MitchBastard Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 6 hours ago, Otto Von Blotto said: Lem approves. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pezzza Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 31 minutes ago, Greeny1525229549 said: Looks awesome. Love your backyard too. Cheers Greeny…. really appreciate your candid and great advice along the way - as well as all the others on the Forum... has been an enjoyable and challenging journey... Am - with help of some clever colleagues/mates/people I know - making some changes to my AG infrastructure... and hope to do a new brew soon and show the bits of gear done to make things easier... all modelled around from what I learnt on this site... and then the hurdles I encountered on the way to doing my first AG thing... Bottled a Coops Euro Lager this evening - using Kelsey's temp regime for a lager for the first time - so am still doing KnK… and keen to see how it works out... But other than emergency brews to get some more in - think I will gravitate to AG (and hopefully can buy Coops Malted Grain)… see how we go. Cheers for now BB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenyinthewestofsydney Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 14 minutes ago, Bearded Burbler said: Cheers Greeny…. really appreciate your candid and great advice along the way - as well as all the others on the Forum... has been an enjoyable and challenging journey... Am - with help of some clever colleagues/mates/people I know - making some changes to my AG infrastructure... and hope to do a new brew soon and show the bits of gear done to make things easier... all modelled around from what I learnt on this site... and then the hurdles I encountered on the way to doing my first AG thing... Bottled a Coops Euro Lager this evening - using Kelsey's temp regime for a lager for the first time - so am still doing KnK… and keen to see how it works out... But other than emergency brews to get some more in - think I will gravitate to AG (and hopefully can buy Coops Malted Grain)… see how we go. Cheers for now BB Yeah mate got to say this site has been where I have learnt the most by far. In my early days I read a copy of how to brew. It was helpful but I learnt more from this forum than I ever learnt from the book. I still use kits too from time to time. Usually in partial mashes and usually when I run low on stocks and need to get a few down quick. A fresh kit will make a great brew if you do the other things right. Water, temp etc.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pezzza Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 1 hour ago, Greeny1525229549 said: Yeah mate got to say this site has been where I have learnt the most by far. In my early days I read a copy of how to brew. It was helpful but I learnt more from this forum than I ever learnt from the book. I still use kits too from time to time. Usually in partial mashes and usually when I run low on stocks and need to get a few down quick. A fresh kit will make a great brew if you do the other things right. Water, temp etc.. Yes mate - dunno whether it was you or one of the other Brewers who said - a good KnK brew is better than a bad AG... and that is spot on. My recent Toucan - Dark Ale + OS Lager + kilo of LDME is just amazingly good... seriously?! And the forum has been really good - pushed me to temp control... and now my water has settled down... so the very first and most important steps... think I am ok with that now... Now I need to just trial and error a few different types of AG-hop combinations and see how the results come up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben 10 Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 NEIPA. NAILED it. Which is good. 375g of hops. 6.7% (ish). 47 IBU. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddyBrew2 Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 (edited) If you looked up “Nailed it” in a thesaurus it would have that pic next to NEIPA awesome job mate. Well done care to share the recipe Edited June 1, 2019 by PaddyBrew2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenyinthewestofsydney Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 Nice @Ben 10. Looks like golden circle orange and passionfruit fruit juice but im sure it tastes better. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Baron Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 9 hours ago, Smashed Crabs said: they saw me coming thou $12 per a schoey of fat yak What a joke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
der kleine Drache Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 Sitting in my norwegian wool sweater drinking a sweet oatmeal stout I got from a neighbor who also makes beer. Tasty. It was raining earlier so I thought a dark beer could be nice. It lost it's head quiet fast but I guess that happens at 6Vol%. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben 10 Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 7 hours ago, PaddyBrew2 said: care to share the recipe Two seperate 100g dry hops. The first was Amarillo Cascade and the second Enigma Galaxy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pezzza Posted June 2, 2019 Share Posted June 2, 2019 12 hours ago, der kleine Drache said: Sitting in my norwegian wool sweater drinking a sweet oatmeal stout I got from a neighbor who also makes beer. Tasty. It was raining earlier so I thought a dark beer could be nice. It lost it's head quiet fast but I guess that happens at 6Vol%. Sounds like a good strategy kleine Drache! But I don't really concur with the 'losing head fast when ABV is up' hypothesis.... plenty of my brews are up there in ABV.... even my Dark Ale Toucan calculates at 6.5% and its head retention is pure gold... I suspect it tasted good all the same ; ) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smashed Crabs Posted June 2, 2019 Share Posted June 2, 2019 Craving some flavour saw this milkshake IPA mosaic and galaxy hopped with mango and passionfruit puree .... Bloody delicious! Inspirational to start brewing again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
