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

[Raffe]

I live in Auckland. :-) 

[Stu H]

First taste of my Emersons Bookbinder inspired bitter - it's tasting awesome. Maybe not a totally accurate copy - but still delicious. There's still that "Emersons" character that I can't quite pin down...

OG 1.035ish (may have actually been a bit lower)

FG 1.08ish

90 minute boil

88.5% Malteurop Pale Ale

6% Caramalt

3% Medium crystal

2% Dark crystal

0.5% Black malt

13 IBU of Nelson Sauvin & NZ Goldings @ 90 minute

2g /L Nelson Sauvin & NZ Goldings each at flameout.

1g/L Nelson Sauvin & NZ Goldings each dry hop 5 days warm.

1st gen US-05 (great way to start a pack). Fermented at 19, rising to 21.5.

Added mash salts to get Ca 51, Mg 9, Na 52, Cl 78, SO4 74

Forgot to add the salts for the boil. Mashed at 67 

[Hutch]

Prepping for a small batch of IIPA on Sat:

10L

OG 1.077

3.75kg Pale Malt

400g Sugar 

150g Medium Crystal

15g Chocolate Malt

40g Pacific Gem at 60min

10g Motueka and 10g NS at 10min

10g Motueka and 10g NS at 5min

10g Motueka and 10g NS at flameout

dry hop 10g Motueka

125 IBU calculated

US05 at 18 deg until done, bottle carb and then 'enjoy'.

Before anyone complains that it's 10% sugar, I like my IPAs that way.

[Hutch]

Made some changes on the fly. The first bag of pale malt I picked up had 3.5 kg in it, so laziness made me cut 250g from the grain bill and I had 30g of NZ Cascade left over so the NS has been substituted for Cascade.

[MrC]

Whipped up a quick & dirty cider during the week.  The last cider I brewed was kit & kilo and I fermented it at 28C.  It was shockingly bad which is why I haven't brewed another one since.  That was 12 years ago.

Approx 9.5L batch

OG 1.055

9L Cloudy apple juice from Pak n Save ($3 for 3L)

500ml water

75g Brown Sugar

75g Raw Sugar

1/2 cup chopped sultanas (for tannin)

0.5tsp yeast nutrient acid blend

Nottingham Yeast

Procedure:

Chilled one of the 3L apple juices

Boil 500ml water, sugars, sultanas & nutrient for 10min

Add all apple juice to fermenter

Strain sugar water into fermenter to remove sultanas

Add yeast & shake

Too easy!  All over with in about 30min including clean up.

[MrC]

Kegged this cider last night.  Gravity down to 1.006 which puts the ABV around 6.5%.  It's tart/sour but not too much, still a little appley sweetness in there.  Seems fairly nice at this stage and should improve with time.  Very cloudy still but I'm hoping the gelatine and some cold conditioning will sort that out.

[Mark Meyburg]

Hi mr c how did this turn out I am planning to make a cider

[Mark Meyburg]

Sorry missed the keg blurb cheers I will have a shot

[Mark]

Brewed this yesterday:

Wedding Pale Ale

4kg MO

0.6kg Wheat

0.5kg Munich

14g Super Alpha 60min

10g Nelson Sauv 60min

40g Nelson Sauv 0min

50g Motueka 0min

will add later:

50g each Motueka and NS dry

US-05

OG 1.050

38 IBU

It looked a bit like swamp juice going into the fermenter, will probably filter before kegging.

[Mark Jackman]

Was the apple juice preservative free? I have a niggling urge to whip up a cider for late summer drinking.

[JackoNZ]

Whipped up a session drinking brown ale today, should keep me tied over for xmas

77.2% Maris 

10% Munich

4.5% Pale Choc

4.1% Pale Crystal

2.1% Caramunich 2

2.1% Carared

26IBU at 60

18IBU at 15, mix of Chinook and Cascade

2.5g/l at 0, mix of Chinook and Cascade

S-05, 1.049, 44IBU

[MrC]

Hi Mark, I'm assuming this is referring to my cider recipe above.

Yes, the apple juice was def preservative free and very cloudy.  Some terrible sulphur aromas coming out of the airlock at the moment.  Rotorua aint got nuttin' on this fermentation.