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185,000 BTU's of fun on the way to my house right now. Getting 7.5 gallons up to a boil on the stove took me about 2 hours. Hoping to have that down to about 30 minutes.
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I just purchased a 40 quart stock pot to replace my 32 quart. The 32 quart served it's purpose but it was a little too close for comfort for full boils. Now I need to decide if I want to install a a weldless fitting with valve to drain the wort. I usually rack from the kettle so I leave behind as much cold break and hop particles as possible. The last batch I tried to whirlpool to get all the material to the center of the kettle but it didn't work as well as I wanted. For those of you who have a valve how do you avoid having all the material end up in your primary and what type of fitting do you use inside the kettle?
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I just placed an order with Austin Homebrew for 7 recipe kits.
Sunday is the last day for the $20 Anniversary kits! Here is what I got: Wit ESB Hefeweizen IPA Porter Stout |
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Im hoping they will last me through the summer and I will brewing something special with the Stout & Porter to have for winter time.
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did you get the LME or all wheat?
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Also, if you like noble hops, Perle for bittering and Saaz/Tettnang for flavor/aroma is an awful nice combination :D If you want super classic pre-prohibition and like cat piss flavor try cluster hops LOL. |
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Yeah... that great attenuation made a fairly hot beer. We'll see what time does on that. I will take your advice on the Pils... for the second batch. I wanted to stray just a bit on the first batch since it will be for my BMC friend that helped me build the stand. I want him to see that beer can have flavor and be simple. I think I will go with the Perle, Saaz/Tettnang on both batches though. Nice idea... I'll keep my cascades for IPA and AIPAs. They really don't have a place here. And the corn... I am still 50/50 on that... what do you see as an advantage compared to rice? I do rice 'cause its easy, but I guess corn would be just as if not easier. Do you still cereal mash it? |
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The Belgian Specialty ale, however, took First Place in its category and advances to the Nationals final round in San Diego! :noon Not sure how many beers it competed against, but there were over 750 total entries in my region. The judges comments were all very high and extremely positive, so I'm super excited about this. :banger I've given away almost all of this beer since it was my Christmas gift to friends & co-workers, but I fortunately have just enough to enter into finals. It will definitely be an annual tradition around Castle Hollow Brewery ;) Thought I'd share the good news with my fellow HBOTLs! |
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That's awesome...Congratulations. :banger
Good luck in the next round. :tu |
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Congratulations Gerard. You should be proud, that is a very good showing. I'll be happy if my first batch this summer is drinkable :tu
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Congrats! I wanted to enter a bunch in NHC but at $14 per beer... no thanks. I plan to enter a bunch in a couple local comps, one being the state fair.
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Congrats Gerard!
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Hell yea!! A big congrats to you!
I brewed up a 'kitchen sink' stout last night...started as an outmeal-milk stout...I then added some honey and chocolate malts for unknown reasons and ended up 15pts. higher in OG @ 1.076. Very interested to see how this experiment turns out...a honey-chocolate-outmeal-milk stout....shoot, forgot the coffee! ;) |
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And congrats Gerard, that is quite the homebrewing accomplishment! |
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I transferred my Belgian Tripel to secondary & pitched a Belgian blonde onto the yeast cake
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Thanks for all the positive remarks guys, I'll let you know how it advances! :chr
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I will either be brewing a dry stout or irish red this weekend. This will be my 3rd all grain brew and 1st with my new brew kettle and temperature controlled fermentation freezer.
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Just bottled a saison, moved an IPA into secondary, and purchased a stainless fittings kit to convert my cooler into a mash tun. Tired of crappy brew in a bag efficiencies.
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My Monolith Imperial Stout, 16.3% abv, will be kegged up tomorrow! I can't wait. This beer is AMAZING. Fresh it gives Dark Lord, my favorite beer, a run for it's money. It was pretty great, then I added vanilla beans and it took it to a whole new level. This is all from tasting it from the fermenter too. I'm sure carbonation and age will only improve it... I can only hope.
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Im making a stout today where I will add Dark Rum, Vanilla beans and oak cubes to secondary.
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Brewed up an all grain California Common today.
Hit all my numbers perfectly. We'll see how it turns out. My LHBS didn't have WLP 810, so I went with Safelager S-23 dry yeast and made a 1.5l starter. I'm going to ferment it at 60 degrees for a few weeks, or until it is done. The recipe: Code:
BeerSmith Recipe Printout - http://www.beersmith.com |
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My fermenters are all empty, but I just bottled a disastrous SN Torpedo clone this weekend. Pretty much everything that could go wrong, did go wrong with this beer. 10# of malt and I couldn't reach target mash temperature, ended up adding twice as much water as I wanted, the manifold got clogged, the sparge was difficult, I boiled off more liquid than I wanted, overshot my SG by about 10 points, the primary fermentation was so vigorous that I blew off the airlock and got foamy yeast all over the laundry room, for some reason I thought dryhopping with whole cones was a good idea, ended up bottling a whopping 3.5 gallons from an original 6 gallon boil, and I was trying to create a blended yeast strain (Bell's Hopslam + WL001) but forgot to salvage some of the yeast. In twenty years, I have never had such a challenging brew.
