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brewnewb wrote:Over the weekend I made a 2 gal Brew Demon Wild Spirit IPA and a 1 gallon Brewers Best Pineapple Wheat.

Be sure and post some tasting notes on that pineapple wheat when it's done. That sounds good.

Brewed for the first time in over 4 months as I'm down to 17.02 cases...

Brewed first Mr. Beer recipe in a long time.  Dark Side Wheat - can of Bavarian Weissbier with Caramunich, Carafa1, Special B, and some wheat LME, should be close to a Dunkelweizen (hope I like Dunkelweizens...).  Also brewed 5 gallons of my Not Fat, Stout - Oatmeal Stout.  Added 6 row to see if I can get more mouthfeel out of the pound of Oatmeal.  

RickBeer wrote: as I'm down to 17.02 cases...

Would you have brewed if you were down to 17.86 cases?

Nope...

I only brewed because that can of Weissbier is dated August, so I figured I would brew it for this summer. And, since I went to AIH for Big Brew Day, I bought the ingredients to make it a Dunkel as well as for a batch of Oatmeal Stout. I may now not brew again until Fall unless something gets very low.

I kegged (and a few bottles) the Four-Legged Pale Ale during lunch today since I was working from home. If all goes as planned this weekend I will be brewing my Red_x beer (yet to be named).

Just curious.......I'm not very good at math........how much is .02 of a case?

Well let's see.

1 case = 24 bottles so.....0.48 bottles? Or 5.76 ounces.
Right?

Kealia wrote:Well let's see.

1 case = 24 bottles so.....0.48 bottles? Or 5.76 ounces.
Right?

You would think, but the math seems flawed. 12oz x 24 bottles = 288oz, right? 0.02 = 5.76 comes out in the math, but it seems wrong to me. Then again, I keg.

I just don't count that close I guess.

And I round up and down...A LOT!

12 oz, 16 oz, 16.9 oz (1/2 liter), 22 oz, 33.8 oz (1 liter).

I don't count anything, spreadsheet tells me and it is in my sig.

It's inaccurate now because 4 12oz are now empty, so 16.8533333...

RickBeer wrote: It's inaccurate now because 4 12oz are now empty, so 16.8533333...

It's like singing "99 bottles of beer on the wall"!

I don't get it?

I brewed a 3 gallon "Continuously Hopped Bohemian Pilsner" - your normal Bohemian bill with lots of saaz, except that I divided it all up and threw it in at 5 minute intervals. Using the Swiss Lager yeast. It will ferment a bit warm (low 60s instead of upper 50s), but my bet is that it still turns out really clean. Running out of time to brew stuff like this, so doing it while I can.

Dawg LB Steve wrote: I don't get it?

Don't worry.....just drink your beer!!!

Finally getting back to some brewing related activities. Back in early February when I was doing a berliner cider for Emma's cider book, I also brewed a blueberry wheat with berliner weisse yeast (I hedge on calling it a true berliner weisse because it's not an authentic no-boil style, but...). It was a simple extract wheat beer base, using up some extract I had lying about, with Ahtanum hops to approx 6.5 IBU, hitting 1.030 SG. I secondaried for 2.5 months on a pint of pureed blueberries, so that got a secondary fermentation in, so I was counting on maybe 3.5% ABV (though I didn't do any kind of accurate math). My FG bottomed at 1.000, so I think I ended up in the 4.25% IBU range.



Should be a nice easy summer drinker. The hydro pour was nice... love the color, and it has a nice (not too heavy) blueberry flavor. Lost some to the puree in the secondary, but managed 23 12oz bottles and one 16oz, so not a bad yield (though the last four bottles have some fruit in them).