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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by Woody » Tue May 08, 2018 1:18 pm

It's brew day!!!! :spilly:

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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by gmarsh » Tue May 08, 2018 1:30 pm

I'm mostly a lurker here, might as well post what I'm up to :)

Started a "cheap ass incompetent cider experiment" over the weekend.

23 bottles of 88 cent Graves brand, from-concentrate apple juice from the supermarket.
About half a kg of sugar to raise the SG to 1.06, which should give me an ~8% ABV result.
Pectic enzyme + yeast nutrient + Safale S-04 yeast.

In a week or so when the primary fermentation calms down I'll rack it into a 2nd bucket. Then mash together 1kg frozen rhubarb + 2kg frozen strawberries with another bottle of apple juice, throw that in a nylon strainer bag and toss that in the bucket for another week or so, depending on what the yeast decides to do with the new sugar. Then onto secondary fermentation for a few weeks.

I'll stop the yeast with sorbate and backsweeten, perhaps throw in some lemon juice or vanilla or who the hell knows what else, I'll taste and decide what to do at that point I guess. Then into kegs w/CO2. If all goes well I should end up with a sparkling strawberry rhubarb cider right in time for summer.

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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by Woody » Tue May 08, 2018 2:01 pm

Sounds really good. I've made a cider before as well with the Graves apple juice and it turned out good. I used the WLP775 and it fermented out to zero and was bit dry. The S04 is a good idea.

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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by gmarsh » Tue May 08, 2018 2:24 pm

This is actually my 2nd round of cheap cider.

A few months ago I made cider with Graves not-from-concentrate apple juice and S-04 for a laugh. The result had next to no flavor at all - nothing wrong with the flavor at all, really nice and refreshing with a bit of carbonation on it, just... meh. I figured it'd be a nice base to add stuff to though.

My original idea was to make a cinnamon roll cider using vanilla beans, cinnamon and a lot of backsweetening but frig, vanilla beans cost a fortune these days. Paying more for the vanilla than the apple juice didn't seem right.

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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by jacinthebox » Tue May 08, 2018 7:58 pm

mckay75 wrote:
Tue May 08, 2018 11:11 am
jacinthebox wrote:
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Building up some FunkTown Yeast now...
Will be brewing 20gal of "Rick Tickle", a Mosaic/Citra/Ekuanot pale ale. Hazy, hoppy, funky, fruity.
Love me some Funktown!

Woody and I are brewing a sour brown tonight. Bit of an experimental batch...souring 5 gal of the 12 gal batch, then blending to taste and aging on fruit.
I was just talking to the boys about brewing some 1, 2, and 3 year lambics and blending each year after. My next challenge lol
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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by MikeMorrison » Wed May 09, 2018 1:24 pm

Second stage of an Amalgamation starter is ready to go. Hoping to get at a Pilsner/White Wheat/ Mosaic brew done this evening! 20-ish IBUs with flameout and dry hops. The starter wort smells and tastes amazing right now!
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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by McGruff » Fri May 25, 2018 7:51 am

Brewing a Kolsch tomorrow. Finally using my Kolsch yeast from Escarpment Labs from Guelph.

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Post by sheppard107 » Sun May 27, 2018 8:34 am

Vienna Lager. Unfortunately I just discovered the only lager yeast I have is a single pack of 34/70 that expired Feb 2017. I'm sure I'll be fine. Not worrying, etc etc
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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by LiverDance » Mon May 28, 2018 2:50 pm

Did a double brew day yesterday, made a stout and a red ale :cheers:
"Twenty years ago — a time, by the way, that hops such as Simcoe and Citra were already being developed, but weren’t about to find immediate popularity — there wasn’t a brewer on earth who would have gone to the annual Hop Growers of American convention and said, “I’m going to have a beer that we make 4,000 barrels of, one time a year. It flies off the shelf at damn near $20 a six-pack, and you know what it smells like? It smells like your cat ate your weed and then pissed in the Christmas tree.” - Bell’s Brewery Director of Operations John Mallet on the scent of their popular Hopslam.

