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Posted on 9/6/14 at 3:13 pm to rds dc
Today was the first brew day for Kennypowers816 and myself. We inherited a kolsch kit with our brewing equipment so decided to start with that. Replaced the hops and yeast just to be sure to use fresh ingredients. Recipe was:
6lbs Pilsen LME
1 oz perle German hops
1oz tettanger German hops
Whitelabs German kolsch yeast
Brought LME to a boil and added all hops for a 20 minute boil. Cooled to 70 in under 30 minutes and into the fermenter soon after. We'll see how she comes out
6lbs Pilsen LME
1 oz perle German hops
1oz tettanger German hops
Whitelabs German kolsch yeast
Brought LME to a boil and added all hops for a 20 minute boil. Cooled to 70 in under 30 minutes and into the fermenter soon after. We'll see how she comes out
Posted on 9/6/14 at 3:47 pm to HungryFisherman
Congrats you two. Hopefully it works out to be a tasty enough beer.
Posted on 9/6/14 at 3:52 pm to s14suspense
Thanks. We'll see how it goes. Our expectations are appropriately set 
I definitely felt a little dumber throughout the process than I thought I would. I felt pretty prepared. One of those things that seems like you will beconstantly learning.
Forgot to include that OG was 1.068. May be a little high for the style, but it's all good.
I definitely felt a little dumber throughout the process than I thought I would. I felt pretty prepared. One of those things that seems like you will beconstantly learning.
Forgot to include that OG was 1.068. May be a little high for the style, but it's all good.
Posted on 9/6/14 at 4:05 pm to HungryFisherman
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Forgot to include that OG was 1.068. May be a little high for the style, but it's all good.
Lol. Yes. It is.
What temp you fermenting at?
Posted on 9/6/14 at 4:16 pm to s14suspense
65-67. Your lol makes me think we're f'd
This post was edited on 9/6/14 at 4:24 pm
Posted on 9/6/14 at 4:47 pm to HungryFisherman
That'll turn out a 7% kolsch right?
One of our IPAs is only 1.061 OG.
One of our IPAs is only 1.061 OG.
Posted on 9/6/14 at 5:33 pm to s14suspense
Just a heads up, if any of y'all are in NWLA, great raft is having a homebrew challenge. Pickup wort of commotion and have at it. Should be interesting.
Posted on 9/6/14 at 5:39 pm to rds dc
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When did you brew a sour?! Pecan chips? Interesting for sure. I'll have to schedule a tour of the brewery and get some samples.
When I brewed my Zappa Dust, I brewed 2 1/2 gallons extra. Put that in a clean but unsanitized carboy and let it sit at 68 for a week. Some type of funk krausen/pellicle developed and it smelled ok. Pitched my Westmalle harvested sacchro and dregs from a JK and Avery Brett Saison. Has been sitting for a month and it is nice and tart.
I harvested some pecan branches a couple years ago for grilling/smoking and decided to pitch some of that. Pecan is so hard I had to use my Reciprocating Saw to cut it into cubes.I also soaked some in bourbon and pitched them into a keg of too cinnamony porter to see what happens.
Posted on 9/6/14 at 5:59 pm to LSURoss
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Just a heads up, if any of y'all are in NWLA, great raft is having a homebrew challenge. Pickup wort of commotion and have at it. Should be interesting.
That's awesome really. I with one of the local breweries here would do something like that.
Posted on 9/6/14 at 6:06 pm to s14suspense
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I with one of the local breweries here would do something like that.
Deep Ellum Brewery just had one where they supplied the grains and hops. They had a little festival last week with all the homebrewers pouring their beer.
Posted on 9/7/14 at 9:27 am to Zappas Stache
First solo brew session on the rig. Hoppy American Amber on the docket. We shall see what I manage to screw up
Posted on 9/7/14 at 10:38 am to Fratastic423
brewing today myself. was shooting to mash at 156, and hit 154.4
should be fine, so I didn't bother adding any more hot water.
should be fine, so I didn't bother adding any more hot water.
Posted on 9/7/14 at 10:56 am to LoneStarTiger
Things are going fairly smoothly over here. Hit the mash temp exactly at 152 now waiting for the rims to finish the mash out. Once sparging is finished I have to run and get a hop bag from a friend and we should be good to go
Posted on 9/7/14 at 11:54 am to Fratastic423
missed my pre-boil gravity by 3 points, so my efficiency is a little crappy today
Posted on 9/7/14 at 2:42 pm to LoneStarTiger
And ended up missing my OG. Think I figured out why though, I am not boiling off near as much as I used to, so I ended up with close to 7 gallons after boiling, rather than 6.
Posted on 9/7/14 at 3:08 pm to LoneStarTiger
I'm still honing my system in. Ended up exactly where I was to OG wise at 1.061 but have a little more than 10 gallons, so while it shouldn't be an issue just want to be able to have it down to a science
Posted on 9/7/14 at 5:32 pm to s14suspense
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Forgot to include that OG was 1.068. May be a little high for the style, but it's all good.
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Lol. Yes. It is.
HungryFisherman figured out what we did wrong... We measured OG with our undiluted wort. Rookie mistake.
We did some very rough calculations and think our real OG was around 1.037. Too late now to know for sure though as our yeast is working its magic
Posted on 9/7/14 at 6:41 pm to kennypowers816
My software says 6 lbs Pilsner LME should be right about 1.043 for 5 gallons or 1.036 for 6 gallons.
Posted on 9/7/14 at 7:20 pm to BottomlandBrew
We put 3 gal in the kettle and 2.5 in the carboy before adding the wort. We left a little in the bottom of the kettle but we got most of the liquid out. I guess we have somewhere around 5.25 gal in the carboy now.
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