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

[Richard Jack]

Brewed an imperial red today. Hope a month to the WBC will be long enough for it. It's tasting very... Imperial.

 

Reviled is coming around tonight to see rum making and critise all my beers, looking forward to that :)

[Bambule]

Brewing a Belgian Pale Ale today as there seems to be a certain affinity with the belgian yeast, warm weather and my rain water.

 

Golden Haze

4.5kg Gladfield Organic Pilsner

0.25kg Caramunich

0.1kg Cara aroma

0.05kg Carafa II

10 g Nelson Sauvin @ 60

20g NS @ 10

3787 yeast.

[JoKing]

Yum - I forgot to mention that I had your tripel the other night. You can damn well brew Belgians my man. That was a top drop..

 

How are you liking that floor malted Halcyon? We dont have much left from the pallet we scored.

[Bambule]

Great! I'm glad you liked it.  It got a hammering over new years and is now sadly all gone.

 

  I'm looking at getting another sack of Halcyon maybe next week.  I can't seem to select whole sacks on the liberty website at the moment, are you a bit short?

[JoKing]

Very short - you can get one though. No dramas. Just flick me an email.

[Bambule]

cool, just sent you an email

 

[Barbara Joppa]

Brewed the following this past weekend. 

Too Heart American Ale

5.6 kg NZ Pale

1.2 kg German Vienna

350g Crystal 20

200 g carahells

Mash at 65 for 90 min, Sparge at 77

Boil 90 min

All Centennial Hops: 20g at 60min, 30g at 30 min, 30g at flame out.

Yeast = S05.

OG = 1.071 - I was actually hoping for an OG of 1.055 but I guess the grain bill was a bit high. 

 

I am thinking of dry hopping when I transfer to the secondary fermenter. I have several hops to choose from but would like something citrus or floral. Any suggestions?

I will bring this along to Western brewers in Feb (assuming it turns out okay)

[Martin Bridges]

Amber Waves - an NZ Amber. Based on Tasty McDole's American Amber but with Kiwi hops, and a slight tweak to the malt bill.

 

4.4kg Golden Promise

0.6kg Crystal 60L

0.3kg CaraPils

0.3kg CaraRed

0.2kg Wheat malt

50g Roast Barley

Mashed at 67 degrees

 

90 minute boil

6.5g Southern Cross mash hop

6.5g Southern Cross @ 30 mins

10g Southern Cross @ 15

13g NZ Cascade @ 15

15g NZ Cascade @ 5

50g NZ Cascade @ 0

50g Motueka dry hop

 

Aiming for around 1.057. IBUs are low (about 30) but hop flavour and aroma should be good.

 

Yeast will be WY1272 American Ale II

[Michael]

This looks very promising! I bet it will taste great!

[Simon David kelly]

Put this down for the up-coming WnBC Rye a few weeks ago. Just had a taste and it's quite nice.

 

Hopefully it's enough Rye for a Rye Pale Ale ... I suspect I could have gone up to 15%.

 

4.26 kg	Pale Malt, Maris Otter (5.9 EBC)	Grain	73.70 %
0.60 kg	Rye Malt (9.3 EBC)	Grain	10.38 %
0.50 kg	Munich Malt (17.7 EBC)	Grain	8.65 %
0.30 kg	Brown Malt (128.1 EBC)	Grain	5.19 %
0.10 kg	Vienna Malt (6.9 EBC)	Grain	1.73 %
35.00 gm	Amarillo Gold [10.00 %] (Dry Hop 5 days)	Hops	-
14.00 gm	Nugget [14.00 %] (60 min)	Hops	22.0 IBU
14.00 gm	Fuggles [5.00 %] (30 min)	Hops	6.0 IBU
14.00 gm	Goldings, B.C. [4.70 %] (20 min)	Hops	4.5 IBU
14.00 gm	Goldings, East Kent [4.70 %] (10 min)	Hops	2.7 IBU
17.00 gm	Cascade [5.75 %] (1 min)	Hops	0.5 IBU
1.00 tsp	Irish Moss (Boil 10.0 min)	Misc
2.00 gm	Calcium Chloride (Mash 60.0 min)	Misc
2.00 gm	Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate) (Mash 60.0 min)	Misc
3.49 tsp	Isinglass (Liquid) (Secondary 7.0 days)	Misc
5.00 gm	Yeast Nutrient (Boil 10.0 min)	Misc
0.02 kg	Honey (2.0 EBC)	Sugar	0.35 %
1 Pkgs	American Ale II (Wyeast Labs #1272) [Starter 2 L]	Yeast-Ale

[denimglen]

Looks like a nice beer, is it based on the Terrapin Rye PA?  I've been thinking of brewing that clone...

[Llew Bardecki]

Where did you manage to get BC Goldings!?  Or was that just a typo?

I could've sworn they tore up the last commercial hop fields in BC some years ago.

 

I'd love to try brewing a beer with hops from my native country if they're available anywhere.

 

Also, while I'm asking questions, why the 20 grams of honey?  Surely that's not taste-able?

 

(Looking forward to having a sample of your beer next week by the way... Sounds tasty! :)