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]

Yeast Maker!!

80% Gladfield Pale Ale
10% Wheat
10% Caramalt

12ibu of Styrian @ 15
15Ibu of Amarillo @ 10

Pacman
1.038 - 1.010
27Ibu

Since everyones making Brown Ales I feel a little left out,

So Round 2 of this from the Caseswap all scaled down from 45l to 23l litres

5.99 kg Gladfield Pale Malt
0.30 kg Caramunich Malt
0.30 kg Pale Chocolate
0.22 kg Caramalt
0.22 kg Melanoiden Malt
0.15 kg Chocolate Malt
60.00 gm Cascade (15 min)
60.00 gm Columbus (10 min)
100.00 gm Cascade (2 min)
70.00 gm Columbus (0 min)

Mash @ 69
Pacman
1.040 - 1.012
32Ibus

[jt]

I reckon the Yeast Maker looked pretty damnd tasty Mike

[Mike Neilson]

Yeah I know!! I will brew it but maybe as a Belgian Pale Ale for my Belgian Dark Strong in a few more weeks.

[MrC]

Yeast Maker looks awesome. I've been thinking about brewing a Stryrian & Simcoe pale ale but Styrian & Amarillo sounds great too.

[Stu McKinlay]

Triple B (Belgian Mild)
UK Pale, Crystal 90, Pale Chocolate, Wheat
Pacifica @ 60, 20, 10, 0min
1.040, 20ibu, lightly burtonised.
Chimay yeast.

This is the only yeast I've had trouble with in the past - sluggish, twice! - so here's hoping my two-step starter has bot the b'stard humming this time.

[Llew Bardecki]

That sounds like it has the potential to be very tasty indeed. Your beers may yet convert me into a Belgian yeast fan :)

[Stu McKinlay]

I hope so... there's lots of fun out there beyond hops and malt.

[MrC]

Be careful though Llew, it was Stu's Belgian ales that introduced me to Belgian ales and now I love them. I have 44L of Belgian goodness sitting in fermenters and kegs right now!

[Stu McKinlay]

Glad to have helped hook you (even if I didn't really like those beers!!! i guess we are always our own harshest critics).

It's nice to have fun with Belgians that are beyond usual Wit, Blond, Dubbel, Tripel and fruit beers that we see here. Belgian Pale Ale, like English Pales, is the perfect balance of malt, hop, yeast and water for me... I could play with it for years, in fact I probably will!

I'm keen to start brewing with some interesting English yeasts soon too.

[Ally Mcg]

I'm keen to start brewing with some interesting English yeasts soon too.

S-04?

[Stu McKinlay]

yeh, point taken, it certainly is an "interesting" yeast.

[MrC]

Glad to have helped hook you (even if I didn't really like those beers!!! i guess we are always our own harshest critics).
Were they early versions of Plan-K? From memory they seemed quite similar.