NB Brickwarmer Holiday Red Ale
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Let us know how it comes out. I've got a batch in the fermenter now that's a week behind yours.
Its gonna be my first kegged batch.
Its gonna be my first kegged batch.
msmith92
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First taste is pretty good. It's been carbing since Saturday at 10psi. I think by the weekend it'll be better. Still a little sweet without the full carb. Nice caramel flavor with slight hop taste coming through. I don't get much orange taste but the aroma is there a little.
NVDCPerry
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I just brewed this on Saturday and am excited to see how it turns out as well. I'm going to primary for 4 weeks and then bottle. I'm really glad I read the reviews on NB about using a blowoff tube as my first few days of fermentation have been crazy. Did either of you need one?
Yup, pretty good brew! I made a batch up fo my Christmas party on Dec. 1. Both craft beer drinker and big box drinkers all liked this. I had 4 different kegs of beer plus several meads, so I had about 1/2 of the keg of Brickwarmer left after the party. It's tasting even better 3 weeks later.
I'm about 6wks out on my batch and its really good. I don't get much of the orange coming through, but everyone seems to love it.
techbrewie
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saw this recipe on NB. it really intrigued me. maybe next year 
I just ordered this kit and plan on brewing it on New Years Day. I will be using a 6 1/2 gallon fermentation bucket and was wondering if you guys would recommend a blow off hose. All the reviews I have read, recommend one. However, I have never used one and not quite sure what to do. Do I just attach a hose to my 3 piece airlock? Then put the hose into a bucket of sanitizer? Would I then need to change out the sanitizer after a week or so or could I just put on the traditional airlock once activity has slowed? Any help would be much appreciated.
Cole
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So I ended up making this kit and I have a blow hose hooked up but it doesn't appear I needed one. Brewed in a 6 gallon bucket last night and as of today the hose is bubbling about once every 10 seconds. Did I possibly do something wrong? Temp is at 63 degrees.
msmith92 said:
I used the 1028 Wyeast activator pack. As of this morning the temp was still at 63 degrees and it was bubbling like crazy. About once every second. Still no krausen coming out of the blow hose, but I'll take that as a good thing lol.
drives_a_bike
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I brewed this on December 1st, in the secondary still...dry hopped with some zythos. Gonna bottle it up next week.
I used white labs 007 dry English yeast and it definitely needed that blowoff hose
I used white labs 007 dry English yeast and it definitely needed that blowoff hose
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I would definitely use a blow off, i had a mess the second day the brew was in the primary
I'm on day 5 and just changed to an airlock. Bubbles have slowed to about one every 7 seconds. Does this seem normal? Temp has been consistent at 63 degrees. Did you guys rack to secondary or keep it in primary the whole time?
Og was 1.062. I usually rack to secondary after a week or so, but this may be the batch where I finally do away with secondary. Seems like more and more brewers are doing this as well. I will test the gravity after 7 days and see where I'm at.
NVDCPerry
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I decided to just keep this in the primary as well. I'll be bottling it up this weekend. Ynksfan27, sounds like you're having a good fermentation. This brew seems to trend toward using a blowoff but don't worry that the krausen decided to remain calm in yours. Always better to be prepared!
I see that Northern Brewers calls this a strongish American Amber Ale. I'm looking at the BJCP guide and I wonder if the beer isn't more of a American Brown Ale? I'd like to enter this in a local competition, but unsure which catagory would be correct. What do you all think?
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I'm going to be brewing this one soon. Will let it bottle condition til mid November. Should be phenomenal with a few months age on it, you think?
Reindeer
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How did it turn out with some conditioning? I've got a batch of this in secondary right now.
WatsonGravy
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I did the extract kit from NB. After 2.5 weeks I went from 1.067 to 1.013. I just transferred to a secondary on Tuesday. I will keg it Wednesday when I get home.
I did something a little different on this one. I put the orange peel in with the secondary. We will see how this turns out in a few weeks.
I did something a little different on this one. I put the orange peel in with the secondary. We will see how this turns out in a few weeks.
CrookedTail
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I thought about brewing this one last year, but ended up not doing it. This year I decided to go for it. It's been in the fermenter for a few weeks now. I'm going to bottle half, and keg the rest. Can't wait to try it!
RockyMTbrewer
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I brewed this, had some modifications tomthe malts since my shop didnt have marris otter, added morenorange peel and a full 2 oz of hopsminstead of the 1 3/4 oz. Needless to say its not the original beer by far, I hit 1.090 and dropped to1.020 when I racked to my secondary after a week or so, its oretty much an american strong ale now but the taste test when racking was really promising ill post again after my bottles are don conditioning
