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

[denimglen]

I'm gonna rest it for two weeks, I've read a couple people say it's not really that necessary for lightly roasted malts but meh, not gonna brew for two more weeks and I'd rather be on the safe side.

[bj]

Hi Mr Cherry,
thinking of doing a similar thing but with the Macs Dark Kit,
Do you do a full wort boil?

[MrC]

No, I don't do a full wort boil for kits.

For my latest kit brew, I made up a small wort using approx 4 litres of water and 4 large spoons of kit (hopped extract). I then boiled and added my hops and cooled as if it was a full wort boil:

10 Min:
12g Sauvin
12g Cascade

0 Min:
20g Sauvin
20g Cascade

I then threw it all in the fermenter and topped it up to 21L.

I read somewhere (I think it was John Palmer) that hop utilisation is affected more by the gravity of the wort than the size of the pot. So my theory is that by boiling the hops in the right gravity wort I will still get a good amount of flavour & aroma, even though it was a small volume boil.

The smell coming out of the airlock seems to indicate that it has worked well but only time will tell.


The other option you could think about it buying a Mac's Pale kit and steeping grain to convert it to a Dark. Freshly steeped grain and hops may give it more life. I've done it several times, even got a silver medal for Mac's Pale kit with steeped crytal and chocolate malts and a hand full of Amarillo.

[Rusty Chch]

A sleepy munton's stout. in 5days it managed to go from 1042 to 1028, 3 days later it hadn't budged

I'm thinking that I didn't aerate enough after having boiled the water, I pitched a decent sized US05 starter and it went off well. temperature stayed well within the US05 comfort zone. I have no idea what could have sent the beasties to sleep.

racked it to secondary yesterday and there's a little bit of action but I'm giving up on it as one to leave for a while.

[Mike Neilson]

My Weekend Plans just another Pale Ale I have Planned


5.00 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter
0.30 kg Wheat Malt, Bel
0.25 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L

28.30 gm Centennial [10.00 %] (60 min)
15.00 gm Cascade [5.80 %] (Dry Hop 3 days)
15.00 gm Amarillo Gold [8.50 %] (Dry Hop 3 days)
15.00 gm Cascade [5.80 %] (20 min)
15.00 gm Amarillo Gold [8.50 %] (20 min)
20.00 gm Cascade [5.80 %] (10 min)
20.00 gm Amarillo Gold [8.50 %] (10 min)
25.00 gm Amarillo Gold [8.50 %] (5 min)
25.00 gm Cascade [5.80 %] (5 min)
30.00 gm Amarillo Gold [8.50 %] (0 min)
30.00 gm Cascade [5.80 %] (0 min)


1 Pkgs American Ale (Wyeast Labs #1056)

I hop it's as good as the last!!

[Reviled]

The Amarillo Galaxy APA

4kg NZ Pale
500g Wheat
500g Munich
250g CaraMalt

60 : 10g Galaxy (15%), 10g Amarillo (8.2%)
15 : 10g Galaxy, 15g Amarillo
5 : 15g Galaxy, 15g Amarillo
Dry hop : 15g Galaxy, 15g Amarillo

Fermenting out with US-05, got an OG of 1058 on 20 litres, should be tasty :o)

[Barry]

god damn thats some efficiency there.

[Reviled]

Got locked out of beersmith this morning cos my trials over :o( So I couldnt actually check my efficiency... Anyone care to fill me in? :o)

But I tried Herrschnapps "BIAB dunk sparge" along with a lower liquor to grain ratio and it really ramped my efficiency up :o) All good!

[jt]

642 - An Ale with Styrians - yesterday during a rainy day off
85% Pale
10% Munich
5% Crystal
a handfull of pale chocolate
17 IBU Super Alpha @ 60, 8 IBU Styrians @ 15
I did this a month or two back but dry hopped with 25gm Styrians as well.
It didn't come into it's own for at least 4 weeks after kegging - by which time it was nearly gone
Hopefully it'll be good to go from day one without the dry hopping this time round

[studio1]

Yet another ESB (version 5 of the landlord clone).

27L BIAB

5.6kg Golden Promise
300g Light Crystal
100g Pale Choc.

30g Fuggles @ 60
30g NZ Goldings @ 30
30g Styrian Goldings @ FO

Mashed in about 65. Pitching a 1L stater of Wyeast 1469 (Gen 3 I think).

My first few batches of this are drinking now and tasting pretty awesome. Upped the carbonation to about 2vol for the 2nd and 3rd batches.

[Martin Bridges]

Palliser Pride - an English best bitter with a nod towards a certain Fullers beer

3.5kg Maris Otter
300g Torrified wheat
150g Crystal 120L

Mashed at 67 degrees

30g NZ Fuggles @ 60 mins
20g Motueka @ 15 mins
25g NZ Styrian Goldings @ flameout

Wyeast 1968 English ESB

OG = 1.040
IBUs = 30

Fermenting at 20 degrees.

Martin

[Reviled]

Brewed a Munich Dunkel at Barrys place yesterday, a bit hit and miss, but all good :o)

3kg Munich
1.5kg Vienna
200g Carafa I

60 : 20g Northern Brewer 8.5%
15 : NZ Hallertau 6.4%
Wyeast 2000 Budvar Lager