What Are You Brewing III

[_HOME_BREW_WALLACE_]

Providing i get back to brissy early enough and get to craftbrewer i will be knocking out a single batch of manticles sweet stout (minus the lactose and use rolled oats instead) and a robust porter. plus something to quench my thirst after a hard day at work before it gets too cold.

That plan went out the window........

Currently mashing in my QLD case swap beer AGAIN...... (double this time and i have another batch in a spare cube already) Might blow the dust off an EX-BribieG 60L fermenter and let it ferment in a temp controlled brisbane enviroment before all the gear ends up out west.

60/40 BB ALE / BB WHEAT
Galaxy @ 20, 15, 10 and 5 mins to 25IBU

Will post a pic of the fermenter in all its glory :icon_cheers:

 

[manticle]

And Sunday: an APA with Denny's favourite PC yeast, 5.5 kg simpsons MO, 1 kg Munich I, 250 victory, 250 simpsons crystal. FV 22 Litres, bittered to about 45-50 IBU with cascade and early chinook, bombed with cascade small additions from 20 mins on and dry hopped with both. Exact hop schedule to be confirmed.

Actually Monday:

APA

Type: All grain
Size: 22 liters
Color: 17 HCU (~10 SRM)
Bitterness: 53 IBU
OG: 1.060
FG: 1.012
Alcohol: 6.2% v/v (4.8% w/w)
Grain: 4.5kg Simpsons maris
1kg Weyerman Munich I
250g Briess victory
250g simpsons heritage crystal
Mash: 70% efficiency
Boil: 75 minutes SG 1.041 32 liters
Hops: 15g Cascade (5.4% AA, 60 min.)
15g Chinook (13% AA, 60 min.)
15g Cascade (5.4% AA, 20 min.)
15g Cascade (5.4% AA, 15 min.)
15g Cascade (5.4% AA, 10 min.)
15g Cascade (5.4% AA, 5 min.)
10g Cascade (aroma)
10g Chinook (aroma)

TEMP: 55/64/72/78
TIME: 5/45/15/10

 

[seamad]

Just finished cleaning up and pitching a sort of belgian pale ale , with the yeast cake to be reused for planned trippel.

Bairds pale ale 62%
Munich II 15%
Abbey malt 10%
Carabelge 7%
Biscuit malt 5%
Carafa II 1%

1050 22l

Motueka flowers 20 g at 15 min and hop rocket, magnum to get ibu to 26

3787 with temp controller set to kick in at 22

Mashed in at 53 for 10, raised to 66 over 20 for 70 then raised to 76 over 20 for 10.
Carafa was cold steeped and added end of boil for colour.

 

[Gar]

A little cube of goodnis'

Half-Wit Rakau

29L batch
OG: 1.047
IBU: 30

3.1 kg Golden Promise
3.1 kg Wheat Malt
0.2 kg Crystal (90 EBC)

11g Rakau - First Wort
22g Rakau - 15 mins
32g Rakau - 5 mins

Dry hop maybe, haven't decided yet.

Safale - S04

 

[winkle]

Double batch today so we have something to drink at Xmas-in-July.
First up a batch of UXB (in the DB) followed by the old faithful Shootin' Saison.
Yeast cake from the UXB will go on a Belgian Dark Strong

 

[matho]

yesterday we brewed a parti gyle

10kg of simpsons golden promise
250g of simpsons heritage crystal
250g of dark crystal

we then ran off the first runnings into one pot and the second running into the another and then did a 60/40 split for the first beer and a 40/60 split for the second.

first beer
ESB

OG: 1.060
final batch size:23l
IBU: 34.7

hops:
60 min 19g of target
3 min 15g of challenger, 15g of northdown, 3g of EKG

second beer
special bitter

og 1.045
final batch size 23l
IBU 40

hops:
60 min 20g of target
3 min 18g of challenger,18g of northdown, 6g of EKG

Ben brought over his hop rocket so we ran both beers through some home grown hops that Dion brought up, the beers ended up smelling beautifully hoppy

pictched 1318 last night and is currently sitting at 18 deg

will dry hop the ESB with 21g of EKG in about 10 days time
Thanks Ben, Dion and Graeme for a great brewday, we just squeezed it in before the rain.

 

[gap]

yesterday we brewed a parti gyle

10kg of simpsons golden promise
250g of simpsons heritage crystal
250g of dark crystal

we then ran off the first runnings into one pot and the second running into the another and then did a 60/40 split for the first beer and a 40/60 split for the second.

first beer
ESB

OG: 1.060
final batch size:23l
IBU: 34.7

hops:
60 min 19g of target
3 min 15g of challenger, 15g of northdown, 3g of EKG

second beer
special bitter

og 1.045
final batch size 23l
IBU 40

hops:
60 min 20g of target
3 min 18g of challenger,18g of northdown, 6g of EKG

Ben brought over his hop rocket so we ran both beers through some home grown hops that Dion brought up, the beers ended up smelling beautifully hoppy

pictched 1318 last night and is currently sitting at 18 deg

will dry hop the ESB with 21g of EKG in about 10 days time
Thanks Ben, Dion and Graeme for a great brewday, we just squeezed it in before the rain.