der kleine Drache Posted June 2, 2019 Share Posted June 2, 2019 5 hours ago, Bearded Burbler said: But I don't really concur with the 'losing head fast when ABV is up' hypothesis.... plenty of my brews are up there in ABV.... even my Dark Ale Toucan calculates at 6.5% and its head retention is pure gold... It was more a reference to me loosing my head when drinking high ABV beverages. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pezzza Posted June 2, 2019 Share Posted June 2, 2019 (edited) 37 minutes ago, der kleine Drache said: It was more a reference to me loosing my head when drinking high ABV beverages. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh Little Dragon.... the old Burbler was a little slow on the uptake and now stands corrected But I would suggest losing your head after some strong ABV would be better than loosing your head....mmmm guess one could argue either way ; ) Edited June 2, 2019 by Bearded Burbler 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norris! Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 (edited) I am still sipping on the partial mash cerveza ale I made. Funny thing, my wife now says this is the best beer I ever made?!? For real, woman! This is a good beer with nice aroma and clean, crisp flavour and taste, but I would not rank it as my best work. It is good though. I will say that it is hard to screw this brew up and with mosaic, azacca and citra with a pinch of Nelson sauvin. The US05 is nice to, I do not pick up any yeast flavours or esters at all, 18c ferment for 4 days then bumped to 22c to finish it off then cold crash. Edited June 3, 2019 by Norris! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pezzza Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 (edited) On 6/1/2019 at 11:47 AM, Smashed Crabs said: First beer back in Australia .. they saw me coming thou $12 per a schoey of fat yak... Feels like Singapore prices haha. Got my home brew in the fridge for when I get home later can't wait to crack em. …. how does this rate... looks like poor head retention, watery mouth-feel, presence of chill-haze... I would suggest writing back to the Kit Producer and asking for me money back Suspect you woulda been better off with the Pinot Grigio and saving a dollar fifty! Just joshing... airports are generally exy place to buy beer... except Munich Airport little supermarkets - same price for a 0.5L tinny as in town ; ) Edited June 3, 2019 by Bearded Burbler 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairy Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 I have been drinking a beer on tap for the past couple of weeks and I couldn't remember what hops I had used. I didn't use brewing software, just threw things in on the run. This morning it hit me; Wai-iti hops. Very tasty. I will need to use it again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackSands Posted June 4, 2019 Share Posted June 4, 2019 (edited) 3 hours ago, Hairy said: This morning it hit me; Wai-iti hops. Very tasty. I will need to use it again. Yes, a very low-alpha hop I've used a few times now. Once brewed a Brit golden ale with Wai-iti as a generous single hop and on that occasion I really got plenty of the 'peaches' often mentioned in the hop descriptors. Edited June 4, 2019 by BlackSands 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norris! Posted June 4, 2019 Share Posted June 4, 2019 I have had quite a few batches with M54 that finished at 1.012ish. I felt that it should of gotten to 1.010 but ALWAYS assumed it was due to the carapils but now you, @BlackSands Have noticed the same has me wondering if it is the yeast? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackSands Posted June 4, 2019 Share Posted June 4, 2019 6 minutes ago, Norris! said: I have had quite a few batches with M54 that finished at 1.012ish. I felt that it should of gotten to 1.010 but ALWAYS assumed it was due to the carapils but now you, @BlackSands Have noticed the same has me wondering if it is the yeast? It seems as though it's the yeast given that for me it's now two brews in a row that have failed to attenuate anywhere near the FG expected. Attenuation was around 67% in both cases which is well short of the claimed 77 - 82% One of these brews was an a kits n bits so it not as if there's a huge amount of unfermentables in the mix. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norris! Posted June 4, 2019 Share Posted June 4, 2019 (edited) I have a pack in the fridge waiting to be used, I might use it on a 1.040 or below brew to give it some more body. I like the yeast but think US05 is just as good, or Nottingham, when I want a clean taste. Edited June 4, 2019 by Norris! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackSands Posted June 4, 2019 Share Posted June 4, 2019 14 minutes ago, Norris! said: I have a pack in the fridge waiting to be used, I might use it on a 1.040 or below brew to give it some more body. I like the yeast but think US05 is just as good, or Nottingham, when I want a clean taste. I opted for M54 because it looked as though it was going to be a really good 'short-cut' choice for a brewing lagers/pilsners - the warm fermentation temps plus the manufacturers claim that there was no need for extended largering with it's very low sulphur production. The beer produced, as best I can tell from unconditioned flat samples, is very clean and crisp on the palate so it does live up to the claims in that regard but the poor attenuation is a little annoying. Also, as mentioned it's apparently a 'high' flocculating yeast too but I found the CC'd and fined beer still remained very hazy right up until bottling day. Anyway... I'll be sampling my pilsner in a week or so and I'll then see how it's going... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Von Blotto Posted June 4, 2019 Share Posted June 4, 2019 I found that haze issue with 1469 on its first use as well, even though the claim is that it is a good flocculator. However, once I get it past about 3 generations it drops like a stone. The red ale I did with it most recently was pretty much clear from the first pour. I haven't had that happen for a while except with the lagers. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smashed Crabs Posted June 4, 2019 Share Posted June 4, 2019 22 hours ago, Bearded Burbler said: …. how does this rate... looks like poor head retention, watery mouth-feel, presence of chill-haze... I would suggest writing back to the Kit Producer and asking for me money back Suspect you woulda been better off with the Pinot Grigio and saving a dollar fifty! Just joshing... airports are generally exy place to buy beer... except Munich Airport little supermarkets - same price for a 0.5L tinny as in town ; ) Yeah mate can't expect much, was a shit beer and beer was cheaper on the flight .. pirate life for $10. Was a free flight also and here's me complaining about the beer prices haha. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norris! Posted June 4, 2019 Share Posted June 4, 2019 (edited) I never made a true lager or pilsner with M54, I would expect it to be clean and crisp. Looking forward to hearing how it comes out. Should be nice. @BlackSands Edited June 4, 2019 by Norris! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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