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

[studio1]

pretty easy and quick. so probably!

[studio1]

what were your water additions?

[denimglen]

Try this mate. There's a few profiles there that should work with your water, Tasty's APA is the profile I used for this.

[studio1]

chur. don't forget "The Harder They Come' download.

[denimglen]

Indeed, onto it now mate.

[John]

This is my second attempt at an All Grain brew. Any feedback is welcome. In particular I'm not sure where to get glucose from. I also have some NZ Golding from my last brew which I was wondering about late-hopping with.

English Bitter (adapted from Old Brewery Best Bitter from the Great NZ Home-Brew book)

Baird's Marris Otter 2.25kg
Baird's Crystal (Medium) - 150 EBC - 125g
Glucose 450g
Flaked rice 100g
Fuggle pellets - 4.5%AA (60 40g, 40 20g, 10 15g)
Demerara sugar 75g
Irish moss 5g
Safale S-04 Dry Ale Yeast

The book says to transfer into a final fermenter after 3 days, do people find this sort of step useful?

[JoKing]

I think you'd be more satisfied if you did away with the Glucose and Flaked rice and used 3.5 kg of Maris Otter in total. I dont bother with transfers to a secondary anymore - it's not necessary.

The hops look good - go hard!

[MrC]

I agree with Joking. Remove the glucose and increase the base malt. That amount of glucose will likely give it a slight cidery taste and dry it out too much.

[Tony]

Agreed. What size brew are you brewing? 2.25 kg + glucose, is a little light for 20L. For an average of about 4.5-5% ABV, you probably need a grain bill of about 5-5.5 kg total. It all depends on your efficiency.

For a fuller body and taste, forget the glucose and go all grain, if that's what you want. Or try some extract with some grain. Just exchange extract for grain 1:1, or vice versa.

[John]

Thanks for the replies guys. : ) I'll try going with all grain then. Is it worth upping the crystal at all, or only the Marris Otter. The total amount is for 20 litres.

Cheers,

John

[Reviled]

Would be keen to hear how youre doing the eisbock crabbey??


I brewed my 'pre-prohibition cream ale' pale ale today ;o) Man US-05 is such a hungry bugger, I pitched onto a cake of it and popped out for an hour, when i came back theres allready fermentation happening!!!

Running out of fermenter and keg space now which is not good, means I wont be able to brew for a couple of weeks :o(

[James P]

I racked a beer to keg last night to use it as a clearing tank thinking I had a keg spare..... now I need to finish a keg off by the weekend.... to transfer the bright beer into... tough job ahead lads!