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

[Grant R Baker]

Richard, I ran your recipe through the BrewMate software I use and got 1.055OG for your grain bill, so I don't think you messed up or anything.

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Sounds like an interesting brew. Let us know how the final taste test comes out.

[Michael]

This is what I put down today. Hopefully the bit of rain water that managed to get in the fermenter did not infect the batch.

Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
4.00 kg Golden Promise (1.8 EBC) Grain 1 69.6 %
0.50 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L (236.4 EBC) Grain 2 8.7 %
0.50 kg Chocolate Malt (Baird's) (1200.0 EBC) Grain 3 8.7 %
0.50 kg Munich I (Weyermann) (14.0 EBC) Grain 4 8.7 %
0.25 kg Roasted Barley (591.0 EBC) Grain 5 4.3 %
40.00 g Nelson Sauvin [12.00 %] - First Wort 0.0 Hop 6 0.0 IBUs
10.00 g Pacific Jade [15.00 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 7 15.8 IBUs
5.00 g Nelson Sauvin [12.00 %] - Boil 30.0 min Hop 8 4.9 IBUs
5.00 g Pacific Jade [15.00 %] - Boil 30.0 min Hop 9 6.1 IBUs
1.22 Items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 mins) Fining 10 -
25.00 g Pacific Jade [15.00 %] - Boil 15.0 min Hop 11 19.6 IBUs
20.00 g Nelson Sauvin [12.00 %] - Boil 15.0 min Hop 12 12.5 IBUs
2.0 pkg Safale American (DCL/Fermentis #US-05) Yeast 13 -
100.00 g Nelson Sauvin [12.00 %] - Dry Hop 14.0 D Hop 14 0.0 IBUs
100.00 g Nelson Sauvin [12.00 %] - Dry Hop 7.0 Da Hop 15 0.0 IBUs

[Matt Smith]

For what its worth, last year I had a fly dive into my brew pot right as I was transferring to my fermenter, it turned out fine ! 

[MrC]

Looks good, are you gonna dry hop it?

[Matt Smith]

I made this APA yesterday with 1968. I'm curious as to what an APA would taste like with a little more yeast character and perhaps a little more malt.

1.055
44 Ibu
Mashed at 66
20 Litres

92% Maris Otter
4% UK Caramalt
4% Medium Crystal

60 Min: 11g Columbus
20 Min: 15g Simcoe
10 Min: 10g Columbus, 10g Centennial
0 Min: 40g Cascade, 15g Simcoe, 10g Centennial
Dry: 65g Mix of Simcoe, Citra, Centennial, Columbus

This was my 49th brew, and the first time I have ever forgotten the kettle finings, my wort going into the fermenter was cloudy as hell, pretty gutted. There is a heap of trub in the bottom of the fermenter already so hopefully that means its all coming out of solution and I might get a reasonably clear beer out of it.

[Mike Neilson]

Brewing an Imperial Black IPA today with new US Hops

 

69% Gladfield Pale Malt

12% Caramalt

10% Special Roast

5% Chocolate Malt

4% Caraaroma

 

64 Degree Mash

 

10 Ibu Chinook @ 60

1g/L Chinook @ 20

2g/L Chinook @ 10, 0

3g/L Centenial @ 10, 0 Dryhop

3g/L Zythos @ Dryhop

 

1.080 - 1.019 8%

60 IBU

1968

 

The Chinook and Centenial this year, as they are fresh smell fucking wicked!!

 

[Richard Jack]

Super casual raspberry wheat brew. I have a load of raspberries and boysenberries in the freezer so time to start using them!

50% wheat malt, 50% maris otter, aiming for 1.048 from the malts. 30IBU of pacific hallertau, then I figure a kilo-ish of rasberries at flameout, maybe with a touch more hallertau, fermenting with notty because that's what I have :) More raspberries after primary.

[Grant R Baker]

Try a bottle of Invercagil Brewery's Berrybeer before brewing.

 

You may prefer the berries in a pie.

[Richard Jack]

that's boysenberries, right?

[Grant R Baker]

Yep.   I like beer and I like fruit but I can't mix them.

 

Good luck on the raspberries.

[MrC]

I've brewed pretty much that exact same beer but with less IBUs and US-05 and it was great.  I used 500g Raspberries at flameout and another 500g after primary.  Go for it!

Here's my recipe:

http://www.forum.realbeer.co.nz/group/therecipeexchange/forum/topic...

I also brewed a boysenberry version but with Pils rather than MO.  Both were great beers.

Yum.

[Richard Jack]

Yeah I saw yours and decided that I didn't have anything better to do today :) hopefully it's as nice as yours must have been, with that score :)