@akrennmair now I’m going to have to try brewing an 8° Czech pale lager. My 10° is just about to start lagering so I will know how that turned out after 42 or so days.
@sven222@MiseryPath@Aarkon klingt super! Ich wollte dich da jetzt nicht direkt ansprechen sondern erst mal abwarten, wie deine Haltung dazu ist. Aber ich melde mich dazu bald mal per Email. Dann können wir darüber reden, wie so ein metalhead.club Bier funktionieren könnte ;)
I could not wait any longer and cracked open a bottle of the Motueka Single Hop IPA. This is a pretty damn tasty beer. Apricot and peaches with a nice late hitting bitterness. This beer should get even better with a couple more weeks of bottle conditioning. Cent'anni y'all! #homebrewing#homebrew#beer
In the cauldron today, another German-style Altbier with some minor tweaks and an attempt at open fermentation.
Ingredient list for an 11.5 liter batch:
1.8 kg Amber liquid malt extract
220 g Crystal medium malt
100 g De-bittered black malt
50 g Crystal hops (pellets)
Half a 11.5 g packet SafAle K-97 Yeast
12.5 liters water
I'm using 5 liters of the water to boil the malt and hops in. The remaining 6.5 liters will be cold tap water waiting in the brew bucket.
It has been a day and a half since I pitched the yeast and I have skimmed the krøjsen (kräusen) three times. Up to today, there has been bready and hoppy aromas, not unusual but stronger than I have smelled when primary fermenting in a glass carboy with a blow-off tube.
This morning, I noticed a new, subtle odor --not offensive but just different. Hopefully, it has been present in the past but undetectable with the glass carboy/blow-off tube setup.
I have to admit, I am getting just a little nervous.
Just placed an order for the ingredients to brew three more beers. A kölsch, sour, and saison are on deck! All three will be perfect for summer in Florida. I also ordered a second brew bucket so I can put the glass carboy out to pasture. #homebrewing#beer
@bonfantimike
I look forward to seeing your Kølsch efforts. I’m going to give mine one more try, this weekend. This time with a very light Pilsen malt extract (dry) and freshly bought Tettnanger hop pellets. And I’m just making a one-gallon batch so I won’t be stuck with a larger batch of barely drinkable beer if things go sideways.
Stout is done now. I think it is my best stout yet. Very delicious. Lots of dark chocolate with a bit of vanilla going on. Excellent mouth feel. #homebrewing#beer#stout
Is Boston (MWRA-supplied) water more prone to algae blooms?
My humidifier turned bright green this morning. I’m cleaning it with citric acid solution per manufacturer instructions, but if I need to peroxide or C-brute the thing I will.
My knowledge of water quality only goes as far as “#NewHampshire water has brain amoebas, pack in your own,” so I thought I’d ask.
@brudibrau if you want to get really into details, ask which hop farm, then look up which breweries have contracts with them. Locher for example is where Brasserie de la Senne and Schönramer get some of their hops from. In any case, having a hookup like that is pretty amazing.
Has anyone here ever brewed with Crystal hops? If so, what do you think of them?
I’m looking for a US equivalent of the Hallertau Mittelfrueh for my Altbiers.
I was keeping the recipe pretty similar over the years but it's time for a redesign. One reason is because due to advances in my brewing skills, the beer developed from a 7% pintable strong ale to an 8.8% malty whack-in-the-face. It's time to rein that in a little.
Also 20% specialty malts are just insane. The BE-134 Saison yeast is the unsung hero of this beer and everything that keeps it from being a cloying specialty malt soup. I want to make its life a little easier.
For hops I was going to use that wild workhorse variety but it turns out, I don't have any left here, so I just go with 42g of that Hallertauer Whatnot and 8g of Cascade. Feels very farmhousy to just brew with what you have at hand. Also I increased the amout of hops a bit to raise its profile from "barely detectable" to "definitely present".
My birthday gift is on its way to home! Finally I spent a little more and bought a Single Vessel. Let's see how my next beer batch will be 🙂 #homebrewing#singlevessel
@CodenameTim not yet. I will receive the single vessel tomorrow probably, but I will only have my fridge free in two weekends (still have one postmix full that I will drink with friends soon). As it is a new equipment, probably I will produce something very simple, traditional and cheap (an APA with ordinary hops probably). Certainly I will mess up and it won't work properly this first time 😛
A sneaker taste (and demonstration of impatience).
I couldn't resist having an early taste of the Altbier I bottled a week ago. There's a little extra harsh bitterness with a very slight metallic-like taste at the end. I am hoping this mellows out after I give it a chance to age properly. Also, I'm hoping a little more toffee/caramel will come through with time.