Whats Brewing For Easter 2006?

[muga]

All stocked up for easter, probably wont do much brewing over the holidays, just letting the batches I have going in the fermenters for longer than I normaly do..


ON TAP OVER EASTER
1x 50L Munich Lager (4 months old CC'ing)
1x 50L East Indian Pale ale (2 months old CC'ing)
1x 20L Cooper Pale Ale Clone (2 months old CC'ing)

It'll be the first time I have had all 3 taps running, should be good

 

[bindi]

All stocked up for easter, probably wont do much brewing over the holidays, just letting the batches I have going in the fermenters for longer than I normaly do..


ON TAP OVER EASTER
1x 50L Munich Lager (4 months old CC'ing)
1x 50L East Indian Pale ale (2 months old CC'ing)
1x 20L Cooper Pale Ale Clone (2 months old CC'ing)

It'll be the first time I have had all 3 taps running, should be good

[post="118899"][/post]​

120L on tap munga :blink: yeh I know Ross has 10 kegs on tap, that's very impressive and I thought I had a lot with 2 on tap in the shed and 4 on tap [only 3 connected with a 3 tap font] giving me 114L all chilled...Problem? What poblem .

 

[andrewl]

i'm thinking about doing a pilsener as i have had quite a thing for them recently... the only thing to stop this will be time as i think i'm pretty booked out

 

[muga]

120L on tap munga :blink: yeh I know Ross has 10 kegs on tap, that's very impressive

[post="119033"][/post]​

its just a shame its not AG beer in there yet, just some modified kits..
the AG brewery will have to wait another 12 months

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

For me it will be

Pillar Robust Porter
Pillar Cara Amber Ale
Pillar Brown ( made with home roasted brown malt)

The Stout will be flat, but I will have 1or 2 .... :chug:

 

[T.D.]

My fermentation fridge died yesterday after almost 4 years of sterling service Don't know if I can get another sorted in a hurry - will see how I go. If not then probably no Easter brewing for me unless we have a serious cold snap

I had planned an Octoberfest followed by a Hellesbock re-using the yeast from the Octoberfest's primary, but...

Shawn.

[post="118869"][/post]​

Shawn,

Kong from this forum uses a non-working fridge to ferment his beers and just puts in frozen bottles of water if its too hot, or bottle full of hot water if its colder weather. From what he has told me it seems to work really well in keeping a constant fermentation temp. Might be worth a try before you think about springing for a new fridge.

Cheers :beer:

 

[RobW]

Robust porter for me. One brew's about all I'll have time for.

 

[johnno]

Recipe for my rye IPA.
yum yum.

Will be brewing it on Friday.

5.00 kg Pale Malt, Traditional Ale (Joe White) (5.9 EBC) Grain 64.1 %
1.40 kg Rye Malt (9.3 EBC) Grain 17.9 %
0.50 kg Crystal (Joe White) (141.8 EBC) Grain 6.4 %
0.45 kg Carapils (Hoepfner) (3.9 EBC) Grain 5.8 %
0.45 kg Wheat Malt, Malt Craft (Joe White) (3.5 EBC) Grain 5.8 %
56.00 gm Ahtanum [5.70%] (60 min) Hops 33.0 IBU
28.00 gm Ahtanum [5.70%] (50 min) Hops 15.7 IBU
28.00 gm Ahtanum [5.70%] (30 min) Hops 12.7 IBU
28.00 gm Ahtanum [5.70%] (5 min) Hops 3.3 IBU
28.00 gm Ahtanum [5.70%] (0 min) Hops -
0.25 items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
1 Pkgs Thames Valley Ale Yeast II (Wyeast Labs #1882) [Starter 1500 ml] Yeast-Ale


Est Original Gravity: 1.071 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.017 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 7.1 %
Bitterness: 64.6 IBU
Est Color: 24.1 EBC

cheers
johnno

 

[Doc]

Just finished crushing the grain for Friday's brew.
I'm brewing Jamil's Chocolate Hazelnut Porter.
Not sure if I'll add the hazelnut yet though. May use vanilla instead.
His recipe is here

Beers,
Doc

 

[Gough]

My fermentation fridge died yesterday after almost 4 years of sterling service Don't know if I can get another sorted in a hurry - will see how I go. If not then probably no Easter brewing for me unless we have a serious cold snap

I had planned an Octoberfest followed by a Hellesbock re-using the yeast from the Octoberfest's primary, but...

