Syracuse, ny - round 6 group grain buy

[jeffb418]

Built up a stir plate for some better yeast starters tonight. Stir bar is on order, but should work well.

 

[CidahMastah]

NIce! Like the hardware and sure wish I would gett off my butt and build one.


Just added a bag of cm pale to the buy!

24 bags in (ONLY 60 to go!!!) haha

 

[jeffb418]

NIce! Like the hardware and sure wish I would gett off my butt and build one.


Just added a bag of cm pale to the buy!

24 bags in (ONLY 60 to go!!!) haha

Start closing splits and we'll get like 10 more =)

 

[FL_Brewer]

Added bag of BZ-PILS, and .25 Split of GW-VIEN. I'm sure I'll be adding more later.

 

[rustbucket]

i might be adding some soon (after i come home again) brewing 3 big beers could kill up to 1-2 sacks of grain

 

[NightHawk]

OK, I wasn't going to join another forum..but saw this thread and had to join...

Is the keg buy still on? I added myself to the spreadsheet. I am on board for 16 - 20 @$15. possibly 10 @$25.

Do we have a date we are looking at for pickup on these?

Thanks.

 

[zeno27]

Added myself to the GW-VIEN split. Dreaming of Negra Modelo while at work.

 

[CidahMastah]

Hey Justin - you keep crank calling me

Picked up and heard background, but nobody responded. Phone troubles? Just messing with mer

Nighthawk
FYI
mparsons was running with the keg buy - not sure if he has made progress since we last brought it up.

 

[Smashing]

Working on the lake walk pale today. What a cluster of challenges!

 

[TwoGunz]

Haven't signed on here in a bit. I'm sort of surprised you psychos didn't close out the order yet ;-)

I brewed my first beers of 2012 this weekend, side by side porters with different single hops - one northern brewer and one uk first gold. I thought it'd be a nice experiment. Since I've got a nice dual setup I think I'm going to do a lot of double brews with minor differences.

One problem I ran into that pissed me off though was my barley crusher rollers kept spinning free without pulling grain through until I'd empty the loader, completely clear the rollers, and reload. I've never had this problem before and it drove me nuts. Anyone experience this before?

 

[Smashing]

Not sure on the monster - I have a barley crusher but I had problems with mine today. I really should say I was the problem.... I went to tighten my gap a little and misread the paperwork that came with it. I THOUGHT it said the factory gap was .0039 and I wanted to try it a little tighter so I put it to .0035. Well the one roller wouldn't turn and the thing wouldn't crush grain. I spun my wheels a bit then re-read the instructions and it I added a 0 into the mix - .039! oops. Re-gaped and away I went.
Today was such a comedy of errors all I could do was laugh. My biggest enemy is my lack of organization. I really need to get my crap together. All in all though the day is done - the wort is in the fermentor and I came close to my numbers. That ='s a good day.

 

[TwoGunz]

I actually have a barley crusher, I typed monster as a Freudian slip

 

[jeffb418]

I actually have a barley crusher, I typed monster as a Freudian slip

I've got a Monster Mill myself, the 2" rollers, and have had no issues with it. Works like a charm. Might upgrade to the 3 roller version down the road for the hell of it.

 

[CidahMastah]

I have a knock off corona mill (victoria) - wassup now!? ha

 

[TwoGunz]

I have a knock off corona mill (victoria) - wassup now!? ha

Oh snap! Cidah, we never swapped bottles of the quad. I'm over at the other building now but I'll still try and bottle one up for ya.

My saison/tripel -- it's a little out of style and is a cross between those 2 -- has been tasting awesome with some age on it. I'm trying to leave it as I think it'll be money in a couple months.

 

[CidahMastah]

Oh snap! Cidah, we never swapped bottles of the quad. I'm over at the other building now but I'll still try and bottle one up for ya.

My saison/tripel -- it's a little out of style and is a cross between those 2 -- has been tasting awesome with some age on it. I'm trying to leave it as I think it'll be money in a couple months.

Yeah I know I brought one in for you just before I left but you must have been out or running around at meetings or maybe you already moved by then?!

My Belgian golden is coming around, but IMO still needs some age to it.

 

[hopthepot]

great to find this. added 2 sacks of gambrinus organic pale ale malt so far.....more later

 

[CidahMastah]

great to find this. added 2 sacks of gambrinus organic pale ale malt so far.....more later

Glad to have you along! (27bags total; almost 1/3 of the way there!!!)

If you have any questions on the splits etc let us know. I or someone else will get back to you.

