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

[Mike Neilson]

Well havnt brewed for a while, no time. But I need to brew for the WBC so here is my entry that im brewing on Sun.

Imperial Indian Pale Lager

94% Global Pils
6% Global Light Caramel
Or
90% Global Pils
10% Dextrose
Will see on the day? Dont know if I want dry or Sweeter?

20Ibu Simcoe @ 60 and 30

30g Simcoe 20g Riwaka & Motueka @ 15 5 and 0

Wyeast Czech Pils

1.081 - 1.012
80Ibu
9%abv

A shake of CaCl in it as well to get the Ca up.

[MrC]

Looks good Mike. I'd go for the dry version with all that sweet pils malt and all those sweet hops.

[Mike Neilson]

Yeah I Probably will, I done it this time last year with pils and dextrose and it turned out splendid, you know how it goes though, you allways want to try something else!!

[Soren]

I'd also go the dry way. Big hoppy lagers are great but they need to be crisp.

[Reviled]

I third that!

[Mike Neilson]

Had a Shocker No Riwaka!! Fuck it!!
'
Well Here is the Hops

20Ibu Simcoe @ 60 and 30
50g Simcoe @ 15
30g Each Pacific Jade and Motueka @ 5 and Flame out

First for me I added 5.7g of CaCl to the mash and ended up with a mash ph of 5.22, Didnt even have to add lactic I thought I would have to give it a little squirt with an all Pilsner malt mash, that Global Pils is the shit!!

[warra48]

This one's going down tomorrow:

2.5 litre batch Mash at about 63 to 64ºC

350.00 gm Pale Malt (2 Row) Aus (5.9 EBC) Grain 100.00 %
5.00 gm Tettnang [4.50 %] (10 min) Hops 9.5 IBU
1 Pkg Southern German Lager (White Labs #WLP838) Yeast-Lager

Beer Profile Estimated Original Gravity: 1.040 SG
Estimated Final Gravity: 1.011 SG

It's an experiment to brew step one of a starter for a Munich Dunkel. I could just use LDME, but it gets expensive, so I thought I'd try to do it cheaper. Mrs warra is in Sydney at present, so I have plenty of time to amuse myself.

[Mark]

I've done that with some success, although I did use pilsner malt and didn't boil for long enough, it reeked of cooked corn. Didn't affect the eventual beer at all though

[warra48]

My pilsner malt cost me $75 AUD a bag.
I got a bargain pale bag for $35 AUD, so that's the go, for $0.50 of of malt, and a similar amount for hops. All up about $1!
I always pour off the starter beer, so it's no biggie.

Good to know it worked for you.

[JoKing]

Finally.... after what seems to have been an eternity...

http://www.libertybrewing.co.nz/content/global-colonge-malt

[Reviled]

Yea boi!!

[vdog]

Following a couple of malt-focused brews, decided on an APA for last night:
12kg Golden Promise
3.5kg Maris Otter
1.35kg Medium crystal
130g NZ Cascade @60min
100g NZ Cascade @10min
65g Motueka @10min
100g NZ Cascade @1min
65g Motueka @1min
Prob 2g/l dry hop of Cascade/Motueka (thinking 60/40 split)
Dropped onto the yeast cake from my headwetter brew last week.
OG 1.053, in theory about 50IBU

Just one stuff-up on the brew - not sure how it'll turn out, but the 10min hops went in at 30min by accident, so could end up a bit out of balance... Wort was tasting pretty bitter, lucky I like it that way!

Also grabbed a taste of the headwetter while I was transferring it to secondary for the dry hop (wouldn't have bothered but needed the fermenter it was in) and it's frickin' awesome. So looking forward to having a full keg of this in the fridge!