Whats In The Glass

[mofox1]

And the pic.

 

[Curly79]

Nice garnish there mate

 

[SBOB]

I expect to see that as the hipster garnish in craft beer for 2017/2018

 

[Coodgee]

Delicious ordinary bitter, no tepidity in sight @coodgee will try and hold on to one for you until next club meet, missed it this week due to impending offspring!

Mate we should catch up at yours/mine. I've got some decent beer on my three taps at the moment. A double ipa, rogers clone and a very cool raspberry wheat that tastes and looks like soft drink!

 

[Dave70]

I expect to see that as the hipster garnish in craft beer for 2017/2018

Probably more likely than my pick.

 

[Matplat]

Mate we should catch up at yours/mine. I've got some decent beer on my three taps at the moment. A double ipa, rogers clone and a very cool raspberry wheat that tastes and looks like soft drink!

Sounds like a plan, my wife is literally in labour right now though, so will have to tee this up in a few weeks when everything settles down!

 

[SBOB]

my wife is literally in labour right now though,

and yet still posting on the forum..

 

[tj2204]

American wheat.

Was pretty boring so I keg hopped 25g centennial at about 7 this morning, much improved already.

 

[Matplat]

and yet still posting on the forum..

Gotta kill time somehow! Bloody false alarm anyway....

 

[good4whatAlesU]

Here's the Wakitu / Gladfield Pilsner malt SMASH again from a few months back. This is the one I dropped a Barocca into to get rid of the chlorine. Lol - seemed like a good idea at the time. Brewed at 18c with 05 from memory.

Quite tasty but the Wakitu is a bit limey on it's own. Needs something else.

Couple photos in different light.

 

[Kingy]

Carbonated Blueberry mead just a small glass tho it's around 8% it's a little dry I reckon it would go well mixed with a ginger beer.

 

[Kumamoto_Ken]

Probably more likely than my pick.

That's quite a merkin.

 

[fletcher]

Speaking of Aussie lagers, I have a glass of my XXXX Bitter rip off going at the moment from my little ******* 10L keg. This was the surplus from the batch (about 7 litres), the rest of it is in a 19L keg that will be tapped down the track. This beer seems a bit more flavourful than the real deal from what I can remember of it but I'll do a side by side at some point out of curiosity. Not the best photo being at night but anyway. It's very refreshing in this hot weather, that's for sure!

i've just moved to qld mate, so i'll have to give this one a go too eventually. having never had the original, mind sharing your recipe?

 

[BKBrews]

I've had this one on tap for about 4 months - brewed November 2016. Yes, kegs last a while around here.

My Pirate Life Pale Ale clone. Was beautiful early, went a bit awry for a month in the middle, haven't touched it for at least a month, now it's lager like and super easy drinking for 5.8%. Trying to kick the keg - given a few litres away and must be close!

 

[Kumamoto_Ken]

Coopers Pale side by side.

Followed AndrewQld's recipe almost to the letter (I used Heritage crystal rather than dark).
Mine's on the left. Colour very close, mine's a bit cloudier.

Taste and aroma is very close. Mine is slightly undercarbed compared to the original and the mouthfeel is a tiny bit thinner as a result.
Overall I'm extremely happy with this. When drinking mine in isolation (not side by side) it tastes the same to me.

I reused the yeast for a Sparkling Ale which is in the FV at the moment...looking forward to that one as well.

 

[earle]

I've had this one on tap for about 4 months - brewed November 2016. Yes, kegs last a while around here.

My Pirate Life Pale Ale clone. Was beautiful early, went a bit awry for a month in the middle, haven't touched it for at least a month, now it's lager like and super easy drinking for 5.8%. Trying to kick the keg - given a few litres away and must be close! ImageUploadedByAussie Home Brewer1488084844.480806.jpg

Looks good. Recipe?

 

[Kumamoto_Ken]

I had genuinely good intentions of doing a Punk IPA side by side.

Then I remembered that the DIY Dog recipe I used was the 2007-2010 version....

The bad news is I'm not comparing like with like.
The good news is I have a four two-pack of Punk IPA cans that someone has to drink.

Mine on the left FWIW.

 

[BKBrews]

Looks good. Recipe?