On the positive side, it tasted pretty good going into the bottle, so we'll see what a little time does. Shipped off my last 3 bottles of the Trappist Christmas ale to the final round of the NHC competition yesterday. Hoping for the best! |
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Did my first brew in several years. It was a partial mash Imperial Blonde Ale kit. It is happily bubbling away in the basement. I forgot how much fun and the sense of pride there is from making your own beer. Here is hoping it tastes good.
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I bottled an irish red about a week ago and will be bottling a dry stout tomorrow. If everything works out I will be brewing a kolsch on Saturday. I have my 1 liter yeast starter in the fridge getting ready to decant and then I will add another 1 liter of fresh wort to step up the yeast counts.
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Bottled my IPA. Sitting on the porch in the rain smoking an ELO, drinking a homebrew, and watching a pale ale boil. Simple batch
10lbs two row 12oz crystal 90 for color 0.5oz of columbus at 60, 10, and 1 going to pitch it on the yeast cake from the IPA and bottle in a week I hope. This will probably be the last of my summer beers, wanted something simple to fill out the summer drinking list. Time to move on to the longer aging winter stuff. |
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The first batch of "NuptiAle", a pretty basic, nondescript American ale (OG 1.045, 4% ABV, 22 IBU with Centennial + Cascade) that my boss is having me brew to serve at his daughter's wedding in September, is sitting quietly in the secondary. I have 2 more batches to brew to get the proper quantity for 120 people. Good thing it ferments quick & clean.
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Today I kegged a Coffee Vanilla Porter and brewed an Imperial Stout for winter
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Got two in the fermenter right now.... both will be served at Shack.
Last Sunday I brewed up a California Common (a newer revision of the recipe a few posts up) and today was a nice little Session hop bomb. Today's Session beer: Code:
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I always add to secondary. Actually this time I used some high quality vanilla extract and just put a tablespoon in the keg and racked my beer on top of that.
I usually use whole vanilla beans that I split down the middle, scrap out the insides and soak everything in vodka for a day. Then I just dump it all into secondary. |
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Put a marris otter/simcoe smash over a starter from the dregs of a DFH Squall. Friend put an amber in the basement on Sunday. Add the lambic and I'm sitting 15 gallons of goodies in the basement. Peanuts for some, but my personal best.
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It's a brewing weekend for me. Two partial mashes. One double chocolate stout in the fermenter yesterday and an Irish red ale going right now.
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mmm beer, didnt know this was here. Ive got a honey brown kolsch and a summer blonde for shack in the fermentor right now. the summer moves to secondary tomorrow.
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I moved two over to secondary this weekend. One is a Session IPA, the other a California Common. Both will be kegged in time for Shack! Tomorrow I'm going to brew a Kolsch. It should be a cool day compared to what we've had. Forecast only calls for 95 degrees. |
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if so, how do you plan on serving? we might be able to combine our serving stuff for the weekend. Im in the processes of PMing Da Klugs about the CO2 side of things. :sh |
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I'll be bringing 2 2-tap jockey boxes so we'll have four taps going at any given time. Do you have a ball lock or pin lock setup? |
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ball lock, how many kegs will you have hooked up? if i might be able to hook my 2 kegs up to that. As itll work much better then a bucket of ice.
I was planning on bringing a 20oz CO2 as well. Plus my #20 as backup. |
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You are more than welcome to use the boxes. We'll just make sure that it is hooked up so that we don't have the same stuff on tap. Only exception would be that Tristan and I both brewed a session IPA... I'd like to tap those at the same time to do a side-by-side. |
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sounds fine to me. Ill bring enough to keep my beer cold in-case i cant hook up to the box. I planned on using large buckets and ice, should work pretty well. If needed.
do you have a manifold to split the CO2 multiple ways? That way we can use just 1 tank. If not i can look at borrowing/getting one. :sh where will be able to chain/tie up the tanks so they dont fall? |
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Besides beer, I'm bringing: 1 - #2.5 CO2 tank 1 - Dual regulator 1 - 8 way manifold 2 - 2 tap jockey boxes 1 - half barrel ice tub assorted tools for regulators, poppets, hose clamps, spare liquid and gas line... bungees for tanks... |
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we will have a place to chain up the tanks from falling and being damaged though right? cuz i dont want to leave my#20 in the car on its side all weekend. |
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perfect. im gunna bring a some chain :tu
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if you think of anything youd like me to bring. just LMK
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Awsmith4 and I transferred his Birthday brew into the secondary earlier last week. It's a clone of Kate The Great. We are letting it sit on Port soaked Oak chips.
We also transferred our own concoction off the second runnings of the KAte the Great mash. We added into primary, Coffee beans, Vanilla beans and chocolate. It sits alone in secondary with no additions. |
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