Random Brewing Thoughts

[axeman91821]

My pils is pretty simple/straightforward

10lbs Weyermann Barke Pils
mash at 150

1oz of a blend of Tettnang and Hallertau in the last 5-10 minutes of the boil
1oz Tettnang/Hallertau in the whirlpool
Magnum at 90 minutes to give ~40ibu

Ferment w/ 34/70, pitch at 48 with the temp control set to 50. Five days each at 50 and 55 followed by two days each at 60 and 65, then lager for at least two weeks.

 

[Jas45678]

Anyone have any extra Oslo kveik they can spare? I have been want to try a faux pilsner and I always miss the presales. Can send the Manical Kviek the World blend or Hornindal(isolate) if you want to try those.

 

[coldcrash1]

Anyone have any extra Oslo kveik they can spare? I have been want to try a faux pilsner and I always miss the presales. Can send the Manical Kviek the World blend or Hornindal(isolate) if you want to try those.

Fresh Oslo up now

https://bootlegbiology.com/product/oslo/

 

[More Betterness]

Fresh Oslo up now

https://bootlegbiology.com/product/oslo/

Just grabbed a vial! Thanks for the heads up!

How did your beers with Oslo turn out JCastle ?

 

[JCastle1]

Just grabbed a vial! Thanks for the heads up!

How did your beers with Oslo turn out JCastle ?

I ended up waiting since I just bought some new hops to try. Gonna try Southern Aroma in the Oslo pilsner, hopefully I'll have time to make it sometime this week.

 

[Jas45678]

Fresh Oslo up now

https://bootlegbiology.com/product/oslo/

Missed it again

 

[JulianB1]

I'm drinking a homemade iced tea lemonade concoction at home and it's given me the urge/inspiration to do a hoppy blonde ale, potentially finished with some Earl Grey tea. Anyone have any good recipe suggestions here? Mostly wondering what would be a good amount of tea to use without overdoing it. I figure a pretty standard American blonde ale recipe would work, just hopped a bit more aggressively and then dry-hopped. But would welcome any thoughts here. Aiming for a 10 gallon batch.

 

[wuntrikpony]

I'm drinking a homemade iced tea lemonade concoction at home and it's given me the urge/inspiration to do a hoppy blonde ale, potentially finished with some Earl Grey tea. Anyone have any good recipe suggestions here? Mostly wondering what would be a good amount of tea to use without overdoing it. I figure a pretty standard American blonde ale recipe would work, just hopped a bit more aggressively and then dry-hopped. But would welcome any thoughts here. Aiming for a 10 gallon batch.

I've thought about doing an Arnold Palmer beer ever since having Shooter McGavin from Noble Ale Works back in the day. Never brewed it up, but the recipe was an 4-5% American blonde with lemon zest and black tea in secondary. Lemon juice and lactose to taste in the keg.

Why aggressively hop it? If you're adding black tea, you'll get some astringency to balance it out.

 

[JulianB1]

I've thought about doing an Arnold Palmer beer ever since having Shooter McGavin from Noble Ale Works back in the day. Never brewed it up, but the recipe was an 4-5% American blonde with lemon zest and black tea in secondary. Lemon juice and lactose to taste in the keg.

Why aggressively hop it? If you're adding black tea, you'll get some astringency to balance it out.

I meant more late-hopping and dry-hopping. I was going to use citra or galaxy or something along those lines to give it a citrusy hop flavor.

What kind of ratios did you have in mind on the tea/zest/juice/lactose? Sounds like a nice idea.

 

[wuntrikpony]

I meant more late-hopping and dry-hopping. I was going to use citra or galaxy or something along those lines to give it a citrusy hop flavor.

What kind of ratios did you have in mind on the tea/zest/juice/lactose? Sounds like a nice idea.

Gotcha...I personally don’t find Citra all that citrusy and would hate to waste Galaxy on anything that doesn’t showcase the hop. I’d go with no/low bittering hops and Amarillo/Cascade in the whirlpool. 2oz lemon zest(for a 5gal batch) after fermentation is almost done. Rack to keg and tea bag it until it extracts enough astringency...maybe 2oz bagged and check it every 12 hours?

As for the lactose/lemon juice...I’d just dose a glass to taste and then scale up from there.

 

[user 307594]

my daly palmer is a lemon zested cream ale with steeped black tea. Hopped with just a flameout addition of sorachi ace to ~15 IBUs, add lemon zest post-fermentation, and steep black tea than rack. I think I used 2lbs for 7bbl for about 5 hours.

 

[JCastle1]

my daly palmer is a lemon zested cream ale with steeped black tea. Hopped with just a flameout addition of sorachi ace to ~15 IBUs, add lemon zest post-fermentation, and steep black tea than rack. I think I used 2lbs for 7bbl for about 5 hours.

Man that sounds tasty. I'll have to try it sometime for sure.

 

[Espeer]

Yeah, **** is wild. Now I top crop and dry the yeast out. I use 1 gram of dry for 5 gallons and it starts ripping in a couple hours.

Just listened to the most recent mtf podcast. Nice job!

 

[SirDickButts]

I'm drinking a homemade iced tea lemonade concoction at home and it's given me the urge/inspiration to do a hoppy blonde ale, potentially finished with some Earl Grey tea. Anyone have any good recipe suggestions here? Mostly wondering what would be a good amount of tea to use without overdoing it. I figure a pretty standard American blonde ale recipe would work, just hopped a bit more aggressively and then dry-hopped. But would welcome any thoughts here. Aiming for a 10 gallon batch.

