AHA Surly Wort Rally

[techbrewie]

Nice! I ordered the yeast bay funktown and their dry Belgian yeast. Really exited, but its not coming in the mail until mid next week. If I put wm in the form fridge and set it to 34 def F, it should be OK for a few days, right? Fingers

Really excited about the Belgian, might split that and try some fruit with it. Thinking plums or blackberry

 

[jplowe]

I've decided i'd go with WLP644 and the fiance will do a US05 or simliar clean yeast. I can't wait to see what a few months and some raspberry will accomplish the brett.

 

[Skolvikes]

We are in the 5 pm group as well but planning on going earlier for brewery tours and beers

 

[Firewalker11]

It all starts at 2, I have to pick up my wife from work so we will be there at 5 for the pick up but you will want to be there right away for the swag.

 

[blaster_54738]

Just got back from there and yeah there wasn't much for swag. Tshirts went within the first half hour, lots of stickers though and some damn good beer. Talking with the guy filling my keg he said you can basically throw any yeast at the wort you want but he recommended a simple ale yeast.

 

[geoffey]

I showed up a little late in the game. Didn't see any HBT people there. I'm going to pitch ECY Bug County into my 5gal and see what happens. Will add some fruit along the way somewhere.

 

[d3track]

I volunteered from 1:30-4 so I didn't get to hang out much, but did end up pitching 028

 

[Firewalker11]

I was told by one of the owners (Omar) to pitch Safale US-05 for a general yeast, Paul from Brew & Grow mentioned a Sasion, my wife is going to pitch that tomorrow, I pitched the 05 tonight with a spunding valve on the corny.

I was the guy with the burn scars on my face and arms, no beard (Jealous!) in case you were looking around.

 

[jplowe]

Since i live 3 hours away and don't have any refrigerators to keep the wort chilled until a starter could me made, i pitched what i had in the smack pack and vile after 3 hours of warming in the car. I ended up going with a 1007 German Ale and WLP650 brett. After reading online i found that the wlp650 isn't recommended as the sole fermenting entity in primary but eh i read that the mad fermentor did it and maybe mine will turn out. Ugh

Does anyone know what the FG is supposed to be? With the Ale yeast i can kind of figure wait two weeks and take a hydrometer reading but I know ball park if anyone asked while they were there. The Brett is going to be interesting to see how long pellicles take to form and actually do their magic.

 

[jbrace1]

My wife and I each got 5 gallons. We pitched WLP644 "Trois" and 670 Farmhouse blend with Brett.

OG was 1.051

 

[techbrewie]

Yeah NB had Brett trois there. I was pretty tempted to just buy some to have it

 

[nopride]

That was fun! I ended up winning the yeast book, $25 gift card, 10 lbs of grain & some other stuff.

Thanks for the OG. I threw in the starter right away because I wasn't going home until the evening and wasn't able to check it. I had a starter of the WLP 645 - Brett C that had been going for a week. It was going crazy this morning.

Not exactly sure what I'm going to do with it yet, but thinking of splitting the batch and doing a heavy dry hop with one batch, and adding something fruity to the second. I would like to do wine must or grapes, but not sure if I'll be able to find any for a reasonable price.

 

[markstache]

Meh. Best part of the day was my bike ride to/from. Seriously, no tours?

 

[Firewalker11]

Did you miss the tour? We stood in the room and the guy talked on the microphone that kept cutting out. The "tour" came when you were filling your keg/bucket/carboy with wort. How DID you get that glass carboy home anyway?

 

[jplowe]

My fiance and i were disappointed by the tour as well.

So far my two batches are bubbling like crazy. I wish i had a blow off tube! Smells great too

 

[markstache]

Did you miss the tour? We stood in the room and the guy talked on the microphone that kept cutting out. The "tour" came when you were filling your keg/bucket/carboy with wort. How DID you get that glass carboy home anyway?

I didn't fill a carboy, so I wasn't aware of the secret tour.

 

[syke0021]

Can anyone else confirm that the OG was 1.051? I know it was targeted at 1.053, but pitched my yeast starter right way and neglected to take a hydrometer reading. Glad I was around to keep an eye on it, I needed to switch to a blow-off hose about 12 hours after pitching. Looking forward to seeing how it turns out!!!

 

[Firewalker11]

1.051 before pitching. Safale 04 is doing OK but not as impressive than other worts.

 

[Firewalker11]

3 days in the fermentor and it's 1.026... I made a brown porter Sunday morning and it's at 1.010, I guess 04 isn't as 'hot' as 05 in the porter after all.

Side Note: Tasted the SURLY beer, tart stomach acid flavor and I have 10 gallons of the stuff! YUCK!

 

[digitality]

I tasted the wort before pitching and it reminded me of some sort of meat. Then the fermentation stunk up my house pretty weird.

Not expecting much from this beer.

 

[Firewalker11]

I thought the ferm smell was fantastic! Is the tartness that is throwing me. It goes to Wyoming in August so it better be drinkable by then.

 

[evegoe]

I'm excited to see how this one turns out. Has anyone taken a gravity reading yet or planned to transfer to secondary?

Todd tweeted that the OG was 13 degrees plato, so 1.053 OG. I used WLP630 so expecting it should get it down to 1.014 to 1.010. He indicated he thought 5 days would be all it would need in primary. I'm planning to take a gravity tonight and then again tomorrow afternoon to see if it's done yet.

 

[Firewalker11]

I'm excited to see how this one turns out. Has anyone taken a gravity reading yet or planned to transfer to secondary?

Todd tweeted that the OG was 13 degrees plato, so 1.053 OG. I used WLP630 so expecting it should get it down to 1.014 to 1.010. He indicated he thought 5 days would be all it would need in primary. I'm planning to take a gravity tonight and then again tomorrow afternoon to see if it's done yet.

I started out at 1.051 and am at 1.012 right now.

Correction: I used 05 not 04 as previously mentioned.

 

[geoffey]

I think it would be fun to do a HBT bottle trade from the Surly wort. Not sure how to organize it, but it couldn't be that difficult. Meet at a designated time and place, bring X amount of bottles to share. Anyone interested in such a thing?

 

[jbrace1]

i'm at 1.010 at 5 days with the 'trois' blend

 

[Subdivisions]

damn you MN people. Why can't I get this around my place

 

[techbrewie]

Man keep US posted on that trois blend. I just pitched funktown from the yeast bay and dry Belgian from the yeast bay. Looking forward to the results!

 

[d3track]

If I bottle any i might be up for a trade.
028 is chugging away, it switched from a sweet smell in the fermentor to a very tart/sour smell

 

[digitality]

3711 brought mine down to 1.006. I'll probably keg it in a couple days. Hydrometer sample tasted pretty good. It was tart but not too bad.

 

[WalleyeGuy]

Did anyone take ph reading before pitching? After a long weekend, I didn't do anything other than pitch and then nap, lol.

I pitched 05 on half of it, and put around 5lbs of raspberries from my yard in the other half.

I am working on plating some wild yeast from my yard, but don't have anything built up enough to pitch yet. So I figured I'd throw the berries right in and let them battle it out for a few months