What are you brewing?

[nzbrewer]

Since this is the most popular thread on the RealBeer.co.nz forum I thought I would start it here just to see what happens

[jt]

Another Brown this weekend
The last was a scrumptious 1.036 / 1.012 and 3%'ish.
I haven't been drinking much of it, I took it off tap to put the Coopers in the fridge.
This version's clocking in at an unusually high 1.047 for me and 30 IBU
Same recipe, just scaled up but tipping the balance a bit more in favour of the hops

Planning an early start as usual, with the added incentive to get cleared up and off to Chris's for the North Welly get-together later in the day
I know there's the first tasting of the North Welly Porter (tell me it's true guys ???) and Coopers Lager up for the Granny Smith taste test

[Matthew]

The North Welly Porter must be one of the most highly anticipated beers at the moment. No one has the foggiest idea what it's like and it's oh so limited. :D

[jt]

you sure you haven't tried it ?

[Matthew]

I'm just trying to build the hype...

[jt]

I bet Michael's tried it, d'you reckon ?

[warra48]

This one is on the boil as I type.

23 litres Mild

3000.00 gm Pale Malt (2 Row) UK (5.9 EBC) Grain 83.33 %
250.00 gm Crystal Medium (145.0 EBC) Grain 6.94 %
200.00 gm Crystal Malt - 60L (Thomas Fawcett) (118.2 EBC) Grain 5.56 %
100.00 gm Wheat Malt, Dark (Weyermann) (13.8 EBC) Grain 2.78 %
50.00 gm Carafa Special T2 (1150.0 EBC) Grain 1.39 %
23.00 gm First Gold '06 [7.90 %] (60 min) Hops 19.7 IBU
6.00 gm EKGoldings [4.80 %] (60 min) Hops 3.1 IBU
14.00 gm EK Goldings Plug [4.30 %] (10 min) Hops 2.2 IBU
1 Pkgs London ESB Ale (Wyeast Labs #1968) Starter 2.5 litres

Mashed for 75 minutes at 70ºC.

[Barry]

just hit boiling on a pale ale - first ever use of Amarillo. Yes I am behind the times.

Pale malt and a dash of crystal to 1.050
southern cross for bittering then amarillo at 20, 15, 10, 5 and flameout.
1272 American ale II

[jt]

first ever use of Amarillo. Yes I am behind the times

haven't tried it either Barry, let me know if it's worth a go eh ?

[Barry]

Oh I can tell you already from the smell it's worth a go.
I was at Brewers Coop on Wednesday buying another sack of malt and they happened to have some. Smelled delicious so I got a couple hundred grams. Not cheap but the 2 beers I make with it are going to be awesome. Next one will be a brown ale.

[Stu McKinlay]

A few new yeasts arrived in the post and the weather has cooled off... the real brewing season is abou to kick off.

Now that I'm back to 5 days a week for a while it may have to include the odd after work brew.

[JoKing]

What yeast did you get?

[Tony]

Yes me too. Just got some time off, so I picked up the ingredients for 2 brews:

Oat stout

4.5kg Marris Otter
420 g Flaked Oats
350 g Chocolate malt
250 g Roasted Barley
250 g Crystal malt
200 g Wheat bix
1tsp Irish moss
1 tsp Yeast nutrient
0.5L Pale LME

Wyeast West Yorkshire ale

IBU's 50
ABV=7.8 %

NZ Lager

2kg MO
2kg Golden promise
200g Munich
20g Green Bullet
25g Nelson sauvin 10
25g NZ Hallertau FO

Wyeast Danish lager
IBU= 77
ABV=4.4%