What are you brewing?

[Screwtop]

Hey Fixa, slurping one of those Duvel clones right now and after the day I have had, I could do with some strong ones (did you find the recipe in the BYO mag?) Sorry to go off topic here abit (should have found the balls up thread) My brewday was a major &^%& up. It is all Bonj's fault for coming around for an AG demo, how can you concentrate on what you are doing when you are describing what you are doing lol
We mashed in and nailed the mash temp of 66C, I was pretty chuffed. The problem came when I did the final sparge and was pumping the wort into the kettle, the level in the kettle reached my mark and kept going, I thought this is odd.... the level in the tun had dropped bugger all. It then hit me that I forgot to shut off the valve from the MLT DOH DOH DOH........ By the time I drained the tun into the kettle there was 45L in there instead of 32.7L. A phone call to Ross for reassurance and a healty two hr boil and two boilovers later we were back to where we should have been. The next stuff up was I added my bittering hops at 60min instead of 50min and when I went to drain my HLT at the end of the day found a back wash of grain had infiltrated the MLT and needed a good clean out. All the time me reassuring Bonj that this was the first time I'd ever had these problems. Thank god he didn't have his camera, the shots would have complemented the ones of me and Pumpy BBQing on Batz back deck The end result one embarrassed 2nd yr brewer, a slightly overbittered wort that reached 1.073 instead of 1.081 which I put down to wort left over in the tun and losses from the two boil overs and a major excess usage of gas. Glad this happened before my brewday in april.

cheers

Browndog

A while since I've had one of those brewdays (knock on wood) BD, but may I say "Welcome to the Major **** Up Club". Just a tad stressfull eh! Nemind, a little Duvel will fix it!

Cheers,
Screwy

 

[bonj]

Well, all I can say is that Browndog handled the balls-up like a pro, while I stood around wondering how long it was going to take to boil the extra water off. I learned a heap, so I'm going to put my arse into gear and make this AG thing happen. Thanks BD, for an interesting day.

 

[Avit]

Unfortunately im brewing diddly squat!!

Just about to head over to the UK for a working holiday. it doesn't really fit in with my planned move into ag brewing (or brewing in general).

i have already tried to scope out a few HBS in the UK so i can resume my 'hobby' (read, addiction)

looks like i will be starting from scratch again, oh well!!

 

[goatherder]

I'm brewing my L plate beer again. I've just bought a grain mill so it's time to learn again.

Ordinary Bitter

Maris Otter 92%
Brown Malt 4.5%
Medium Crystal 3.5%

Mash at 68 degrees
OG 1.038
Nice fresh Fuggles plugs at 60, 30, 10 and flameout to 30 IBUs
Wyeast 1318 London Ale III

 

[Fingerlickin_B]

I'm doing another all Pilsener Malt APA either tomorrow or Sunday, but I have a question.

My usual grain bill for these is 5kg Pils Malt and nothing else. Still working on the hop side of things (more bittering and aroma required this time), but must say I'm quite happy with what just the Pils gives me

But.....a better head on the beer would be nice, if not just to impress my mates h34r:

Got a 500g bag of TF & Sons Torrefied Wheat here...would that be too much to add? :huh:

PZ.

 

[warrenlw63]

I'm brewing my L plate beer again. I've just bought a grain mill so it's time to learn again.

Ordinary Bitter

Maris Otter 92%
Brown Malt 4.5%
Medium Crystal 3.5%

Mash at 68 degrees
OG 1.038
Nice fresh Fuggles plugs at 60, 30, 10 and flameout to 30 IBUs
Wyeast 1318 London Ale III

Nothing wrong there Goat. B)

Warren -

 

[Josh]

I'm doing another all Pilsener Malt APA either tomorrow or Sunday, but I have a question.

My usual grain bill for these is 5kg Pils Malt and nothing else. Still working on the hop side of things (more bittering and aroma required this time), but must say I'm quite happy with what just the Pils gives me

But.....a better head on the beer would be nice, if not just to impress my mates h34r:

Got a 500g bag of TF & Sons Torrefied Wheat here...would that be too much to add? :huh:

PZ.

I think I usually only add about 200g of wheat for head. So if you split it, you'll get two pretty good brews out of it.

How do you find the malt flavour from 100% pils?

What temp do you mash at?

 

[Fingerlickin_B]

I think I usually only add about 200g of wheat for head. So if you split it, you'll get two pretty good brews out of it.

How do you find the malt flavour from 100% pils?

What temp do you mash at?

Cool, after I posted that a bit more reading was done (like I should have beforehand) and pretty much decided if there were no replies I'd chuck in only half...thanks for that...good to hear :beer:

Malt flavour from the 100% Pils has varied, as I've been using either JW or Wyerman (spelling).
The misspelled German one is heaps better IMO and results in a cleaner beer sooner.
I'm really bad at describing flavours, but I'd say the use of all Pilsener grain results in a very unmalty beer, but I'm on a hop trip with this beer, so that's ok

These have all been mashed around the 63-64 degree mark, which I assume also leads to a reduction in sweet maltiness, but it must also convert to more fermentable sugars as it really packs a punch when sessioning

PZ.

