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

[Matthew]

We had differences of up to 4'C which was a bit alarming. One or both had to be out by a couple of degrees in either direction.

[Bambule]

Brewing my "open imperial" Russian stout this weekend. I'll call it

"Dreamt for light years in the belly of Siberia" after the death of Mark Linkous from Sparklehorse. Like the music I expect it to be black, smooth and potent.

6kg Golden Promise
.6kg Crystal 80L
.4kg Pale Chocolate
.35kg Roast Barley
0.3kg Amber
.3kg Black
50 gm Chinook @ 60
15gm Chinook @ 15
15gm Nelson Sauvin @ 15
30 gm Styrian Goldings @2min
2 pckts of US05

[Doublehoppy]

Nice touch Bambule. I love Sparklehorse. Hearing of his death was the saddest news I've heard since... well the death of Vic Chesnutt.

[Bambule]

I know, so sad, yet when I heard it didn't come as a surprise.

[Steve Baker]

Yeah, I've spent a good proportion of this week listening to Sparklehorse - very sad.

[Stu McKinlay]

Eastie Boy's "Fiesta Imperial Red" (for the WBC)

Looking like 1.080 on the button
65ibu, a little CaSO4
GP, Crystal 90, with a touch of CaraAroma, Pale Choc and Black
A pretty even spread of Sauvin, Motueka and Pacifica through 60, 30, 15, 5 and 0.

Best imbibed wearing with a yellow t-shirt... Go the Phoenix!

Time to clean up.

[Reviled]

And yeast for this stu? is this an imperial red rackham?? Or going for an american/new world style red?

[Stu McKinlay]

it's a new world style... If I like where it is headed I might try it again with a Belgian yeast (or two).

[martin w]

just mashed in,homebrewtalk recipe.

Ó Flannagáin Standard
Recipe Type: All Grain
Yeast: gervin ale yeast cake
Yeast Starter: pitching onto yeast cake
Batch Size litres: 40
Original Gravity: 1.046
Final Gravity: 1.014
IBU: 17.2
Boiling Time (Minutes): 60
Color: 29 Black
Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 1 Week 68
Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 2 Weeks 64

5.8kg Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 64.86 %
960g Barley, cereal mashed1.7 SRM) Grain 10.81 %
960g Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) Grain 10.81 %
720g Roasted Barley (300.0 SRM) Grain 8.11 %

caco3 5/7.5 cacl2 2.2/3.3 mgso4 2.2/3.8 nahco3 7.5/-

mash at 69c

NOTES: Absolutely delcious. The new house stout around here. It is smooth, creamy, malty and a nice hit of chocolate. The Roasted is barely noticable through the intense cream. The aroma is powerful and malty. Perfect bitterness. This beer is great!

[Ally Mcg]

Just about to Mash In my first go at a Blonde (ale i mean)

4.25kg Gladfields Pils
.5kg Cara Pils
.1kg Wheat
Simcoe at 60,30,10 and 0 to 30IBU
S05

Sad news about Mark Linkous so playing some Sparklehorse as i brew

[JackoNZ]

A simple brew today to get one of my new kegs filled. Think I picked this up from JoKing when scouring for blonde recipes some time ago:

Texan Blonde

Batch Size: 20.00 L
Boil Size: 28.00 L
Estimated OG: 1.052 SG
Estimated Color: 5.4 SRM
Estimated IBU: 33.8 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 66.00 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
------------
Amount Item Type % or IBU
5.00 kg ..Pale Malt (2 Row) UK (Bairds) (3.1 SRM) Grain 100.00 %
15.00 gm .Pacific Jade [11.60 %] (60 min) Hops 21.4 IBU
25.00 gm .Amarillo [7.50 %] (Dry Hop 6 days) Hops -
25.00 gm .Amarillo [7.50 %] (15 min) Hops 11.4 IBU
25.00 gm .Amarillo [7.50 %] (1 min) Hops 1.0 IBU

Got off to a bad start breaking a hydrometer, luckily I have a borrowed refractometer so all is not lost.

[JoKing]

Looks nice. Amarillo will give this beer a nice peachy flavour as well as a bit of tezsty spice from the dry hop. If you're lucky you might get a sweet mandarin / naval orange note - but this normally comes with a bit of malt sweetness.

Good luck - these batches do not last long!