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Re: Homebrewers - Whats in the fermeter?
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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