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[No Party JKor]

I thought his BIAB set up was with a 25G kettle. That may be a bit big for 5g batches.

Yeah, 5 would be tough. 10 is probably fine. I could just get a smaller kettle, too.

[positiveContact]

Yeah, 5 would be tough. 10 is probably fine. I could just get a smaller kettle, too.

 

make 10-15 gallons of base wort, split, and then steep different specialty grains in some of them.  boom! 2-3 beers for the price of one

 

disclaimer:  I've never tried this

[pkrone]

Doing a festbier tomorrow.  I know, I'm late to the game...   But I have a ton of fresh H17 yeast I wanna keep rollin'.  

80/20 pils/munich   30 IBU's      OG 1.060, hopefully. 

[denny]

Cider day today. My wife has been picking our apples for the last couple weeks. We're gonna press them today and start fermenting. Hope to get 10 gal. In Nov. The crabapple tree will be ready so we'll make another batch then.

[Big Nake]

Doing a festbier tomorrow.  I know, I'm late to the game...   But I have a ton of fresh H17 yeast I wanna keep rollin'.  

80/20 pils/munich   30 IBU's      OG 1.060, hopefully. 

Pete, I've always said that a Festbier is too nice of a style to only have for a few weeks in the fall.  I have this Big Bark on tap right now which sort of served as my Oktoberfest over the last couple weeks.  But I also have a stab at Paulaner Oktoberfest Marzen cold and kegged and I made my standard festbier (65/35 pils/Munich 2 with one hop addition at the start of the boil) and that's waiting in the on-deck fridge too.  So I will have festbier for a LOOOONG time.    Cheers.

[No Party JKor]

The extract porter is almost carbed up.  Pretty good to my tastes, a bit more carbing will definitely do it some good but I can't complain at all with this beer.

[denny]

We pressed 17 gal. of cider yesterday. About 12 gal. fermenting, split between 1450 and Nottingham.

[Mya]

We pressed 17 gal. of cider yesterday. About 12 gal. fermenting, split between 1450 and Nottingham.

freezing the other 5? blending with the crabs?

 

how many pounds per gallon do you figure on?

[Bklmt2000]

Kegging 2 batches tomorrow and Tuesday (a rather big, 8% porter tomorrow and a clone of Great Lakes' Burning River Ale on Tuesday), then making this on Wednesday, an English IPA:

 

10lb Maris Otter

2lb Munich

0.5lb C-40

0.5lb wheat

 

2 oz Pilgrim (pellet), 90 min

2 oz First Gold (pellet), 10 min

1oz EKG (pellet), 5 min

1oz EKG (pellet), 20-min hopstand

 

Shooting for an OG of ~1.070 and ~60-ish IBU's for 5.5 gal going into the primary.

 

A fresh slurry of WY1028 London Ale will handle the heavy lifting in the primary.

[denny]

freezing the other 5? blending with the crabs?

 

how many pounds per gallon do you figure on?

 

Freezing the other 5 for juice.  I have no idea on the lb. per gal.  We don't do any measurement of how much we start with.

[No Party JKor]

The extract porter is almost carbed up. Pretty good to my tastes, a bit more carbing will definitely do it some good but I can't complain at all with this beer.

The extract SIPA turned out pretty nice, too. I think I can ride this extract brewing wave for a bit.

[HVB]

Got a pilsner into the fermenter today. Hope the brewing dry spell is over.

[neddles]

Got a pilsner into the fermenter today. Hope the brewing dry spell is over.

Nice work. I hope so too.

[Buscotucky]

Strike water is heating! Been over a year...not as long as my last break, but it'll still be fun remembering how I was supposed to do it after it's too late, lol.

 

I'm probably being overly ambitious, but am doing a split batch of NEIPA's in my large cooler (15 gal cube) and a small batch in the 5 gallon. Figure I may as well make as much as possible while I've got the gear set up.

