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baron von something · 13-01-2015 6:05pm

Brewed my first BIAB Saturday night.ended up with 18 litres in my boiler with an o.g of 1.064 and it was supposed to be 1.05 so I probably should have diluted a bit

RasTa · 13-01-2015 6:52pm

HMD wrote: »

That's the last time i'm doing two brews in a day.

haha, I've uttered those words before. Got a stuck mash on my first brew of 2015, took about 3 hours altogether before I had the required volume to simply start the boil. Over 9kg's of grain for a 5 gallon batch. Never again.

BeerNut · 13-01-2015 7:39pm

baron von something wrote: »

ended up with 18 litres in my boiler with an o.g of 1.064 and it was supposed to be 1.05 so I probably should have diluted a bit

You can still dilute if you want. Five litres of boiled, cooled water will give you your target gravity.
(50/64=0.78125 ; 18/0.78125=23 ; 23-18=5L.)

There's a bit of a health warning as you'll be adding extra oxygen, but I've done this a few times and never noticed any problem in the finished beer.

Ronan|Raven · 17-01-2015 6:14pm

A slight variation of Orfys Hobgoblin Clone done BIAB in Peco Boiler.

23L Batcch (ended up with 22.5L in FV)
5KG Maris Otter
0.25KG Crystal 60L
0.20KG Carapils
0.15KG Chocolate

15G Fugges -FWH
15G Styrian - FWH

10G Fuggles @ 30 Min
10G Styrian@ 30 Min

1tsp Irish Moss @ 15min

10G Fuggles @ 0 Min
10G Styrian@ 0 Min

OG 1054

Used slightly less hops than his recipe due to a much higher AA on the hops I got.

blueshed · 18-01-2015 7:51pm

Being busy the last few wends brewing and got 3 brews done.

28-12-14. Pilsner

4kg pilsner
300g cara pils

40g Hallertauer Traditional @ 60
40g HT @30
25g HT @ 0

34/70 yeast

17L

OG 1046

blueshed · 18-01-2015 7:55pm

10-1-15 Dusseldorf altbier

2.1kg pilsner
2.1kg munich
300g cara bohemian
250g cara pils
60g carafa III

30g HT @ 70
30g HT @ 35
20g HT @ 10

WLP036 yeast

21L OG 1050

blueshed · 18-01-2015 7:59pm

17-1-15 Dark Czech Lager

2.5kg Munich
1.2kg Pilsner
.25 cara bohemian
.25 cara pils
.12 carafa III

34/70 Yeast

40g Saaz @ 60
30g Saaz @ 10

21L OG 1045

this one i hope is something like Kozel

Ronan|Raven · 18-01-2015 8:43pm

blueshed wrote: »

17-1-15 Dark Czech Lager

2.5kg Munich
1.2kg Pilsner
.25 cara bohemian
.25 cara pils
.12 carafa III

34/70 Yeast

40g Saaz @ 60
30g Saaz @ 10

21L OG 1045

this one i hope is something like Kozel

Let us know how it turns out. It is a beer I have great memories of!

blueshed · 18-01-2015 9:18pm

Ronan|Raven wrote: »

Let us know how it turns out. It is a beer I have great memories of!

i will indeed, recipe could be way off as a few different recipes out there and this is the one i went with.

had a few pts of it over xmas in The Czech Inn.

baron von something · 23-01-2015 11:30pm

Brewing up a chilli pale ale at the mo

8lbs light lme
.5lb crystal 30
Chinook
First gold
Wilamette
And 3 or 4 Fresno chillies with 5 minutes to go

Planning to dry hop with perle hops and maybe add some rawitt chillies at some stage too depends on how it tastes

Crusty Blaa · 26-01-2015 11:28am

Went with a relatively simple looking American Pale Ale for my first brew:

3kg Coppers LME
227g Crystal malt 70

14g Nugget (60 mins)
14g Cascade (30 mins)
28g Cascade (15 mins)

White labs California yeast

OG: 1.050

Have it fermenting now for 12 days and hope to bottle in next 3-5 days. Was thinking about secondary fermenting to dry hop but decided not to over complement it for my first time. Fingers crossed it's worked!

