Permalink Reply by Tony on August 12, 2008 at 8:10pm
Hefe Weizen.
German wheat 3kg
Bohemian pilsener 2.5kg
carapils 250 g
Pacific Hallertau - 50g at start
- 50g for 15 minutes
Wyeast- German wheat 3056 yeast
a little Irish moss
Permalink Reply by jt on August 22, 2008 at 9:54am
What's brewing ?
Pretty boring really, another repeat of my take of NZ Hops Irish Red on the weekend http://www.nzhops.co.nz/recipes/irishred.html
4.000 pale
0.215 caramunich III
0.085 chocolate
0.390 brown sugar
20IBU Willamette @60 and 10IBU Super Alpha @15
1.042 and W1275
Thought I'd better get busy as the current keg is almost gone
Permalink Reply by jt on September 2, 2008 at 1:42pm
Took a swig from the hydrometer reading last night
1.012 and a bit sweet yet but a nice tasty zing from the Super Alpha - I'm tempted just to pour warm pints from the fermenter ...
Permalink Reply by jt on September 2, 2008 at 4:54pm
The Honey Brown and a dark Mild and maybe one other from memory but this was the best.
The hopping always seemed so low - I tended to up the hops 25-50%
I used to do it as extract & grains and used Green Bullet - bittering / Super Alpha - late
Only reason I'm using Willamette is that I don't have any GB and the only time I tried it as all SA it was sharp as tacks
It'll be about 20L. I have a fairly woeful efficiency that hovers between 50-60%. I suspect a combination on the quality of grain crusher (from a local brewer) and my sparge set up. anyway, aiming for a OG of 1.056, or there abouts.
Last time I did a lager was a Dunkel about 12 months ago, and it was great, so kind of excited about this. Just an impatient brewer (not to mention thirsty), so it pretty much all ales.