[SIZE=10pt]BeerSmith 2 Recipe Printout - http://www.beersmith.com[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Recipe: BK Pirate Life Pale Ale Clone[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Brewer: [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Asst Brewer: [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Style: American Pale Ale[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]TYPE: All Grain[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Taste: (30.0) [/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]Recipe Specifications[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=10pt]Boil Size: 28.00 l[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Post Boil Volume: 26.00 l[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Batch Size (fermenter): 23.00 l [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Bottling Volume: 21.00 l[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Estimated OG: 1.053 SG[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Estimated Color: 18.1 EBC[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Estimated IBU: 49.5 IBUs[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Brewhouse Efficiency: 73.00 %[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Est Mash Efficiency: 79.3 %[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Boil Time: 60 Minutes[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]Ingredients:[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=10pt]Amt Name Type # %/IBU [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]8.00 g Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate) (Mash 60.0 mins Water Agent 1 - [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]5.00 g Calcium Chloride (Mash 60.0 mins) Water Agent 2 - [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]3.00 g Epsom Salt (MgSO4) (Mash 60.0 mins) Water Agent 3 - [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]4.91 kg Gladfield American Ale Malt (5.0 EBC) Grain 4 90.5 % [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]0.24 kg Carahell (Weyermann) (25.6 EBC) Grain 5 4.5 % [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]0.12 kg Acidulated (Weyermann) (3.5 EBC) Grain 6 2.2 % [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]0.11 kg Gladfield Medium Crystal Malt (111.0 EBC Grain 7 2.0 % [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]0.04 kg Carafa Special III (Weyermann) (925.9 EB Grain 8 0.8 % [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]8.00 g Mosaic (HBC 369) [12.25 %] - First Wort Hop 9 11.4 IBUs [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]15.00 g Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 10 8.7 IBUs [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]1.22 Items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 mins) Fining 11 - [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]31.00 g Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 5.0 min Hop 12 7.7 IBUs [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]39.00 g Cascade [5.50 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 20.0 Hop 13 6.7 IBUs [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]39.00 g Mosaic (HBC 369) [12.25 %] - Steep/Whirl Hop 14 15.0 IBUs [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]2.0 pkg US West Coast Yeast (Mangrove Jack's #M4 Yeast 15 - [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]40.00 g Cascade [5.50 %] - Dry Hop 5.0 Days Hop 16 0.0 IBUs [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]40.00 g Mosaic (HBC 369) [12.25 %] - Dry Hop 5.0 Hop 17 0.0 IBUs [/SIZE]
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[SIZE=10pt]When I do this again I'll go for even less IBU from the early additions, scrap the 5min addition, top up to 50 IBU in the whirlpool and at least double the dry hop (I was being stingey). I will also use the California V Ale yeast from whitelabs as I'm almost certain this is what the real brewery uses. If you want to stick with dry yeast, I'd go US-05 over the M44 that I used on this one. Would not change a single area of the malt bill - Red from Pirate Life actually helped me with it and when I did a side by side with the real stuff we kept getting confused as to which was which based on the visual.[/SIZE]

 

[Rocker1986]

i've just moved to qld mate, so i'll have to give this one a go too eventually. having never had the original, mind sharing your recipe?

Hey mate, yeah no worries. I don't know how close it is, I'll have to go up the street and get a real one when the big keg goes on tap soon. I've already gone through the little keg which that glass was poured from. I suspect mine has more IBUs and a little more hop character than the original.

Grains
3.500 kg Pils Malt (Barrett Burston) (3.9 EBC) Grain 3 86.1 %
0.050 kg Acidulated (Weyermann) (4.5 EBC) Grain 4 1.2 %
0.015 kg Black Malt (Thomas Fawcett) (1300.2 EBC) Grain 5 0.4 %
**0.500 kg Cane (Beet) Sugar (0.0 EBC) Sugar 8 12.3 %
90 minute mash at 65C.

Hops
25.00 g Cluster - Boil 60.0 min Hop 6 19.5 IBUs
20.00 g Cluster - Boil 10.0 min Hop 7 5.8 IBUs
75-80 minute boil

Yeast
1.0 pkg Danish Lager Ferment at 12C, usual lager schedule. I used a starter for the yeast.

**Dissolved in water and added with 10-15 minutes left in the boil.

The Stats
Est Original Gravity: 1.0410 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.0042 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 4.8 %
Bitterness: 25.3 IBUs
Est Color: 9.2 EBC

 

[Bribie G]

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