Lovely Bloke · 26-01-2015 12:38pm

Back to the brewing this weekend.

We got a shiney new brew kettle, so looking forward to using that.

also moving from partial to full boil Extract, hoping to move to All Grain later in the summer.

First up is a Stout, simple recipe that we made on the half boil before, so trrying to replicate and better it in the full boil.

Then we're doing an IPA, again, we'd done it partial boil before, so trying to replicate or better it.

Both will be in the Homebrew Comp in March hopefully.

The One Doctor · 27-01-2015 12:50am

Bottled the mead yesterday, ran out of glass bottles so a 7up bottle was pressed into service. Forgot to taste the mead though, it's nearly 3 months in the fermenter so should be drinkable.

Edit: It's surprisingly tasty! Better than the last batch was at 6 months, in fact.

baron von something · 27-01-2015 5:21pm

I need to start more mead.all my stash is nearly gone.tasty stuff

That_Guy · 30-01-2015 12:31pm

My first batch of Cooper's IPA is long gone. For my first ever batch with basic dextrose and the can of malt extract it tasted lovely and went down a treat.

I'm midway through my second batch which was Tom Caxton's Lager. Added in 500KG of light spraymalt and 1KG of brew enhancer, both of the Munton's variety.

Took a fair bit for the flavours to settle down (almost two months prior to bottling) but it is really delicious. Might be a bit too malty but is certainly going down a treat lately.

Have a Munton's Old Ale kit which includes 1KG of spraymalt in the bottle and has been conditioning for the last month or so. Will give it another month to see how it progresses.

I bought myself a Munton's APA Craft kit a little while ago so I'll be brewing that today.

Ronan|Raven · 30-01-2015 8:13pm

brewing a small 12l batch of a SMASH tonight.

3KG Loughran Family Pale malt.
20G Cascade @ 60
15G Cascade@ 15
15g Cascade@10
15G Cascade@ 0 min

I will be brewing the same again tomorrow but using Amarillo as the hop.

n97 mini · 31-01-2015 3:11pm

Ronan|Raven wrote: »

brewing a small 12l batch of a SMASH tonight.

3KG Loughran Family Pale malt.
20G Cascade @ 60
15G Cascade@ 15
15g Cascade@10
15G Cascade@ 0 min

I will be brewing the same again tomorrow but using Amarillo as the hop.

You could have brewed 24L and split it, saving yourself the hassle of doing 2 mashes.

Ronan|Raven · 31-01-2015 3:28pm

n97 mini wrote: »

You could have brewed 24L and split it, saving yourself the hassle of doing 2 mashes.

God dammit! Where were you 12 hours ago!
☺

I should have as after spending only a slightly shorter amount of time doing the 12 batch I thought the same . On the upside doing a smaller volume biab in the peco was a lot handier.

calnand · 01-02-2015 2:51am

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

Back to the brewing this weekend.

We got a shiney new brew kettle, so looking forward to using that.

also moving from partial to full boil Extract, hoping to move to All Grain later in the summer.

First up is a Stout, simple recipe that we made on the half boil before, so trrying to replicate and better it in the full boil.

Then we're doing an IPA, again, we'd done it partial boil before, so trying to replicate or better it.

Both will be in the Homebrew Comp in March hopefully.

The closing date for the competition is the 8th of February, the beers wouldn't be ready for the, and they won't take the responsibility for conditioning them before hand.

baron von something · 02-02-2015 1:10pm

Racked and dry hopped my chilli pale ale this morning but I forgot to weigh the bag down.it tastes good so far but not spicy enough so I added a few more chillies to it

My Saison should be ready this weekend. This tasted great when i bottled it. Massive difference from the all grain compared to extract

Lovely Bloke · 03-02-2015 11:35am

calnand wrote: »

The closing date for the competition is the 8th of February, the beers wouldn't be ready for the, and they won't take the responsibility for conditioning them before hand.

Of course yeah.