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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by GAM » Mon May 28, 2018 4:41 pm

Brown with a first try with mash hoping.

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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by elreplica » Mon May 28, 2018 8:47 pm

GAM wrote:
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Brown with a first try with mash hoping.

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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by gmarsh » Mon May 28, 2018 9:07 pm

Cheap strawberry rhubarb cider = success.

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Can't really tell there's rhubarb but the strawberry flavor is strong, and it's pretty boozy. I've pretty much re-created Boone's.

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Post by mckay75 » Thu May 31, 2018 8:08 am

Brewed up a grisette/sessionable saison last night with azacca and a blend of Wyeast 3724 and TYB's wallion farmhouse ale.

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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by Swine » Thu May 31, 2018 9:20 am

I brewed up 10gal of Elvis Juice by Brewdog yesterday. I've brewed this many times, it is a fan favorite. I messed it up big time, too many other things on the go. For bittering hops, I added my 30min hops at 60min and my 0min hops at 30min, so made up another set of 0min hops and forgot to add them until I was down to 140F in cooling... So paused cooling and added them with a whirlpool going.
Never did add the bittering hops!!!
At least I added the yeast!!!
Gonna try for a more organized brew day Friday or Friday evening...

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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by GAM » Thu May 31, 2018 11:47 am

Gonna be the best beer ever.

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Post by PMackie » Thu May 31, 2018 12:52 pm

Need to stock up after having too much work on my plate and a vacation so doing a double brew weekend I hope on the robobrew. Going to give a Watermelon blonde a go, since my wife and her friends and family love it and also another batch of my own pale ale recipe which has been a hit since I started brewing it.
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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by Buccaneer » Sat Jun 02, 2018 2:36 pm

Haven't brewed in about 6 months, so I've been itching to make something. Brewed up a tweaked version of a pale lager I've been experimenting with, and then as soon as my fermentation gear was empty I took my first stab at something with rye.

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Post by John G » Sat Jun 02, 2018 10:03 pm

I spent a good part of the afternoon recircing oxyclean through my system. Since the water was heated up after a few good rinses I decided to put on an easy one; Munich Helles with saflager yeast. It's my first time using dry lager yeast so will see how that goes.

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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by timcress10 » Tue Jun 05, 2018 1:25 pm

On Friday I made a Best Case partial grain Pale Ale kit, with 200g of toasted coconut added in near the end of the boil. Once fermentation is done, I'll rack over to secondary and put it on another 200g of toasted coconut. Took a bit of inspiration from NewToHomeBrewTom on YouTube and his Coconut ShyPA recipe. Here's hoping it'll turn out to be a semi-crushable beer - plan is to do up some labels for it and give it to people in celebration of our daughter's birth in July. So far the top name contenders are "Diaper Pail Ale" and "Coco Dadio", so we'll see which one stick.
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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by McGruff » Fri Jun 08, 2018 7:59 am

Mashing right now a Brown Ale.

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Post by wcturnedec » Sat Jun 09, 2018 9:07 am

Double brew day, American hopped Helles and Peach Rooibos Saison


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Post by LeafMan66_67 » Sun Jun 10, 2018 9:32 am

Not brewing today, but kegging my first shot at a Flanders Red ... two years in the making, I'm definitely enjoying the sample this morning. Finished up with final gravity at 1.006, PH 3.5.Image
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Post by wcturnedec » Sat Jun 16, 2018 2:56 pm

Brewing up a session NEIPA, using the Short and Shoddy method (30 min mash/30 min boil)


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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by GAM » Sat Jun 16, 2018 3:02 pm

Good show. I will do the same with my next brew.

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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by amartin » Sat Jun 16, 2018 7:18 pm

I’ve been doing the 30 minute boil lately, but I keep not boiling off enough. I have to keep adjusting that. No DMS issues though.


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