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re: Homebrewing Thread: Volume II
Posted on 9/9/22 at 11:20 am to Zappas Stache
Posted on 9/9/22 at 11:20 am to Zappas Stache
Homebrew Update:
It's friday, let's talk beer! What's going on in your homebrew worlds?
My biere de garde is chugging along nicely. Had to clean up a mess in my fermenting freezer yesterday from blowoff. I'm either gonna add brett to the beer now, or blnd then add the brett at bottling.
I am on week 2 of lagering my oktoberfest. Going to Disney next week, so by the time we get back, it will have been lagered for about 4 weeks. May let it ride another week or so after that.
My next beer is another czech pilsner, but with Bootleg biology's Czech Unpasteurized lager yeast.
I also need to brew an IPA to use up some of the hops in the freezer, and also want to brew a best bitter.
My hops are almost ready to pick, but i only have like 8 cones so i doubt i'll use any of it in a beer unless they are ripe at the time of brewing. They shouldn't impact the beer any.
Whevener it gets colder, i'm going to brew batch #5 of my turbid mash Lambic. I currently have a lambic from December 2020, June 2021, December 2021, and February 2022. I may try to brew another in march or so and keep the pipeline going, then will blend the batches in Winter of '23, and then bottle my first Gueuze. After that, i may start significantly reducing the sour beers i make, and stick only to lambic/gueuze and maybe 2 or 3 others and make that the permanent sour pipeline rotation.
I currently have about 10 or 11 carboys full of sours in the sour closet:
1) 12/20 Lambic - Turbid Mash
2) 06/21 Lambic - Turbid Mash
3) 12/21 Lambic - Simple infusion
4) 02/22 Lambic - Turbid Mash
5) Solera Sour from 2018. This thing needs to be blended. Just need time to brew a blender batch between all my other planned beers.
6) Biere de Garde from 2020. This will be blended with the biere de garde that is fermenting.
7) L'Internationale Saison V. 4.0 - Brewed in may of this year. Should be close to ready for blending.
8) Bring on the Funk V. 3.0 - also brewed in May. This is a 100% brett beer, but it has some acidity. Not sure if it's coming from the oxygen, or if there is some residual mixed culture from a blend in a previous version.
9) Jester King La Petite Prince Clone - A slightly more alchoholic La Petite Prince clone from JK, using bootleg's sourced JK dregs. LPP is a 2.7% table beer. Mine is around 4.3%. This was also brewed in May.
10) Belgian Farmhouse Saison - Saison fermented with Bootleg's Belgian farmhouse blend, and brewed with aged hops. This is more of an experiment to see how much of the funk carry over from some of my favorite lambics is brett derived or if it's from the aged hops. Brewed in early June.
My sour closet is getting full so i really need to start bottling some of these. It would have another fermenter in there if i didn't decide to add a 3rd tap to my kegerator and dedicate that line to sours.
It's friday, let's talk beer! What's going on in your homebrew worlds?
My biere de garde is chugging along nicely. Had to clean up a mess in my fermenting freezer yesterday from blowoff. I'm either gonna add brett to the beer now, or blnd then add the brett at bottling.
I am on week 2 of lagering my oktoberfest. Going to Disney next week, so by the time we get back, it will have been lagered for about 4 weeks. May let it ride another week or so after that.
My next beer is another czech pilsner, but with Bootleg biology's Czech Unpasteurized lager yeast.
I also need to brew an IPA to use up some of the hops in the freezer, and also want to brew a best bitter.
My hops are almost ready to pick, but i only have like 8 cones so i doubt i'll use any of it in a beer unless they are ripe at the time of brewing. They shouldn't impact the beer any.
Whevener it gets colder, i'm going to brew batch #5 of my turbid mash Lambic. I currently have a lambic from December 2020, June 2021, December 2021, and February 2022. I may try to brew another in march or so and keep the pipeline going, then will blend the batches in Winter of '23, and then bottle my first Gueuze. After that, i may start significantly reducing the sour beers i make, and stick only to lambic/gueuze and maybe 2 or 3 others and make that the permanent sour pipeline rotation.
I currently have about 10 or 11 carboys full of sours in the sour closet:
1) 12/20 Lambic - Turbid Mash
2) 06/21 Lambic - Turbid Mash
3) 12/21 Lambic - Simple infusion
4) 02/22 Lambic - Turbid Mash
5) Solera Sour from 2018. This thing needs to be blended. Just need time to brew a blender batch between all my other planned beers.
6) Biere de Garde from 2020. This will be blended with the biere de garde that is fermenting.
7) L'Internationale Saison V. 4.0 - Brewed in may of this year. Should be close to ready for blending.
8) Bring on the Funk V. 3.0 - also brewed in May. This is a 100% brett beer, but it has some acidity. Not sure if it's coming from the oxygen, or if there is some residual mixed culture from a blend in a previous version.
9) Jester King La Petite Prince Clone - A slightly more alchoholic La Petite Prince clone from JK, using bootleg's sourced JK dregs. LPP is a 2.7% table beer. Mine is around 4.3%. This was also brewed in May.
10) Belgian Farmhouse Saison - Saison fermented with Bootleg's Belgian farmhouse blend, and brewed with aged hops. This is more of an experiment to see how much of the funk carry over from some of my favorite lambics is brett derived or if it's from the aged hops. Brewed in early June.
My sour closet is getting full so i really need to start bottling some of these. It would have another fermenter in there if i didn't decide to add a 3rd tap to my kegerator and dedicate that line to sours.
This post was edited on 9/9/22 at 11:22 am
Posted on 9/9/22 at 3:47 pm to BugAC
Checked gravity on my hoppy saison, 1.008 so we have beer. Added another round of dry hops.
Taste is piney and peppery with a citrus backend, very nice. The hops floating in this pour are a bonus!
![](https://i.postimg.cc/HLZ4Kt9p/Polish-20220909-154130153.jpg)
Taste is piney and peppery with a citrus backend, very nice. The hops floating in this pour are a bonus!
![](https://i.postimg.cc/ryY3W162/Polish-20220909-154205362.jpg)
This post was edited on 9/9/22 at 3:56 pm
Posted on 9/28/22 at 2:07 pm to BugAC
Sorry, I entirely missed the Friday update a few weeks ago.
I have officially kicked my kegs in the keezer, and for the first time in a while I have nothing ready to take their spots... Disappointed for not brewing, but now I have 3 beers I need to brew!
Definitely doing a Hazy IPA for one. I have some hops in the freezer I need to use up. Thinking Citra, Galaxy, and Idaho-7. Thinking about doing no boil hops. I like some backbone in my NEIPAs, but I am brewing this for a friend who I think just wants it to be as juicy as possible. Has anyone done all whirlpool hops for bitterness? If so, how much and what time did you add them?
Other than that, I need ideas. Whats a good October/November beer? Never made a brown ale, so maybe something like that. Or an Oktoberfest, never too late for one.
I have officially kicked my kegs in the keezer, and for the first time in a while I have nothing ready to take their spots... Disappointed for not brewing, but now I have 3 beers I need to brew!
Definitely doing a Hazy IPA for one. I have some hops in the freezer I need to use up. Thinking Citra, Galaxy, and Idaho-7. Thinking about doing no boil hops. I like some backbone in my NEIPAs, but I am brewing this for a friend who I think just wants it to be as juicy as possible. Has anyone done all whirlpool hops for bitterness? If so, how much and what time did you add them?
Other than that, I need ideas. Whats a good October/November beer? Never made a brown ale, so maybe something like that. Or an Oktoberfest, never too late for one.
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