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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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Brewed up a 2-1/2 gallon batch of Rogue Brutal Bitter IPA with some Wyeast PacMan yeast and 4oz of Crystal whole leaf hops; similar to this recipe from Brew365.com (couldn't find Carawheat, so I just used wheat)...
Somehow I went way over on the OG at 1.072.
All-Grain Recipe - Rogue Brutal Bitter ::: 1.061/1.015 (5.5 Gal)
Grain Bill (Assumes 72% Efficiency)

10.5 lbs. - Maris Otter Pale Malt
1.25 lbs. - CaraVienna Malt (22 L)
1 lb. - CaraWheat (40L) Malt
1 lb. - Crystal Malt (20L)
1/2 lb. - Crystal Malt (40L)

Hop Schedule [59 IBU]

2 oz - Crystal hops [4% AA] (60 min.)
2 oz - Crystal hops [4% AA] (40 min.)
2 oz - Crystal hops [4% AA] (20 min.)
2 oz - Crystal hops [4% AA] (5 min.)
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Wyeast Rogue PacMan Yeast
Mash/Sparge/Boil

Mash at 153° for 60 min.
Sparge as Usual
Cool quickly, aerate, and ferment at 66°
Drinking: Columbus Double India Pale Ale
Bottled/Conditioning: Trippel
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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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Dissolved a pound of d-90 candi sugar in 2 cups of water and fed my Ovila Quad clone.
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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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Just bottled a 5 gallon batch of Mackinac Island Red from Adventures in Homebrewing.
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Currently using 6 LBKs.

Beers I regularly brew:
Bell's Best Brown clone
Irish Hills Red - I call this "Ann Arbor Red"
Mackinac Island Red - I call this "Michigan Red"
Oatmeal Stout - I call this Not Fat, Stout - Oatmeal Stout

Bottled 5 gallons of Ann Arbor Red on 4/18/17. Bottled 5 gallons of Michigan Red on 5/8/17.

Brewed in 2017 - 22.13 gallons (19.91 in 2012, 48.06 in 2013, 61.39 in 2014, 84.26 in 2015,46.39 in 2016)
Brewed in lifetime - 282.14 gallons
Drinkable beer on hand -  13.58 cases, with 6.11 cases ready in May and early June.
Average cost per 12 pack through all beer brewed - $6.27(ingredients only)
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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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I started some Demon Pilsner Frankenbeer: 850g MB Pilsner + 550g BD Pale LME + MB Booster. Threw it in the Fermentator to rest peacefully at exactly 62.6F OG 1.066

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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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Just brewed up the BrewDemon Brown Ale basic recipe.
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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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Brewed up two LBKs - new Oktoberfest with a pound of LME and some carafoam, and raspberries in a week (like the old Raspberry Lager) and old High Country Canadian Draft with a pound of LME and some carafoam, and raspberries in a week (to compare).
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Certificate in Brewing and Distillation Technology

Sites to find beer making supplies: Adventures in Homebrewing - Mr. Beer - MoreBeer
My Beer - click to reveal
Currently using 6 LBKs.

Beers I regularly brew:
Bell's Best Brown clone
Irish Hills Red - I call this "Ann Arbor Red"
Mackinac Island Red - I call this "Michigan Red"
Oatmeal Stout - I call this Not Fat, Stout - Oatmeal Stout

Bottled 5 gallons of Ann Arbor Red on 4/18/17. Bottled 5 gallons of Michigan Red on 5/8/17.

Brewed in 2017 - 22.13 gallons (19.91 in 2012, 48.06 in 2013, 61.39 in 2014, 84.26 in 2015,46.39 in 2016)
Brewed in lifetime - 282.14 gallons
Drinkable beer on hand -  13.58 cases, with 6.11 cases ready in May and early June.
Average cost per 12 pack through all beer brewed - $6.27(ingredients only)
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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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Cooling the wort for another batch of Murican Wheat ale, mashed in the cooler this time!
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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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I bought almost everything I need to brew a nice red this weekend...untill I started talking to the sales clerk. He's Aussie. we started talking politics..almost as good as a bar, at least they had the fixings there. He couldn't understand how the Republicans could not do what the president told them to do. So we talked about it for a while, and I explained a wee bit more of how our Gov works.
He kept wondering how, as he was "Democratically Elected" that he could be ignored. Once again, I explained how the House is in charge of the Gov Purse.
Can't remember exactly ...wait, this should be posted in the no post post...
ok, I didn't get the hops...so now I have to go to a closer store to get them.
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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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LMAO Yankee.
You think that's tough. Back in '79 I tried explaining to two Iranian students that they couldn't like our people but hate our government. Of course, the passage of thirty years has proven them right! :)
Anyway, on topic, I'm brewing a mostly mash Bee Cave Haus Pale Ale. (From HBT). I subbed hops, and Munich LME for Vienna. It's boiling.
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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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I bottled the second half of my attempt at a Chimay Red like Patersbier. I bottled the first batch a week ago. They were brewed at the same time, a 1200ml WLP500 stir plate starter split between both. I pitched it off the stir plate directly, I alternated pours to measure out 600ml for each to keep the yeast in suspension distributed as equally as possible, which is what I always do and it's always been fine. But for some reason the first batch went nuts and fermented out quickly, and this one acted lame and just finished 3 days ago.

The first batch has more of the earthy/plum flavors with only slight banana, this one has a much stronger banana note. It doesn't taste bad, just very different in the character I got out of the yeast. They were both pitched and fermented at the same temps, but it seems that something somehow must have obliterated a good bit of my yeast in this batch and made it work harder.

All I can figure is that a little pool of the one-step was still at the bottom of this LBC, and it was enough to stunt the yeast a bit. I did notice that if I didn't wait long enough/used a bit too much sanitizer powder for the volume that that any undissolved sanitizer likes to get stuck down in the conical bottom. Might have happened and I didn't pay attention... Dunno.
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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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I did my very first 5g batch tonight. I hope it turns out as good as it smelled. I am going to bottle my 2nd Imperial Stout tomorrow. It came out a 9.3% with a nice fruity chocolate coffee taste.
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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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Bottled 4.5 gallon momunich apa v2.0
And. 2 gallon momunich apa v2.1

MO and Munich
saaz, hallertauer and citra

only difference between the 2 ...
S33 in v2.0
Notty in v2.1
no big taste difference at this point
notty version is a little lighter in color
and finished
1 point lower FG
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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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John Sand wrote:LMAO Yankee.
You think that's tough. Back in '79 I tried explaining to two Iranian students that they couldn't like our people but hate our government. Of course, the passage of thirty years has proven them right! :)
Anyway, on topic, I'm brewing a mostly mash Bee Cave Haus Pale Ale. (From HBT). I subbed hops, and Munich LME for Vienna. It's boiling.

I love our people and hate our Government
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Bull, congrats on the 5g. I've done a couple of fives and a four, the rest two.
DBrowning, yeah, at times. But I still remind myself that people in other countries suffer terrible oppression, and few have our rights, even fewer our wealth. So I'm not quite ready to move to Panama!
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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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Just bottled a Maris Otter/Kent Goldings SMaSH. Only my 3rd BIAB attempt, but I'm hopeful of good results.
Guess I'll know in 4 weeks or so.... :chug:
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