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

[Dougal]

But what about the music reference? "Proctal Harum" perhaps?

[Barry]

I didn't have time to do a music reference justice, well done that man!

[Greig McGill]

Yep, there's 17% in "Bean Counter". Not acrid at all, lovely complex toasted notes. Brown Malt is my friend.

[Bambule]

I recall hearing the Meantime Porter having obscene amounts of Brown malt as well.

[RopenutS]

So this brew goes down tommorow. My first all grain. Pretty excited about it to be honest haha.

 

Possible APA

Original Gravity (OG): 1.050  (°P): 12.4
Final Gravity (FG):    1.013  (°P): 3.3
Alcohol (ABV):         4.91 %
Colour (SRM):          8.9   (EBC): 17.5
Bitterness (IBU):      50.0   (Average)

95.24% Golden Promise Malt
4.76% Crystal 80

15g   0.7 g/L Cascade (7.5% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil)
15g   0.7 g/L Amarillo (8.5% Alpha) @ 30 Minutes (Boil)
15g   0.7 g/L Falconers Flight (10.5% Alpha) @ 30 Minutes (Boil)
15g   0.7 g/L Amarillo (8.5% Alpha) @ 15 Minutes (Boil)
15g   0.7 g/L Falconers Flight (10.5% Alpha) @ 15 Minutes (Boil)
30g   1.3 g/L Amarillo (8.5% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (Boil)

Single step Infusion at 68°C for 60 Minutes. Boil for 60 Minutes

Fermented at 18°C with Safale US-05

Recipe Generated with BrewMate

 

Just hoping someone could tell me this looks all good? Well just really seeing if there is anything wrong here haha. Any advice welcome

Cheers

[Ralph]

Looks good to me. Personally I like my hopping late, and would be inclined to put the 30 min hops at about 15 min and the 15 at about 5 or so. This would drop your calculated IBU by a bit, but is likely to give you more fresh hop flavour and aroma. I am sure it will be great beer the way you have it too tho!

[JackoNZ]

Looks good mate, a fairly aggressively hopped APA by the looks of it. I'm doing a couple of APA's myself this weekend but on the less hoppy side of the scale. Keen to swap a couple of bottles once done? 

So attempting a double brew weekend tomorrow and Sunday. I toasted some pale malt in the oven a couple of weeks back, 1 batch was done dry the other wet. Hoping for something along the lines of a biscuit/victory type malt. So, keen to see how it comes out in a beer I made up an APA recipe on the lighter, less hoppy side of things to hopefully allow the home toasted malt to come through. Ideally I'd like to get into doing this a bit more so I really hope the flavour is noticeable. 

 

Batch Size (fermenter): 20.00 l
Bottling Volume: 19.00 l
Estimated OG: 1.048 SG
Estimated Color: 7.5 SRM
Estimated IBU: 38.8 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 80.5 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amt Name %/IBU
4.00 kg Pale Malt (2 Row) UK (3.1 SRM) 90.5 %
0.25 kg Victory Malt, Home Toasted (Wet) (25.0 S 5.7 %
0.15 kg Munich Malt - 10L (8.1 SRM) 3.4 %
0.02 kg Chocolate Malt Pale (456.9 SRM) 0.5 %

17.00 g Pacific Jade [14.60 %] - Boil 60.0 min 29.9 IBUs
10.00 g Amarillo Gold [8.20 %] - Boil 10.0 min 3.6 IBUs
10.00 g Simcoe [12.20 %] - Boil 10.0 min 5.3 IBUs
20.00 g Amarillo Gold [8.20 %] - Boil 0.0 min 0.0 IBUs
20.00 g Simcoe [12.20 %] - Boil 0.0 min 0.0 IBUs
20.00 g Amarillo Gold [8.20 %] - Dry Hop 5.0 Day 0.0 IBUs
1.0 pkg Safale American (DCL/Fermentis #US-05)

[RopenutS]

@ Ralph I did have 5 min additions in my original recipe I made. I might take ya advise on that and drop the 30 to 15. And 15 to 5. Because the hops smell so good I can almost taste them haha.

@ JackoNZ. Hopefully not too aggressive! Haha nah im not afraid of the hops. Yeah I'll be keen to swap a couple of bottles, thats if it turns out alright Lol. Your recipe looks semi similar to mine, hop wise that is so id be interested to try it. I was going to use simcoe in my recipe but couldn't get it anywhere, that falconers flight is my substitute. Smells pretty damn good too.

Sweet cheers guys. im just stoked that nothing looks completely wrong haha. Alot of time and research has got me to this point. Can't wait

[JackoNZ]

How did your brew day turn out RopenutS? Did you move your hop additions in the end?

[FatD]

anyone got any thoughts on kohatu and wai-iti. THought of doing this tomorrow -

 

Batch Size = 20 L

pale  (3.8 kg)
Crystal 10L (0.8 kg)

60 Mins Kohatu (6.8%) 20 g

15 Mins Kohatu (6.8%) 40g

15 Mins Irish Moss

5 Min Wai-iti (2.8%) 60 g

Dry hop - Wai-iti (2.8%) 30g

Mash - 152 F (66.6)
Strike Temp - 164 F (73.3)
Sparge water - 5.3 gal (20.06 Litres)
Sparge temp - 74.5 deg
Mash water - 3.39 gal (12.83 Litres )

Yeast -- Us-05

 

Should i do the Wai-iti at 5 mins or flame out? Was going to use the whole 90g packet ha

 

Cheers,
 

[Christian]

I've brewed a single hop pale ale with Kohatu - wasn't initally that impresssed but had one tonight with a bit of age on it and really enjoyed. It's somewhat earthy like Pacific Gem but with more, deep, citrus fruit. That said, hopping rate was modest as I only had 100 gms. I'm brewing a single hop lager with Wai-iti in the weekend. Tasted a friends brew with this and it's a great tasting hop - fresh and lively, more 'New World' than Kohatu. Not sure they will compliment each other but give it a go. I'd split the Wai-iti half at 5, half at zero.

[MrC]

Boiling up a Mild as I type.

Looking for a brown, malty easy drinker to go with my current pale hoppy easy drinker.

 

Batch Size: 22L

OG: 1.033

IBU: 18

Estimated ABV: 3.4%

 

FERMENTABLES

1.5kg Light DME

225g Crystal 75L

200g Crystal  120L

120g Pale Choc

200g CaraPils

100g Caramalt

50g Black

50g Caraaroma

50g Brown

 

HOPS

26g NZ Golding [5.6 %AA] [45min]

10g NZ Golding [5.6 %AA] [5min]

 

YEAST

1 x Nottingham (12g)

Fermented at 18-20C

 

WATER 

Adjusted to: 73ppm Ca, 53ppm SO4, 37ppm Na, 58ppm Cl, 77ppm HCO3