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

[JoKing]

Will do martin - I'll keep a list of interested and keep you up to date.

[Barry]

yeah, I saw it there and tried to talk Mike into giving it to me! He wouldn't budge so I had to get some ADM NZ Pale/pils. Be an interesting experiment - sharp pricing!! $52 for a 25kg sack. Thats good buying, presuming it's any good.

[Stu McKinlay]

He's virtually giving it away at that price.

[denimglen]

Really wanted to get in on this comp but didn't get fermentation temp control in time :-(

[JoKing]

No worriess - I'm sure the next one will be an ale. If I lose - I'll be selecting the finest style ever invented. USIPA.

[Kempicus]

TWISTED HOP IPA!

[denimglen]

That's because you've got enough hops to make a freakin' hop-wine :-P

(...that would be so awesome if hops had significant levels of fermentables, imagine the possibilities...)

[Stu McKinlay]

Distilled dry-hopped Epic anyone????

[James P]

I can see and Christchurch/SI competition starting up now as a prelude to the SOBA nationals! :)

Maybe a weekend you are down for a management meeting Joking... or Stu could get on his treadley....

[JoKing]

It would be an honour and a privilage!

[Martin Bridges]

I haven't brewed this yet but Iwant to get a bit of feedback before I do. I'm looking at brewing a SMaSH recipe which will hopefully come out similar to Timothy Taylor's Landlord. Hence the name - 'Electric Landlord'.

So far I have:
3.9kg Golden Promise
30g NZ Styrians @ 60 min
20g NZ Styrians @ 30 mins
20g NZ Styrians @ 15 mins
20g NZ Styrians @ flameout
20g NZ Styrians dry-hopped in secondary
Wyeast 1469PC West Yorkshire Ale

BeerSmith is telling me that this will give me an OG of 1.043 and 40 IBUs for a 20 litre batch.

I'm not 100% sure on the hop profile though. As it stands it gives me about 50% of the IBUs from the bittering addition, with the rest spread over the last half hour. I'm looking for a really good balance of malt and hop, with neither really dominating.

Any thoughts?

[Doublehoppy]

FWIW Wheeler's Landlord recipe has 35 IBUs