Brewing Activities (2021)

This year's go at Pumpernickel Saison. Dropping the brown malt and replacing it with more chocolate rye, and bumping up the IBUs a touch. Might age on some apple brandy soaked oak; we'll see in a few weeks.

 

Brewing a gluten free NZ Pils with new (to me) hops and transferring NEIPA's to serving kegs.

Pale Rice
Biscuit 4L Rice
Dextrose

Kohatu
Wai-iti
Magnum for bittering

W34/70

 

LHBS just opened a tap room upstairs. Picked up my grains while enjoying a local double ipa. I think my homebrew costs just went up.

 

DH'd my kveik pale w/ African hops and started crashing my festbier and schwarzbier for lagering.

 

Lol love the Drambouie idea. My Dads drink of choice has always been a Rusty Nail.

 

First Fresh hop ale. All comet.

 

Did you grow the Comet? If so, how did it do ?

 

Was going to brew a wee heavy today, but too damn hot! I’ll get to it in the next few days though. GP, MO, caramunich, C120, melanoiden, and roasted barley. Fermented with WLP028.

 

jerry,
Yep second year growing comet and I’ll say I got around 1.4 lb per plant of dry. Gramitebeard gave me the rhizomes so if u want to grow them this spring, I will dig a few rhizomes for me.

doin that pay it forward thing.

 

What year does citra become available for home brewers to grow

 

Whipping up an Oktoberfest with Munich, Pils, Amber malt. Copious amount of Monroe, Fermenting with Lager slurry imma revive.

 

no idea, but I’ll b growing it whenever I can.

 

Bottled the raspberry solude,r berries give a lot more flavor than blue berries. I’ll b making this one against n

 

Not really feeling those SA hops in the pale ale, but the beer's not bad enough to dump. Just super grassy.

Festbier and schwarz are in the keezer and lagering, both taste very nice.

Planning to brew an American brown ale based on this before I head down to LA for a week.

 

Tomorrow brewing a fresh hop ale with cascade, Columbus and chinook

 

To me this is the worst type of beer. I would rather just have a dumper then have to soldier through a keg of something I don’t really like. I usually drink half, get tired and then dump the rest.

 

Yo @Prep8611
Same here with bottles. Life is toooooshort to w@ste on poor beer

 

Brewing up a Belgian Quad to pitch on the Blonde ale yeast cake. The Blonde is going in a homebrew club barrel that is holding a quad today. My Quad is going in to my Apple brandy barrel when done and the stout is coming out. Blonde getting transfer to a bucket to drop off at the barrel later today. The blonde dropped clear after crashing. It tasted amazing when taking a gravity reading. Feels like my cleanest beer I’ve made yet.

 

GF NEIPA today. Really starting to get these dialed in now that I've got a solid grain bill & process together. Gonna pump up the quinoa for more protein & lower my enzyme dosage to shoot for a higher FG. Also adjusting the water a bit, upping the Cl and adding a bit more Na.

4L Rice
Quinoa
Oats
CaraMillet

Riwaka
Nelson
Citra

Verdant

 

Tonight I will be brewing an ipa with marris otter, 2 row, flaked oats. Hopping with chinook, cascade and Bru-1 followed by a large dry hop about 4 days into fermentation. Fermenting with Verdant IPA yeast.

Kegging a fresh peach saison and drilling another whole in a fridge to get a 4th tap.