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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by Keith » Fri Jul 07, 2017 2:53 pm

John G wrote:
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Keith, did you go with Jimmy's recipe for kettle soured Berliner?

"I brewed my first Berliner a week ago. Already on the berries. I'll be kegging it this week, along with the light lager.

Let me know how those hops work :rockin:"
I don't think it's far off from it.
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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by John G » Fri Jul 07, 2017 8:59 pm

Keith wrote:
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I don't think it's far off from it.
47.6% Pils
47.5% Wheat
4.8% Acid Malt
US05 Yeast
2KG Raspberries / Keg

4.8ibu @ 15 min
4% ABV
2.9 SRM
Mash 148F
Cool, thanks! Looks like a quick and easy win for summer beer. :cheers2:

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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by Halifax_Jeff » Sat Jul 08, 2017 10:28 am

Knocking out an ESB with the floor malted Maris Otter from the group buy and London ESB yeast.

Off to a great start by dumping my thermometer into my compost with the grains... I soldiered on and fished it out after about 10 mins of digging.

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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by jimboh » Sat Jul 08, 2017 11:13 am

Halifax_Jeff wrote:
Sat Jul 08, 2017 10:28 am
Knocking out an ESB with the floor malted Maris Otter from the group buy and London ESB yeast.

Off to a great start by dumping my thermometer into my compost with the grains... I soldiered on and fished it out after about 10 mins of digging.
Me too, been in the fermenter a week and still very active. Looking forward to a session with this. :drunk:
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What's everyone brewing?

Post by sleepyjamie » Sat Jul 08, 2017 12:01 pm

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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by Keith » Sat Jul 08, 2017 7:13 pm

John G wrote:
Fri Jul 07, 2017 8:59 pm
Keith wrote:
Fri Jul 07, 2017 2:53 pm


I don't think it's far off from it.
47.6% Pils
47.5% Wheat
4.8% Acid Malt
US05 Yeast
2KG Raspberries / Keg

4.8ibu @ 15 min
4% ABV
2.9 SRM
Mash 148F
Cool, thanks! Looks like a quick and easy win for summer beer. :cheers2:
Next week when you pick up the jockey box you're more than welcome to stick around for a pint! May as well sample it first. :spilly:
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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by John G » Sat Jul 08, 2017 8:01 pm

Keith wrote:
John G wrote:
Fri Jul 07, 2017 8:59 pm
Keith wrote:
Fri Jul 07, 2017 2:53 pm


I don't think it's far off from it.
47.6% Pils
47.5% Wheat
4.8% Acid Malt
US05 Yeast
2KG Raspberries / Keg

4.8ibu @ 15 min
4% ABV
2.9 SRM
Mash 148F
Cool, thanks! Looks like a quick and easy win for summer beer. :cheers2:
Next week when you pick up the jockey box you're more than welcome to stick around for a pint! May as well sample it first. :spilly:
Sounds good!

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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by Lisa J » Mon Jul 10, 2017 8:54 am

Keith wrote:
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Let me know how those hops work :rockin:
Worked like a charm, Keith! Best kettle sour yet. We'll give those hops at least part of the credit! :drool:
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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by Halifax_Jeff » Tue Jul 11, 2017 8:02 am

Doing up a Pale Ale this morning with Dennys Fav50 yeast and Falconers Flight hops.

Loving how simple BIAB is lately.

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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by McGruff » Wed Jul 12, 2017 7:14 am

Just mashed in a Kolsch. 2 row, munich 6, Hallertauer and Magnum along with WLP029.

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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by BBrianBoogie » Wed Jul 19, 2017 6:24 pm

Just finished Orval clone attempt mk.2, only 6.5 years since the last attempt :lol:

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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by RubberToe » Sun Jul 23, 2017 8:53 am

It's been about 14.5 months since my last brew day. Sad Rob is sad. :(

I've made a few attempts at a comeback that result in a mostly clean brewery and ingredient purchases but for one reason or another it hasn't happened...

Now I'm hanging out in my clean brew space, strike water with mineral additions heating, grains crushed, sanitized fermenters. It's happening!!

