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[Poptop]

My mis-en-place has begun for Saturday's batch; Denny's Imperial Porter. Water is measured. Starter will... ahem... start tonight....

[ChicagoWaterGuy]

I need to get some lagers going. Time to pick up some 2308.

[denny]

Since I couldn't brew I ran a couple cleaning cycles on the Zymatic and calibrated my pH meter.

[Poptop]

3L starter of 1450 just hit the stir plate. This will be the Porter'iest Porter I ever made. The only Porter actually

Edited by Steppedonapoptop, 14 July 2015 - 05:36 PM.

[Poptop]

The starter is huge and chilling.  Grains are measured and will be crushed tonight and I'll do my equipment set up.  Can you tell I'm excited for this batch?

[3rd party JKor]

Impy Porter in July!!! 

 

 

Tomorrow I'm getting prepped for two 2.5 gallon batches of session IPA to be brewed on Sunday.  Yeast is ready.  Prepping everything else tomorrow.

[Poptop]

Absolutely.  Just like a nice summer Saison in December ~ when it's 80 out.

[djinkc]

Setup for an oatmeal pale ale in the morning.  1056 and all Cascades at 15 min.  Going old school again.

[passlaku]

Got up early to make an Alt.  Using Cry Havoc yeast and am going to ferment on the cool side.  Here is the recipe:

https://bullybrew.tu...er-according-to

[realbeerguy]

Making starter for Honey Saison/ Mango Saison tomorrow.

[MyaCullen]

brewing a Pilsner tomorrow with the floor malted bohemian from Weyerman, using a blend of Saaz and Sterling with 2124 and the McDole lager method

[3rd party JKor]

Brewed up two batches of session IPA with two different grain bills, same hop schedule. Seconf batch on boil now.

Edited by JKor, 18 July 2015 - 09:41 PM.

[positiveContact]

Brewed up two batches of session IPA with two different grain bills, same hop schedule. Seconf batch on boil now.

 

experiment?

[Big Nake]

I have water filtered and grains weighed out for another batch of Bordertown Mexican Dark Lager with 940. Not sure when that brewday will occur though... it's super warm and schputzy here. The brewday will be at the intersection of "opportunity work-wise" and "cooler weather". Then a blonde ale with Santiam and 1056 and after that a string of beers with 2308... Two Women clone, pale bock, hoppy pilsner, possibly a dunkel.

Edited by Village Taphouse, 19 July 2015 - 07:03 AM.

[matt6150]

I am mashing now on what will be a jalapeño pale ale.

[3rd party JKor]

experiment?

New grain vs old grain.

So far, The old grain (2011?) had lower conversion efficiency. About 75% vs near 100% for the frsh grain. The pH of the old grain batch was a bit higher, so i'm not sure if this was part of the culprit. I'm going to need to run another experiment for that.

I extended the sparge and got the gravities close. 1.049 vs 1.046. We'll see how the finished beer turns out. It's pretty high IBU so there will have to be major flaws in flavor to tell if there's a difference. I wanted IPA, though, so i gotta live with it.

ETA: also, the clarity of the old wort wasn't as good. The break didn't form quite as well. Not sure if that's die to extended sparge or other reasons. The boil and cooling times were the same.

Edited by JKor, 19 July 2015 - 01:11 PM.

[positiveContact]

I would not have expected the difference in conversion.  I wonder what might cause that.  your enzymes retired years ago?

Edited by Evil_Morty, 19 July 2015 - 01:20 PM.

[3rd party JKor]

One of the issues I was tracking was the conversion.  I wasn't that surprised to see the difference.  Now I have to do some experiments to see if that malt really has an issue or I just didn't give it optimal conditions.  I'll probably just do some mini-mash experiments for that.

[MyaCullen]

brewed up a Pils, was going to do a Cz but went German instead  50/50 Bohemian Floor Malt Pils/Best Pilsner Malt bittered with German Magnum finished with Hallertauer Hersbrucker, 2124 yeast, 100% distilled water with 50 ppm Calcium added

[crankycat]

I actually brewed this past weekend---a honey ale with lime and fennel seeds. It is for a friendly contest that my home brew club is doing with the theme of lime beer. I revisited a recipe that I created when I first started brewing.