3oz for dry tea'ing. Treat the beer like a cold brew, rack to keg when flavor preference is achieved.

 

[meatst1ck]

Missed it again

Can’t post a screenshot atm, but someone on reddit hinted that more homebrew packs of Oslo will be available on Monday!

 

[JCastle1]

Can’t post a screenshot atm, but someone on reddit hinted that more homebrew packs of Oslo will be available on Monday!

 

[meatst1ck]

Just bottled up another batch of mixed culture saison. This one, though, I decided to get into bottles early and condition entirely in bottles as opposed to my PET secondary.

OG: 1.044
FG: 1.000
Fermented out with Mainiacal Farmhouse Fever (+ Belle + Tilquin/Girardin dregs added on day 5)

5 weeks brew day to bottling. Carbed to 2.5 vol with champagne yeast (Bob Sylvester method). Sample tasted mostly like a clean saison -- Some peach/lemon zest/lemongrass and subtle black pepper and maybe hay. Not bad, but can't wait to see what it develops into in 6+ months

Overall I so far learned that I don't really care for Belle as a saison strain, as I can definitely see what it brings to the table in this fresh sample

Ok I completely take back what I said, and I think this is going to be my new main method for mixed culture saisons moving forward lol. Belle seems like an awesome go to for quickly getting to terminal as a secondary yeast. At 4 weeks in the bottle this is drinking pretty incredible. So clean. Can't wait to see how it continues to develop with time too.

 

[TripleSixHoppia]

Ok I completely take back what I said, and I think this is going to be my new main method for mixed culture saisons moving forward lol. Belle seems like an awesome go to for quickly getting to terminal as a secondary yeast. At 4 weeks in the bottle this is drinking pretty incredible. So clean. Can't wait to see how it continues to develop with time too.

I do this with almost all of my mixed culture beers. Pretty much any diastaticus yeast works, I just keep packets of dried yeast to sprinkle in with my brett and lab cultures. I keep some blends around that are already mixed that work well. I think the extended aging in package is a major key. I like it a lot better than bulk aging.

 

[meatst1ck]

I do this with almost all of my mixed culture beers. Pretty much any diastaticus yeast works, I just keep packets of dried yeast to sprinkle in with my brett and lab cultures. I keep some blends around that are already mixed that work well. I think the extended aging in package is a major key. I like it a lot better than bulk aging.

Yea I took this idea from you haha, should’ve given you credit. But yea man I’m loving this method! After a few acetic batches in the past, and having no way to flush with CO2, this just works so well for me. So clean and bright now, but I’m sure so much aging potential in the bottle too. Can’t wait to see where this batch goes

 

[agrippin]

I've actually been testing out a way to push a bit of extra fermentation to flush oxygen out by adding some honey when I transfer vessels with my mix ferm stuff. I need to take a sample but I can report back and see if that idea has worked out.

 

[reverseapachemaster1]

I've actually been testing out a way to push a bit of extra fermentation to flush oxygen out by adding some honey when I transfer vessels with my mix ferm stuff. I need to take a sample but I can report back and see if that idea has worked out.

I do the same but just use a priming solution.

 

[JCastle1]

******* Aurora fermented my IPA at room temp from 13.5 to 3 in 2 days. It's tasting fantastic with those African hops by the way. Just dry hopped it and will probably keg in a couple days.

 

[user 307594]

******* Aurora fermented my IPA at room temp from 13.5 to 3 in 2 days. It's tasting fantastic with those African hops by the way. Just dry hopped it and will probably keg in a couple days.

with these kviek yeasts hitting term in 2-3 days, what about diacetyl and acetyldehyde take up?

 

[JCastle1]

with these kviek yeasts hitting term in 2-3 days, what about diacetyl and acetyldehyde take up?

I'm usually very sensitive to diacetyl and couldn't detect any at room temp. Didn't detect any acetaldehyde either but I did consider that it may be more subtle and hidden by the amount of hops. I was planning on trying the microwave test in a few days.

 

[ChaQuiseman]

I had Oslo in my cart last time it was on sale, had someone stop by my desk while I was checking out, became distracted, and it was sold out by the time I remembered about it.

Really wanting to try that yeast out in an IPL style. Hopefully they put another batch up for sale soon.

 

[Jas45678]

I had Oslo in my cart last time it was on sale, had someone stop by my desk while I was checking out, became distracted, and it was sold out by the time I remembered about it.

Really wanting to try that yeast out in an IPL style. Hopefully they put another batch up for sale soon.

I got lucky last drop. Hopefully brewing a batch this weekend with it. I can dry some out and send it to you if you don’t feel like waiting

 

[rcubed1]

I bought Hornindal at my local shop and plan on using it tomorrow.

 

[JCastle1]

I got lucky last drop. Hopefully brewing a batch this weekend with it.

Same hopefully on Sunday I'll have time. Got the ingredients for Oslo pilsner ready.

 

[ChaQuiseman]

I got lucky last drop. Hopefully brewing a batch this weekend with it. I can dry some out and send it to you if you don’t feel like waiting

Appreciated! You don't need to go through all of that hassle for me - it's not like I have any lack of other things that I want to brew.

 

[SirDickButts]

random dude in beer store: "my beers always finish around 5.2"
me: