (1.4 g/L)
40.0 g Hallertau Tradition Pellet (5.7% Alpha) @ 10 Minutes (Boil) (0.9 g/L)
40.0 g Hallertau Tradition Pellet (5.7% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (Boil) (0.9 g/L)
40.0 g Tettnanger Pellet (4% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (Boil) (0.9 g/L)

Misc Bill
----------------

Single step Infusion at 66C for 60 Minutes.
Fermented at 20C with Wyeast 2042 - Danish Lager

Cheers

 

[sponge]

How's this looking for a Baltic Porter? It's not completely to style (Colour, IBU). Drop the Black Malt? Too much Choc/Crystal? Hops look OK? Thanks.

Just looking at it id be thinking the 20% cara/choc may be a bit much, but happy to be proven wrong though.


Apart from that, looks delicious. What yeast are you using?



Sponge

 

[hsb]

Thanks. I'll scale it right back to 10% total. Just about to mill the grain.
Not sure on yeast yet, haven't go that far! It'll go in the cube for a week until my APA gets kegged.
To hand are a few relatively neutral ones, 1098, 1099 I think, British Ale ones 1968, 1469, have to check what else I've got to hand. I could just be lazy and just drop it on the cake from the APA - that was 1098 I think but lashings of Amarillo in there that ideally I don't want coming across in any way.
Updated recipe:

Amt Name Type # %/IBU
4.67 kg Pale Malt, Halcyon (Thomas Fawcett) (5.9 EBC) Grain 1 62.1 %
2.07 kg Munich I (Weyermann) (14.0 EBC) Grain 2 27.6 %
0.39 kg Crystal, Medium (Simpsons) (108.3 EBC) Grain 4 5.2 %
0.39 kg Chocolate Malt (Simpsons) (847.1 EBC) Grain 3 5.2 %
38.53 g Northern Brewer [11.40 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 5 41.4 IBUs
10.00 g Saaz [4.00 %] - Aroma Steep 10.0 min Hop 6 0.0 IBUs

 

[sponge]

Thanks. I'll scale it right back to 10% total. Just about to mill the grain.
Not sure on yeast yet, haven't go that far! It'll go in the cube for a week until my APA gets kegged.
To hand are a few relatively neutral ones, 1098, 1099 I think, British Ale ones 1968, 1469, have to check what else I've got to hand. I could just be lazy and just drop it on the cake from the APA - that was 1098 I think but lashings of Amarillo in there that ideally I don't want coming across in any way.
Updated recipe:

You could always just grab half a cup or so of the 1098 cake as opposed to dumping the entire thing to minimise any residual hop flavour from the APA.

It's my standard practice if I want to reuse a yeast cake without worrying about hop flavours or any of that.

Plus it takes away from over pitching and whatnot...


Sponge

 

[Wolfman]

Oatmeal stout if I get my dark grains cracked and steeping by friday eve.

Otherwise a variation of this with heritage crystal (slightly less), a bit of a hopburst with the flavour additions, IBU up to 40 ish and a different yeast (maybe 1028)

http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/inde...amp;recipe=1372

Have sunday to consider the oatmeal stout, depending on what state I'm in from brewing and sampling HB* with wolfman on the saturday.

*from the december grain bulk buy

Not a good day for brewing Sunday if we having a biggy Saturday! ******** brewing's best done hungover!.

I am going to be brewing Tony's Kolsch http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/inde...amp;recipe=1339


Looking forwards to drinking those bulk buy beers too. It's only been 3 months!



Wolfman

 

[manticle]

It's not the brewing next day hungover that's the issue - it's remembering to crack and steep the dark grains the night before (ie when we are posssibly too hammered to remember each others' names) that's the potential issue. IF at 5 pm, you can encourage me to go into the shed and weigh out, crack and steep 600 odd grams of various roasted grain, then I'll pull out 2 batches this weekend.

Otherwise 1 and it will be challenger esb.

 

[Newbee(r)]

Basic Amber Ale this weekend:

4.5kg Marris Otter
350g caramunich II
40g carafa II
40g styrian @ 60
35g styrian @ 15
Mash 65 for 90 min
Boil 75 min
Pride of Ringwood yeast

And one I am really looking forward to: Rochefort 8 style trappist brew planned for mid week (on leave!)

23L
O.G 1.078
FG 1.018
IBU 26

Belgian Pilsner 74.1%
Caramunich 11.13%
Special B 3.75%
carafa I 1.1%
Dark belgian candy sugar 9.65% at 5 minutes to flameout
bottle of kriek boon (brew like a monk suggests it gives a great additional dimension to these beers)

Mash - 61c for 30 min, 67c for 60 min, 75c for 5 min
boil for 75
50g styrian @ 60
20g Hallertau @ 30
10g Hallertau @ 5
5 g crushed coriander seed @ 5

Wyeast 1762 Belgian Abbey II - 3 weeks in the primary @ 20c
Bottle condition for 5 months
Any thoughts on this recipe greatly appreciated as it is my first trappist. It is close to a rochefort 8 'clone' recipe I found on the net, with the exception of the kriek, and I left out their addition of flaked corn.

 

[Newbee(r)]

Updated percentages to actual grain bill (percentages were a bit off!)

23L
O.G 1.078
FG 1.018
IBU 26

Belgian Pilsner 5.6kg
Caramunich 900g
Special B 320g
carafa I 80g
Dark belgian candy sugar 800g at 5 minutes to flameout
bottle of kriek boon (brew like a monk suggests it gives a great additional dimension to these beers)

Mash - 61c for 30 min, 67c for 60 min, 75c for 5 min
boil for 75
50g styrian @ 60
20g Hallertau @ 30
10g Hallertau @ 5
5 g crushed coriander seed @ 5

Wyeast 1762 Belgian Abbey II - 3 weeks in the primary @ 20c
Bottle condition for 5 months
Any thoughts on this recipe greatly appreciated as it is my first trappist. It is close to a rochefort 8 'clone' recipe I found on the net, with the exception of the kriek, and I left out their addition of flaked corn.

 

[malt_shovel]

Was in K-Mart and saw some kits with long used by date, so figured it was about as fresh as I could get (Dec 2013) and thought I should revisit my brewing roots.

First two-can, and me thinks the Real Ale was not a good choice, but will see.

Toucan IPA
American IPA

Recipe Specs
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Batch Size (L): 20.0
Total Grain (kg): 4.700
Total Hops (g): 142.00
Original Gravity (OG): 1.073 (P): 17.7
Final Gravity (FG): 1.012 (P): 3.1
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 8.00 %
Colour (SRM): 10.6 (EBC): 20.9
Bitterness (IBU): 78.8 (Tinseth)
Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 70
Boil Time (Minutes): 20

Grain Bill
----------------
3.400 kg Liquid Malt Extract - Light (72.34%)
0.850 kg Brown Sugar, Light (18.09%)
0.150 kg Bairds Pale Crystal (3.19%)
0.150 kg Caramunich I (3.19%)
0.150 kg Victory (3.19%)

Hop Bill
----------------
72.0 g Pride of Ringwood Pellet (9% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil) (3.6 g/L)
15.0 g Columbus Pellet (14.3% Alpha) @ 20 Minutes (Boil) (0.7 g/L)
55.0 g Cascade Pellet (5% Alpha) @ 5 Minutes (Aroma) (2.6 g/L)

Misc Bill
----------------

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

Notes
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PoR addition @ 60mins used to estimate IBU's from Real Ale kits x 2 (approx 65)

Added LME and hopped wort to coolish 15Ltrs of filtered water added to the yeast cake

3/23/2012 13:30 : Aerated for 5mins shaking / rolling before placing into lager fridge to cool down.

Need to add brown sugar during ferment.

3/23/2012 21:30 - Going beserk moved to ale fridge (16degC)

3/24/2012 08:30 - Added brown sugar.

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