Yes Steve,

It was a great day and thank you for providing the food, the grain and doing most of the
work.

It was very entertaining watching Ben cobble up his regulator to fit the gas bottle. It
could have become much warmer than the less than 10C the weather was providing.

Regards

Graeme

 

[hoppinmad]

Got some Wai-iti so doing a smash.
21L
3.9 kg GP
.4 kg Carahell
.2 kg Wheat

70g Wai-iti (2.8AA) 40 mins
30g Wai-iti (2.8AA) 5 mins

30 IBU's

Step mash with HERMIT and US05

NO CHILL

Any thoughts on either bittering with a bit of northern brewer and then going hard late with the Wai-iti or ??
Cheers
BBB

Did the following Wai-iti Pale Ale a couple of weeks ago. Drinking a pint right now.

Good Things Come to Those Who Wai-iti
American Pale Ale

Recipe Specs
----------------
Batch Size (L): 21.0
Total Grain (kg): 5.40
Total Hops (g): 108
Original Gravity (OG): 1.056
Final Gravity (FG): 1.014
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 5.4 %
Colour (SRM): 7.5
Bitterness (IBU): 43.3
Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 75
Boil Time (Minutes): 60

Grain Bill
----------------
4.500 kg Briess Pale Malt (83.33%)
0.400 kg Weyermann Pale Wheat (7.41%)
0.300 kg Weyermann Abbey Malt (5.56%)
0.200 kg Weyermann Carahell (3.70%)

Hop Bill
----------------
18.0 g Magnum Pellet (13% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil)
30.0 g Wai-iti Pellet (2.8%% Alpha) @ 20 Minutes (Boil)
30.0 g Wai-iti Pellet (2.8% Alpha) @ 10 Minutes (Boil)
30.0 g Wai-iti Pellet (2.8% Alpha) @ 5 Minutes (Boil)

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

Ferment at 18C with Safale US-05

Notes
----------------

Mash @66C for 60 min

Batch sparged.


Malt profile awesome... but not terribly impressed with the hop character on this one. Getting "breaky juice" flavours (similar to how I perceive galaxy) with a slight cheesy/lactic finish. It is an alright beer, but I will definitely go easier on the late additions and maybe use it in combination with cascade or centennial... and maybe simcoe... still to decide. Would like to get some more resinous character from the hops instead of just the upfront ripe fruit. Not sure about this hop yet... but have another 90g pack to play with so open to suggestions from anyone.

 

[Lord Raja Goomba I]

Give it to me.

 

[Dazza88]

a lot of hops give it a bit more time bfore final judgement

 

[hoppinmad]

a lot of hops give it a bit more time bfore final judgement

Good point. I could be jumping the gun a little. Will see how it develops over the next few weeks

 

[Dazza88]

yep. ive had fruit salad become awesome with a few extra wks wait time.

 

[Adam Howard]

Made up 45+L of base wort. 5kgs pilsner, 4kgs wheat and 1kg flaked wheat with a tiny hop addition, fermented it for a week with US-05 and have just split the beer into a 25L demijohn with raspberries and 23L carboy with cherries. Pack of Wyeast Lambic is going into each and then it's WAITING time!

 

[Gar]

Awesome :beerbang:

 

[.DJ.]

Pale Ale

Pils - 88.5%
CaraMunich - 8.8%
Dark Crystal - 2.7%

Simcoe @ 60
Galaxy @ 10
Simcoe - fameout

1332 - Norwest Ale

1.052
39IBU

 

[Adam Howard]

Awesome :beerbang:

Yeah man. I'm having to micro manage the demijohn at the moment. There was a lot of CO2 in solution and the berries make a shitload of nucleation points. Lots of froth pouring out. Also found a couple of bugs that I was able to fish out with a nice curved length of beer line and a bit of suction. Don't think they would've had much of an impact on the beer but it's gotta be better having them out!

Going to do another batch of base wort in a month or so and do another split with blackcurrants and peaches.

 

[Malted]

Going to do another batch of base wort in a month or so and do another split with blackcurrants and peaches.

Awesome just got better!

 

[Dazza88]

Where did you get that tear drop carboy Adamski?

 

[Adam Howard]

Where did you get that tear drop carboy Adamski?

It's a demijohn DazDog, they're usually seen in a plastic carrier. Like this

Pretty cool looking things when out of the carrier. I scored 4 of them off a fellow forum member, 34L, 25L, 20L and a 10L. Looking forward to utilising them all for experiments! Planning on chucking an Orval clone in the 34L.

 

[hoppinmad]

Looks awesome! How long do you typically have to wait for beers like these to be ready?