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Re: Inaugural Everwood Ave Homebrew Competition

Post by LiverDance » Sun Apr 28, 2019 9:54 pm

RubberToe wrote:Any of you guys saving your yeast for future reuse?
I split mine based on what I read and used 50ml in a regular beer and will use 50ml in my entry


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Re: Inaugural Everwood Ave Homebrew Competition

Post by jacinthebox » Mon Apr 29, 2019 8:00 am

Yea I made a starter just so I could save the slurry.
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Re: Inaugural Everwood Ave Homebrew Competition

Post by Hub Brewer » Mon Apr 29, 2019 11:16 am

RubberToe wrote:
Sun Apr 28, 2019 9:11 pm
Any of you guys saving your yeast for future reuse?
I got four batches out of one pack without making any starters. All were criminally under-pitched by typical yeast standards. I'll probably wash up some from the most recent batch to keep on hand. I'm loving it.

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Re: Inaugural Everwood Ave Homebrew Competition

Post by jacinthebox » Mon Apr 29, 2019 12:33 pm

Hub Brewer wrote:
Mon Apr 29, 2019 11:16 am
RubberToe wrote:
Sun Apr 28, 2019 9:11 pm
Any of you guys saving your yeast for future reuse?
I got four batches out of one pack without making any starters. All were criminally under-pitched by typical yeast standards. I'll probably wash up some from the most recent batch to keep on hand. I'm loving it.
Same here (pitch rate)...I kept rereading, because there was no way this amount could ever work...I was wrong lol
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Re: Inaugural Everwood Ave Homebrew Competition

Post by D.Pepper » Mon Apr 29, 2019 1:06 pm

I seriously under pitched mine at 0.25M/mL, but this yeast DGAF, it's blowing hard through my blowoff tube!

Edit: I'm gonna try to harvest and dry the yeast out to toss it in the freezer afterwards.

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Re: Inaugural Everwood Ave Homebrew Competition

Post by jacinthebox » Mon Apr 29, 2019 1:26 pm

I'm hoping the stress i inflicted on this beer equates to what I envisioned
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Re: Inaugural Everwood Ave Homebrew Competition

Post by Hub Brewer » Mon Apr 29, 2019 2:48 pm

Friday night I brewed a pale ale with it, 10 gallons, pitched about 2-3 tablespoons that hadn't been revitalized at all, fermented at 35-38C. Saturday morning it was going hard and I dumped a fresh 10 gallons onto the first 10 (in a big Speidel). Just took a gravity reading, 1.012. It's a beast. I will say that for my comp batch, the stress didn't quite give me the flavour results I was hoping for, but it was also in a style that had many competing flavours and might have just been masked somewhat.

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Re: Inaugural Everwood Ave Homebrew Competition

Post by velvetelvis » Tue May 07, 2019 12:09 pm

jacinthebox wrote:
Mon Apr 29, 2019 1:26 pm
I'm hoping the stress i inflicted on this beer equates to what I envisioned
What kind of stress? Made it write an exam, stole it's passport?

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Re: Inaugural Everwood Ave Homebrew Competition

Post by Naboo » Tue May 07, 2019 2:30 pm

I used half the yeast pack without stepping it up and now I think I massively over-pitched! It was blowing hard in just a couple of hours and I'm pretty sure it was all but done in 6-8 hours!

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Re: Inaugural Everwood Ave Homebrew Competition

Post by oceanic_brew » Tue May 07, 2019 3:10 pm

I didn’t even add my yeast and it fermented out

Crazy stuff


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Re: Inaugural Everwood Ave Homebrew Competition

Post by LiverDance » Tue May 07, 2019 4:02 pm

I guess I should brew for this :shock:
"Twenty years ago — a time, by the way, that hops such as Simcoe and Citra were already being developed, but weren’t about to find immediate popularity — there wasn’t a brewer on earth who would have gone to the annual Hop Growers of American convention and said, “I’m going to have a beer that we make 4,000 barrels of, one time a year. It flies off the shelf at damn near $20 a six-pack, and you know what it smells like? It smells like your cat ate your weed and then pissed in the Christmas tree.” - Bell’s Brewery Director of Operations John Mallet on the scent of their popular Hopslam.