A 10+ gallon batch of my Brown Ale (award winning, baby!!). A simple brew with 60 minute mash and boil and only 2 hop additions. Nothing too complicated for my first brew back.

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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by Keith » Sun Jul 23, 2017 4:11 pm

Welcome back to brewing. Mike orr just made his return omafter a brief hiatus.

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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by mumblecrunch » Sun Jul 23, 2017 4:27 pm

I brewed for the first time in 6 weeks yesterday and it felt like forever. A hoppy saison with Galaxy that's fermenting on DuPont yeast to start, after which it will get Brett and then a Galaxy dry hop before bottling.

Been meaning to try this recipe for a while and mid-summer when I don't have to worry about not having temp control seemed like a good time.

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Post by RubberToe » Sun Jul 23, 2017 4:34 pm

Nice! BTW, how do you like that SS gear?
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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by mumblecrunch » Sun Jul 23, 2017 6:29 pm

RubberToe wrote:
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Nice! BTW, how do you like that SS gear?
Honestly, I love it. But I should be clear that I got the 10 gallon mash tun at $299 (down from $499) when OBK was blowing out the first rev models. It's only got gallon markings (v2 has liters/gallons), didn't have the top port (I had to buy the drill bit kit to retrofit one), and I added the heater kit (which works okay to sustain or do minor corrections to your mash temp down to about 5ºC ambient). I'd probably be a little less happy if I'd paid full price. Liverdance has the 20 gal version and the manometer on his makes me wish mine had one too. LD and I both have issues with a fair amount of fine particulate getting through the false bottom, but I think we've both come up with our own mitigations for that. IMHO it beats a false bottom that's so fine you get a stuck sparge. The thermometers are not super-high accuracy, but since I have very accurate thermometers, I know what correction factor to apply.

The kettle (again, I went with 10 gal) is pretty awesome. The trub dam actually works really well if you let everything settle for 20-30 minutes after chilling, especially on beers with huge late additions. The markings are very accurate. The SS ball valves are good quality. The silicon handles are good quality (very little slippage, even when hot) and the ability to hang the lids on the handles is a big convenience (even though I didn't think it would be).

The build quality is very good and they're also quite good about making accessories and parts that can wear out available. Replacement gaskets for the false bottom, replacement rubber blades for the trub damn, and replacement o-ring kits (everything is weldless) are readily available, as are things like the vorlauf (which I have), fly sparge, and recirc attachments. And the prices are way better than Blichmann and, to some extent, even Anvil.

The "Brewmaster Edition" kettles look pretty spectacular, but a little rich for my blood. I also really like the Brew Buckets but $300 is an awful lot for a fermenter without a proper yeast drop port, stainless or not.

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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by amartin » Sun Jul 23, 2017 6:49 pm

Hooray for Rob and Mike! I'm hoping to brew next weekend, it'll have been three weeks since the last one. I keep trying to take more time off because summer brewing sucks, but that never seems to work out.


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Awesome Rob. Good to see you're brewing again. :cheers:

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Post by John G » Sun Jul 23, 2017 10:42 pm

I just finished brewing up a (hopefully) juicy IPA with El Dorado and Wai-iti. Smells good out of the kettle.

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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by LiverDance » Sun Jul 30, 2017 12:24 pm

Brewing up a Centennial IPA today.
"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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Post by Lisa J » Tue Aug 01, 2017 9:23 am

Finally brewed our go-to IPA last night. Centennial and Citra.
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Re: What's everyone brewing?

Post by Celiacbrew » Tue Aug 01, 2017 10:18 am

On Sunday I kegged a pilsner and brewed a sculpin clone from everwood. The recipe differs from the usual ones online, in a good way. I'm pretty about this one, more so than any other of my recent brews.
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Post by LiverDance » Tue Aug 01, 2017 10:37 am

Celiacbrew wrote:
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On Sunday I kegged a pilsner and brewed a sculpin clone from everwood. The recipe differs from the usual ones online, in a good way. I'm pretty about this one, more so than any other of my recent brews.
Do explain :mmm:
"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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