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

[Mike Neilson]

Great weekend of research has guided me into fill up my kegs with theses ales that will be brewed in September cant wait to get into them and should be good spring drinkers!!

Raspberry Stout 5.5%, Standard Stout secondry on 2kg of Raspberrys brewed with Cry Havoc
Imperial Pils 7%, 100% Pils, Riwaka, NS Cry Havoc cake from R Stout
Belgian Blonde 6%, Kolesh Malt Wheat Malt, Carapils Caramalt, Invert, Motueka Riwaka Wlp550
Saison 5.5% Kolesh Malt, Caramunich 2, Unmalted wheat, Zagehry Sugar, White labs Saison 568/565??
Special Bitter 5%, Golden Promise Med and Light Crystal, Amarillo and Imp Styrian!! WLP002

Man cant wait to get into them!! Anyone else feel inspired after drinking the contrys best on the weekend?

[Reviled]

Amarillo and Styrians in a bitter??? Interesting combo, might have to give it a crack!

[Mike Neilson]

Slight Grass Floral and marmalady citrus nice!!

[warra48]

Just pitched the yeast into this one, brewed this morning:

Best Bitter
Batch Size: 23.00 L
OG: 1.045 SG
Estimated IBU: 29.4 IBU
Mashed at 68ºC 90 minutes
Boil Time: 90Minutes

3500.00 gm Maris Otter (6.0 EBC) Grain 82.16 %
310.00 gm Crystal Medium (145.0 EBC) Grain 7.28 %
220.00 gm CaraMunich II (120.0 EBC) Grain 5.16 %
150.00 gm Amber Malt (85.0 EBC) Grain 3.52 %
80.00 gm Crystal Dark (260.0 EBC) Grain 1.88 %
25.00 gm EK Goldings [4.50 %] (90 min) (First WortHops 13.8 IBU
30.00 gm Styrian Goldings [2.30 %] (60 min) Hops 7.7 IBU
30.00 gm EKGoldings [4.80 %] (15 min) Hops 8.0 IBU
10.00 gm EKGoldings [4.80 %] (Dry Hop 7 days) Hops -
10.00 gm Styrian Goldings [2.30 %] (Dry Hop 7 daysHops -
1.00 items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 10.0 min) Misc
1 Pkgs London ESB Ale (Wyeast Labs #1968) [StarteYeast-Ale

[Mike Neilson]

Great day for brewing I have this currently mashing at the moment,

Chocolate and Boysenberry Stout with Vanilla

2.00 kg Golden Promise
2.00 kg Maris Otter (
0.77 kg Melanoidin
0.50 kg Carared
0.20 kg Crystal Malt - 15L
0.20 kg Pale Chocolate
0.15 kg Carafa Special
0.10 kg Chocolate Malt

Mashing high and using a fair bit of crystal so it evens out tartness from the berrys

Nugget Hops 41.1 IBU @ 90

1 Pkgs S-05

1.080 - 1.016

Secondry Fermentaion With 2kg of Boysenberrys for 4 days, than Madagascan Coco Nibs will be added for a further 5 days along with seeded Vanilla pods with stems and seed after 5 days it will be crash cooled and primed and Kegged!!

[James P]

Time for a Father's Day pilsner

4.50 kg Gladfields Pils LAR005 (2.8 SRM)
0.25 kg Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM)
0.13 kg Acid Malt (3.0 SRM)
0.08 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 20L (20.0 SRM)
35.00 gm Riwaka (D Saaz) [5.10 %] (60 min) Hops 20.4 IBU
20.00 gm Riwaka (D Saaz) [5.10 %] (10 min) Hops 4.2 IBU
20.00 gm Rakau [11.50 %] (10 min) Hops 9.5 IBU
20.00 gm Riwaka (D Saaz) [5.10 %] (5 min) Hops 2.3 IBU
15.00 gm Rakau [11.50 %] (5 min) Hops 3.9 IBU
2.00 tsp Irish Moss (Boil 10.0 min) Misc

2 Pkgs Weihenstephen Yeast @ 12C

Dry hop 15.00 gm Riwaka 2 weeks

Up at 5am this morning as doing a 90 min mash and 90 min boil....

[Nick T]

5 o'when?? Is there such a time? That man deserves an Epic....

[James P]

Wanted to brew and spend time with the kids today, soooooo early morning brewing!

[Reviled]

Random throw together brew for fathers day after a win last night which im still well chuffed about and an awesome eggs benidict for brekkie ;o)

1.5kg Golden Promise
1.1kg Perle
800g Munich
120g Melanoiden
120g CaraAroma
200g Dark Crystal
400g Flaked maize

FWH - 6g Nugget, 6g Simcoe
30 - 5g Chinook, 8g Columbus
15 - 10g Amarillo, 10g Centennial, 5g SImcoe
FO - 12g Amarillo, 12g Simcoe, 20g Centennial, 12g Columbus

Going to pitch it onto a cake of 1469 - not sure what to expect really...

[JoKing]

Something different too.

Focussing on getting bitterness in soley from the late additions here - so a 90min boil with the 1st hop addition in at 15mins. Broke 90 on this one with 91% efficiency this morning. Off for a walk now down the coastal walkway with the wee Family.

West Coast Blonde 3
6-B Blonde Ale
Author: Joseph Wood
Date: 6/09/2009

Size: 24.39 L
Efficiency: 91.0%
Attenuation: 82.0%
Calories: 164.07 kcal per 12.0 fl oz

Original Gravity: 1.050 (1.038 - 1.054)
Terminal Gravity: 1.009 (1.008 - 1.013)
Color: 12.32 (3.0 - 6.0)
Alcohol: 5.36% (3.8% - 5.5%)
Bitterness: 32.8 (15.0 - 28.0)

Ingredients:
4.5 kg Global Kolsch Malt
50 g Simcoe (12.3%) - added during boil, boiled 15 min
50 g Simcoe (12.3%) - added during boil, boiled 1 min
.8 g Carageenan - added during boil, boiled 10 min
.2 g Servomyces - added during boil, boiled 10 min
1 ea WLP001

Schedule:
Ambient Air: 21.11 °C
Source Water: 15.56 °C
Elevation: 0.0 m

00:29:46 Mash In - Liquor: 11.25 L; Strike: 74.35 °C; Target: 67 °C
01:29:46 Saccharification Rest - Rest: 60.0 min; Final: 67.0 °C
01:30:46 Untitled Step - Water: 5.04 L; Temperature: 95.7 °C; Target: 75 °C
02:15:46 Sparge - Sparge: 15.94 L sparge @ 76.7 °C, 27.82 L collected, 45.0 min; Total Runoff: 28.52 L

[JoKing]

Gotta love 001.... this bitch was cranking hard when I got out of bed this morning... at 16 degrees too.

[Reviled]

lol, mines gonna be, well..... Interesting ;o) I pitched waaaaaay to warm, at 28*c, onto a big cake, and it started fermenting like, straight away, had to put it in the ice bath but I could only get it down to 22*c

Oh well, 1469 is quite forgiving, bet itll steal all of the hop aroma tho...