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re: Homebrewing Thread: Volume II
Posted on 4/30/16 at 6:31 pm to BottomlandBrew
Posted on 4/30/16 at 6:31 pm to BottomlandBrew
In Miami I had a j Wakefield Hefe with coconut that was a phenomenal banana-coconut brew with a great head on it. Now I'm trying to figure out how to brew with coconut and still have a fluffy wheat beer head... Just use vodka to extract all the flavor from coconut without the oils? Toast it lightly in the oven but dab all the oil off it before putting it in secondary? Or just don't worry about it and chop up some fresh coconut and throw it right in?
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Posted on 5/1/16 at 2:27 pm to Canuck Tiger
Clusterfrick of a brew day today. Missed my mash temp by 5 degrees due to grains and equipment being in a cold room, and not taking that into account when heating my strike water. Then overshot it by 4 degrees. But whatever.
First runnings went fine. Added sparge water (batch sparge) then had a stuck sparge. Blew back to clear it up and it bubbled up fine. Still stuck. Repeated multiple times. Finally dumped the entire contents of my mash tun into the sparge water pot. False bottom had become disconnected from the spigot. Had to clean it all out, reconnect, then dump it all back into the mash tun. Finally got all my pre-boil wort. Things going fine now, but I was hoping for a laid back brew day.
Making a grisette, which is basically a table saison. Never replaced the hydrometer I broke last brew day, but I don't really care. It'll still be beer.
First runnings went fine. Added sparge water (batch sparge) then had a stuck sparge. Blew back to clear it up and it bubbled up fine. Still stuck. Repeated multiple times. Finally dumped the entire contents of my mash tun into the sparge water pot. False bottom had become disconnected from the spigot. Had to clean it all out, reconnect, then dump it all back into the mash tun. Finally got all my pre-boil wort. Things going fine now, but I was hoping for a laid back brew day.
Making a grisette, which is basically a table saison. Never replaced the hydrometer I broke last brew day, but I don't really care. It'll still be beer.
Posted on 5/2/16 at 10:38 am to Canuck Tiger
1) Searching for this thread everyday is a bitch. Everyone, request a sticky please.
I brewed a coconut porter that was fantastic a while back. I placed a paper towel on the cookie sheet, then toasted about a 1 lb of flaked coconut @ 175 for 10 minutes. I then just placed that in a muslin bag and threw it in the keg. No head problems. The paper towels soak up the oils. I let it rest after i took it out the oven and patted it with more paper towels.
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Now I'm trying to figure out how to brew with coconut and still have a fluffy wheat beer head... Just use vodka to extract all the flavor from coconut without the oils? Toast it lightly in the oven but dab all the oil off it before putting it in secondary? Or just don't worry about it and chop up some fresh coconut and throw it right in?
I brewed a coconut porter that was fantastic a while back. I placed a paper towel on the cookie sheet, then toasted about a 1 lb of flaked coconut @ 175 for 10 minutes. I then just placed that in a muslin bag and threw it in the keg. No head problems. The paper towels soak up the oils. I let it rest after i took it out the oven and patted it with more paper towels.
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