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

[JackoNZ]

Just heating the strike water for a Schwarz today. A slight tweak on a previously brewed one, based on a Jamil recipe.

Batch Size: 20.00 L
Boil Size: 29.03 L
Estimated OG: 1.049 SG
Estimated Color: 38.0 SRM
Estimated IBU: 32.8 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 66.00 %
Boil Time: 90 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
2.80 kg .Munich I (Weyermann) (8.1 SRM) Grain 56.00 %
1.60 kg .Global Pilsner (1.6 SRM) Grain 32.00 %
0.20 kg .Chocolate Malt, Pale (Bairds) (456.9 SRM)Grain 4.00 %
0.16 kg .Crystal, Pale (Bairds) (50.8 SRM) Grain 3.20 %
0.15 kg .Roasted Barley (Bairds) (710.7 SRM) Grain 3.00 %
0.09 kg Carafa II Special (412.0 SRM) Grain 1.80 %

14.00 gm .Pacific Jade 2 [13.30 %] (60 min) Hops 23.7 IBU
15.00 gm .Hallertau Aroma [6.90 %] (20 min) Hops 8.0 IBU
15.00 gm .Hallertau Aroma [6.90 %] (2 min) Hops 1.1 IBU

I'll be mashing at 67c and I have 25g of W34/70 which I will rehydrate and pitch at 9c. Ferment for 2 weeks then rack to secondary. Due to no space in the kegs this should get a good amount of lagering time before it gets drank.

[JoKing]

Nothing wrong with a bit of lagering time. This looks nice.

[Daron]

http://beerrecipes.org/showrecipe.php?recipeid=1141

Mint brew day right up to the last minute. "Just check that tap is on tight on the fermenter after pitching the yeast". Tap breaks off in my hand and 2l of wort spews out on me and the garage floor before the wife can steri another fermenter and I can get it transferred.

[Nick T]

enough to drive you to drink.....

[warra48]

Brew day tomorrow. My first ever Stout. Keeping it very simple.

90 min mash at 66ºC. 90 min boil. Aiming for an OG around 1.045.

70% Pale
20% Flaked Barley
10% Roast Barley

Target to 45 IBU at 60 min.

Will pitch a jar of WY1968, to be harvested from an IPA ready for bottling this afternoon.

[JoKing]

This is by far the lowest gravity beer I have ever brewed. Everything went seamlessly... so you Aucklanders are officially looking at the WBC winning recipe. I have 2 ships due in in August though: one on the 18th and one on the 22nd... so my attendance is looking margianal at best. What makes it worse is that if they are delayed - I cancel my Auckland plans (then miss out) then that ship ends up coming in during beervana - then I miss out again! You cant win with my job.

Josephs Best
8-A Standard/Ordinary Bitter
Author: J Wood

Size: 23.28 L
Efficiency: 90.0%
Attenuation: 75.0%
Calories: 125.38 kcal per 12.0 fl oz

Original Gravity: 1.038 (1.032 - 1.040)
Terminal Gravity: 1.009 (1.007 - 1.011)
Color: 10.91 (7.88 - 27.58)
Alcohol: 3.71% (3.2% - 3.8%)
Bitterness: 26.5 (25.0 - 35.0)

Ingredients:
3 kg Golden Promise Pale
.3 kg Pale Crystal Malt
25 g Goldings (5.6%) - added during boil, boiled 60 min
25 g Goldings (5.6%) - added during boil, boiled 20 min
25 g Goldings (5.6%) - added during boil, boiled 5 min
25 g Goldings (5.6%) - added dry to secondary fermenter
1 ea WYeast 1318 London Ale III

00:03:00 Mash In - Liquor: 11.55 L; Strike: 73.72 °C; Target: 68 °C
01:03:00 Mash - Rest: 60.0 min; Final: 66.0 °C
01:33:00 Sparge - Sparge Volume: 13.77 L; Sparge Temperature: 75.6 °C; Runoff: 13.81 L

[jt]

the lowest gravity beer I have ever brewed

Watch out - you might get to like it !

[Reviled]

And here is my entry, brewed on sunday and fermenting away happily now, ok its not quite an ordinary but its sort of british so thats just gonna have to do ;o) Couldnt bring myself to brew a small beer at this time of year, far too cold IMO!! Im also trying to use up some bits and pieces, thus the grain bill... But tbh the more I look at it the tastier it looks...

Extra Special Super Bitter

2kg Kolsch
2kg Global Munich
1.2kg Maris Otter
220g Medium Crystal
220g Dark Crystal
180g CaraBohemian
60g Black Patent

90 - 75g US Cascade 5.8%
15 - 16g EKG 4.8%, 16g Cascade 5.8%
0 - 25g EKG, 25g Cascade

Wyeast 1968 - 2 litre starter

My boil off wasnt as much as I expected so I ended up with 24 litres of 1055, im thinking I may bottle condition this one too...

[studio1]

also brewed my entry on sunday.

OG 1.039
IBU: 30

91% Organic UK Pale
5% Dark Crystal
2.5% Light Crystal
1.5% Carapils

Amarillo throughout

now the risky bit - i stuffed up my yeast (doh). A week before I had keeged a brown ale fermented with WLP013. There were probably 3L of ale left in the fermenter, which was left in the garage with an airlock on. on brew day I poured off the brown ale and pitched 200ml of slurry. Beer on top still tasted ok so I figured the yeast should be alright. A bit slow starting up but by last night she was away.

[Barry]

Amarillo? Cascade?
Good to see everyone brewing to style as usual *rolls eyes*

[Reviled]

Read the guidelines Barry, US varieties are acceptable ;o) I put some EKG in there tho specially haha

[Barry]

The law is an ass.

All jokes aside, looking forward to tasting these beers!