What's everyone brewing?

[Bradbrewsbeer]

Cold IPA, had to use flaked corn instead of rice Hops are from Jake at Ninelocks, big thank you.
Mosaic , Citra and Cascade. Pitching on top of Nova Lager yeast cake.

Nice! How much of that yeast cake do you end up using?


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Every bit of it. It had been sitting in the fridge, so I racked off any lite lager left on top of it and used the whole yeast cake. I try to get 2 brews out of every yeast pitch. Been doing it for 4 years and haven't had a bad batch yet. It's always a higher gravity brew that goes in top.

[wcturnedec]

Cold IPA, had to use flaked corn instead of rice Hops are from Jake at Ninelocks, big thank you.
Mosaic , Citra and Cascade. Pitching on top of Nova Lager yeast cake.

Nice! How much of that yeast cake do you end up using?


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Every bit of it. It had been sitting in the fridge, so I racked off any lite lager left on top of it and used the whole yeast cake. I try to get 2 brews out of every yeast pitch. Been doing it for 4 years and haven't had a bad batch yet. It's always a higher gravity brew that goes in top.

[Bradbrewsbeer]

Waiting for the boil on my exchange beer. Leaf hop APA with Cascade,Citra,mosaic and Eldorado. Not sure if I'm using verdant or us05 for the yeast. Fingers crossed this one turns out well. Strong malt backbone with enough hops to clog any system solid

[kenny10]

Brewed my advent beer this morning…Belgian single

[McGruff]

Brewed a Stout. Horton Ridge Organic, Flaked Barley. Cold steeped the roast barley, choc malt and CaraFa III. US-05. Challenger hops.

[Bradbrewsbeer]

Esb is about to boil, Maris otter, little crystal and victory. EKG and Fuggle, Fermoale AY3 yeast

[wcturnedec]

Esb is about to boil, Maris otter, little crystal and victory. EKG and Fuggle, Fermoale AY3 yeast

Nice yeast choice!

[wcturnedec]

Brewed a Vienna Lager up the other day

[McGruff]

Brewed a Helles. Pils malt, vienna and carafoam. Saaz hops, Escarpment Labs Biergarten.

[Bradbrewsbeer]

Esb is about to boil, Maris otter, little crystal and victory. EKG and Fuggle, Fermoale AY3 yeast

Nice yeast choice!

It's been a while since I got that yeast from you, haven't had a chance to use it yet. Hopefully it turns out, I've been craving a good esb

[Hibernaculum]

Brewing a dry stout tomorrow-- using the recipe from Brewing Classic Styles as the base, but using 2 row with some munich instead of MO (it's what I have on-hand). Probably going to add a few ml of lactic acid when I rack to the fermenter to get the slightly lower pH lots of folks say Guinness has.

Anyone else brewed a Guinness clone or a dry stout similar to it? I'm especially curious if anyone has any insight on the water chemistry or acid additions (post-mash). I'm not going to let a can or 3 of Guinness get sour then add it to my mash, nor am I going to do the extra work of using acid malt or doing a sour mash, haha.

[DunctheBrewer]

Brewing a dry stout tomorrow-- using the recipe from Brewing Classic Styles as the base, but using 2 row with some munich instead of MO (it's what I have on-hand). Probably going to add a few ml of lactic acid when I rack to the fermenter to get the slightly lower pH lots of folks say Guinness has.

Anyone else brewed a Guinness clone or a dry stout similar to it? I'm especially curious if anyone has any insight on the water chemistry or acid additions (post-mash). I'm not going to let a can or 3 of Guinness get sour then add it to my mash, nor am I going to do the extra work of using acid malt or doing a sour mash, haha.

I recently brewed a Guinness clone that has a very similar recipe to the dry stout in Brewing Classic Styles.

For the acid, I waited until just before bottling/kegging to add any, then used about 3ml of lactic acid to get what seemed like the Guinness ‘tang’. I preferred this way since you can add 1ml at a time and then taste it with the finished beer to make sure you don’t add too much.

For water, I went by the Dry Stout water profile on Brewfather. I think I’d like to try the water profile for Dublin next time I brew it, which looks to be a lot softer.