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Re: Inaugural Everwood Ave Homebrew Competition

Post by mdentremont » Tue May 07, 2019 5:36 pm

Mine went all out, and was at 47c by the time I checked. Thought I had killed it, but we just pitched some into another beer and it's going nuts again. On the first batch, it appears to have completed in under a day, amazing stuff.

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Post by LeafMan66_67 » Tue May 07, 2019 7:53 pm

LiverDance wrote:I guess I should brew for this :shock:
Ha!
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Re: Inaugural Everwood Ave Homebrew Competition

Post by jacinthebox » Wed May 08, 2019 8:37 am

velvetelvis wrote:
Tue May 07, 2019 12:09 pm
jacinthebox wrote:
Mon Apr 29, 2019 1:26 pm
I'm hoping the stress i inflicted on this beer equates to what I envisioned
What kind of stress? Made it write an exam, stole it's passport?
That may have been easier on it
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Re: Inaugural Everwood Ave Homebrew Competition

Post by velvetelvis » Wed May 08, 2019 3:09 pm

oceanic_brew wrote:
Tue May 07, 2019 3:10 pm
I didn’t even add my yeast and it fermented out

Crazy stuff


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Wow beast, attenuation on that?

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Post by jacinthebox » Mon May 13, 2019 10:44 pm

Bottled up my entry tonight ...turned out well
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Re: Inaugural Everwood Ave Homebrew Competition

Post by wcturnedec » Tue May 14, 2019 8:55 am

jacinthebox wrote:
Mon May 13, 2019 10:44 pm
Bottled up my entry tonight ...turned out well
Awesome, mine is carbed up and will bottle at the last possible moment.....I had to re-brew my recipe due to a calibration issue with my thermometer.
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Post by jacinthebox » Tue May 14, 2019 9:16 am

crappy...good thing the yeast works off fast
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Re: Inaugural Everwood Ave Homebrew Competition

Post by LiverDance » Tue May 14, 2019 9:57 am

Brewed on Thursday, carbed it up today, packaging on Thursday. :spilly:
"Twenty years ago — a time, by the way, that hops such as Simcoe and Citra were already being developed, but weren’t about to find immediate popularity — there wasn’t a brewer on earth who would have gone to the annual Hop Growers of American convention and said, “I’m going to have a beer that we make 4,000 barrels of, one time a year. It flies off the shelf at damn near $20 a six-pack, and you know what it smells like? It smells like your cat ate your weed and then pissed in the Christmas tree.” - Bell’s Brewery Director of Operations John Mallet on the scent of their popular Hopslam.

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Re: Inaugural Everwood Ave Homebrew Competition

Post by jacinthebox » Tue May 14, 2019 9:59 am

LiverDance wrote:
Tue May 14, 2019 9:57 am
Brewed on Thursday, carbed it up today, packaging on Thursday. :spilly:

nice :rockin:
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Re: Inaugural Everwood Ave Homebrew Competition

Post by wcturnedec » Tue May 14, 2019 10:58 am

LiverDance wrote:
Tue May 14, 2019 9:57 am
Brewed on Thursday, carbed it up today, packaging on Thursday. :spilly:
Show off! I kid I kid!
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Post by jacinthebox » Tue May 14, 2019 1:25 pm

beer has been dropped off
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Re: Inaugural Everwood Ave Homebrew Competition

Post by PMackie » Thu May 16, 2019 8:23 am

Pulled the trigger on a beer gun instead of my makeshift one and bottled up from Keg last night. Dropping off today. I really like the beer, but I didn't go totally crazy.
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Re: Inaugural Everwood Ave Homebrew Competition

Post by mckay75 » Thu May 16, 2019 10:07 am

Bottling mine up tomorrow...nothing like waiting to the last minute!

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Re: Inaugural Everwood Ave Homebrew Competition

Post by danlatimer » Thu May 16, 2019 10:45 am

Bottling tomorrow too. I had made a starter with it and it smelled/tasted sour so I didn't use that yeast that brew day. I ended up bottom cropping from @mattdentremont's brew.

Gave it 8 days to ferment a Kolsch style beer @ 25c -> 28c with 0.5c increments each 12h. It surprisingly does taste like kolsch, just crashing it with gelatin while carbing for 2 days and I'll get my bottles in by the skin of my teeth

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