My Next Brew - Northern Brewer - Patersbier

[Jaysus]

troub> do it!

I am considering adding a 3rd tap to my kegerator so that I can keep a patersibeir on tap year round! (well, at least all summer!)

 

[motobrewer]

what's the fermentation schedule for 3787? i've never used it, does it like it really hot?

 

[swoof]

I brewed 5 gal of this on Wednesday night (3/30/11) and let it ferment at 66-68. Started at 1.044. Had a pretty good blowoff on Friday morning. Looked pretty quiet by Sunday morning (4/3/11) so I took a hydrometer reading and it was sitting at 1.009.

The sample tasted pretty nice, too. I can't wait for this one to be ready.

 

[motobrewer]

what's the fermentation schedule for 3787? i've never used it, does it like it really hot?

any ideas on ferm temps?

anyone who's made the AG beer, did you do the single infusion or the multi-step? any thoughts on either?

 

[philrose]

any ideas on ferm temps?

anyone who's made the AG beer, did you do the single infusion or the multi-step? any thoughts on either?

on mashing:

This sucker is all malt, so theres not much of a need to do multi step mash. I find that when I do a three step mash I get better efficiency and runoff, including on the simple patersbier and some SMaSH beers I've made. I see a correlation but I'm not (yet) convinced that the mash schedule is the cause.

what i'm saying is: If you've had success with single infusion on your other beers, keep it up with this one.

 

[Jaysus]

I brewed 5 gal of this on Wednesday night (3/30/11) and let it ferment at 66-68. Started at 1.044. Had a pretty good blowoff on Friday morning. Looked pretty quiet by Sunday morning (4/3/11) so I took a hydrometer reading and it was sitting at 1.009.

The sample tasted pretty nice, too. I can't wait for this one to be ready.

I brewed my latest version last Saturday, last night (wednesday) I noticed that the air lock was clogged, and the lid was about to blow off - lol

I forgot that this yeast is a beast - I actually blew the lid off of a bucket last time I brewed it. Note to self, use a hose next time.

 

[Mrmorrison21]

Got the patersbier in primary right now. Did a grav reading today. OG was 1.042, sitting at 1.010 two weeks in. I'm thinking about letting it ride another week and then going straight to bottle. One question, if I'm using my ale pail/bottling bucket as the primary, should I rack to a carboy and bottle via siphon, or rack to carboy, rinse ale pail/bottling bucket and then rack back from carboy to ale pail? I don't want to bottle using the ale pail spigot straight from primary right? My concern about all the racking is of course oxidation. Suggestions?

 

[Mrmorrison21]

Almost forgot to mention, it tasted awesome!

 

[SevenFields]

Kegged my 3rd batch of this last night!

 

[kyle6286]

Got the patersbier in primary right now. Did a grav reading today. OG was 1.042, sitting at 1.010 two weeks in. I'm thinking about letting it ride another week and then going straight to bottle. One question, if I'm using my ale pail/bottling bucket as the primary, should I rack to a carboy and bottle via siphon, or rack to carboy, rinse ale pail/bottling bucket and then rack back from carboy to ale pail? I don't want to bottle using the ale pail spigot straight from primary right? My concern about all the racking is of course oxidation. Suggestions?

I rack from primary to bottling bucket, connect one end of tubing to spigot and other end to bottle filler. This should minimize any oxidation.

 

[kyle6286]

Are you using your bottling bucket as your primary fermenter? I have a 6.5 gallon ale pail bucket used as my primary and then a separate 6.5 gallon bucket with a spigot for bottling.

 

[Mrmorrison21]

Are you using your bottling bucket as your primary fermenter? I have a 6.5 gallon ale pail bucket used as my primary and then a separate 6.5 gallon bucket with a spigot for bottling.

Exactly. I'm using my bottling bucket as my primary and don't have a second bucket. I do however have a clean carboy

 

[DieterVonBrauhaus]

I tapped my Patersbier keg two days ago, and I think I have already drank half of it.
It very easy drinking with a fast turnaround and very good. I will be making it again again.

:rockin: I can't keep my hands off of mine, even though it is only kegged for 2 weeks. I love it. It's a good summer beer like they said, fruity flavors yet light. Good texture and light in color. My OG was a little lower than the recipe stated but all in all, nice good summer beer with a good head retention. :fro:

 

[Jaysus]

Exactly. I'm using my bottling bucket as my primary and don't have a second bucket. I do however have a clean carboy

Well, if it were me, and I was in your shoes.... I would do a secondary fermentation for 2 weeks in the carboy. Which will give you plenty of time to either clean and sanitize your bucket or buy a new one

P.S. my current paitersbier has been in secondary for almost a week now... I have been fighting the urge to keg it on a daily basis. I love this beer.

 

[AustinBrewDawg]

I made this last night from the NB recipe. My LHBS didn't have pilsen extract so I used their extra pale malt extract which Im told contains pilsen malt. I did the pre-steep with carapils though.

OG was 1.042 and 12 hours later I'm already getting foam from my 7.9 gallon primary bucket airlock. My plan is to primary 2 weeks, secondary 2 weeks and hope to be drinking it July 4. I'll take the advice and only add in one extra ounce of priming sugar.

 

[Mrmorrison21]

I bottled using an auto-siphon from the primary fermented. Went smoothly. Hopefully all carbed up and good to go in a week or so. I can't wait!

 

[CrookedTail]

I keep hearing good things about this beer. I need to try it.

 

[Henry22]

Ordering the ingredients for this off of brewmasterswarehouse.com. They dont have tradition hops, figured I could use hallertau since tradition is a type of hallertau, would this work?

 

[Jaysus]

hallertau will work perfectly!

 

[Henry22]

Brewed this on thursday and man that yeast is a crazy. Even with a blow off tube it is crazy bubbling away and some foam even got in the tube. I ended up on the higher side with a little over 5.5 gallons, probably should have boiled for a little longer but it should all work out in the end with trub loss.

Excited to drink this one.

 

[khiddy]

I just kegged my latest batch, brewed with Safbrew T-58. I screwed up on my original gravity (boiled too long, had only about 4.5gal in fermenter, didn't cut it with distilled water at beginning of ferment, thus everything was messed up). Long story long, I got a 7.0%ABV beer in the end! I can't wait to try it when it's carbed & chilled - the green beer going into the keg was tasty, so I have hope that no matter what, I made beer... again!

What a hobby!