September - Homebrewing Happenings

inchrisin · Jan 6, 2017

Hogue2112 said: ↑

What a month for brewing!

In the Kegerator:
1) SMaSH - Irish Stout, Apollo Gold
2) AWA
Kegged, ready to go:
1) APA
2) Lemon Lime Hefe (300)
3) Lemon Lime Hefe (WL 4)

Fermenting:
1) Yeti Clone - @ Roughly 60 days aged I believe. Haven't pulled a hydro in weeks. Hard to resist.
2) Sour "Saison Dupont" - Took first Hydro reading and it is amazingly delicious. The Dupont yeast really is coming through, despite for dealing with the standard slow downs in fermentation. Kettle Sour'd, so this will be ready soon.
3) "The Great Pumpkin" on Windsor- https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/the-great-pumpkin.340826/#post-5006830
4) "The Great Pumpkin" on WL001
5) SMaSH - Marris Otter, Cascade

The only brews we got in this month were over the past weekend. The Great Pumpkin, and a SMaSH with Marris Otter and Cascade. The pumpkin was such a fun beer to brew. We used puree'd pumpkin in the mash (4.5 pounds) and added in about 1 pound of rice hulls. Actually, we used the decoction pot to bring up roughly 3 gallons of water (and the pumpkin puree) to 120ish, for 20 minutes. Added this to the Tun to pre-heat, added rice hulls and grain bill dough'd in. Seemed to work great, no stuck sparge and pretty decent efficiency. I noticed that the SG of the "pumpkin water" was 1.05. Pretty neat, but could be offset by viscosity and particulate. Added 1/2 teaspoon of the spice mix at flameout, instead of day three fermentation. Will report on how that turns out.

We have started experimenting with sours. Since reading American Sour Beer I have been WAY into them. A "Cheap" but cool way I think we are working with them, is to collect the final runnings that are a little too low for the main boil pot, and put them in some smaller vessels. We're not out anything, except time. Hopefully this will suffice my thirst for brewing sour beer, or else I need to move to a better house! Haha. In this picture (Left to Right), we have the final running's of the great pumpkin, pitched with dregs from Jolly Pumpkins La Parcela. I have high hopes for that one. Next is the SMaSH, with Lacto. The furthest one is inoculated with wild yeast of some sort. We left it covered overnight, revisited pitching in the morning and was already fermenting... So that's fun!

Cheers!
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Hey, just wondering how the pumpkins came out and which one is going to win us a gold medal.

Hogue2112 · Jan 7, 2017

inchrisin said: ↑

Hey, just wondering how the pumpkins came out and which one is going to win us a gold medal.
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The pumpkins came out GREAT! Preferred the Windsor, and it was a very pleasant drinking beer.

September - Homebrewing Happenings

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