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]

Sorry chap, I didn't mean to sound ungrateful !
500gm or so is a fair wack of SA for me - but I'm sure I could offer to share the bounty with anyone else in Welly that loves this jewel of our hop world.
Covering your costs and possibly something Blande ?

[Martin Bridges]

Pride of West Yorkshire

3.5kg Golden Promise
300g Torrified Wheat
150g Dark Crystal (120L)

40g Pacific Hallertau @60 mins
20g Motueka @ 15 mins
20g NZ Styrian Goldings @ flameout

Re-using Wyeast 1469PC West Yorkshire Ale. Made a half litre starter.

Just mashed in, temp settled at 67 degrees C.

Boy it's hot. Almost contemplated topless brewing today!

[Reviled]

Looks tasty and quaffable Martin!! Will work nice with the 1469 I reckon! R u gonna dry hop it at all?

[Martin Bridges]

Not planning on dry-hopping this one. It's basically a repeat of a recipe I did recently but with a different yeast (previous one was 1968 London ESB). I'm looking for the differences from the yeast.

Took a look at the fermenter this morning and there's a nice healthy krausen and it's bubbling away merrily. Looks like the yeast has woken up OK.

[Martin Bridges]

Looks like this one has fermented out - all activvity has stooped and yeast has dropped out. I'll take a hydrometer reading tonight.

Only problem is I have no keg to put it in! Will have to finish off the Electric Landlord first. What a hardship.

[Reviled]

I can come round and help you with that if need be ;o)

[Martin Bridges]

Wow - checked it last night and it has really attenuated well. Started at 1.043, down to 1.008. Maybe it was the starter what did it? Tasted OK, although it was a fairly yeasty sample.

I've turned the fridge off so that it gently warms up for a bit of a diacetyl rest. Hopefully I'll have a keg free by the weekend to put it in. I'll take a bit of beer along to Tyler's brew day - maybe that'll finish it off!

[Reviled]

Thats an awesome SG with a 67* mash, bet thats going to be well balanced!

[Martin Bridges]

I tweaked my BeerSmith calculations this time and pretty much hit everything spot on - 20 litres of wort at an SG of 1.043. IBUs should therefore be 33.

[Reviled]

Nice :o)

[Will J]

We (mick, herrschnapps and myself) brewed our second honey Ale on saturday, went without a hitch. the recipe is pretty fun and makes for a easy drinking summery ale. We had planned on using 120L crystal in place of the 80L but a lack of labelling on someones (mick's) part left us bemused as to which crystal was which... anywho we decided on the follwoing recipe....interesting no doubt.

Tall Tale Honey Brown Ale

3.2 kg Pale Malt
175 g Crystal 60 L
175 g Crystal 80 L
200 g chocolate
50 g caraamber

10g Nelson Sauvin at 60min
13g Syrian Goldings at 20min
500 g Manuka honey (250g end of boil and 250g into the brew when we pitch the yeast)

Safale English Yeast

As well as this mighty brew we brewed a monstrous 21 litres of Ginger beer on Friday to the following recipe. this is intended to be drunk with the university "A Brew Club" bunch. should be good times. it's not exactly a complicated brew but is mighty refreshing in the sun, we have done quite a few bottle brews so far. We had planned on using Muscuvado sugar instead but it seemed we misplaced it.

22 Litre brew with 13 cup sugar, 2cup dark cane sugar, zest and juice of 28 lemons and 20 tablespoon grated ginger.

Basically we combined all the ingredients and the roughly half of the water in our large pot, brought it the boil, mad up to 21L, then cooled, and pitched some rehydrated bakers yeast into it. should be good

[Will J]

we bottled our extravagent IPA last night, was a fair mess of a bottling, broke two bottles (which isn't cheap at roughly $2.50 a bottle) with our hammer/capper setup and our auto-siphon was playing up so had to do it the old fashion way which was v.tricky considering the amount of dry hopping we did with this brew. anyway it did taste fantastic so that is great. Can't wait to try it in a few weeks, hopefully it won't go too quickly....