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Re: 2nd Annual HRB Homebrew Comp

Post by mcgster » Fri Dec 04, 2015 9:31 pm

Hahaha it might be a bit young, especially if i hit my gravity after the two hour boil!

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Post by GuingesRock » Fri Dec 04, 2015 9:50 pm

mcgster wrote:Had some equipment malfunctions and didn't want to put off my brew any longer so I mashed in a fermenter

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Post by GuingesRock » Fri Dec 04, 2015 9:53 pm

I had to send my apologies to Shane. Still on my brewing break. Haven't seen my family for a year ...catching up. Good luck all.
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Post by mcgster » Fri Dec 04, 2015 10:43 pm

I think I'll call this one "More than a wee heavy"

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Re: 2nd Annual HRB Homebrew Comp

Post by LiverDance » Fri Dec 04, 2015 11:17 pm

You have an interesting hydrometer 1.090 to 1.100 to 1.100 :cheers2:
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Post by mcgster » Fri Dec 04, 2015 11:21 pm

Hahaha you just can't see the rest of the numbers from that angle!


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Re: 2nd Annual HRB Homebrew Comp

Post by Keith » Sat Dec 05, 2015 12:21 am

mcgster wrote:Hahaha you just can't see the rest of the numbers from that angle!


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lol. I think he's referring to the missing 1.000
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Post by mcgster » Sat Dec 05, 2015 12:25 am

That's how all my hydrometers have been so it's all I know lol I buy them locally so it must just be the brand. That's how the graduated cylinders we use in the lab go too, I just treat them as percentages of the major dividing marks.


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Post by LeafMan66_67 » Sat Dec 05, 2015 7:17 am

I read it as 1.090, 1.100, 1.110 - unless I'm missing something that LD sees!
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Post by mcgster » Sat Dec 05, 2015 8:24 am

Exactly! This is by far the strongest all grain batch I have brewed. I thought about adding a pound of sugar to dry it out a bit so it's not quite so sweet on the finish but I'm going to cycle my fermentation temps up to hopefully get a good attenuation so I don't have to.


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Post by chalmers » Sat Dec 05, 2015 3:18 pm

Oops. LD and I may have been drinking when we first saw that picture and thought it was fucky. In retrospect, it does look correct.

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Post by LeafMan66_67 » Sat Dec 05, 2015 3:28 pm

chalmers wrote:Oops. LD and I may have been drinking when we first saw that picture and thought it was fucky. In retrospect, it does look correct.
:lol: That was my first thought, but wasn't going to say anything!
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Post by Keith » Sat Dec 05, 2015 6:36 pm

chalmers wrote:Oops. LD and I may have been drinking when we first saw that picture and thought it was fucky. In retrospect, it does look correct.
I may have been 8 or 9 deep at that point lol.
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Post by mcgster » Sat Dec 05, 2015 6:49 pm

Hahaha i almost type "its harder to read when you have had a few beer" but didn't

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Re: 2nd Annual HRB Homebrew Comp

Post by Keith » Sat Dec 19, 2015 3:51 pm

Mike and I brewed our Wee Heavy today. Also about to brew our first partigyle. Looks and tastes like a mild, but hopping like a west coast apa
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Post by Keith » Sat Dec 19, 2015 4:13 pm

Any spot for a drop point in Halifax?
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Post by jacinthebox » Mon Dec 21, 2015 6:57 pm

I gotta bottle tonight
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Re: 2nd Annual HRB Homebrew Comp

Post by Keith » Tue Dec 22, 2015 1:07 am

jacinthebox wrote:I gotta bottle tonight
I wonder who all is entering from the club.
Mike and I co brewed and split a batch over 2 yeasts, then brewed a west coast inspired Scottish 60 from the 2nd running's which should be interesting.
Definitely going to be crunch time for us. We are really cutting this close but should still do well I think.
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Post by jacinthebox » Tue Dec 22, 2015 1:56 am

Keith wrote:
jacinthebox wrote:I gotta bottle tonight
I wonder who all is entering from the club.
Mike and I co brewed and split a batch over 2 yeasts, then brewed a west coast inspired Scottish 60 from the 2nd running's which should be interesting.
Definitely going to be crunch time for us. We are really cutting this close but should still do well I think.
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Re: 2nd Annual HRB Homebrew Comp

Post by Hobbitfu » Tue Dec 22, 2015 11:41 am

I am hopefully bottling my wee heavy tomorrow. White Labs Edinburgh yeast took forever to stop!

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Re: 2nd Annual HRB Homebrew Comp

Post by jmacdonald » Wed Dec 23, 2015 3:53 pm

I am planning on entering as well. Just need to figure out how to get the beer there.

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Post by jacinthebox » Wed Dec 23, 2015 6:36 pm

If nobody else is going that way...Eric said he will drive them up.
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Re: 2nd Annual HRB Homebrew Comp

Post by Keith » Thu Dec 24, 2015 10:36 am

jacinthebox wrote:If nobody else is going that way...Eric said he will drive them up.
When is he heading up? We won't be kegging until the 1st or 2nd and will be force carbing.
Don't think we'd have them ready until the weekend of the 9th.
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Post by jacinthebox » Thu Dec 24, 2015 11:35 am

Keith wrote:
jacinthebox wrote:If nobody else is going that way...Eric said he will drive them up.
When is he heading up? We won't be kegging until the 1st or 2nd and will be force carbing.
Don't think we'd have them ready until the weekend of the 9th.

no date yet...he said he would go if nobody else could
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Re: 2nd Annual HRB Homebrew Comp

Post by Keith » Sat Jan 02, 2016 3:22 pm

So I have a cold, however Mike graciously kegged and force carbbed our entries. Giving them a few days to settle down then will be sending them up.
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