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

[Barry]

From what I hear Keith Galbraith himself is going to be there, so if anyone can give the OK it would be him. It's definitely not a homebrew tasting session but bring it in and even if one of us has to take it home to sample and post note here, shouldn't be a problem.

[Martin Bridges]

Unfortunately Keith has had to drop out. I would advise against sampling outside beers in the pub, but I'm sure someone will be happy to take it away and give you some feedback later.

[Reviled]

"I would advise against sampling outside beers in the pub,"

Yeah they were a bit funny about that last year when Nate had that devine bottle of Imperial Stout...

[Patrick]

Cool - I will try to make it.

[Patrick]

Yea it has a slight sweetness which can be breifly tasted after the inital hop flavour and before the bitterness settles on the tongue - I don't know if my palate is any good though!

[JackoNZ]

Sounds good to me mate! I've just done an IPA with pearle pale and a touch of munich to beef it up some. Hoping for similar to what you've just described. Sounds like you'll get a few keen tasters on Saturday if you head to the SOBA meetup!

[Mark]

Punishing myself with a double brew weekend, yesterday was this:

Wheat Beer:

Batch Size: 25.00 L
Boil Size: 31.91 L
Boil Time: 60 min Equipment: B3200 with Crown Boiler

Ingredients

3.00 kg Wheat Malt, Ger (2.0 SRM) Grain 54.5 %
2.50 kg Pilsner ADM (2.0 SRM) Grain 45.5 %
10.00 gm Pacific Jade [12.70%] (60 min) Hops 15.2 IBU
1 Pkgs Weihenstephan Weizen (Wyeast Labs #3068) Yeast-Wheat

Single decoct, OG 1.053

Today this:

Dunkelweizen

Batch Size: 25.00 L
Boil Size: 31.91 L
Boil Time: 60 min Equipment: B3200 with Crown Boiler

Ingredients

Amount Item Type % or IBU
3.00 kg Wheat Malt, Ger (2.0 SRM) Grain 49.2 %
1.50 kg Pilsner ADM (2.0 SRM) Grain 24.6 %
1.00 kg Munich Malt (9.0 SRM) Grain 16.4 %
0.20 kg Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) Grain 3.3 %
0.20 kg Caraaroma (130.0 SRM) Grain 3.3 %
0.20 kg Caramunich type 2 (45.0 SRM) Grain 3.3 %
5.00 gm Pacific Jade [13.40%] (60 min) Hops 8.0 IBU
10.00 gm Motueka [6.70%] (60 min) Hops 8.0 IBU
10.00 gm Motueka [6.70%] (15 min) Hops 2.1 IBU
1 Pkgs Weihenstephan Weizen (Wyeast Labs #3068) Yeast-Wheat

Testing new equipment in new brewery in new house

[Reviled]

Punishing? Sounds more like fun to me Mark ;o)

[James P]

Gotta admit I love double or triple brewing on the same day.... rolling from one brew to the next almost seemlessly....

[Mark]

ye gods! one a day is more than enough, 2 in one weekend and i'm ready to swear off brewing! decoction mashes are hard work

[Reviled]

Haha, I guess if youre decocting it changes everything... But the only problem I saw really was two wheat beers in one weekend :oP lol

One in a year is too many for me... hahaha

[Mark]

haha this is one years' worth, believe me!

i've never made a good wheat beer, really hoping these turn out ok