Festbier BierMuncher's OktoberFAST Ale (AG)

[pwortiz]

You close to northern NJ? There'll be 40 gallons of homebrew. The more the merrier.

sorely tempted - only about 35 mins west of you lol

 

[jaydog2314]

brewed this up this morning, missed my mash temp hit just over 155 was going for 157 and OG clocked in at 1.056, looking forward to this one in a few weeks!

 

[Will-D]

How many packages of Safale 04 should I pitch? I got two but putting the recipe in Beer Smith it tells me to pitch 3. This is going to be a 10 gallon batch.

 

[Redbeard5289]

Kegged my 5 gal batch today. FG came out at 1.012, had a beautiful orange hue with a malty aroma. Hydrometer sample was malty with strong hint of Munich and Vienna. Can't wait for this one to get carbed up. Not sure if I can wait

 

[BierMuncher]

How many packages of Safale 04 should I pitch? I got two but putting the recipe in Beer Smith it tells me to pitch 3. This is going to be a 10 gallon batch.

1 packet of Safale-04 is plenty. I always hydrate the yeast in a cup+ ofwam water for several hours (usually during the brew process) and then split the slurry between two five gallon buckets.

It's plenty of yeast to get the job done.

 

[Will-D]

Thanks for the reply, but I already pitched 2 dehydrated packs, 1 to each 5.5 gallon fermentor.

So you only pitch one rehydrated pack for a 10 gallon batch?

 

[copper2hopper]

I will be bottling my 4 gallons of this on the 19th. Exactly three weeks before my Oktoberfest party: A: will that be plenty of time for bottle conditioning. And B: how much priming sugar (corn sugar) should I use? Thanks.

 

[bolus14]

Should be enough time. I'm hoping to get my 4 gal batch bottles this weekend. I have 3.1 oz of table sugar measured out already. That should get me 2.5 vol of CO2

 

[Jimbutler21]

Just brewed up a 3 gallon batch of this tonight. Looking forward popping the cap for a party in a few months.


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[bolus14]

Bottles my 4 gal batch last night. Ended up with 36 bottles. Lost a few because I forgot to dump some sanitizer out of my bottling before I started racking so I had to dump at least 2 or 3 bottles worth out.

 

[eulipion2]

I just kegged my version of this with Mangrove Jack's M44 US West Coast, and the hydro sample tasted great! Attenuated a little too far, down to 1.010 and 5.5% ABV, but I'm really looking forward to fall with this beer.

 

[mdbrewer1]

Has anyone ever tried adding pumpkin pie spices to this one? I was thinking about making a 5 gal batch of this, splitting it into two Mr. Beer kegs, and adding a pumpkin pie spice tincture/dry hop to one of them. I'd love to have two beers ready for Halloween, but only have time for one brew. I used the thread search but couldn't find anything. Thanks!!

 

[adamg8504]

I just brewed this yesterday. I brewed a 5.5 gallon batch and added 10% to the grain bill to account for my usually crappy and inconsistent mash efficiency (~66-70%). I actually got about 74% instead and overshot my gravity, hit 1.056, which isn't too off I suppose.

I aerated and pitched my yeast yesterday at 5pm and this morning at 6am (13hrs later) that one pack of dry US04 is moving through it. My experience with dry yeast is that is usually takes 24-36 hours to get moving but this took off right away. It's bubbling away at 68°F in my fermentation chamber. Hopefully this turns out well for Halloween.

 

[mdbrewer1]

I brewed a batch up yesterday and split it into two LBKs as planned. In two weeks my plan is to add pumpkin pie spices to one of them, but am willing to change my mind if people think it would be cruel and unusual punishment to an otherwise fine brew. I found one commercial example online, so at least someone else has tried it with some success.

Turns out the Hallertau from my LHBS were 2.7% AA and I didn't notice til I got home, so I tossed in 0.5 oz of Perle that I had in the fridge to get the IBUs up. My sample was nice and malty and it seemed to me that it would be amenable to some pumpkin flavors.

Anyone have any thoughts?

 

[DagoBrewer]

Im brewing this on sunday. We just moved and I have a new garage/brewery to figure out.. should be a fun and educating session haha! My last garage was all dialed in, all I did was turn a water valve and light my burners!

 

[Will-D]

Just racked my 10 gallons to secondary after 2 weeks in primary, final gravity was right at 1.016, and the sample was delicious. Looking forward to kegging this one in a few weeks.

 

[DagoBrewer]

Done!! WTF?? Had a rough time at my new place gettin this done!! Stuck sparge twice! made for a late night! But its ok, im in the carboy at 10:15 pm pacific time! Im gunna drink a beer or twelve now!!

 

[DagoBrewer]

Ooops

 

[DagoBrewer]

Got some crazy action goin on in my carboy!!

 

[Melana]

I brewed 10 gallons of this on Saturday.

 

[TrubDog]

I brewed this last year and it was excellent. I'm mashing in this years batch as I type.

Good stuff!

 

[voigtmb]

I just got done making this exactly as posted and hope it turns out good. I am a fan of the Octoberfest by SA so hope it is close. Planing on going with the 1 week primary 4 weeks secondary and 1 week in keg before taping.


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[DagoBrewer]

Wow! Down to 1.010 in a week and tastes and smells amazing!! Nice and clear, this sample is better than SA or KS Oktoberfest IMO!

 

[erick0619]

If I can't secondary would it be acceptable to just leave it in primary for a total of 5 weeks?


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[bolus14]

Many don't secondary anything unless adding fruits, spices, etc. There are differing opinions on this topic, but I generally don't secondary and have yet to have any problems.

 

[pwortiz]

Many don't secondary anything unless adding fruits, spices, etc. There are differing opinions on this topic, but I generally don't secondary and have yet to have any problems.

+1 Same - only, I actually rarely secondary even with spices/fruit (depending on qty). I have an oaked brew I throw 4 oz rum soaked chips into along with 2 vanilla beans straight into the primary after 3 weeks. Leave it there for 10 days. No issues on this one. Just did it on Sunday

 

[erick0619]

Awesome thank you hopefully I have the funds for the recipe this month since I just freed up my fermenter


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[erick0619]

Hey one more question what was your average cost for this beer turns out I maye have the funds for it as long as it's under 35 dollars


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[erick0619]

Ok ignore my last post I called my LHBS and gave them the recipe and it came out to 33 dollars grains hops and yeast saweeet looks like i just might be brewing this up this weekend.


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[erick0619]

Damn I must be annoying well my LHBS dosnt have the 20l Munich malt they said they only had 7 and 9 L what would be a good substitue or addition to get the color to where it's supposed to be


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