 

Small batch (4.5 gal):

5# Mecca Munich

2# Opal 22

2# Opal 44

1 oz. Eukanot at 30 min (doing just a 30 min boil)

1 oz. Calypso at flame out

Omega Gulo yeast

 

Big batch (16 gal):

29# Golden Promise

2# flaked oats

2# Mecca red wheat

2# Mecca white wheat

5 oz. ea. Eukanot/Calypso/NZ Pacifica/Mandarina at flame out.

Repeat when wort gets below 180

4 carboys, 4 gal each - Omega Tropical/Voss Kviek/Hothead & Imperial Citrus yeast respectively.

Each to be dry hopped with one of the 4 hops used throughout.

 

Have some MIghty Ax hops (2 oz ea. of Julius & Tropica) that I may add during fermentation to see what the biotransformation thing is about.

 

Wish me luck, lol.

[denny]

Strike water is heating! Been over a year...not as long as my last break, but it'll still be fun remembering how I was supposed to do it after it's too late, lol.

 

I'm probably being overly ambitious, but am doing a split batch of NEIPA's in my large cooler (15 gal cube) and a small batch in the 5 gallon. Figure I may as well make as much as possible while I've got the gear set up.

 

Small batch (4.5 gal):

5# Mecca Munich

2# Opal 22

2# Opal 44

1 oz. Eukanot at 30 min (doing just a 30 min boil)

1 oz. Calypso at flame out

Omega Gulo yeast

 

Big batch (16 gal):

29# Golden Promise

2# flaked oats

2# Mecca red wheat

2# Mecca white wheat

5 oz. ea. Eukanot/Calypso/NZ Pacifica/Mandarina at flame out.

Repeat when wort gets below 180

4 carboys, 4 gal each - Omega Tropical/Voss Kviek/Hothead & Imperial Citrus yeast respectively.

Each to be dry hopped with one of the 4 hops used throughout.

 

Have some MIghty Ax hops (2 oz ea. of Julius & Tropica) that I may add during fermentation to see what the biotransformation thing is about.

 

Wish me luck, lol.

 

Why both red and white wheat?

[Buscotucky]

Why both red and white wheat?

 

When I looking at the amount of base grain, the percentage of oats/wheat felt a little low. Then had a twitch response...I had bought both mecca wheats to check out, and threw them in rather than buying more regular wheat at the lbhs.

 

I figure if I like the other beer w/all mecca malt, I'd buy more of the wheat for future usage.

[denny]

When I looking at the amount of base grain, the percentage of oats/wheat felt a little low. Then had a twitch response...I had bought both mecca wheats to check out, and threw them in rather than buying more regular wheat at the lbhs.

 

I figure if I like the other beer w/all mecca malt, I'd buy more of the wheat for future usage.

 

Fun fact...most of the red wheat Seth grows goes to Japan to make noodles

[Bklmt2000]

Brewing a fairly big stout tomorrow, before our new flooring install starts next week.

 

10lb Pils

2lb flaked barley

1lb roasted barley

1lb C-40

 

Magnum to bitter, and some whole Centennials for some late additions.  Shooting for ~1.075+ for 5.5 gal into the primary (for an abv in the neighborhood of 8%) and ~70 IBUs.

 

A fresh slurry of Wy1028 London Ale will handle the heavy lifting in the primary.

[No Party JKor]

I went to the LHBS the other day and got some stuff without really having a recipe in mind.  I picked up a packet of WLP002 and WLP833.  What do you guys think I should make?  I'm leaning toward a dunkel with the 833, but maybe  a dortmunder?  no thoughts yet on the 002.

[HVB]

I went to the LHBS the other day and got some stuff without really having a recipe in mind. I picked up a packet of WLP002 and WLP833. What do you guys think I should make? I'm leaning toward a dunkel with the 833, but maybe a dortmunder? no thoughts yet on the 002.

Dunkel for sure and what about a Stout with the 002.