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re: Homebrewing Thread: Volume II
Posted on 7/12/16 at 3:49 pm to Canuck Tiger
Posted on 7/12/16 at 3:49 pm to Canuck Tiger
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In other news, I recently bought this app:
I have that app too and use it in a pinch if computer is not available. It's pretty good.
Posted on 7/12/16 at 4:08 pm to s14suspense
It seems to completely ignore pH or water adjustments, but as a tool for shopping and a brew day timer/calculator it's pretty awesome.
Posted on 7/12/16 at 4:48 pm to BugAC
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1) Opus Vert Batch 1 (simcoe, citra, and mosaic from what I hear)
2) Ghost
3) Envie
Are you looking for an actual clone recipe of each beer or just something similar in style to these beers?
Posted on 7/12/16 at 6:07 pm to LSUGrad00
Mainly just curious on recipe bill of each. Scarcity of each will lead me to just brew my own.
I also like to take recipes from different beers and pick the parts I like and incorporate into my own brews.
1st Opus would be my favorite of the group. Going grab the real stuff this weekend if they have any left.
Side question: are you judging for clash?
I also like to take recipes from different beers and pick the parts I like and incorporate into my own brews.
1st Opus would be my favorite of the group. Going grab the real stuff this weekend if they have any left.
Side question: are you judging for clash?
This post was edited on 7/12/16 at 6:08 pm
Posted on 7/13/16 at 8:57 am to BugAC
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are you judging for clash?
Only if they need help judging on the day of the competition or need someone to sit in for best of show judging.
Most of the judging will occur in the evenings and I don't be able to make it in from New Orleans.
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Mainly just curious on recipe bill of each. Scarcity of each will lead me to just brew my own.
I also like to take recipes from different beers and pick the parts I like and incorporate into my own brews.
1st Opus would be my favorite of the group. Going grab the real stuff this weekend if they have any left.
I get it, I like to do the same thing..
Honestly, you can probably guess 90%+ of the grain bill and I'd be willing to bet the hopping schedule probably isn't all that complex either.
Posted on 7/13/16 at 9:52 pm to LSUGrad00
Based on that Opus Vert thread, do you guys:
A) Try to clone commercial beers
B) have a recipe you feel is dialed in and brew over and over
C) freestyle recipes and play around?
For me I roll with C.I call all my hoppy beers JWIPA regardless of ABV, grain bill or hops used. The process is similar for all though. My Belgians are all "Friar Brock" regardless of being single, tripel, quad. I've brewed the same beer exactly twice this year, a coconut hefe I call Miami Weisse. I'm on my 19th 5g batch...
A) Try to clone commercial beers
B) have a recipe you feel is dialed in and brew over and over
C) freestyle recipes and play around?
For me I roll with C.I call all my hoppy beers JWIPA regardless of ABV, grain bill or hops used. The process is similar for all though. My Belgians are all "Friar Brock" regardless of being single, tripel, quad. I've brewed the same beer exactly twice this year, a coconut hefe I call Miami Weisse. I'm on my 19th 5g batch...
Posted on 7/14/16 at 7:29 am to Canuck Tiger
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C) freestyle recipes and play around?
I make up most of my recipes in the parking lot of my LHBS. Though the majority are saisons, so it's not like it's hard. I have a freezer full of various hops, and a fridge full of different yeast strains, so it's just kind of whatever. Seems a lot of times I start the boil without having an idea of what my hops will be.
Posted on 7/14/16 at 8:06 am to BottomlandBrew
Yea that sounds about like me. I buy hops by the lb online and reuse yeast, so I also go to the homebrew shop just for grains usually.
Posted on 7/14/16 at 8:14 am to Canuck Tiger
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For me I roll with C.I call all my hoppy beers JWIPA regardless of ABV, grain bill or hops used. The process is similar for all though. My Belgians are all "Friar Brock" regardless of being single, tripel, quad. I've brewed the same beer exactly twice this year, a coconut hefe I call Miami Weisse. I'm on my 19th 5g batch.
I'm essentially the same... I don't name many beers, outside of event, but when I do the name follows the style or concept and not the recipe.
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Try to clone commercial beers
I think clones are great for new brewers. It gives them a way to get into the hobby and make something that is familiar to them.
The only time I brew a commercial recipe these days is when someone asks me to try and brew a specific beer.
ETA: Going to look at a new fermentation freezer today. Hopefully this thing is big enough. Ready to start brewing again.
This post was edited on 7/14/16 at 8:17 am
Posted on 7/14/16 at 8:54 am to Canuck Tiger
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C) freestyle recipes and play around?
Definitely this. Like other said, I have a bunch of different hops in the freezer, so I just roll with whatever floats my boat. Keep the grain bill simple and add a shite ton of sexy hops and whatever yeast the LHBS happens to have on hand.
Posted on 7/14/16 at 8:56 am to Canuck Tiger
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A) Try to clone commercial beers
Not really. If i drink a fantastic beer i try to find out as much info about that beer as possible. I then take things from that beer that i like and use it in my own recipes. I feel "dishonest" if i clone something or use a kit. I feel it really isn't my own. I know it's silly.
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B) have a recipe you feel is dialed in and brew over and over
I'm always tinkering, but i have 2 that i'm very comfortable with that i still slightly alter but brew once/year. A coffee stout and a french saison. I'm 100% comfortable with the stout, but i'm going to tinker with the coffee additions a little next time, thanks to some advise from Bmoney. The Saison i found i always made well but i alter it every time. Not drastic alterations. Well, maybe the last alteration was sort of drastic. Lowered the alcohol by 1%, used Nelson hops instead of amarillo, and pitched Brett along with 3711. This will be the dialed in recipe i use from now on. Only alteration may be to add oak to it.