Shawn.

[post="118869"][/post]​

Shawn,

Kong from this forum uses a non-working fridge to ferment his beers and just puts in frozen bottles of water if its too hot, or bottle full of hot water if its colder weather. From what he has told me it seems to work really well in keeping a constant fermentation temp. Might be worth a try before you think about springing for a new fridge.

Cheers

[post="119075"][/post]​

I didn't see your post till tonight TD, so apologies for the late response...

Thanks for the suggestion mate My problem is that I've been spoilt by having the fridge for so long I'm lost without it :lol: Kong's method sounds like it works well for ales and if the weather stays like it has been the last few days I may well give it a go in the short term. I was hoping to get another few lagers on the go though and I'm a bit sus as to how I'd go fermenting let alone lagering without my fridge. I may well be wrong, but I'm a bit shy of wasting a brew to find out if you know what I mean... Assuming the weather cools down a bit (32 here today... in mid April!) I'm planning a Stout to drop onto some yeast from the 'last brew from the fridge' Porter (wyeast 1084) that is due for racking. Saturday may well be the day...

Thanks again,

Shawn.

 

[johnno]

I should add that the rye IPA is based on Denny Conns recipe from the big brew day last year.

cheers
johnno

 

[Tony]

am going to brew a 1.036 mild to boost up my yeast for the Brown Dog American Brown Ale i brewed for the ANAWBS.

I hope its nice......... well it cant be any more out there than the doppelroggenbier in secondary.

cheers.

 

[Tony]

Oh and johnno......... only 17%

you should try mashing that bloody stuff at 40%.

I origionally considered using it @ 60% but i dont think i would have got it out of the ton with all the rice hulls in japan.

cheers again

 

[johnno]

Oh and johnno......... only 17%

you should try mashing that bloody stuff at 40%.

I origionally considered using it @ 60% but i dont think i would have got it out of the ton with all the rice hulls in japan.

cheers again

[post="120030"][/post]​

Tony,
I noticed that pic of what was left of the mash that you posted.

Dont know if I'm game enough to use that much yet.

Makes a darn beaut beer the rye.


cheers
johnno

 

[Tony]

well mine is still young in the secondary and is going to be great. Definatly will try a rye IPA one day. I recon it would add thet complexity that a hoppy beer alyays seems to lack......... IMO of course. It would make the malt stick out a bit more

cheers

 

[Tara_B]

Ag Stout on Sunday providing my head is not to sore from Saturday night...

 

[big d]

Work for me so unfortunately nothing brewing this weekend.

Cheers
Big D

 

[Weizguy]

Getting an early start for the Easter brewing today. On 2 weeks rec leave.

Just made my first ag APA, or rather SFPA. The last 2 additions are NZ Cascade, so I hope it's OK. Still getting used to Beersmith, and it suggested too much sparge water. The last runoff was still about 1.020, but I decided to boil for 45 min before adding the hops. 25 litre batch. Est. OG of 1.061 and IBU of 47.

Just waiting for the whirlpool to settle now. Gonna rack to a clean (and sanitise) fermentor for a no-chill cool overnight.

Have a 1 litre starter of W1272 ready to go... :beerbang:

I hear that this yeast may be fruitier if fermented cooler, so the Irish Red comes out of the fridge tomorrow, and I'll pitch the yeast once the wort is down to 18C.

Will try to make the Berliner Weisse on the weekend. I shouldn't need to build up the already substantial 500 ml lacto culture.

Seth out (to drain the kettle)

 

[Tony]

hey seth.....

how did the smoked beer go?

did u do it yet?

your a game man with that much rauchmalz

cheers

 

[Weizguy]

...not yet, Tony.

Gonna wait until the brew fridge is available, after the SFPA. Been waiting for stalled/ repitched Irish Red. Down to 1.012 today after sitting at 1.020 for a week and repitched Friday (about midday, before setting out on a visit to Kanberra).

Maybe next week for "da Rauch", in the 2nd week of my holidaze.
Will let everyone know how I go with 6kg of rauchmalz, and fresh Hallertau.

Game? Sometimes U can do something if you don't know that it's not possible!
Beerz :beer:



Seth out