Thread Jacking

[JoKing]

Sorry for jacking everyones threads and going off topic.

Feel free to jack this thread - or use this thread if there is someone pissing you off because they just jacked your thread.

[denimglen]

Just thought this was awesome.

I reckon this guy should get BJCP cert or join ratebeer at least.

[Geoff Griggs]

Nah, I reckon this guy is MUCH better qualified. Check out his review of Chimay Grande Reserve...

http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=ngrTTtP1Myo

"It's got a really badass cork..."

"I'm sure it's a Spanish beer..."

"Don't smell too bad..."

"Dude, that's dark as shit man..."

"There is no aftertaste in that whatsoever..."

"It's definitely got a clean hop flavour..."

"This is actually called an ale..."

Classic! And there are plenty more reviews there too.

[denimglen]

Haha I've seen that one too, will have to check out his other reviews.

[Nolen Smith]

Leave it to my countrymen to review Chimay Grande Reserve with "dude...that is friggin' good". And notice the assault weapons hanging on the wall... classic.

[JoKing]

I reckon that guy is an arse hole. "I'm gonna drink that whole bottle"... Who wouldn't. Dude.

[denimglen]

Watched a few more this morning. Entertaining guy.

"Doooooood!"

Although I kept thinking 'No matter how many fire-arms you have on your wall, you're still an IRC nerd'.

[JoKing]

How is that bitter APA of yours coming along Denim? Is the smell from the airlock as you would expect?

I reckon (I told Reviled the same) that you get heaps of extra isomerisation from the "No Chill" method. Like - the 15min addition would be what you would expect (in terms of bitterness) from a 60min addition. So - looking at your recipe, I reckon you'd be looking at a saturated solution of iso-alpha acid. Good if you like bitter beer - I love it!

I feel awful that it was a bit of a mare though... maybe you should have waited for the wort to settle a bit before you started pumping? Anyway - Carageenan from Steve at Hallertau is great for settling the wort. This is the stuff I use, and everything falls out in about 10mins or so. I still wait an hour, just because my wort is already chilled.

Have you managed to unblock the chiller yet?

[denimglen]

Smells good in the brew-room. At thirst I thought the smell was from having opened the hop bags in there but realised it was coming from the blow off. Fermenting a little warm at 22 but hopefully it'll clean up after itself.

Yeah, I reckon you would get isomerisation too but maybe at the expense of evapourating off some of those nice aroma volatiles? Guess it depends on how you no chill and all that. I hear that Stone add most of their aroma/flavour hops in the whirlpool and the wort sits with the hops for 90 mins before chilling. So possibly a similar effect?

Yeah, sucks that it happened but kinda was a bit daft of me to jump into quite a hoppy beer on a new system.

What actually happened is I started recirc'ing the boil at about 10 mins to sanitise the chiller. I had the outlet pumping back into the big hop bag I was using. And then the wort wasn't coming out of the bag as fast as it was going in so the bag swelled up huge, it was holding bout 2L of wort itself. Then I didn't have enough space in the bag for the aroma additions so in one of those not so good RDWHAHB moments just chucked 105g of aroma hops into the wort outside of the bag. Bad idea.

Unblocking the chiller was no dramas, just a good series of backwards the forwards flushes with tap water.

Thanks for all the advice too mate, as long as it doesn't sour I think she'll be a good one.

[JoKing]

Doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood.

[JoKing]

Uh Oh...

Looks like the economic downturn is hitting me a lot harder than I had expected... After a busy Christmas / New Years period, mixed with my tennants leaving me high and dry with a dash of credit card debt - it looks like my trip to Wellington will have to be postponed for a little while.

So appologies for making you guys plan on banking on the 20th of feb! Hopefully in the not too distant future there will be some more positive news. In the mean time, I have a few nice brews in the fridge for anyone who is keen for a brew swap.

Cheers y'all.

[Kempicus]

No problem :0)

What ya got?

[JoKing]

I have the SMaSH Pils of New Plymouth Bohemian Pils / Liberty - 35 IBU / 1.012 / 4.9%abv: it is extremely floral in aroma.

The SMaSH Simcoe / Golden Promise. I call it the West Coast Blonde - 20IBU / 1.008 / 6%abv. People told me it reminded them of armpit sweat.

I have a very young TTL: 4.3%abv and coming up is the Yakima Monster: should be drinking in a fortnight - that is one to look out for - drinking from the fermenter again was an uplifting experience to say the least!