Home Brew

[scblack]

Ouch.
I had a run of infections once. Lost 4 batches. Threw a full fermenter in the bin and two boxes of full bottles.

I had a run of six in a row. Nearly gave up brewing.

 

[takai]

Brewed up a Hefeweizen yesterday, testing out the new temp controller:

Works well, just needs a heatsink on the SSR.

 

[indica]

Sweet.
I made a Belgian Pale and a Vic Secret IPA 2 days ago - no chill, pitches Lallemand Abbaye and Pacific Ale today and bottled a Rye IPA.
Good times all round!.

 

[jezzaboogie]

I've been chucking some coffee beans in the top of my stouts for a while now. No real reason other than it makes for some interesting flavour beyond the stock kits. Funny thing is it can give me a bit of a headache as my body screams "Where is the caffeine hit!?"

 

[takai]

Managed to decant my Hefeweizen with the broken arms yesterday.... then carbonated it today, its really tasty and has come out with quite a bit of banana...

 

[indica]

Drinking a 6.8% new world hoppy bitter saison after a 15 hour night shift.








FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[donny70]

Just bottled this Belgian strong golden ale cross American hop monster (simcoe, Amarillo, mosaic) Dry hopped. 7.5% 55ibu.

It was cold conditioned for a month to clear and has defied my average brewing skills to become something amazing.

 

[takai]

Doing an Australia Day brew day, with these two little friends: http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/36814-1/Green+Flash+West+Coast+IPA.pdf and http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/36819-1/Double+Bastard+Clone.pdf

Double Bastard will have to be bottle conditioned for 2-6 months I think. Green Flash clone will be consumed in the meantime. I also got a brewing calendar for Christmas that Ill have to do some brews from. Well once i find where it has gone after the disruption of the hospital visit.

 

[donny70]

Doing an Australia Day brew day, with these two little friends: http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/36814-1/Green+Flash+West+Coast+IPA.pdf and http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/36819-1/Double+Bastard+Clone.pdf

Double Bastard will have to be bottle conditioned for 2-6 months I think. Green Flash clone will be consumed in the meantime. I also got a brewing calendar for Christmas that Ill have to do some brews from. Well once i find where it has gone after the disruption of the hospital visit.

Look at you with your 75% brew house efficiency.

 

[takai]

What sort of efficiency are you guys getting? I consider 75% low from my 3v setup.

 

[indica]

I get really great mash efficieny, then about 75% brewhouse. Nudge 77% when I use Rye for some reason.

 

[takai]

I get really great mash efficieny, then about 75% brewhouse. Nudge 77% when I use Rye for some reason.

I seem to get 75-78% with the BIAB setup. 3V was pushing 80%.

 

[donny70]

70 max for my biab.

 

[donny70]

This year I was looking at getting a grainfather and some conicals. I had an idea to modify them with a cheap ass cooling system

 

[takai]

Finished setting up the heatsink and ammeter for the brew setup:

"10A" heating element....

 

[indica]

Finished setting up the heatsink and ammeter for the brew setup:

"10A" heating element....

Beyond me...

Drinking

Hop2iT V.
62 IBU, 7.2%, 100g Vic Secret flameout + 100g Vic Secret dry hop.
Fuggin YUM!!!!

Picking up bulk buy soon. Have not brewed for a few weeks due to lack of grain.

 

[takai]

No hops in the boil? Interesting.

The supposed 10A element is actually drawing 12.5A according to the ammeter.

 

[indica]

No hops in the boil? Interesting.

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Yeah there was some Magnum @ 60.

 

[scblack]

About to carbonate my new Apple Cider brew. Can't wait to try it.

 

[takai]

Put down two brews today, was a pretty hectic one.

This is squeezing 9.9kg of grain into the urn for a 20L batch:

Starting gravity was 1.099...

Decided to grab a hop spider from Kegking to try and increase efficiency. Not sure if it did that, but there was certainly a TON more trub.