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Posted on 7/22/15 at 2:36 pm to BugAC
What are some things you've learned while brewing? Such as what to avoid, or always do during your brew session, whether it be an ingredient to avoid or one that you incorporate in most of your brews of a particular style or in general. Or maybe it's a process you employ all the time, or a brew step you avoid from now on.
Figured this would be a good post to help each other out with some things we've all learned over the past couple years about making our homebrew better.
Figured this would be a good post to help each other out with some things we've all learned over the past couple years about making our homebrew better.
Posted on 7/22/15 at 2:41 pm to BugAC
My tips: More complex does not = better.
1. I'm learning the simpler my recipes and processes, the better the beer.
2. Take care of your yeast. They are the lifeblood to a quality beer. So much of my time was spent on crafting recipes and yeast was more of an afterthought. Now, i'm trying to build my yeast up to be as healthy as possible before i pitch. I'm sure when i move towards my first sour i'll learn even more.
3. El Dorado hops are kind of meh... Several here warned me about the hop, saying it is hard for particular flavors to come through. My last IPA was testament to that.
4. Using honey malt as your crystal malt for IPA's might not necessarily make a good beer.
5. Gigayeast is awesome!!!
1. I'm learning the simpler my recipes and processes, the better the beer.
2. Take care of your yeast. They are the lifeblood to a quality beer. So much of my time was spent on crafting recipes and yeast was more of an afterthought. Now, i'm trying to build my yeast up to be as healthy as possible before i pitch. I'm sure when i move towards my first sour i'll learn even more.
3. El Dorado hops are kind of meh... Several here warned me about the hop, saying it is hard for particular flavors to come through. My last IPA was testament to that.
4. Using honey malt as your crystal malt for IPA's might not necessarily make a good beer.
5. Gigayeast is awesome!!!
This post was edited on 7/22/15 at 2:43 pm
Posted on 7/22/15 at 2:50 pm to BugAC
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What are some things you've learned while brewing?
Relax, don't worry, have a home brew.
Keep it simple. Good beer doesn't need 6 different grains and 5 different hops. You don't need 5 different hop additions.
Don't waste time filtering and screening out kettle trub. It's not going to hurt your beer.
Brew after work during the week. You can still get shite done while mashing or boiling, but you can't get back those 5 hours on the weekend.
Use a blow-off tube, every time. EVERY time.
get your strike water heating, then get out the rest of your stuff. Clean as you go.
Posted on 7/22/15 at 2:52 pm to LoneStarTiger
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Brew after work during the week. You can still get shite done while mashing or boiling, but you can't get back those 5 hours on the weekend.
Add the caveat, "if you don't have a baby"
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Use a blow-off tube, every time. EVERY time.
This, this, this...
Posted on 7/22/15 at 2:52 pm to LoneStarTiger
quote:
Relax, don't worry, have a home brew.
Keep it simple. Good beer doesn't need 6 different grains and 5 different hops. You don't need 5 different hop additions.
Don't waste time filtering and screening out kettle trub. It's not going to hurt your beer.
Brew after work during the week. You can still get shite done while mashing or boiling, but you can't get back those 5 hours on the weekend.
Use a blow-off tube, every time. EVERY time.
get your strike water heating, then get out the rest of your stuff. Clean as you go.
These are all good.
Don't forget to add this one:
Test your ball valve before your very first all-grain brew day.
Posted on 7/22/15 at 2:57 pm to BugAC
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Add the caveat, "if you don't have a baby"
I have a 2 year old
Posted on 7/22/15 at 3:00 pm to LoneStarTiger
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I have a 2 year old
Then i don't know how that's physically possible.
Trust me, i'd love to brew during the week. But i get home at 530/6. Have to feed the baby (10 month old), work out, bathe the baby, make dinner, put the baby to bed, eat dinner. It's 9 pm by the time i can sit down and relax.
Posted on 7/22/15 at 3:00 pm to BMoney
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Test your ball valve before your very first all-grain brew day.
yeah, what kind of dumbshit puts together a mash tun and doesn't make sure it drains properly before filling it?
Posted on 7/22/15 at 3:04 pm to BugAC
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Then i don't know how that's physically possible.
Trust me, i'd love to brew during the week. But i get home at 530/6. Have to feed the baby (10 month old), work out, bathe the baby, make dinner, put the baby to bed, eat dinner. It's 9 pm by the time i can sit down and relax.
Yeah, but brewing is an hour of work crammed into a 4-5 hour time frame. All the other stuff can be done during down time. If you mash for an hour, there's literally nothing else you can be doing during that time. Ditto for the sparge. And with a large enough kettle, the boil is effortless as well.
Posted on 7/22/15 at 3:04 pm to BugAC
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Then i don't know how that's physically possible.
Oh, it gets worse as they get older and acquire siblings.
At 15 months and 3 yr my daughters are like two little tornados flying around the house from the time we walk in the door until they go to sleep. There is no way I could brew on a weeknight.
Posted on 7/22/15 at 3:10 pm to LSUGrad00
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Oh, it gets worse as they get older and acquire siblings.
Wait til they get older and you have kids activities all weekend. Then you'll hop on that weeknight brewing train.
Posted on 7/22/15 at 3:18 pm to BugAC
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Then i don't know how that's physically possible.
my wife helps, to be sure. I usually cook supper, or at least start it during the mash or before I get started brewing. I've worked out during the mash. I've given baths and tucked into bed during the boil.
it's a busy evening, but again, better than half a day on my weekend.
Posted on 7/22/15 at 3:33 pm to LoneStarTiger
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my wife helps, to be sure.
Mine too. I usually cook and bathe the little guy. She feeds him and does the laundry. My problem, is with cleanup, it takes me 5.5 to 6 hours to brew. So if I started at 6, i wouldn't be done to close to midnight. Maybe when i'm working back in the office i'll be able to do weeknight brews.
Posted on 7/22/15 at 4:01 pm to BugAC
I just learned a lesson from this thread: Never have kids.
Posted on 7/22/15 at 10:02 pm to BugAC
1. You don't need expensive equipment to make great beer.
2. Skip bottling and go straight to kegging.(I know it sounds like it contradicts #1 but it has more to do with convenience than anything else)
3. Keep recipes simple.
2. Skip bottling and go straight to kegging.(I know it sounds like it contradicts #1 but it has more to do with convenience than anything else)
3. Keep recipes simple.
Posted on 7/23/15 at 10:05 am to BeerMoney
Crafting up a fig saison recipe. Anybody ever use Briess Special Roast malt?
Posted on 7/23/15 at 10:17 am to BugAC
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Crafting up a fig saison recipe
From experience, you need a lot of figs to get much taste in the beer. Color comes through a little, but flavor is slight. At least from the local small LA figs.
Speaking of which, I need to keg my fig saison this afternoon.
Posted on 7/23/15 at 10:19 am to BugAC
yep, special roast has a nutty/toasty flavor very similar to victory malt.
Posted on 7/23/15 at 10:27 am to Fratastic423
Figs have such a subtle, light flavor I just don't see how you're going to get much into the beer
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