I'll be dropping the bottles this weekend.

willabur · 03-02-2015 12:09pm

Bought some grain of the Mottley Brew a few weekends ago. Haven't had a chance to brew with it yet. Got a veritable mixed bag of Floor malted Pilsner Malt, beechwood smoked malt, some caramunich and some chocolate. I guess it would make sense to make a smoked porter. Smoked malt smells nice but I only got enough to make 10% of the grain bill so any smokiness left will be minor enough I would say.

oblivious · 03-02-2015 12:23pm

willabur wrote: »

. Smoked malt smells nice but I only got enough to make 10% of the grain bill so any smokiness left will be minor enough I would say.

I uses 20% for a big smoky taste, but 10% will give noticeable "smoke" aroma and flavour.

By they way I have already have take the name "Smoke on the porter"

willabur · 03-02-2015 12:26pm

oblivious wrote: »

By they way I have already have take the name "Smoke on the porter"

Hot Damn!!

willabur · 03-02-2015 12:27pm

By the way, I had a dream last night that I made a mead with german wheatbeer yeast. Think that could very well be my next 1 gallon batch

RasTa · 06-02-2015 1:06pm

IPA season started back on the 4th of Feb. I'll be sniffing airlocks again soon.

5.2kg Pale Malt
226g Carapills
140g Caramunich 2
113g wheat

Hops
28g Magnum, 12g Apollo FWH

14g Amarillo - 30mins

Flameouts
14g each
Simcoe, Amarillo, Cascade, Centennial

20min hop stand and mini whirlpool, chill to 20c and whirlpool, leave for another 20mins

Yeast - San Diego Super Strain WLP090

Dry hop
20g each
Centennial, Cascade, Amarillo

151f mash

Supposed to be 1058 and 23L but ended up with 1053 and 20L as decided to leave about 2L behind that I would usually add from the cold break.

loyatemu · 11-02-2015 12:43pm

Put this on last night, based on the Centennial Blonde recipe popular on the HomeBrewTalk forums - hoping to get something easy drinking with a light hoppiness

1.3Kg Extra-light spraymalt
260g Carapils steeped
9g Centennial @ 50 mins
9g Centennial @ 20 mins
9g Cascade @ 10 mins
9g Cascade @ 0 mins

first time I'd used a wort chiller, worked really well, interesting to see the cold break (previous couple of extracts I'd used ice which was messy and didn't bring the temp down sufficiently).

Ended up with about 12L in the fermenter with an OG of 1.044

bennyineire · 11-02-2015 4:43pm

Brewed an extract imperial balck ipa on saturday.
Looking forward to this one

Brewed to 19 ltrs , IBU 60+ , AVB ~9%

Steeping Grains
Weyermann Carafa III 113g
bs Chocolate Malt 113g
Briess Caramel 80 227g

Sugars
Dark dme 4KG
Corn Sugar 450G

Hops
28G Summit (60 min)
28G Chinook (15 min)
28G Centennial (10 min)
28G Cascade (5 min)
28G Centennial (0 min)
28G Cascade (dry hop) will do in the future

Safale US-05 Ale Yeast

willabur · 11-02-2015 5:26pm

bennyineire wrote: »

Brewed an extract imperial balck ipa on saturday.
Looking forward to this one

Brewed to 19 ltrs , IBU 60+ , AVB ~9%

Steeping Grains
Weyermann Carafa III 113g
bs Chocolate Malt 113g
Briess Caramel 80 227g

Sugars
Dark dme 3KG
Corn Sugar 450G

Hops
28G Summit (60 min)
28G Chinook (15 min)
28G Centennial (10 min)
28G Cascade (5 min)
28G Centennial (0 min)
28G Cascade (dry hop) will do in the future

Safale US-05 Ale Yeast

I don't think its possible to get 9% abv from that recipe, would have said something closer to 6

bennyineire · 11-02-2015 8:52pm

willabur wrote: »

I don't think its possible to get 9% abv from that recipe, would have said something closer to 6

Ooops your right, I meant 4kg of dark dme, I have edited this already and that is what I brewed

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