New Zealand Brewers

[crusader1612]

Yeah bro, dual kegs. Just sorting co2. Be using dirty old SodaStream bottles until I can sort a big tank

Yeah I bought a tank especially, 3.5kg for $190 here in chch.
Cutting up my fridge tonight, to get my taps in, already got a hole for the co2 line.
Looking forward to it.

 

[PatrickSweetman]

Kingsland, Auckland. Making wines out of fruit and vegetables. Only just returned to the hobby after decades away. Photo blog on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152048803666313&type=1&l=33937a81c8

Edit: Add photo. Left to right:- Carrot, Celery, Tomato, Onion, Guava, Cabbage, Pineapple, and 90% Carrot + 10% Beetroot.

 

[kiwirevo]

Kingsland, Auckland. Making wines out of fruit and vegetables. Only just returned to the hobby after decades away. Photo blog on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152048803666313&type=1&l=33937a81c8



Edit: Add photo. Left to right:- Carrot, Celery, Tomato, Onion, Guava, Cabbage, Pineapple, and 90% Carrot + 10% Beetroot.

All I can say is WOW! That's a lot of different ingredients, do you do anything to them before fermentation?


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[PatrickSweetman]

All I can say is WOW! That's a lot of different ingredients, do you do anything to them before fermentation?


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No. Traditionally vegetable wines are made from the liquid that the sliced vegetables have been boiled in, and extra ingredients such as raisins, apples, ginger, lemons, etc are used. But I have purchased a slow juicer that produces juice from just about anything and I want to experiment with wines from fresh juice alone ... and sugar and yeast. And to try savoury wines for marinades, soups and other cooking. The lees from the cabbage have been a wonderful addition to soups and noodles.

I've just juiced a small quantity of hard unripe windfall feijoa. The juice is recognisably feijos, but green and bitter. As you can see, I am an experimentalist.

 

[Espressomattic]

Nuts!

Just tried my latest brew. I used black rock IPA bag kit, 1.4kg pale ale malt,500g of dark roasted malts and burton yeast. I then used 30g of cascade at 5 mins and then 30 grams of fuggles at 30mins.

I bottled it on Saturday in750ml plastic bottles and one carbing tab.

I have surprised myself. It has this malty chocolate aroma that flows onto the palette. The hops are pretty well balanced and up front. It's an awesome deep red colour.

Ethan time I want to use dme instead of the pack and beef up the grains with some crystal or something.

Cheers

Matt.

Ps looking to move to Marton. Someone here is down manawatu?

 

[Pataka]

Hey all

NZ here (in Palmerston North). Didn't realise we have our own thread here. Very new to the brewing game, only been at it since December last year. So far, into fruit wines and ciders. Experience limited to Loquats (since that's the tree in our backyard that went mental this summer). I have about 2.5kg of de-seeded plums in the freezer, which I'm contemplating what to do with. In the meantime, it's just waiting for my Loquat wine to clear before I bottle, and my experimental batch of Loquat cider is in its first week still.

 

[PatrickSweetman]

Lots of loquat trees around Auckland, and I've gone out to pick them along the motorway, but they are always too ratty. Birds and disease mean there's not enough to be worth picking. Sounds like you have hit the jackpot.

Apples are very cheap at the moment. 79 cents a kilo for Royal Gala.

 

[Espressomattic]

Can't recall if I posted this or not but greenway juices at te kauwhata sells fresh unpastuerised apple juice straight into you fermentor for about $1.30 a litre. Just give them a call to make sure they're pressing that day

 

[NZLunchie]

Ps looking to move to Marton. Someone here is down manawatu?

Hey all

NZ here (in Palmerston North).

I'm in Palmy as well, so is Pkrd

 

[Pkrd]

http://www.arthurholmes.co.nz try these guys, not sure on the price but got to be cheaper

Thanks Revo. Not so cheap in small quantities and need to add gst too.
The Mrs found some 250ml flip tops at the supermarket for 3$ a piece. Quite flimsy but should do the job.

Just realised I can do my lagering in my beer fridge, freeing up the fermenting fridge for the brewshop citra/zythos IPA and Black IPA (which I'll water down into a very tasty American Stout).

 

[PatrickSweetman]

Can't recall if I posted this or not but greenway juices at te kauwhata sells fresh unpastuerised apple juice straight into you fermentor for about $1.30 a litre. Just give them a call to make sure they're pressing that day

Greenways are the best juice at the supermarket, IMHO, but they didn't reply to an email requesting a quote on delivery of 10 or 20 litres of juice, so I'm juicing the cheap apples from the local market.

I see cheap Quince for sale on Trade Me. Please don't raise the bidding up.