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C) freestyle recipes and play around?
I do this mostly. IPA's have been my biggest "challenge". Been trying to find the perfect grain bill, which i think i might have dialed that in, and just play around with hops. I've brewed more IPA's than any other style and am still looking to make that perfect recipe. But i enjoy doing new things. I only have 2 kegs, so i don't want to keep the same thing on tap every time. I have a piney IPA i brewed last year that i want to brew again, but use some equinox (which had to change names due to a trademark thing to some HBC number). Last tiem i used Simcoe Chinook and Columbus. Want to throw in some equinox and reduce or eliminate the columbus dry hop additions.
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My Belgians are all "Friar Brock" regardless of being single, tripel, quad.
I've never brewed a belgian, other than a saison. I want to brew one, one of these days.
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I've brewed the same beer exactly twice this year, a coconut hefe I call Miami Weisse.
How do you handle your coconut? I've been trying to find ways to make the coconut flavor last longer. I have a coconut porter i brewed in January that was fantastic. However, i toasted about a lb of coconut then added it to the keg. It took up a lot of keg space, which i want to reduce. Also, the coconut flavor faded rather quickly. After about 5-6 weeks in the keg, the coconut was fading out, and it tasted a little acrid.
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I'm on my 19th 5g batch...
I just kegged my 38th batch of homebrew. Next up is probably a kettle soured cucumber/cactus gose. Then either my coffee stout or a 100% Brett Citra Pale Ale. Or a blackberry/blueberry beer for the wife, but she doesn't really drink beer that much and i would rather brew something i like. I also have a DIPA I want to brew with Mosaic, Citra, Simcoe, Amarillo, and Galaxy. Basically, all the popular proprietary hops.
This post was edited on 7/14/16 at 8:58 am
Posted on 7/14/16 at 10:12 am to BugAC
Oops my 19th batch of 2016!
I toasted 400g of unsweetened coconut and blotted it with a paper towel to try and remove oil. Then I get my wife to sew up a bag of silk organza with a serger, pour the coconut in, and then sew it closed. That fabric's weave is so fine that no particles escape it. That goes into the keg,I co2 purge, and after 2-3 days I pull it out cold crash and carb it up and drink.
It may fade after 7-8 weeks; that beer has never lasted more than a couple weekends though so I'm really not sure. You could always throw another bag in at that point.
I put keg hops in the same way and it works great. Just need a seamstress on call for kegging times :)
I toasted 400g of unsweetened coconut and blotted it with a paper towel to try and remove oil. Then I get my wife to sew up a bag of silk organza with a serger, pour the coconut in, and then sew it closed. That fabric's weave is so fine that no particles escape it. That goes into the keg,I co2 purge, and after 2-3 days I pull it out cold crash and carb it up and drink.
It may fade after 7-8 weeks; that beer has never lasted more than a couple weekends though so I'm really not sure. You could always throw another bag in at that point.
I put keg hops in the same way and it works great. Just need a seamstress on call for kegging times :)
Posted on 7/14/16 at 1:08 pm to Canuck Tiger
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Oops my 19th batch of 2016!
Good God man...
Posted on 7/14/16 at 4:19 pm to Canuck Tiger
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A) Try to clone commercial beers
B) have a recipe you feel is dialed in and brew over and over
C) freestyle recipes and play around?
I don't fall into any of these categories at the moment, but I am hoping to fall into the "C" category one day. Right now, I am just brewing recipes from "Brewing Classic Styles" and seeing how the ingredients and yeasts fit together to make each style. I will be brewing a Belgian dark strong ale this weekend, which is my first Belgian beer. This will be batch 14 in 2016 and batch 24 overall.
Posted on 7/14/16 at 7:43 pm to Bleed P&G
When I went on a belgian kick, I brewed a patersbier (single) that was a SMaSH (Pilsner/Saaz) and then used that yeast cake to brew a tripel and then used that cake to brew a quad. It was the Chimay strain (WY1214) and they all turned out splendid. I aged the quad for 6 months in a keg under 10psi, put it on tap for a while over the July 4th weekend, and just put it back in storage until probably November/December.
I think the patersbier was my favourite of them all though just because I could have a beer or two and still function.
I think the patersbier was my favourite of them all though just because I could have a beer or two and still function.
Posted on 7/15/16 at 1:12 pm to Canuck Tiger
These turned out nice...
Posted on 7/15/16 at 1:14 pm to LSUGrad00
Awesome! Those are for Belgian beers?
Posted on 7/15/16 at 1:20 pm to Canuck Tiger
We rotate styles and don't have the Trappist ales or high gravity Belgian styles this year.
We are accepting Belgian Pale Ale & any beer over 10% can be entered in the horribly name 'Double Digit ABV Beer.'
We are accepting Belgian Pale Ale & any beer over 10% can be entered in the horribly name 'Double Digit ABV Beer.'
Posted on 7/15/16 at 3:50 pm to LSUGrad00
Ah I misunderstood I thought you were showing off medals you had won :). I don't know how you can possibly judge aa category that includes imperial stouts, quads, and barleywines all in one. Hope something is exceptional I guess...
This post was edited on 7/15/16 at 4:00 pm
Posted on 7/15/16 at 4:11 pm to LSUGrad00
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These turned out nice...
I may enter if I can get 3 bottles worth out of my kegs.
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