Recipe Advice Thread

[denimglen]

Thought it might be handy to have a thread for some of the more advanced brewers to give some advice on recipes.

Let's see how it goes eh...

[John H]

....hmmmmm yes......200 metres down the Moteuka highway on the left up by the rotting Kombi van....yes thats it....haha

 

Not sure - the grower got it from a local nursery and was told it came from Nelson - not much info I'm afraid. Maybe if I took some to someone that knows a bit (i.e. Brewers Coop) for a sniff? I don't suppose a photo would help anyone?

[JoKing]

It would be very helpful. I suspect smoothcone, which are a flat cone and a series of white petals from top to bottom looking like a stripe.

[denimglen]

Most likely smoothcone I reckon.

 

Photo's won't really help.  There are some differences between varieties but my homegrown stuff has been all over the show, from white/albino tiny cones, to normal ones, to ones that look like something you'd buy in tinfoil behind the pub in Panmure.

[John H]

Probably looks more like it should be in tinfoil - doesnt look as brown in real life.

[JoKing]

Definately Smoothcone. That fully intact one on the top left shows all of the tell tale Smoothcone traits.

[John H]

Cheers Jo

 

Any guess as to the typical AA% range?

 

Is smooth cone an aroma or bittering only hop?

[JoKing]

I had a document somewhere that said it's typically around the 8%AA mark. Id definately give it a crack late in the boil. Good luck mate.

[Reviled]

Ok, need some guidance after my lack of US-05, but I still want to brew this weekend...

 

So, ill have a big cake of gen 2 T-58 to pitch onto, and im wondering what I should brew with it? Appreciate the feedback on the WAYB thread about it being clean? But how clean? Clean enough for a cream ale or is that just whack??

 

Another brew i've got in the pipeline is a chocolate cherry porter, should I be brave enough to brew that with T-58? I have read its a good strain for high alc which is what this will be, but im just not sure??

[Martin Bridges]

I reckon the fruitiness could go well with the cherries. I used it for my Belgian Barleywine which is noticeably Belgian (phenolics) but not overly so. Good fruitiness.

 

Yeastie Boys Rapture is a good example of a fairly clean blonde ale with a Belgian yeast character. That works.

[Reviled]

Cheers for the feedback guys, I now have growing confidence ;o) lol

 

Think im leaning more towards the cherry porter, lots of chocolate malt and munich to beef things up, and im only doing a 15 litre batch this time around to make it stronger... Fun times ahead!

[Stu McKinlay]

Hell yeah!

I really liked that yeast... it's all clove and pepper at first but it subsides and has a nice fruitiness.  Would work well in the kind of smooth stout or porter I'd like to see fruit in.

I really liked S-33 too.

I'd take them both ahead of the blue Saf whose name should not be spoken (which is actually ok as well).

 

[jt]

the blue Saf whose name should not be spoken

 

Well Matt Warners IPA is living proof that you can create a great beer with the blue Saf whose name should not be spoken and there's nothing you can't do with a yeast if you brew to it's strengths - or hide it behind a lorryload of hops ?