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Coffee..... Trying to decide what I should brew on Saturday. I have 65+ pounds of pilsner malt; conan, 1968, wlp500, 3787, and 3068, possibily one other strain I cant think of. I have some loose 1oz bags of hops and also a pound each of mosaic and citra. I also have a bunch of bugs but I need more clean beers in my pipeline. Any suggestions or ideas?!
 
A pale ale or IPA? Sounds like you have plenty for those? 2nd mug of coffee before getting back to my books for awhile. I really need to get some spring water to brew up the other batch of ESB waiting in the wings & get Christmas check into the bank.
 
BGBC said:
Looking good. Switching to blowoff?

Do you know how OEC sources their bugs? Just curious.
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Yep, soon.

OEC doesn't buy sacc or bugs. They have their own house strains that were somehow harvested - not sure from what. I think every beer they make has bugs in it along with a house yeast strain. They dump wort into barrels that have already had bacteria introduced. They depend on those barrels to sour their brews.

I had made a starter last week from four, different beers. It took off quite nicely. After stepping-it-up, I had a good cake. Cold crashed it and dumped it into my wort last night. It took off pretty darn fast. I already told those guys what I planned to do with the dregs and they are excited to taste my experiment/cluster**** of a beer.
 
finsfan said:
Coffee..... Trying to decide what I should brew on Saturday. I have 65+ pounds of pilsner malt; conan, 1968, wlp500, 3787, and 3068, possibily one other strain I cant think of. I have some loose 1oz bags of hops and also a pound each of mosaic and citra. I also have a bunch of bugs but I need more clean beers in my pipeline. Any suggestions or ideas?!
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Hoppy belgian pale/IPA?
 
While heating strike water for another clone attempt with an adjusted recipe. Water profile change, hop profile changes, yeast change, and slightly higher gravity.

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BGBC said:
Hoppy belgian pale/IPA?
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Thats kinda what Im leaning towards. Im going to see what all Wes's "its a trap" recipe calls for, specialty grain wise. I have plans to make a chain breaker clone, but dont have everything for that and am trying to avoid ordering stuff today.
 
finsfan said:
Coffee..... Trying to decide what I should brew on Saturday. I have 65+ pounds of pilsner malt; conan, 1968, wlp500, 3787, and 3068, possibily one other strain I cant think of. I have some loose 1oz bags of hops and also a pound each of mosaic and citra. I also have a bunch of bugs but I need more clean beers in my pipeline. Any suggestions or ideas?!
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Save the WLP500 for a dubbel and make sure you make your own candi sugar or syrup. I would personally go for the 3787, bitter with a neutral bittering hop, some combination of mosaic with just a little bit of citra or centennial if you have it for late hops, and shoot for around 8%abv just because. With belgian yeast I love to add some Caramunich and some Special B for color and love what they add to the flavor. All this comes from some random dude on the interwebz so take and leave what you choose :drunk:

On the coffee hard and heavy today.
 
BrewinHooligan said:
Save the WLP500 for a dubbel and make sure you make your own candi sugar or syrup. I would personally go for the 3787, bitter with a neutral bittering hop, some combination of mosaic with just a little bit of citra or centennial if you have it for late hops, and shoot for around 8%abv just because. With belgian yeast I love to add some Caramunich and some Special B for color and love what they add to the flavor. All this comes from some random dude on the interwebz so take and leave what you choose :drunk:

On the coffee hard and heavy today.
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Sounds like a tripel? Or are you saying I should make a big Belgian IPA/PA?
 
finsfan said:
Sounds like a tripel? Or are you saying I should make a big Belgian IPA/PA?
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My thoughts lean towards a hoppy Tripel. I don't like Belgian IPAs much because the hops always overpower the yeast and if you're gonna do that you might as well just use a Chico strain. I would shoot for about 40-50 ibu if it were my beer.
 
mcbaumannerb said:
Yeah, about that. I'm pretty sure we all know you've done that before. Many times. Many, many times.
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I think it hit me harder than I had expected because I drank it so quickly. And the fact that I need some damned food in my stomach.

Best part about working from home is having a beer or thirteen at lunch time and shooting things outside. :D
 
Drinking water after lunch. Beautiful here today and stuck driving a desk. I believe the statement is "I'd rather be brewing!! **** **** ****!! "
 
finsfan said:
Thats kinda what Im leaning towards. Im going to see what all Wes's "its a trap" recipe calls for, specialty grain wise. I have plans to make a chain breaker clone, but dont have everything for that and am trying to avoid ordering stuff today.
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PM sent. There's hardly any specialty grain. Mostly Pilsner malt.

Ridire said:
Coke...lunch...fat...
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Same here.



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Remmy said:
2 > 1

Next and next. Ain't nobody got time to go back inside for more beer.

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SWMBO told me she wanted the pumpkins tossed. Well, here goes nothing.
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You need to put some tannerite in one of them punkins to make it really go boom!! :rockin: They probably don't let you buy that stuff there though
 

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