 

[NZLunchie]

Yeah I bought a tank especially, 3.5kg for $190 here in chch.
Cutting up my fridge tonight, to get my taps in, already got a hole for the co2 line.
Looking forward to it.

I'm a little way off that - brewing this weekend to get it into a keg though. Will sort the rest of the keg setup while its fermenting, it'll make me sort it out

Simple beer - Vienna malt and I'm thinking Citra & Riwka to see how they pair.

 

[crusader1612]

I'd say that'd be a nice combo.


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[NZLunchie]

I'd say that'd be a nice combo.

Apparently a combo used in Hop Zombie.....now to sort the US hops & grain bill :rockin:

 

[Pataka]

So has anyone here tried making a cider out of Pam's home style apple juice (or something like that)? It's cloudy, rather than clear, and comes in 3 litre bottles. No preservatives and the expected caution on the label (refrigerate and consume within four days of opening). Obviously, you'd need to throw in some pectic enzyme as it would be pasteurised, in all likelihood. But it seems a good option to me.

 

[Jes2xu]

Hi all,

I'm new to brewing, and new to the forum. Man this place is sweet!

im in Palmerston and starting off with extract kits for beer mostly. I'm sure I will be asking for help soon haha


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[crusader1612]

Apparently a combo used in Hop Zombie.....now to sort the US hops & grain bill :rockin:

Ah Yes it is too.
My understanding of Hop Zombie is 50/50 Pilsner/Pale as well.
Is the rmore than just riwaka and citra in there? I always thought there were 4 hops in hop zombie?

and Welcome Jes, Palmerston North u mean? Or Palmerston down south?

 

[PatrickSweetman]

Some windfall Feijoa in Auckland, but they are hard and unripe, and they rot when left in the sun instead of ripening. Nevertheless I have juiced them to make about 1.5 litres of wine. Maybe later in the season there will be better Feijoa available. The ones on TradeMe look like my windfall ones.

My Facebook winemaking photo blog is here https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152048803666313&type=1&l=33937a81c8

 

[NZLunchie]

Just mashed in a Pale Ale. All Vienna malt with a touch of Riwaka and Citra. Might throw some Motueka in for a dry hop as well

 

[NZLunchie]

Just mashed in a Pale Ale. All Vienna malt with a touch of Riwaka and Citra. Might throw some Motueka in for a dry hop as well

Hydro reading with temperature adjustment says we missed pre boil by a couple of points. Not bad. Aiming for a pre boil of 1.038 sitting at 1.033

 

[NZLunchie]

Hydro reading with temperature adjustment says we missed pre boil by a couple of points. Not bad. Aiming for a pre boil of 1.038 sitting at 1.033

All done - sitting in the ghetto chiller now cooling down. Good smells coming out of the kettle!!!

 

[Pkrd]

Lunchie I just tried your Superbeer. Fantastic fluffy head. Took 2 hours to get through it. Delicious.

Anticipating a hangover in the morning.

Must drop you round a Saison. Or did I already?

 

[NZLunchie]

Lunchie I just tried your Superbeer. Fantastic fluffy head. Took 2 hours to get through it. Delicious.

Anticipating a hangover in the morning.

Must drop you round a Saison. Or did I already?

Cheers dude. I still think thats my best beer yet and its still "fresh". I've got one in the fridge and a sneaky 6 pack in the cellar. I reckon it'll get better with age. Nah I dont think a saison was in the last care package.
We should try and organise a meetup and swap with other Palmy North people on here...

 

[Pkrd]

Yeah give us a heads up next brew day.


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[NZLunchie]

Yeah give us a heads up next brew day.


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Hows the head?

 

[crusader1612]

Hows the head?

Dont know about yours but mines a bit fuzzy from the great kiwi beer fest in Christchurch. Stone for the win. Immense beers.


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[NZLunchie]

Dont know about yours but mines a bit fuzzy from the great kiwi beer fest in Christchurch. Stone for the win. Immense beers.


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Hahahahah mine was a little fuzzy. Opening of our rugby club this weekend so was a fairly decent afternoon/night!

I'm yet to have any Stone beers. All I hear are good things, so hope I'm not disappointed when I do

 

[Pkrd]

Damn. A mouse chewed its way in ( through a wall and then the cardboard box) and ate my honeymalt. No wonder he wasn't going for the peanut butter on the traps.

Brewing up a Zythos Citra IPA from brewshop tonight.


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[rookiebrew25]

I am Zane I brew beer and cheap apple juice cider. Brew in Ashburton. Just brewed my first attempt at Sjporr challenge.

 

[rookiebrew25]

Yes have a brew blog on you tube just search zane Maxwell home brew