Beer thread
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@nzzp said in Beer thread:
@MN5 said in Beer thread:
more awesome beer than I’ll know what to do with.
I'm sure you can figure something out.
RIP MN5 Liver
I’m making beer, not spirits. I’ll be ok
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@MN5 said in Beer thread:
@nzzp said in Beer thread:
@MN5 said in Beer thread:
more awesome beer than I’ll know what to do with.
I'm sure you can figure something out.
RIP MN5 Liver
I’m making beer, not spirits. I’ll be ok
100L of beer. I'll be fine, until I"m not
seriously, good brew calendar. Have fun! I smashed out a 75L pilsner last weekend, which was enjoyable to brew. Passing it all on to mates for Christmas beersies... happy summer
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@nzzp said in Beer thread:
@MN5 said in Beer thread:
@nzzp said in Beer thread:
@MN5 said in Beer thread:
more awesome beer than I’ll know what to do with.
I'm sure you can figure something out.
RIP MN5 Liver
I’m making beer, not spirits. I’ll be ok
100L of beer. I'll be fine, until I"m not
seriously, good brew calendar. Have fun! I smashed out a 75L pilsner last weekend, which was enjoyable to brew. Passing it all on to mates for Christmas beersies... happy summer
Yeah with a few social functions coming up a shitload of it will go.
I find I can’t do too many in one go these days anyway, gives me a bit of a headache.
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@nzzp said in Beer thread:
@MN5 said in Beer thread:
I find I can’t do too many in one go these days anyway, gives me a bit of a headache.
for me, it's not sleeping and then turning into fat bastard that's a bigger issue.
I think a few beers is fine if the rest of the lifestyle is in order.
But homebrew can be pretty fattening, yes.
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What a fucken bunch of girls you lot have become, oooh can’t have too many I might put a kilo on, might not get my beauty sleep…fucks sake, it’s true what they say, craft beer is a fucken curse, get some Double Brown into you and a dirty kebab and stay off the fucken scales
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@voodoo said in Beer thread:
What a fucken bunch of girls you lot have become, oooh can’t have too many I might put a kilo on, might not get my beauty sleep…fucks sake, it’s true what they say, craft beer is a fucken curse, get some Double Brown into you and a dirty kebab and stay off the fucken scales
yeah, it's not the kilo, it's the 10 kegs I put on the first year I had beer on tap in my house.
Honestly, I've achieved a lot in my life - professionally, marriage, housing, kids, etc ... but the first time I had beer on tap I felt like 'I've made it lads'. Buuuuut it's not good for you. Finding moderation important as I get older, which sucks.
Edit: clearly we're not Palmy Hard like @voodoo
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@voodoo said in Beer thread:
@nzzp I am mightily impressed by some of the shots of homegrown beer on here - looks absolutely delicious. I just don’t have the time to have a go at it, and if I’m honest, I know I’d totally screw it up anyway 🤦♀️
Lame excuses, I expect better.
Putting a brew on takes 10-15 minutes with a ready made kit.
Just follow the instructions, you’ll be fine.
I will admit bottling can be a bit of a pain in the arse but my brewing partner and I have a system which works and it’s easier with two people.
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@MN5 said in Beer thread:
@voodoo said in Beer thread:
@nzzp I am mightily impressed by some of the shots of homegrown beer on here - looks absolutely delicious. I just don’t have the time to have a go at it, and if I’m honest, I know I’d totally screw it up anyway 🤦♀️
Lame excuses, I expect better.
Putting a brew on takes 10-15 minutes with a ready made kit.
Just follow the instructions, you’ll be fine.
I will admit bottling can be a bit of a pain in the arse but my brewing partner and I have a system which works and it’s easier with two people.
See - first you say it’s easy as, nek minnut you say I need a mate. Can’t be both eh, make up your mind man!
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@voodoo said in Beer thread:
@MN5 said in Beer thread:
@voodoo said in Beer thread:
@nzzp I am mightily impressed by some of the shots of homegrown beer on here - looks absolutely delicious. I just don’t have the time to have a go at it, and if I’m honest, I know I’d totally screw it up anyway 🤦♀️
Lame excuses, I expect better.
Putting a brew on takes 10-15 minutes with a ready made kit.
Just follow the instructions, you’ll be fine.
I will admit bottling can be a bit of a pain in the arse but my brewing partner and I have a system which works and it’s easier with two people.
See - first you say it’s easy as, nek minnut you say I need a mate. Can’t be both eh, make up your mind man!
Easier and more fun with a mate as lots of things are…….
( steady on, we’re not league players )
Watch this until it becomes second nature. Then the only danger is complacency ( ie thinking you’ve put the carbonation drops in when you actually haven’t )
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@MN5 said in Beer thread:
ie thinking you’ve put the carbonation drops in when you actually haven’t )
strong strong recommendation to go to bulk priming (or spend a bit and go kegging). We used to bottle 80+L in a session - it's just process in the end, but bulk priming is the shot (sugar water into the beer to be bottled)
@voodoo we live in a golden age of brewing hardware. It's like charcoal BBQ - read the instructions, don't improvise before you're confident and you'll be getting happy endings quickly. Thing is though, you have to want to do it - otherwise don't bother starting.
It's fun! And you make good cheap beer!
