What are you brewing?
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Permalink Reply by vdog on
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American Wheat last night, not our best brew session. Slow-as runoff from the mash, pretty close to a stuck sparge - so took frickin' ages to get it done. Efficiency was a good way off what we usually get too, which I guess might have been because of the sparge problem - not sure if it's just the wheat that was the problem, or if a lower-than-usual sparge temp (70C instead of 78C) had a part to play in that? Pretty murky wort as well, even with a good vigorous boil and a dose of koppafloc - anyone else have that problem with a large proportion of wheat?
Recipe was:
50% NZ Pale
50% Weyermann wheat malt
24 IBU Pacific Jade @ 60min
35g NZ Cascade @ 0min
50g Motueka @0min
US-05, fermenting at 19C (couldn't be arsed with getting a liquid yeast).
OG 1.042 (miles off target), so I guess it's headed for 4-4.3%abv - should be ideal for a summer quaffer if it turns out okay! Tasted pretty good going into the fermenter so I reckon it'll be all good, just might need a good cold crash and fine to drop out as much of that murkiness as I can.
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Permalink Reply by Llew Bardecki on
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It’s getting to be about hefe time again, so I brewed one last night. Nice and simple:
2.25kg Wheat Malt
2.15kg Malteurop Pils
0.10kg Melanoiden
10g Pacific Jade @ 60
15g Pacifica @ 15
18 IBU
Pitched the slurry from a 2L starter stepped up from an Emerson’s Weissbier.
(I also took the 2L, 4%, 35IBU starter beer and dry hopped it with some NZ Cascade. The sample I had was a bit harsh, but maybe some time and more hop aroma will help. And if not, well, it was primarily meant as a starter anyway.)
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Permalink Reply by Stu McKinlay on
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I love how you've cultured the Emerson's yeast while also culturing a bit of a Richard emerson look ;-)
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I think my beard was well bigger than RE's (last I saw anyway.)
Sadly, however, I finally succumbed to Sarah's wishes and gave it a trim last night.
I've still got the Richard Emerson haircut though :)
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Permalink Reply by Fairlane on
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Here's a little summer quaffer that I've just bottled.
IPA
Taget Gravity 1.060
11.64 kg Pale
0.71 kg Crystal
0.20 kg Toasted Pale
Target IBU 66.0
80 g NZ Sticklebract @ 60
45 g NZ Goldings @ 55
25 g NZ Pacific Hallertau @ 30
36 g NZ Cascade @ 25
10 g NZ Sticklebract @ 20
25 g NZ Pacific Hallertau @ 7
36 g NZ Cascade @ 6
10 g NZ Sticklebract @ 5
Fermented with S04 due to not being able to find Gervin English Ale yeast in time.
OG 1.060
FG 1.012
Alc % 6.4
As a little side project I took 2L and did a trial ferment with some untoasted oak chip at 1g/L. This rate was the result of some extensive trial work with different types of oak boiled in water and the extract added to a commercial beer at different volumes. Anyway... it came out pretty well giving an extra layer of flavour without dominating. Don't know if I'd bother repeating though.
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Permalink Reply by jt on
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Fermented with S04 due to not being able to find Gervin English Ale yeast in time.
I thought gervin - which was nottingham repackaged ? - was defunct ?
And there wasn't much difference with SO4 anyway ?
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Well I managed to get some eventually so it must still be around...
And I have found quite a bit of difference in my EPA using the different yeasts... haven't compared them in other beers however so can't say that it's always different...
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I have always found them quite different... I
I loved Gervin, a nice mildly fruity yeast that allows hops through, but it became really hard to get.
S04 I've never really nailed... it has a really slim temperature range (drops out below 16c and throws a fair bit of isoamyl acetate if you even contemplate getting over 20c - seems more pronounced in dark beers)
but... I know wonderful things can be done with it as Barry Hannah has shown me the light. The best S04 beers I've tried have probably been a bit more memorable than the best S05 beers.
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Yeah I got mine from BrewersCoop in the end... And got it really quickly also.
Unfortunately due my impatience, on the brewday I went out to my mailbox to see if it had arrived, and I didn't check the box cause I got distracted by a courier delivery of S04 etc..so I used that instead. Then of course when I checked the mailbox in the afternoon and it had been there all along. doh!
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