Greetings from New Zealand

[pounsfos]

Howdy Ya'l

I've gone the opposite route to most people

I've been a distiller for about 3 years (have built my own still and everything)

I have recently moved to Dunedin,NZ and my flatmate works at one of the local breweries here so we get free malt and grains sometimes

so thought to myself, hey why not get into making beer, can't be too much different than distilling....

My first beer was 2 can Malt extract
100grams caramalt (10 mins)
and one apple (60 mins)
fermented on standard bread yeast as didn't have any special stuff
fermented in 3 days and is clearing as we speak... tastes good already

Look forward to seeing ya around

 

[MichaelBrock]

An apple? I don't think I have ever seen anyone using an apple in a brew before! Did you chop it up? Skin and all? Do you actually get any apple flavor?

 

[pounsfos]

I got the idea from when I visited the monteiths brewery in greymouth,NZ

the used to make an apricot wheat beer,

I talked to the head brewer (tony mercer) about how he made it, he said he just chucked in 30kg of apricots into his mashtun and the flavour was amazing (they ferment in 14500L tanks)

so downscale to a 20 litre batch 1 apple why the hell not (I do infusions with my homebrew distillate and had some spare)

The beer is settling as we speak but a quick taste shows a faint apple note

 

[unionrdr]

I use all NZ hops in my Maori IPA. Great but different flavors you guys have down there! I'm bottle conditioning another batch now. Was pb/pm biab as well.

 

[Cyclman]

Welcome to the group, from CO.

 

[ColdToes]

Dunedin one city I can not wait too see again a great place indeed.