The Barrel Project Recipe

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Re: The Barrel Project Recipe

Post by chalmers » Tue Jun 19, 2012 9:25 am

Hogie: We ended up a few points low as well (1.086 and an extra 3L), so we've added some corn sugar to get it up to 1.099. I might suggest something similar?
Our pre-boil gravity was right on, but the more viscous wort just wasn't rolling like it should have been, I guess.

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Re: The Barrel Project Recipe

Post by hogie » Tue Jun 19, 2012 9:31 am

Hmm. I can do that too. Barely any headspace left in the bucket though. Will likely have to wait till primary fermentation in complete, then rack to another bucket and mix with boiled dextrose/water.

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Re: The Barrel Project Recipe

Post by hogie » Fri Jun 22, 2012 5:08 pm

Still fermenting strong. Did you brew yet X? Anyone else?

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Re: The Barrel Project Recipe

Post by mr x » Sat Jun 23, 2012 10:09 am

I'm brewing Monday. Johnnymac has his brewed, not sure about the others.
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Re: The Barrel Project Recipe

Post by Jayme » Sat Jun 23, 2012 8:19 pm

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Re: The Barrel Project Recipe

Post by GAM » Sun Jun 24, 2012 11:22 am

Brewing now.

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Re: The Barrel Project Recipe

Post by GAM » Sun Jun 24, 2012 3:28 pm

I had forgot how much I hate leaf hops.

Brew was great and easy. Getting it out of the kettle sucked.

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Re: The Barrel Project Recipe

Post by Keggermeister » Mon Jun 25, 2012 8:51 pm

What is going on here? Am I out of the barrel project? I need to be caught up to speed, it appears that people are brewing already?

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Re: The Barrel Project Recipe

Post by mr x » Tue Jun 26, 2012 12:36 pm

No, you can't be out, we're putting the barrel at your place. I figured you might be busy with the new project, so if you weren't able to brew in time, we were just going to comp you 5 gallons for having the barrel at your place. But if you hav time to brew, get it on. At any rate, it's RIS, and could sit until the second barrel fill if you can't get it done in time. Sorry for the lack of communications, I've been really pre-occupied with a lot of other stuff lately.
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Re: The Barrel Project Recipe

Post by mr x » Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:02 pm

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Re: The Barrel Project Recipe

Post by chalmers » Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:24 pm

Holy crap! The second carboy picture looks like you have a carboy full of foam. Hopefully there's some left at the end of the fermentation!

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Re: The Barrel Project Recipe

Post by mr x » Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:35 pm

They weren't even that full, only 5 1/3 gallons. That's what 3 minutes of O2 and a big pitch of yeast will do for you. Fermented at 66, might have helped if i went with 64. Dumb on my part.
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Re: The Barrel Project Recipe

Post by CorneliusAlphonse » Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:40 pm

look at all those caged corks in the background of pic 2 :drool:

how warm did the beer itself get during fermentation? assuming 66 was ambient that is...
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Re: The Barrel Project Recipe

Post by mr x » Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:42 pm

No, 66 was the fermentation temp. I have controllers.
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Re: The Barrel Project Recipe

Post by CorneliusAlphonse » Tue Jun 26, 2012 11:07 pm

cool.
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Re: The Barrel Project Recipe

Post by Keggermeister » Tue Jun 26, 2012 11:32 pm

mr x wrote:No, you can't be out, we're putting the barrel at your place. I figured you might be busy with the new project, so if you weren't able to brew in time, we were just going to comp you 5 gallons for having the barrel at your place. But if you hav time to brew, get it on. At any rate, it's RIS, and could sit until the second barrel fill if you can't get it done in time. Sorry for the lack of communications, I've been really pre-occupied with a lot of other stuff lately.
Thanks dude, So have I! We will work it out. I swept out a spot for it already... We should knock up a stand soon too.
Even if I am the last guy to fill it, it will be in a convenient spot! We will need an angels share top up too. Maybe that's what I will take care of. #buyingtime
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Re: The Barrel Project Recipe

Post by mr x » Sat Jun 30, 2012 2:58 pm

Just about finished here, just going to add the sugar. Tastes really good already. Will be awesome on wood. We had better think about getting that barrel over to Nick's asap, or somewhere we can keep it wetted down on the outside until we get it filled. How's everyone looking at the moment?
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Re: The Barrel Project Recipe

Post by hogie » Sat Jun 30, 2012 4:54 pm

I'll take a gravity reading in the morning. How much sugar do you need to add? I think I need to add about 3kg.

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Re: The Barrel Project Recipe

Post by chalmers » Sat Jun 30, 2012 7:57 pm

X and Hogie: We're talking adding sugar to get up to the recipe's 1.100 right, or something else?

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Re: The Barrel Project Recipe

Post by mr x » Sun Jul 01, 2012 9:30 am

When I designed my recipe, as I always do with most huge beers, I add some sugar to account for the low efficiency. I don't go over 10%, and in this case it was 8.6% to hit the target gravity.

In other words, don't pile sugar into to beer willy nilly trying to hit a gravity. This was something that needed to be built into the recipe from the start.
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Re: The Barrel Project Recipe

Post by mr x » Sat Sep 21, 2019 5:00 pm

Well, it's been 7 years and I just tapped one keg. Well worth the wait.
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Re: The Barrel Project Recipe

Post by GAM » Sat Sep 21, 2019 10:22 pm

WOW!

My keg kicked a couple of months ago.

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Re: The Barrel Project Recipe

Post by know1 » Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:44 am

I still have about a dozen bottles from the second round. I bet that first round keg is tasting amazing!
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Re: The Barrel Project Recipe

Post by Tim Gregory » Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:56 am

I think I have some bottles from round 1.

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Re: The Barrel Project Recipe

Post by BBrianBoogie » Tue Sep 24, 2019 9:34 pm

I still have some of round 1 left as well. As of ~ 2 years ago, it was tasting incredible.

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