 

[CBK]

Just added 1 sack tf mopa and closed the vienna split. Been drinking Cidah's celebration for the last week. Do not have the real one to do a side by side but must say that if my memory serves me well from 1 month ago this is pretty much spot on. If you have been thinking about brewing this stop thinking and just do it. You will not be disappointed. Thank you for sharing this.

 

[Scallywag]

I'll be in for a minimum of 4 sacks. I'll put the order in closer to Spring.

 

[copyright1997]

Just added 1 sack tf mopa and closed the vienna split. Been drinking Cidah's celebration for the last week. Do not have the real one to do a side by side but must say that if my memory serves me well from 1 month ago this is pretty much spot on. If you have been thinking about brewing this stop thinking and just do it. You will not be disappointed. Thank you for sharing this.

Brewed it 8 days ago....waiting impatiently (still in primary).

 

[CidahMastah]

Just added 1 sack tf mopa and closed the vienna split. Been drinking Cidah's celebration for the last week. Do not have the real one to do a side by side but must say that if my memory serves me well from 1 month ago this is pretty much spot on. If you have been thinking about brewing this stop thinking and just do it. You will not be disappointed. Thank you for sharing this.

Nice I am getting at least one more sack of mopa maybe two and possibly another 2 row. Just waiting for my guinness close to age so I can compare the TF mopa vs. the bd mopa. I figure the next buy will be in a few months after this one ends so I better stock up for spring and summer brewing.

Awesome that you like the celebration. I plan on racking mine this weekend and dry hopping for two weeks. Glad you liked it. I am ready for a tasty IPA


Racked my single decoction pilsner urquell clone and have 4-8weeks of lagering but it seemed to be pretty solid with no diacetyl. Looking forward to it.


brewing jamils amber altbier tomorrow!

 

[CidahMastah]

just added gb-hony split (honey malt)

 

[jeffb418]

Updated pricing on newly added grains. Also moved Cidah's CM-PALE entry to full bag type 19 since it was already present (removed duplicate). Also added 5 more spaces to the splits section since that was close to filling the 20 available slots. All the formulas should be updated but if anyone sees an error let me know.

Also if anyone wants to be notified via an email any time the sheet is updated (by any user), I can add you to that list. Just let me know.

Jeff B

 

[TwoGunz]

I had my first properly carbed and poured homebrew stout on nitro today-- it was fantastic. It was an extra version of the guiness clone. A definite rebrew for sure. This is the second stout I've made with dry S-04 and I'm very pleased with it. I've used Notty for several but am going to go with S-04 from here on out.

 

[CidahMastah]

I had my first properly carbed and poured homebrew stout on nitro today-- it was fantastic. It was an extra version of the guiness clone. A definite rebrew for sure. This is the second stout I've made with dry S-04 and I'm very pleased with it. I've used Notty for several but am going to go with S-04 from here on out.

Great news! So what was your setup/tweak? (line length, psi etc.). I take it you carbed to about 1.2 vols?

Oh yeah added a bag of BZpils and added myself to the c60 split (been tearing through my c60!)

We are at 30 bags!

 

[TwoGunz]

I'm not sure what the volume works out to but I carbed it at 6 psi before going to beer gas at 25 psi. We actually served this one off a portable tap setup that hooks the faucet right into a quick connect because I'm still building out the setup over at my parents and we couldn't wait any longer to try that stout the pour cascaded perfect... I'm rethinking if I need my own nitro setup now

 

[CidahMastah]

I'm not sure what the volume works out to but I carbed it at 6 psi before going to beer gas at 25 psi. We actually served this one off a portable tap setup that hooks the faucet right into a quick connect because I'm still building out the setup over at my parents and we couldn't wait any longer to try that stout the pour cascaded perfect... I'm rethinking if I need my own nitro setup now

I still haven't tried my perlick creamers on the stout to see how they work but have to at some point. That is pretty cool it worked so well. So it cascaded and receded to decent amount of head off a regular tap? Do those direct fit taps have more restriction built in since you are serving direct from the connection?

either way that is awesome...

 

[TwoGunz]

We used a stout tap, just with a portable shank setup. And yes, it cascaded pretty fast and left about an inch and a half-- I was surprised how it worked but it came awesome.

 

[jhenderson27]

Hey all been awhile for me, building 3 race cars and planning a wedding and buying a house takes too much time. Got my Sierra celebration dry hopping on week 2, will be Kegging Sunday. Also did a Rebrew of my Coors light clone, fermenting away at 55, getting ready to take it down to 30s for awhile to clear it up and lager.

Doing a founders breakfast clone here soon.