The beer turned out great. Not quite like a Guinness but similar. Using CO2 instead of nitro, makes it tough to get a perfect match.

Good luck with yours!


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[Bradbrewsbeer]

American lite lager today, flaked rice and pilsner, dollar store w34 70 for the yeast

[Bradbrewsbeer]

Starting the whirlpool on my Big Spruce Elysium Beer. Buckle up fuckers, this one smells good!

[McGruff]

Brewed a Blonde Ale today. Pils malt, crystal 40, Hallertauer hops and Escarpment Labs House Ale dry yeast. This yeast comes with a sachet inside a sachet.

[McGruff]

Brewing a Pilsner today. Hallertauer hops, Nova Lager yeast, Weyermann Pils malt.

[McGruff]

Brewing a Cream Ale today. With the added corn sugar I am wondering about the 15 IBU. Hope it won't be too sweet. Horton Ridge Organic Pale Ale Malt, Flaked Barley and Hallertauer hops. US-05.

[BBrianBoogie]

Spelt saison for the win

[BJBrewhaus]

I'm going down the rabbit hole and trying for my first pumpkin ale tomorrow. 2-row, crystal-30, and some pumpkin with a 1.5 tbs of pumpkin spice. East Kent Goldings and Northern Brewer hops and some US-05

I've got a backup octoberfest if it's terrible...

[Brewnoser]

Believe it or not I’m getting back at it. Right now it’s just a “wet run” of fermentation and kegging/dispense with one of the wort bags from Noble Grape. A blonde ale that I’ll finish hop (tea) with some tettnanger just so it’s not any one style. But soon I hope to be feeding my hand pump with a basic bitter. While learning how to use this grainfather thingy I now have.


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[BJBrewhaus]

While learning how to use this grainfather thingy I now have.

I sincerely suggest taking Brew School over at Brew HQ. You learn to use the Grainfather by brewing on one and get a lot of great insight on brewing in general, which you may not need, but it's also nice just to talk shop while you're brewing too. Plus you get to drink beer, play pinball, and take home your wort!

I tried brewing with my Brewzilla before taking the course and couldn't quite figure it out. They explained it so clearly and made it really simple to understand.

[Brewnoser]

I've been around a few of them when in use, and about 200 commercial breweries of various sizes.
Plus YouTube isn't bad. It's just a bit of a painful trip to Burnside from here. The Home Hardware up the road has everything I would ever want for moving water, wort and beer around.
I'm still getting the rest of my process straightened out in a new house. Some of my old gear is useful, some probably not any more, with the grainfather now in possession. (Phils Phalse Bottom, Hand made wort chiller, two pots that don't heat up on my Indiction cookers....)
Just tapped a British style ale, dry hopped, to feed my beer engine. Real Ale on tap, although it started out life as an Arcade Blonde Ale wort bag.
My latest brewing intiative is basically "Feed My Handpump!"

[Brewnoser]

Spelt saison for the win

Did you malt it yourself? Where to buy this, and maybe Kamut?

[BBrianBoogie]

Just mashing in on an Imperial Rye Saison.

Huge thanks to DeWalt for picking today to remind me how much fun it is milling 22.5 lbs of grain by hand

[Brewnoser]

While learning how to use this grainfather thingy I now have.

I sincerely suggest taking Brew School over at Brew HQ. You learn to use the Grainfather by brewing on one and get a lot of great insight on brewing in general, which you may not need, but it's also nice just to talk shop while you're brewing too. Plus you get to drink beer, play pinball, and take home your wort!

I tried brewing with my Brewzilla before taking the course and couldn't quite figure it out. They explained it so clearly and made it really simple to understand.

The videos online are very good.
Seeing as I’ve been brewing from grain for 20 years and around breweries as well it’s not that difficult.
I have already seen some things to improve. Hate how they show someone sprinkling a packet of dried yeast on to warm wort. Plus I’ve used a “fly mash” technique forever. They basically do as well but get caught up in keeping it a shallow depth over top of the grain bed. That doesn’t matter as long as it’s not exposed to air.


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