Random Mindless Beer - It will be beer.

[Dynachrome]

14.4 lbs of some unlabeled grain from my freezer (I think I was getting ready for my Two Hearted clone)

18.2lbs Rahr Tow Row

10 gallon mash (water temp was about 170 before the grain cooled it) 154 deg F for one hour

11 total gallons sparge water 160 deg F split into two sparges (water was hotter before grain cooled it)

hops 60 min 2 oz. Fuggle 3.6 AA
Hops 60 min. 1 oz. Chinook 13.9 AA

Hops 30 min. 1 oz. Chinook 13.9 AA

Hops 5 min 1 oz. Cascade 4.0 AA

....left to cool on the back porch in 30 degree winter weather.

 

[Dynachrome]

Oh man, I got too much wort.

20 gallons - will just fit into my 4 fermenting buckets.

2:22 am - I'm calling it an evening.

 

[ChuckO]

The beer gods will put a curse on you. You will make the best beer ever and won't be able to reproduce it. You will be haunted by this forever while you try to recreate it.

 

[Dynachrome]

The beer gods will put a curse on you. You will make the best beer ever and won't be able to reproduce it. You will be haunted by this forever while you try to recreate it.

ChuckO Yes, the wisdom of the ages.

We checked the specific gravity before we pitched yeast. We have 1.043 starting.

We had extra 5 gallons of last runnings at 1.018. We are going to add of 3.3 lbs of LME to it and mildly hop it and harvest a little S-05 from one of my porters. We''l see where that goes.....

For this last bit of Franken-beer we added 1/2 oz. of some random unlabeled hops and 1/2 Euro Northern 9.4 AA at 60, 1/4 oz Euro Northern 9.4 AA at 15 minutes, and 1/4 oz Euro Northern 9.4 AA at flame out. ...not real hoppy. the S.G. with the LME should end up around 1.039.

 

[Dynachrome]

We bottled this last night.

The final gravity before adding bottling sugar were:
Regular batch - fermentor 1, S-04 - 1.013
Regular batch - fermentor 2, S-04 - 1.013
Regular batch - fermentor 3, Coopers - 1.010
LME batch - fermentor 4, mildly under-pitched s-05 - 1.013

The first two should have tasted relatively identical - samples say they are fairly different.

...waiting....

 

[Dynachrome]

I'm coming in over 4% alcohol.

I should have just mixed in the 1.010 last runnings and started with something more along the lines of 1.036 O.G.

That would have landed me nearer to 3% ABV. ....session beer.

 

[paperairplane]

And that, is how you fill the pipeline. It's easy to overthink and stress on BJCP guidelines and calculators.... when end of day, some grain, some hops and some yeast will almost invariably yield some beer.

 

[Dynachrome]

...it was good beer. I have two bombers left. I'm taking it to my wife's department work dinner tonight.

 

[Dynachrome]

I did a "what's laying around for grain, hops, yeast, adjuncts again yesterday. My middle son helped and I generically talked him through what I was doing.

I have a friend that was running a brew store a couple years back. He had mixed some specialty grains for another guy I know and had messed something up. The grain was showing very dark when made into wort, but made decent beer, but not good if you are rargetting a specific beer. The second guy returned it to the store for replacement.

The first guy had it laying there and couldn,t sell it because he didn't know which barleys had been mixed. I ground about 4lbs of that with about 12lbs of marris otter....roughly 16lbs total.

I have a leftover bag of Cascade I used 3-1/2 oz in about 13 gallons of wort. I hopped early and wanted just buttering. I put just a couple pinches in at 15 minutes to flame out fir very little hop flavor.

I split the wort in three SS pots to cool.

Guerrilla methods.

1. Chocolate Mexican Christmas Stout. 1-1/2 guajillo peppers cinnamon sticks and cocoa nibs. (Maybe a little maltodextrine?)

2. Autumnal Honey Mead (not meade, just flying the bird at Butt Light) maibock with honey added.

3. Easy drinking maibock.

 

[Dynachrome]

...pics.

 

[Dynachrome]

...what could you call this post?