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matt7215
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your current homebrew stash

Post by matt7215 »

mine :)

in bottles:

quad
triple
farmhouse amber
saison
belgian old ale
IPA
robust porter
cider
wild blonde ale

in secondary:

berliner weisse
kreik

in primary:

dunkler bock
unblended lambic
ESB
saison brune

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Post by Derek »

Impressive list!

Here's mine...

Secondary - Cider
Lagering - Alternator Doppelsticke
Bottle conditioning - SMaSH Alt

Bottles:
BIG NUT india brown ale
Cool running dry stout
Imperial chocolate stout
Fresh hop SMaSH (only a few left)

And an assortment of last bottles from various brews over the years.

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Post by cannondale »

Bottles:
Nothing

Keg:
American IPA
IPA/Tripel
Belgian Pale Ale
Quad

Primary:
Hefeweizen
Apfelwein
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In Kegs:
Dry Stout
TAFTH Bock
Amsterdam Nut Brown Clone
Brooklyn Lagerish Clone
Ungodly sweet Belgian Golden Strong
Probably Ungodly sweet Belgian Less than Golden Strong
Dry Cider

In Bottles:
Stout
Juniper Bitter
Pumpkin Pie Ale
Peppercorn Mead
Sake
ESB

In Primary:
Bochet (mead)
Dry Mead

Lagering:
Prima Pils style clone.

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Post by Derek »

jcc wrote:In Kegs:
Dry Stout
TAFTH Bock
Amsterdam Nut Brown Clone
Brooklyn Lagerish Clone
I think those were the 4 you had on-tap when I was over... all great stuff. Dry stouts & nut browns typically aren't my thing, but I could drink gallons of that bock & lager.

I've been meaning to ask you about that lager... I think it was vienna, hallertau & Cascade? I don't have lagering equipment right now, but I'd like to brew that sometime. Seriously drinkable (sort of a Sam Adams / Brooklyn hybrid, with the best of both!).

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Derek wrote:I've been meaning to ask you about that lager... I think it was vienna, hallertau & Cascade? I don't have lagering equipment right now, but I'd like to brew that sometime. Seriously drinkable (sort of a Sam Adams / Brooklyn hybrid, with the best of both!).
Fortunately I had my Promash files with me today. This is for a 10 gallon batch and a 60 minute boil. My basement is around 10C, so the primary temperature was good; however, I didn't have any space to lager closer to 0, so just left it in secondary for roughly 2 months at 10. Seemed to work OK.

Grains
11 lbs. Canadian 2-row
4.75 lbs. Weyermann Munich Malt I
4.5 lbs. Weyermann Vienna Malt
9 oz. Crystal 45L
5 oz. Munton's Crystal 110
2 oz. Chocolate Malt

Hops
2 oz. Hallertauer Pellets (4.5%) 60 min.
1.5 oz. Hallertauer Pellet (4.5%) 20 min.
1 oz. Hallertauer Pellets (4.5%) 5 min.
1 oz. Cascade Pellets (5.4%) 0 min.

Extras
1 Whirlfloc Tablet 10 min.(boil)

Yeast
2 litre starter of the lager yeast we got from Amsterdam at Teach a Friend to Homebrew day. I think it is the Weihenstephan 34/70, but I'm not 100% certain.

After hearing Garrett Oliver talking about how they actually brew Brooklyn lager I should have dry hopped this. I didn't mainly because I've only dry hopped a couple times with Cascade and haven't figured out how to control the end result. Didn't really want to end up with a West Coast India Amber Lager since I was supposedly cloning the Brooklyn Lager. Friends seem to prefer the result I obtained to Brooklyn anyway, so I'm not complaining.

Note, that the Crystal 110 is the Munton's stuff which I believe is specified in EBC not Lovibond, so it isn't as dark as you might think.

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Post by Derek »

Awesome.
jcc wrote: 4.75 lbs. Weyermann Munich Malt I
Is that the Light Munich or Caramunich?

Thanks again.

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Derek wrote: Is that the Light Munich or Caramunich?
Yes, that is the light munich.

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Post by matt7215 »

update

in bottles:

quad
triple
farmhouse amber
saison
belgian old ale
robust porter
cider
wild blonde ale
berliner weisse
ESB

in secondary:

kreik

lagering:

dunkler bock

in primary:

unblended lambic
saison brune

ill be bottling the kriek, bock, and saison brune this weekend.

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Post by Peter Collins »

I'm a piker. LOL

Bottles:

IPA

Secondary:

IPA

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Post by grub »

easier for me to just post the URL: http://extrapolation.net/fermenting.html

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Post by Bobsy »

A house is on the horizon, so perhaps I will have my own creations to list soon. Right now I've just got other people's:

Matt's 2x brett beer (farmhouse amber?)
Biergotter's barleywine (is this barrel-aged?)
Derek's Alternator Doppelsticke and Big Nut IBA - complete with obscene squirrel picture.
Smash Alt that I gave Derek a hand with on brew day. I've decided to call my bottles 'Ctrl Alt'.

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Post by Derek »

grub wrote:easier for me to just post the URL: http://extrapolation.net/fermenting.html
"pineapple kolsh"

That ought to make a few German brewers roll over in their grave!

Sounds like a tasty summer brew though.

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Derek wrote:
grub wrote:easier for me to just post the URL: http://extrapolation.net/fermenting.html
"pineapple kolsh"

That ought to make a few German brewers roll over in their grave!

Sounds like a tasty summer brew though.
As well as the writers of the dictionary! Its Monk's Elixer all over again!
:wink:

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Post by grub »

SpellingNazi wrote:As well as the writers of the dictionary! Its Monk's Elixer all over again!
:wink:
vim is too hardcore for spellcheck... or at least i've never bothered to figure it out anyway.

and spellcheck doesn't like any variation on the spelling, correct or otherwise :P

the kölsch is off the menu anyway since the stuff didn't come in, but i think we're gonna whip something else up in its place and brew that one next time. it's gonna be too nice NOT to brew.

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