JoKing's Comments

The thing is that, as a B&B who spreads beer evangelism to visiting foreigners might otherwise think that NZ beer was Tui and Steinlager, we get wholesle rates from the various breweries generally. So whilst I'd save courier fees buying locally, I'd pay more for the beer and if I order enough in one hit it still pays to buy direct. The South Island stuff doesn't cost that much in freight though.
I have all the ingredients of a bitter recipe which I got from Stu, so that's the next project.

Hey man, Great to catch up. I drank the Black Beauty last night, reminded me alot of Renaissance Porter, except perhaps without the alcholic warmth of that beer. Maybe you set me up to look for faults, but I liked it allot, much better then any porter I've brewed. If anything it ended a bit flat in the finish which is a shame as it starts so well, the hops don;t hang around. Maybe some cara munich or carafa in there maybe like Renaissance? Definitely catch you in Taranki come November.

Thanks, yes her indoors thought that was a funny trick ha ha Shes a good bloke she likes her or should I say our beer........ need more hops though

hey buddy. Just wondering how your braided hose is setup in your mlt? Do you just have it sitting freely in there, or in some sort of loop configuration? I've noticed quite bad channeling down the sides of my grain bed when fly sparging, and therefore eff at around 65% to 70%...wondering how I can get this up a bit.

yeah, i thought so. I notice mine was clinging to the edge of the bucket.....hence channeling. Will try it out!

Hey, so many beers: so little time, no need to rush to them. The American Stout is just on the down side of his peak of hoppy glory which is a shame but it did indeed have 500g of black in there. I tried to nullify that a bit by adding some bicarb soda and its not too over powering in my opinion. The dubbel I wish I could try in another year, so every day you leave it is fine.
Missed out on an Emersons tasting last night as the train had derailed! Ahh the agony.

Hi Jo,

I sent you an eMail from my home address but not sure if you got it, so here it is again:

Hey Jo,

I see you're heading down to Beervana. When are you going down?

I'm heading down after work on Friday 28th. I'm volunteering for the Saturday afternoon session and attending the Saturday evening session. I was going to post on the forum the week before to see if anyone was interested in going for a few beers on the Friday evening at say the Malthouse or one of the other 'decent' bars.

If you've got time to call in on the way down, or the way home, you'd be most welcome to pop in to inspect the 'Pilgrim's Rest' :-)

Cheers
Pete.
pilgrim@inspire.net.nz

Any chance of you sharing the secret of your 'patented perlick creamer faucet'? I think this will go down well with my USMild that's about to go on tap, I could exchange the secret for a bottle :-P

Aha! I thought that's why you might be doing - a psuedo-restricor-disc like those that come in the real stout faucets. I tried sticking a small ball of copper scrubby in there to create some turbulence and/or nucleation points but it didn't do too much.

Yup, I've got Perlicks now, so will give it a shot. I dunno about that +14C though :-P I'm set at 10C so I'll play with it and see what happens, if need-be I'll let 'er warm up.

PM me your address and a bottle of the American Mild will turn up on your doorstep in a week or two. I tasted the hydro sample today, is kinda like a low gravity American brown.

Just give me your address asshole, it's only like 3.1% - there won't be any left in four weeks, and also, I'm slack as fuck and can't guarantee my appearance at WBC.

Haha only just saw your comment now.

Carbonating at the moment, once she's ready I'll send some down.

Shot bro.

No worries

Dude, you must think I'm the rudest prick! I was told a package had been put in the fridge for me (I have trained the receptionist well in hop handling) but another box of hops from NZhops had turned up the same day. So I didn;t realise. Sure enough I just checked in the fridge and there they were. Your a legend! Cheers. I have a bottle of Blonde ready to send up actually, just been giving it a few days to prime. Its on way.

Nice, its not tasting too bad, but the alc % got up a bit higher then intended about 7%. I find that wyeast strain makes the alcohol a bit solventy for the first few weeks so don;t rush in to it unless your a thirsty man, or your hankering for a beer sans hops.

You can find it here.
http://realbeernz.ning.com/forum/topics/1500433:Topic:8?page=201&commentId=1500433%3AComment%3A62190&x=1#1500433Comment62190
Bit of a combination of higher then anticipated efficiency and attenuation, its the 3787 number.

Hi Joking,

Just a note to say thanks again for posting the Yakima Monster recipe, I transferred it to secondary and dry hops last night after 10 days in primary, a sample of it tasted absolutely superb! Even my mainstream-lager-drinking wife thought it was great, and (unfortunately) a mate dropped by and had a taste too - I think I will have trouble keeping the final product in stock for long once it is bottled.....

Can't wait to do an all-grain version!

Hi Joking

I'm not a homebrewer, but a lover of beer. I understand that the next Western Brewers Conference compition is Hefeweizen Style. If you require a judge or a trainee judge, I would be very keen to assist.

Thanks Chris

Dam, it's the same day as my wife's xmas party on waiheke island. See what I can do.

All good for the judging on the 28th, look forward to meeting you and learning new skills :)