Mr beer worked good . Forme.. hickup.. pail ale and A hoppy german dark red.. made about a case. It was easy and alc was around 4%.. sorry mr toilet
Anyone dabbled with oak chips in their beer? I was thinking white oak, as the smell of red oak would certainly imply its taste is rather pungent. Also, I have some chunks for the smoker, aside from removing bark and toasting... what should I do? Combining the hobbies!
The IPA at only 2 weeks bottled is good! Given it is a Rebel clone, the IBUs aren't very high, which makes it very palatable to me.
Got round one done... Boulevard Wheat clone... Got me a wort chiller last weekend. That thing is awesome.... No more trips to the freezer for ice. And a major time savor..
Round #2 done... Nut Brown... Man this one smelled awesome hopefully it transfers over to the flavor........
I bought it could be made fairly easily too. But man... The time saving... 10-15 minutes flat....180 degrees to 85 degrees....make it on the short short list... I'm hoping that it translates into better beer... But if nothing else it saves time...
Testing out my new homemade homebrew boil keggle. No leaks! I'm timing how long to bring to boil and boil off volumes, etc then we'll brew our first 10 gallon batch this weekend.
No leaks....the turkey fryer burner took 2hrs to bring 12 gallons of water to a full boil. I need to find a lid that fits well and that'll help a bunch I think. I'm going to brew a 5 gallon all grain IPA recipe I concocted last year. It turned out really great and hopefully I can duplicate it. The first time I pitched onto a Kolsch yeast cake from a previous brew. This time I have to start with new yeast so it could be a little different.
My biggest investment yet in home brewing. I caved and bought a Blichmann burner. Here it is in action on today's brew. It brings 5 gallons of wort to a boil in about 15 minutes and I think I could've pushed it harder.
That's just like the burner that I'm looking at. I'm glad to here that it did well. So did your brewing go well today?
Yeah....fought a little leak in the mash tun with my strike water and think I ended up sparging with too much volume trying to make up for it so my starting gravity was a little off. Otherwise, the new keggle and burner worked great. I just have to re-learn some times and volumes, etc. All said and done, this IPA should finish around 6.5% ABV.
So if I was going to make a beer with 100% pale malt in the grain bill. What extract or partial mash would a guy go with... I'm trying to clone a local brewery newer beer. Thanks.
Regular 2 row and Pilsen malts are probably the lightest (pale) and most common base malts. To substitute extract, simply use light or extra light DME or Pilsner DME.
Big brew day in process this morning. I'm brewing my first 10 gallon batch. I have to mash in 2 steps due to size constraints of my tun, but I'll boil the entire batch then split it into 2 fermenter onto the divided yeast cake from my last brew. I added a chugger pump to the setup and it sure is making transfers easier. I'm also recirculating my wort last 30 minutes of mash in an attempt to improve extraction efficiency. The first mash looked pretty good pre-book gravity. The 2nd mash is about half done.
Nice setup you got your self set up now. I was going to brew today, but got got up doing other stuff that needed to be done while it's not raining.... Have fun..
I bought a Russian imperial stout kit and good friend bottled two cases for me. It was supposed to age until July but I already drank the first case, and maybe a few from the second.
