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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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Brewed the other half batch of the Levitation grain bill beer, but with N1/69 south African hops as the hops. They intrawebs say they have lots of pineapple, citrus, melon and some juicy fruit and kool-aid flavors. I hope what they call juicy fruit/kool-aid is not the same thing as the jolly rancher flavor of the El Dorado, which I'm not so keen on.
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Kegged 15 gallons today. 5 gallons German Hefeweizen, 5 gallon Blonde Ale and 5 gallons of Irish Porter. Got lazy, or tired afterwards, will wash the yeasties tomorrow. Sometime this week I'm going to refill the 3 carboys, not going to let the pipeline get low like it did recently. Might do up a Munich H.
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Either this weekend or next I am planning a brew that uses Carafa II, C80, Pale Malt and Roasted Barley (WHAT?!?!?) - details to come...
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Kealia wrote:Either this weekend or next I am planning a brew that uses Carafa II, C80, Pale Malt and Roasted Barley (WHAT?!?!?) - details to come...
Don't let him fool you folks, this won't be a dark beer. I bet his recipe only uses 6 grains of Carafa II, 9 grains of C80, and only 3 grains of Roasted Barley. The rest will be the Pale Malt. :muahaha:
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Oh, it's on now! :fencing:

But damn, that was funny as hell.
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Kealia wrote:Either this weekend or next I am planning a brew that uses Carafa II, C80, Pale Malt and Roasted Barley (WHAT?!?!?) - details to come...
I highlighted two key words. Hell, I'm planning a lot of brews myself. Some I might actually brew. :p
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BlackDuck wrote:
Kealia wrote:Either this weekend or next I am planning a brew that uses Carafa II, C80, Pale Malt and Roasted Barley (WHAT?!?!?) - details to come...
Don't let him fool you folks, this won't be a dark beer. I bet his recipe only uses 6 grains of Carafa II, 9 grains of C80, and only 3 grains of Roasted Barley. The rest will be the Pale Malt. :muahaha:
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This beer is currently paused. (See what I did there?) After several weeks lagering at 1-2˚C, it will be ready for the bottle and keg.
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I bottled the Mangrove Jack's London Bitter and then brewed a Mangrove Jack's Roasted Stout.
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mashani wrote:I brewed 2.6 gallons (was going to be 5.2 gallons but one of my fermenters exploded) of the same PM Levitation like clone I made and am drinking that had Farmhouse Brewing blend hops, except that I used U1/108 experimental South African hops as all the hops. I know what the grain bill tastes like and love it, so I will likely use it as a single hop experiment base quite often, especially with fruity hops.

These hops have been described as having strong tropical fruit flavors with citrus, guava, lychee, lemongrass, mango, stone fruit, coconut, and butterscotch.
So, I bottled this. One thing that was weird is this turned out a lot lighter in color then it should have. I'm looking at my other fermenter that has the other half of this Levitation PM in it and it doesn't look as light, but who knows. I have no idea what I did, maybe I used the wrong kind of crystal somewhere.

Anyways, it tasted good, it does have some kind of slight flavor in the background that I'd describe more as coconut then butterscotch, but it's not really either, but I don't know how to describe it otherwise. But it's primarily tropical fruit and citrus.
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Brewed some sort of Nordic Like Ale, details in the New Nordic yeast thread.

Bottled my N1/69 hop version of Levitation like beer. Like the above its way too light in color, so I most certainly messed up something in my mash, used some wrong grain somewhere.

I'm at a loss on how to describe what I tasted property. It smelled floral, like a fruit smoothie spiked with rose water. (I only know what that smells like because of a local tea house that does this, but it's what it reminded me of). It tasted... well... like tropical fruit smell? More then like tropical fruit taste. I don't exactly know how better to describe it then that. And wildflower honey. And coconut water. All these flavors were also "soft", not "in your face".

I really liked it, but it was really not like anything beery I've ever had.

I might put 1oz of these hops in single late addition Saison or Patersbier over the summer. Some spice to go with all that would be really nice.
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Yesterday was Big Brew Day so I brewed my Big Fuzzy RIS at my LHBS for the 4th year in a row. It's always been a fun day to gather with people and talk Beer and brewing. A crowd gathers when I hoist my BIAB after the mash as it smells like a coffee shop from all the roasted malts.
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Looks like a fun day to me!
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