Brewing Activities (2021)

Damn, that ECY yeast already arrived. Great work, Fermented NJ!

 

That my home town store. 3 minutes from my house. Eric is a great guy.

 

Aaaand I can't stop buying stuff. Ordered some Centennial, El Dorado, and Citra hop terpenes. Let's do some weird science.

 

Got a brewing assistant for the lifting, soooo
This weekend
Irish stout and a double batch of hole hop pale ale using cascade citra and chinook

 

Gorm.....great that you're getting some support. Imperative to keep that stout flowing!

 

Mine has been in transit since Monday I think. I hope it comes today. Should’ve paid for faster shipping

 

Bottled the oaked and brett'ed amber rye saison, put 4 gallons of local raw cider on the dregs (oak spiral included), and got another 5 gallons of cider going with 2 cans of frozen apple juice concentrate and BE-134. 'Tis the season.

 

Wit from last weekend is done. Kegged it up. Brewed a Saison with Belgian Pils, Flaked Barley, CaraVienne, Belgian Special Aromatic, Saaz, Triskal, debittered Citra. Aiming for 40ish IBUs, 6.8% ABV. Fermenting with a blend of 3724 Dupont, my Nectarine Blossom, and 2 Brett strains from Cantillon.

 

And... 15 gravity points low... I think the LHBS has their crush set too wide. My sparge is running faster than it did before and my gravity is way off. Gonna have to run it through my own mill next time.

 

Brewing a gf NEIPA & bottling the Candy Cap Milk Stout (sample is bangin!). I'm upping the SG & FG on the NEIPA to see if I can get more body (reducing enzymes to achieve this). Also breaking up the DH into 2 charges to see if it will boost aroma.

4L rice
oats
quinoa
goldfinch millet

Galaxy
Simcoe
Amarillo
Columbus

Verdant

 

Weird. I'm west coast and I just did USPS Priority.

 

Brewing assistant wants more,,,, soooooo
Today, coconut coco coffee stout aged on oak and sugar maple.
It’s good to be back.

 

Smoking up 11.5 pounds of (6.5#) Rahr 2-Row and (5#) Weyermann Vienna for a smoked ale to be brewed this coming weekend. Still need to finish a recipe beyond the base malts being smoked for it.

Will smoke the malt 3-4 hours and then lightly dry it afterward (malt was moistened with distilled water to help the smoke "stick").

Target OG will be 1.050 or so, fermented with US-05.

 

What Smoke? Beechwood, cherry, something else?

 

It's a blend I use with my pellet smoker and have used in the past a few times (it's a mix of Maple, Hickory and Cherry).

In the past, I have used straight hickory, mesquite and apple-wood pellets (good natural pellets, not the cheaper blended/flavored pellets that can be found).

Love the smoke flavor/strength I get from this particular blend. Smoking my own malt is the closest I have come to the potency and flavor to Schlenkerla or Brauerei Spezial from Bamberg. I have tried all the commercial ones from Weyermann to the various variants from Briess, etc... Result is always nice with those, but missing a depth and 'fullness' that I get from doing it myself. Easy enough, just a bit more time/prep.

 

Is it packaged as a premixed blend, or do you get the three separately and blend yourself? If the latter, what proportions do you use for your custom blend?

 

Pitboss or Lumberjack pellet "Competition Blend". Both use the same mix of Maple, Hickory and Cherry.

 

If anyone is interested in messing with hop terpenes, Oast House Oils has three varieties (Centennial, Huell Melon, and Mandarina Bavaria) half off for BF.

 

Installed a sight glass on my Anvil Foundry. I got tired of not knowing what my volume was after the mash and sparging without pulling the grain basket out me looking at the etched volume scale then putting the basket back and continue sparging. If it’s a grain bill size I’ve done before I kinda know what volume to sparge with but this will take the guess work out. Did a test run with water and it works great. Bought the sight glass off Amazon. Just thought I’d share with those who may be thinking of the same thing.

 

I just saw that Offset Beer Co is sporting a 4.03 avg on untapp'd. That in itself is noteworthy. And considering that it's virtually all low-ish ABV beers, that's outstanding. Congrats to @wasatchback.