*edit* - Fixed some of the spellingto drunk/lazy/whatever to do the rest :chug:

 

[Josh]

Cool, after posted that done a bit more reading (like I should have beforehand) and prety muched decided if there were no replies I'd chuck in only half...thanks for that...good to hear :beer:

Malt flavour from the 100% Pils has varied, as I've been using either JW or Wyerman (spelling).
The mispelled German one is heaps better IMO and results in a cleaner beer sooner.
I'm really bad at describing flavours, but I'd say the use of all Pilsener grain results in a very unmalty beer, but I'm on a hop trip with this beer, so that's ok

These have all been mashed around the 63-64 degree mark, which I assume also leads to a reduction in sweet maltiness, but it must also convert to more fermentable sugars as it really packs a punch when sessioning

PZ.

Thanks for that. I'm looking at getting into some more APAs so I'll mash lower and up the hops :beer:

 

[Fingerlickin_B]

Thanks for that. I'm looking at getting into some more APAs so I'll mash lower and up the hops :beer:

Just be careful about brewing based on what I type here Josh...I can only make assumptions (perhaps incorrect assumptions) on why my beer turns out the way it does......got less than a dozen good AG brews under my belt so far :unsure:

PZ.

 

[Hargie]

I'm doing another all Pilsener Malt APA either tomorrow or Sunday, but I have a question.

My usual grain bill for these is 5kg Pils Malt and nothing else. Still working on the hop side of things (more bittering and aroma required this time), but must say I'm quite happy with what just the Pils gives me

But.....a better head on the beer would be nice, if not just to impress my mates h34r:

Got a 500g bag of TF & Sons Torrefied Wheat here...would that be too much to add? :huh:

PZ.

.....5% Carapils and/or 5% wheat....

 

[Josh]

Just be careful about brewing based on what I type here Josh...I can only make assumptions (perhaps incorrect assumptions) on why my beer turns out the way it does......got less than a dozen good AG brews under my belt so far :unsure:

PZ.

I don't mind trying things out anyway. It can be my experimentation based on your assumptions.

Might have to put that down next weekend onto the yeast cake of my current APA in the fermentation fridge.

 

[Josh]

Light Black - 24L
currently in the boil

2kg MO Pale ale
425g Cara aroma
140g Dark crystal
175g Chocolate wheat

mash 64C
desired OG 1.025

12g Nugget 5 mins
12g Nugget 15 mins
Nugget bittering to 15BU

Safale S04 at room temp

I've just made myself a pre chiller, so I'm gonna give that a whirl today too.

 

[NRB]

In the middle of brewing my Amarillo APA which was predicted at 65% efficiency and has come along at 90%. Now considering - dilution, hop increase and aim for similar beer or up the ante significantly with the hops and go for an AIIPA...

 

[Stuster]

I'd say dilute it and go for an APA unless you have some other hops on hand. I don't think Amarillo really has the punch for an IIPA on its own. Still, could be interesting either way. :chug:

 

[NRB]

I decided to add another 5L to the kettle and have made a 25g 30min addition to complement the already added amount with the increased volume. Kind of like flying by the seat of my pants and will more than likely still end up with a reasonable beer.

I don't have the Bairds malt specs in Promash and used TF specs for my Maris Otter instead. Better be bloody drinkable!

 

[devo]

WOW Fella's, thanks for the huge response on the recipe request.

 

[Tony]

After the success and great feedback from others from my LC bright ale clone recipe i have decided to brew something similar but different today.

I have gone from the pils/vienna/carapils grain bill to a more conventional 95% IMC ale malt/5% TF caramalt @25-30 EBC.

and instead of the cascade/B-SAAZ mix i have gone with an amarillo/B-SAAZ mix.

going to brew it with US-56

here is the recipe

Bulls Tail Pale Ale 3

A ProMash Recipe Report

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

Batch Size (L): 52.00 Wort Size (L): 52.00
Total Grain (kg): 10.50
Anticipated OG: 1.048 Plato: 11.86
Anticipated EBC: 8.2
Anticipated IBU: 26.9
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75 %
Wort Boil Time: 60 Minutes


Grain/Extract/Sugar

% Amount Name Origin Potential EBC
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
95.2 10.00 kg. IMC Ale Malt Australia 1.038 4
4.8 0.50 kg. TF Caramalt UK 1.034 30

Potential represented as SG per pound per gallon.


Hops

Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
20.00 g. Amarillo Gold Pellet 8.40 8.1 40 min.
20.00 g. B-Saaz Pellet 6.70 6.5 40 min.
30.00 g. Amarillo Gold Pellet 8.40 6.9 15 min.
30.00 g. B-Saaz Pellet 6.70 5.5 15 min.
40.00 g. Amarillo Gold Pellet 8.40 0.0 0 min.
40.00 g. B-Saaz Pellet 6.70 0.0 0 min.


Yeast US-56


ITs boiling now....... smells great

Cheers

 

[yardy]

Just finished the boil,
4500 pils malt
.500 rice hulls
25gm NB 60min
10gm Amarillo 10 min
23gm Swiss Lager

for my mates who dont like my Ales.

Yard

 

[Tony]

God i remember the days of using 30 or 40g of hops in a brew.

ITs 180 minimum these days, up to 400 in something hoppy but im breweing over 50 liters

cheers