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@nzzp said in Beer thread:
@MN5 said in Beer thread:
ie thinking you’ve put the carbonation drops in when you actually haven’t )
strong strong recommendation to go to bulk priming (or spend a bit and go kegging). We used to bottle 80+L in a session - it's just process in the end, but bulk priming is the shot (sugar water into the beer to be bottled)
@voodoo we live in a golden age of brewing hardware. It's like charcoal BBQ - read the instructions, don't improvise before you're confident and you'll be getting happy endings quickly. Thing is though, you have to want to do it - otherwise don't bother starting.
It's fun! And you make good cheap beer!
Fucken Amen to this. Our Stout tastes just like Panhead Stout. My mates were absolutely amazed I actually made it and will be getting kits themselves.
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@nzzp said in Beer thread:
@voodoo said in Beer thread:
@nzzp yeah, zero inclination to start this, happy to admire from afar
Downvote
Here's a lazy 110L of beer brewing to satisfy your filthy Palmerston North voyeuristic tendencies
That does nothing for me - @RoninWC 's finished product shiny hazies sitting on his balcony railing, that's where it's at
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@RoninWC said in Beer thread:
Haven't posted here for a while so I thought I'd share a few things I've been doing with recent all grain brewing. All the talk of big hop additions caught my attention so thought I'd jump in.
After a bit of a break from the mad brewing in May, in August and September I completed 4 brews:
SAC2 DDH @8.8% ABV with a total of 692g of Hops (Simcoe, Amarillo, Cascade and used in the 1st dry hop only, Citra)
Kiwi-tasm @8.0% ABV and a total of 559 g of Hops (Nelson Sauvin, Nectaron and Taiheke)
Nelson's Oats @7.5% with 450g of Nelson Sauvin (called Nelson's oats as it used only Golden Promise with three types of Oats as adjuncts - Big-O Malted Oats from Gladfield, Golden Naked Oats from Simpsons and plain old rolled Oats)
Phantas-Mc Hanlon - 8.1% with a total of 655g of Hops (Motueka, Taiheke, Moutere, Nectaron and Riwaka)A while ago I was challenged by fellow homebrewer to try using Incognito, the hop oil extract.
I took up the challenge and used it in a couple of brew days and I have to say, using the hop oil extract was quite sticky and messy but I did like the results as I didn't have to use the normal amount of pellet hops.
However, it is bloody expensive here in Aus, $60 for 100g, so I'm not sure I will use it too often.
One new method I've gotten into is Mash Hopping, that is adding some hops along with the grain to your basket/bag. There are some varietals that work better than others for this and one that is well known to work well in mash hopping is Cascade. So I've used Cascade once in a Hazy IPA along with Amarillo and Simcoe at the whirlpool and double dry hopping.
The Cascade mash hop worked really well, adding more fruit flavour and in particular, aroma to the final beer.
Another recent brew I also mash hopped but this time with Nelson Sauvin, a personal favourite hop of mine. The reason for using Nelson Sauvin was that I also used another new product for the first time, Phantasm Powder.
For those who haven't heard of this previously, Phantasm Powder is made from the skins of sauvignon blanc grapes from Marlborough. I believe that Garage Project has lead the charge in terms of commercial breweries on this revival of an old method that was primarily used to add more bitterness with less hop.
The use of Phantasm plus the mash hopping really lifted those white wine fruit flavours and aroma!
I kegged that particular beer, calling it Kiwi-tasm as it used all Kiwi Grain as well as hops, Nelson Sauvon and Nectaron and Taiheke.
Another new thing I've been using is the very recently released Non-GMO Thiol producing yeast from White Labs, WLP077 Tropical Yeast Blend.
Those who follow bring might know that thiols are sulfur based compounds that make up less than 1% of the essential oils in a hops cone but are powerful in particular smells like those that occur in fruity white wines such as Sav Blanc, Riesling, etc.
The various yeast makers have been experimenting for a while now including using genetic modifications to allow the yeast to free the thiols with are found not only in hops but also in some grains, just in smaller amounts.
Here in Aus like other jurisdictions, we do not allow genetically modified products into the country so White Labs came up with a number of strains that were found to naturally free thiols and have put them together in their new released Tropical Yeast Blend.
Having used it twice already, I have to say it is now my new favourite yeast as Kiwi-tasm, is now my favourite beer I've brewed which was also my 30th recipe to grain to glass brew.
Hahaha, thank you @voodoo
I'd forgotten to add the pictures for these three beers where I used Phantasm powder so here they are posed on the balcony railing for effect.
and the latest Seltzer, Margarita Seltzer using Monin's Margarita Syrup and the juice of about 10 limes into the keg post fermentation.
10.8% margarita punch.And TBH, every now and then like on a Friday afternoon when work has been a real bitch, I'll add some tequila into the glass.
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@RoninWC said in Beer thread:
@MN5 said in Beer thread:
@voodoo here is a stout pic I found.
Garden looking solid too.
Looking great, excellent head, impressed!
As long as you mean on the beer I’ll take that.
Yeah this is the Black Rock Oatmeal stout with extra chocolate, coffee and rum added. Seriously good. Possibly our best beer ever. I also liked how we got more beer with far less “soup” at the bottom unlike what happens when you’ve added a few dry hops.
Given that Wellington has turned on a typical late spring day where it’s pissing with rain and 14 degrees I might be persuaded to have one tonight I think.
