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

[Reviled]

Yum, that looks awesome ;o)

[denimglen]

That Brown ale I left at your house that time we did the case swap - was this recipe.

Got me a silver medal too.

[Reviled]

I thort you had some simcoe in there??

[denimglen]

Nah bro, but instead of straight Cent dry hop I used 54g Amarillo and 17g Cent.

Oh and I used 1272 instead of 1056.

Same diff :-P

[Martin Bridges]

If I'd got my shit together in time I would have made a starter with that old pack of 1272 I've got in the fridge. Will have to use that for the APA now.

[Reviled]

So howd the brew go Martin?? Bet your shed smells great about now ;o)

[Martin Bridges]

Shed smells great bro! Missed my pre-boil gravity by 10 points though, so God knows what went wrong there. All I can think is that my sparge was too quick. I haven't really changed my mashing setup, so I'm a bit bemused as to why this has changed so much.

Relaxing with an American IPA now.

[Reviled]

10 points?? Do you think it couldve been the big grist?? Or maybe its those few grains stuck under the tape ;o)

[Martin Bridges]

Yeah, those last few grains musta had the missing 10 points! Really not sure what went wrong - I'll pay closer attention next time up

[denimglen]

Working on a clone recipe for Bob Hudson's Bitter from Gals.

Talked to Keith there and showed him my recipe and he gave me a few pointers. This is where I'm at for the first run.

93% Golden Promise
5% Pale crystal
2% Carahell (originally planned to use caramalt but I was all out)

1.043 - 69C mash

Styrian and EKG @ 60
0.5g/L EKG @ 45
0.5g/L EKG @ 30
0.5g/l NZ Styrian @ 15 (Again planned on using the imported one but couldn't get any on short notice)
0.5g/l NZ Styran @ 0

25 IBU

Bob Hudson's yeast donated by Keith.

Fingers crossed it will come out well, I'm hoping it will make a good summer slammer.

[jt]

Go the 30 minute addition !

2% Carahell (originally planned to use caramalt but I was all out)

I used some carahell a few years back when Mike was specialling weyermanns, loved it. Especially good in a dodgy W2112 lager or blonde ...

[denimglen]

Yeah, this was bugger all, like 80g or something, so I dunno what it will add, probably not much haha.