Brewing Related Activities 09/14-16

Yep. English dark crystal. Pro mash calls it 77L. Sorry for any confusion!

Cheers!

DM

 

No brewing this weekend, only enjoying a newly tapped keg of hopbursted single hop citra pale ale. Dry hopped with 1.5oz x2 for 5 days. Shit tastes like tropical fruit juice.

 

No brewing, but I'll be racking, kegging, and bottling.

 

Enjoy it!! It's a pretty easy process for the most part. Volumes and gravities are important, or more important now, so keep it in mind.

You'll taste the difference for sure from your extract to all grain!

 

No brewing for me this weekend. I've got an Oatmeal Porter that I need to rack on some vanilla beans and move to secondary, so I've got to shuffle some crap around to do that.

Need to keg an IPA that I suspect might have been infected, but really taste amazing, and the gravity hasn't moved. The secondary has throw up all the hops from the bottom for some reason.

Move the said porter that secondary with vanilla beans, and then attempt to kick this keg of blonde during football tomorrow, so I don't have to dump my last available keg full of star san to put this IPA on line. Need to keg it to bottle them in 10 days.

 

Brewing a nice brown ale to share with my friends for our first college homecoming (as graduates). Pretty excited

 

took a break from a bunch of cleaning/bottling to throw together an English cider. Have a cake of 3787 begging for something strong and dark once I get this patersbier off of it shortly...

cheers--
--Michael

 

Brewed on Friday. IPA with 80% Pils 20% Dark Wheat bittered with Nugget and Columbus as late hops, I think. Labeled the ziplocks of hops last time with a Crayola marker and it smeared. Ferment with WY1968.

Just going for something a little different with the wheat. A bit higher gravity than normal possibly from the 4 hour mash. I knew I had a short day at work so I mashed in before work and finished after.

 

I'm currently drinking an all Amarillo hopped Belgian wheat that turned out amazing - it's like I made Gumballhead's European cousin or something. After the Huskers win I'll be dry hopping a Wheat IPA that my friend created the recipe for - it is a bitter beast, but I wasn't going to discourage or argue with him after he paid for all the ingredients! That will get 2oz of whole leaf Citra to top it off.

Made a starter last night, cold crashing it in the fridge right now, and will be decanting and ramping up the starter again overnight to be ready for a final decant and pitch into ten gallons of a 1.105 Imperial Stout that I'm brewing tomorrow. Half of that batch will be aged for a bit as is while the other half will rest in a Crown Royal soaked oak barrel until I deem it beastly enough......appropriately named "Chocolate Monarch".

Cheers!

 

In the process of brewing my first, using Magnum hops as bittering.

 

Bottled my sour mashed blueberry Berliner Weisse. Cleaned some bottles & did a little work on the keezer I'm building.

 

Got my Nut Brown ale moved to the secondary and resting on 2lbs of fresh roasted assorted nuts, Blueberry cream ale was bottled last night and today gonna move the Dortmunder to the secondary. Now to figure out what to brew next.

 

Doing an oat-based farmhouse ale now, and will hopefully bottle the ESB with biere de garde yeast that I was supposed to bottle last week tonight.

 

Just pouring for guests here. Kolsch and Porter on tap for the Vikings vs. Andrew Luck game.

 

How did the 1st generation of BRY-97 turn out? What liquid yeast would you compare it too?

 

Tropical Fruit Juice in a good way? I have a bunch of Citra in the freezer to use up. I was planning the HBT Zombie Dust Clone, but a APA sounds nice too. Care to share your recipe?

 

Sure thing:

Grain bill:
8 lbs 2-row pale
1 lb vienna
1 lb munich
0.5 lb Crystal 10

Mash at 151 degrees.

Hops:
1 oz Citra @ 20
1 oz Citra @ 10
1 oz Citra @ 5
2 oz Citra @ flameout (20 min whirlpool after flameout)

3oz Cita dry hop, split into two 5-day 1.5 oz additions.

Water profile:
Tasty's hoppy water profile

Chico yeast.

OG: 1.052
FG: ~1.012-13

 

That beer is currently being dry hopped. The performance was similar to US-05. And I'd say it flocced similar but maybe a little faster but not by much. I tasted the sample and it was neutral like chico yeast. The repitch had major blow off last night, filling my gallon jug full of yeast. It likes repitching apparently. I repitched it at 60 and am fermenting at 68.

 

Brewed my second batch on Thursday, so I'm just taking measurements and nervously checking on the krausen every hour or so It's the NB Surly Cynic Ale kit but I changed the hopping schedule a bit to use some Amarillo cones I had sitting around. Also threw in some wildflower honey & will be dry hopping it with the Amarillo to give it some nice floral aromas. It's early but the sample I tried has me excited!