Brewing Activities (2019)

Bottleing whole hop#7

 

Bit of a retro Pale Ale today

Blend of Columbus, Nugget, and Crystal.
Bell’s yeast
Rahr Pale Ale
10% Malted Wheat

 

Blood orange Neipa. Trying these 3 for the first time. The candi syrup tastes great. Hope it works.

 

Brewed an American brown ale modeled after the averagely perfect recipe.

 

Brewing up another Hoppy Amber. Looking to lighten/redden the color and remove some roast character. Hopping with Colombia, Simcoe & Mosaic. M44 yeast.

 

Brewing a coffee brown ale
Enjoying home brewed Imperial Stout
Cheers

 

Brewed up my Czech Pils. Currently in chilling, at about 52F (target of 48F for pitching). OG is 1.054.

 

Brewing up the same thing this weekend. Seems like a beer you can't always find a lot of recipes for. Curious what your malt bill looks like if you don't mind? I'm going with 2-row 80%-ish, munich 10%-ish, British Med. Crystal - 6%-ish, DRC - 4%-ish, and color adjustment with some chocolate malt.

 

Haha, u won't want my grain bill cuz I brew with gluten free malts. Hope yours turns out nice!

 

Citra/Amarillo IPA
1.065

Rahr 2 row
10% Chit
3% Carahell
2% Acidulated

145/162/170

Warrior at 90/30
3oz Citra @ 5
3oz 2019 Amarillo Leaf 1oz 2019 Cent leaf in the hopback

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I’ve never really found any decent Amarillo so I’ve never tried this classic combo. The 2019 leaf I just got from Hops Direct smells awesome! Was researching what percentage of chit malt I should use to replicate undermodified malt for an upcoming decocted Czech Pils and decided I’d try it instead of Carafoam in an IPA.

 

Brewing my first “pumpkin” beer. Instead of using pumpkin I am using squash. Based on various resources squash comes through better than pumpkin. I guess i’ll Find out.

Doing a pumpkin porter with 5ish lbs of squash, spices, and vanilla.

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Conducting an inventory of homebrew equipment as a first step towards organizing and perhaps, downsizing.

 

Pale Ale version of yesterday’s beer. Same basic beer. Swapped a little Pale Ale malt in this time and swapped the yeast.

Gonna try a little different dry hopping procedure this time. Going to attempt to purge a keg with fermentation. Mostly leaf dry hops will be added to the keg that will have been purged once already then let fermentation purge it completely before pushing beer into the keg at the very end of fermentation. Yeast I’m using floccs really hard so hoping to push as least yeast into the dry hop keg as possible.

 

Brewing up a quick 3 gallons for my sour solera. After this ferments I’ll rack into the said solera to replace the 3 gallons that will age on a pile of blueberries and some vanilla beans. Resulting in what will hopefully be a tasty blueberry/ vanilla sour. This is only my 2nd pull from my solera, so far so good.

 

Planing the Belgian blueberry for Sunday.

 

Yeeesh, that's not going to translate. Anyone else have input on my recipe? haha

 

Brewed an imperial cream ale last night, to which I'll add dry coffee bean and cold brew before packaging.

72% Pelton, 10% Flaked Maize, 10% Sugar, 8% Opal 44. US-05. OG: 1.086.

 

Batch 3 of a Hoppy Pilsner. Italian/Czech style cross sort of.

Found some Weyermann Eraclea Pilsner malt at my LHBS which I’ve never seen for sale at any Homebrew store before.

133 -> 145 -> decoct -> 162 -> 172

Eraclea/Carafoam/Acidulated
50ish theoretical IBUs
Saaz through the boil, Sterling in hopback

TYB Hessian Pils. Hopefully keep it around 46 and make it home in time after a work trip to transfer and spund it. Probably gonna pull a little right before I leave to krausen batch 2 (which was a bit of a disaster but still managed to turn out better than expected)

 

Also kicked my keg of fresh hop IPA, so put my Danish cider on to burst carb.

 

Today brewing a English pale ale #20 English mixed base malts, Golding pellets, S-04 yeast 10 gallons.