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

[MrC]

Sounds good jt. Did you consider both cascade and styrian for the late additions?

[jt]

There's both Mr Cherry
After the bittering addition there's
cascade @ 30 & 20
Styrian @ 15
Cascade @ 10 & 5
Styrian @ 0

The grainbill is close'ish to the original
79% pale - malturop not MO
10% Munich I - not Munich II from memory
4.5% Crystal 55L
3% Pale Chocolate
2% Chocolate
1.5% Black Patent

[MrC]

Oh, i understand now. Looks very nice.
How low are you going on the OG?

[jt]

With good efficiency and a hard boil I should repeat the 1049 or 1050 that I got in the first attempt

A ways short of the real thing, but if I can get the right balance of the gravity and hops I'll be happy

[Bambule]

Advice required, I'm bottling my Maximus Clone tonight. Its slowly meandered down to 1.012 and had been dry hopped for 7 days. When I went to but some finings in last night most of the hops are still floating on top of the beer. I guess some CO2 may be keeping them afloat? Anyway, should I rack the beer off into something else before I bottle? Give the fermenter a swirl to see if the hops will settle out? Any ideas...

[Simon David kelly]

I had the same issue ... I finned and gave the hops a gentle stir in, they were all pretty well settled out come morning.

[JoKing]

Put the whole fermenter in the fridge overnight and they'll be at the bottom in the morning - just in time for you to bottle.

[MrC]

I find that giving the fermenter a little 'bump' every now and then tends to set some of the dry hops free from their floating prison and they start sinking. It's quite obvious in a glass fermenter.

[Bambule]

Hey thanks for that.

[Brett Mason]

German Pils tomorrow. Will be interesting to see how it comes out with just pilsner malt. DMH only had a single packet of W34 (expired but free) so settling on a blend with S23.

5.00 kg Pilsner (2 Row) NZ (4.0 EBC) Grain 100.00 %
20.00 gm Pacific Jade [13.50 %] (60 min) Hops 30.6 IBU
22.50 gm Pacifica [4.30 %] (15min) Hops 5.4 IBU
15.00 gm Pacifica [4.30 %] (1min) Hops 0.3 IBU
8.00 gm Hallertauer, New Zealand [8.50 %] (1 min) Hops 0.3 IBU
0.29 tsp Irish Moss (rehydrate) (Boil 15.0 min)
1 Pkgs SafLager W-34/70
1 Pkgs SafLager S23

[Mike Neilson]

Two Brews this Weekend

Anorexic IPA

85% Maris Otter
10% Thomas Fawcett Light
5% CaraPils

20 Ibu Chinook @ 20
10g Amarillo 10g Centenial, 20g Simcoe @ 10, 0 Whirlpool and Dryhop

1.036 - 1.010, 3.4% Abv
35Ibu
1318

Booze

94% Halcyon
6% Thomas Fawcett Light

20ibu Chinook @ 60
30g Simcoe 30g Centenial @ 10, 0, Whirlpool, Dryhops + 20g Amarillo

1.050 - 1.012 5% ABV
45Ibu
1272

[warra48]

Put this one down yesterday.
It's just a generic lager, not to any style or clone.
23 litre batch. OG 1.056, IBU 40.5
Step mashed 52ºC 20 min, 64ºC 30 min, 72ºC 30 min, 78ºC mashout.
The last two steps had to be decoctions, as my mashtun had no more capacity to add water.

200.00 gm Rice Hulls (0.0 EBC) Adjunct 3.85 %
4500.00 gm Premium Pilsner (2.5 EBC) Grain 86.54 %
500.00 gm Vienna Malt (6.9 EBC) Grain 9.62 %
40.00 gm Hallertau NZ Pellets [8.10 %] (60 min) Hops 32.3 IBU
40.00 gm Hallertauer Tradition Germany Pellets [5.70 %] (10 min) Hops 8.2 IBU
1.00 items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 10.0 min) Misc
1 Pkgs Bohemian Lager (Wyeast Labs #2124) 4.5 litre starter

The fermenter has been in the fridge overnight to drop it to 10ºC, along with the starter. I poured off the starter beer this morning, and pitched the slurry, and aerated the batch.

Should be ready for drinking over the Christmas New Year break.