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mashani wrote:Bottled that smacked chocolate orange stout. Sample tasted good!

I'm seriously intrigued by this.

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Kealia wrote:

mashani wrote:Bottled that smacked chocolate orange stout. Sample tasted good!

I'm seriously intrigued by this.

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I've done it before, it's never disappointed. Just start with your favorite chocolate stout recipe, and then add the bitter orange to the boil.

Anyway, today I brewed an "Oak Smoked Kolsch", which is just a plain old Kolsch recipe where I would have used 1# of wheat malt, but instead I used 1# of oak smoked wheat malt. It will not be very strongly smoke flavored at all, that stuff has a very mild flavor.

I've got a recipe for a milk stout.....you think it needs to specifically have chocolate added?

Kealia wrote:I've got a recipe for a milk stout.....you think it needs to specifically have chocolate added?

No.

But if it has a bitter chocolate vibe it will be more like a "dark chocolate smacked orange".

The milk stout version will be like a "milk chocolate smacked orange".

So it just depends on which kind your going for.

Also, I think I would use sweet orange peel or orange zest instead of bitter orange peel in a milk stout version.

Thanks for the tip!

Brewed a Dunkelweizen today. I have been using the bpgreen idea. Not a overnight mash this time but mashed in at 8:30 went and did some stuff needed to do and 4 hours later did the sparge and made the beer. This is so much better then waiting for the next step. This electric brewing gets better all the time. I haven’t done the numbers yet but came out a little higher then they planned.



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Nice! A dunkel was one of the first beers I did on my M&B because it allowed me to do a step-mash. That beer turned out great and I've been thinking of doing another.... but I have so many beers I want to do!

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My next batch is actually going to be a Dunkle. Got the grains measured and ready to go as soon as I'm able to do it.

Kealia wrote:Nice! A dunkel was one of the first beers I did on my M&B because it allowed me to do a step-mash. That beer turned out great and I've been thinking of doing another.... but I have so many beers I want to do!

mashani wrote:My next batch is actually going to be a Dunkle. Got the grains measured and ready to go as soon as I'm able to do it.

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Yesterday, started a maibock, did not get to finish it. Grain-father took a dump on me. It did fine through the mash but when it came to boil time, heating coil (me thunks) died. Now it won't heat, period. Dug out/cleaned off cobwebs and got the mega pot fired up and finished it (mostly) today. The pot is sitting in the work-shop, cooling down as I have no water to chill with in there. Tomorrow, into the carboy.... this turned out to be way more work than anticipated.... LOL Life goes on and I will have to refresh myself on non-elec/non-wifi brewing.

TonyKZ1 wrote:This morning I brewed an Nut Brown Ale 5G Extract w/steeping grains recipe from Midwest Supplies / Northern Brewer. I've brewed a few Brown Ales before, but not this recipe. But I imagine it'll be as good as the others.

I got this bottled Saturday, it went pretty smooth. The sample tasted good, so in a few weeks, I'll chill it and start enjoying it.

FrozenInTime wrote: Grain-father took a dump on me. It did fine through the mash but when it came to boil time, heating coil (me thunks) died. Now it won't heat, period.

FIT, Is there a reset on the Grain-Father? Also one time I had a main wire connection burn off the Mash and Boil and was a simple fix.

berryman wrote:

FrozenInTime wrote: Grain-father took a dump on me. It did fine through the mash but when it came to boil time, heating coil (me thunks) died. Now it won't heat, period.

FIT, Is there a reset on the Grain-Father? Also one time I had a main wire connection burn off the Mash and Boil and was a simple fix.

While cleaning it today, I found a tiny black button under it. Looks like a little nib (?) from the molding jig. I pressed on it for sngs and it moved in like a reset. I just plugged it in, and it started heating. Going to put some water in and heat to boiling if she will do it. I'm very happy that is all it was... I hope. Got fingers crossed.

Was anything scorched to the bottom of that grainfather? That is normally what would trigger the reset on a Mash & Boil.

Some of the Mash & Boils came with a fiddly sensor that would trigger more easily / for almost no reason at all, and a replacement sensor is something like $5 at Williams Brewing and fixes that right up. I don't know if there is such a thing for the Grainfather though.

FrozenInTime wrote: While cleaning it today, I found a tiny black button under it. Looks like a little nib (?) from the molding jig. I pressed on it for sngs and it moved in like a reset. I just plugged it in, and it started heating. Going to put some water in and heat to boiling if she will do it. I'm very happy that is all it was... I hope. Got fingers crossed.

Hope so and I bet. It is fairly common on the M&B and I have had it happen a few times. Mostly if get residue on the bottom. I know on the M&B not the easiest to find or push to reset. Good luck and fingers crossed.