Morebeer Pliny Extract Recipie Help/Tips

[DavidG13]

Here is my Pliny the elder mid boil. Even across two burners my stove was barely keeping it going. But it was enough thankfully. I cant use the bigger burner on this stove because it is set right up against the wall

Yes, I did preboil the pot to get it seasoned for brewing. It just didnt turn very dark up near the top.

 

[DavidG13]

Update - I took a gravity reading today. It has been in the primary for 12 days now. Fermentation was active within about 12 hours after I pitched the yeast. The activity in my airlock started to slow down a few days ago. Current reading is at 1.018 with some activity still visible. It is at the paiont where it is either late stage fermentation or just CO2 degassing.

My two mistakes of not aerating the wort and under pitching the yeast are not helping. So far though they are not hurting my beer that much either.

I am going to let it keep going another 5 days and see where it is at, Odds are the FG will not get much lower. The beer tastes good, tho it was still very cloudy. The nose is very close to the real Pliny!

 

[DavidG13]

My FG settled in at 1.016. I added the dry hops directly into the primary. I let them sit in there for 7 days total. When I checked at day 5 there was still too much CO2 degassing and making the beer very cloudy.

7/22/14 - I racked my Pliny clone into a carboy to let it clear up some more. I was already coming up on 4 weeks in the primary and wanted to get it off the trub. Which ended up being about just over an inch thick down there. The beer smells great and I will be bottling it soon enough!

 

[DanzigsMISFITS]

I just ran across this thread after messing up slightly. Figured id add my 2c instead of starting a new thread.

So the directions messed with me a bit.
After steeping hops/grains and bring it up to 170 I pulled the grain bag and as it was coming to boil I added the magnum instead of boiling it for 30 min.
(I remember reading if all grain is 90 the extract should be 60. ) So it took another 5-10 minutes to bring to boil and I started at 60 min and followed the rest of the scedule spot on. Hope it doesnt effect flavor/bittering too much.

My OG was right on target at 1.072. Added most of my extracts in the last 15 min. Added to carboy and pitched my starter. Ferm started within 10 hours and needed blow off tube it is now sitting in temp contolled environment at 64F. Im going to dryhop in keg after primary fermentation is finished.. guessing no sooner than 14 days then push it into a fresh keg and put in cellar untill I have room in my kegerator (which shouldn't be long).

 

[Yooper]

I just ran across this thread after messing up slightly. Figured id add my 2c instead of starting a new thread.

So the directions messed with me a bit.
After steeping hops/grains and bring it up to 170 I pulled the grain bag and as it was coming to boil I added the magnum instead of boiling it for 30 min.
(I remember reading if all grain is 90 the extract should be 60. ) So it took another 5-10 minutes to bring to boil and I started at 60 min and followed the rest of the scedule spot on. Hope it doesnt effect flavor/bittering too much.

My OG was right on target at 1.072. Added most of my extracts in the last 15 min. Added to carboy and pitched my starter. Ferm started within 10 hours and needed blow off tube it is now sitting in temp contolled environment at 64F. Im going to dryhop in keg after primary fermentation is finished.. guessing no sooner than 14 days then push it into a fresh keg and put in cellar untill I have room in my kegerator (which shouldn't be long).

It sounds fine- it doesn't matter that you added the magnum before boiling. That's not a big deal at all. It doesn't matter.

 

[DanzigsMISFITS]

It sounds fine- it doesn't matter that you added the magnum before boiling. That's not a big deal at all. It doesn't matter.

Nice. Ok good. My issue was I didnt really do a 90 min boil more of a 60 min boil with the magnum in between 170-212 then starting the 60min timer at when it hit 212. Thanks for response

 

[DavidG13]

I took a sample after only a week in the secondary. I would say things are looking pretty damned good! The taste is still great. Just needs to be bottle conditioned and it will be good to go. I may end up bottling this later today!

 

[DanzigsMISFITS]

Man i did the extract as above. I dryhop in keg purged left at 5 psi at 65 degrees. I controlled ferm temps at 64 deg. I controlled dry hop temps and did it in keg. I removed hops at 5 days. Its been a week in keg now fully carbed and has a buttery/oily finish...also has tge same "taste" as my other ipa extract brews... frustrating. Not sure if its the initial hop "burn" that needs to mellow or what. 14 days in primary at 64 deg. 5 days in keg dryhopping at 65 deg. In kegerator for a week carbing...

 

[DavidG13]

I still have one more week before I open my first bottle. The last taste I had the day it was bottled was promising. I will post a pic of it when I open one. The hop character was not as strong as I was expecting it to be. Which is good IMO. With the beer uncarbed it had a nice citrus/pine finish which was right on par with the one bottle of RR Pliny that I have gotten to try. Not sure what would give a buttery/oily finish to your brew.

 

[DanzigsMISFITS]

I still have one more week before I open my first bottle. The last taste I had the day it was bottled was promising. I will post a pic of it when I open one. The hop character was not as strong as I was expecting it to be. Which is good IMO. With the beer uncarbed it had a nice citrus/pine finish which was right on par with the one bottle of RR Pliny that I have gotten to try. Not sure what would give a buttery/oily finish to your brew.

How long you going to bottle condition

 

[BucksIPA]

I looked at the recipe from the article on the first page, in the extract substitution it says 6.5 DME, im assuming that is wrong. There is alot of vagueness going on in the recipe.

 

[DanzigsMISFITS]

Im trying the all grain version on the 3rd and i am going to dryhop in primary before racking to keg. My last allgrain turned out great so im going to keep up all grain

 

[DavidG13]

Well I still need to get a pic to post on here of how my beer looks. I ended up getting some decent clarity but the color ended up about where others have. I think park of what happened to mine is that when I went to bottle it I realized I missed a packet of dry hops to add. So I tossed that in for an extra week before getting into bottles and the beer ended up a few shades darker than I wanted to be. It still tastes awesome and I will give this recipie another go. I just have a few other recipies that I want to try before that happens.

I am currently brewing a Belgian triple and have a vanilla bourbon porter waiting for my primary to be free.