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

[JR]

Is that for 60L?
Is the Golden promise MO mix just what you happened to have or is that a strategic decision? (I have never used GP so I'm not sure what it brings to the party.)

on an irrelevant note - I think I just got a whiff of sweet boiling wort, must be brew day at speights which is a block or two away.

[vdog]

It was for 70L, and I guess it was sort of strategic - we've used the same grain bill on a few other beers and liked the profile we got. You could do it without the MO but I think it adds a bit of malt beefiness to the grist. Golden promise is great, we use it for all our hoppy pale ales now - tend to use MO for more malt-focused beers (porter, bitter etc).

[Barry]

Bairds GP is quite a bit lighter in colour to Bairds MO (though the specs might call me a liar for me it's noticeably lighter).
I use either depending on what Mike (Brewers Coop) has in stock when I go to buy a sack.
My preference is for Maris Otter but Martin Bridges has a habit of beating me to the last sack!
So I guess I get about 50/50.

Maris is my preference because I lean towards English styles. For hoppy pale ales though you can't beat that Golden Promise.
Maris is maltier, nuttier, chewier. GP still has a bit of nutty, but some honey and straw characters too, less full on malty than maris but still with a good solid backbone for some serious hoppage.

[Reviled]

I also prefer GP over Maris for most beers apart from english ales, as barry says I get alot of honey and straw like malt characters out of GP..

[Martin Bridges]

Which is why I prefer Maris - I'm not all that keen on those honey & straw characters in GP. Different strokes for different folks.

Looking forward to getting me a sack of Special K next week, so you should be OK for some Maris at BC Barry ;)

[Barry]

Just Maris'd up mate. I'm not telling you when I'm going to BC anymore ;)

[Tony]

I am brewing my lager with 50/50, MO and GP (see previous post). It is a repeat brew, which is rare for me. I find them to be an excellent combination, with NZ hops.

[Reviled]

Interesting combo for a lager Tony, nice and malty! Pretty hoppy too by the looks of it @ 77 IBU?

[Tony]

Yes mate. Not as bitter as you might think, but well balanced, with a nice pineapple/citrus aroma, citrus/nutty palate, with a dry/bitter finish.

[Reviled]

What sort of OG did you get with that?

[Tony]

OG= 1.047 FG= 1.011.

[Stu McKinlay]

The Baird's versions generally seem be about the same colour according to the specs. They're malted the same way so the the difference in flavour is more likely to be from their biological difference and growing conditions. Ask David Cryer next time you see him at Galbraith's... for that matter, just ask Keith!

I prefer MO for all my low gravity beers... vary between GP and Pearl for everything else. I've not really got a preference between the latter two.