applescrap
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How many ibus for recipe?
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How many ibus for recipe?
applescrap
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Haha, wish i would have known octoberfest was malt forward before making ten gallons of it to! Idk, maybe some day i will give them a try again.
applescrap
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Excited to hear if you like your beer gun Ken. I have been wanting one for same reasons.
applescrap
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Cool you are measuring ph. Some day i will get my act together. I probably won't stop warm fermenting lagers. Next for me pilsner or porter. Belgian? This recipe from hbt has me intrigued.
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I think that the Winter in Belgium is going to appear on my schedule next year. I'm going to try a dubbel soon, based on how that works, we'll see. I'd like to brew the Spenser Abbey beer once also.
This Pilsner claims 39.7. All Czech Saaz.
Learned my first lesson with the new kettle! Left the drain valve open without a container underneath the drain hose. Caught with only about a cup lost! Always know the flow path!
Alright. I've got the wort headed to a 90-minute boil.
applescrap
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Ohh that sounds good, do you mind sharing schedule.
applescrap
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Love that you brew late night.
1/2 oz bittering, 1oz flavor and two separate 1/2 oz aroma additions. This is a 90-min boil and the Love2Brew instructions say to us a "normal" 60-min hop schedule.
What I'm actually doing is 1/4 oz FWH. 1/4 oz with 60-min left. 1 oz with 20-min left, 1/2 oz with 5-min left and 1/2 oz at flameout for whirlpool.
I like messing up generic instructions.
I'm also going to use the Tilt to track fermentation. This will be a first for me. I usually "set it and forget it" for fermentation. Just go as long as I know my yeast takes plus a buffer and then check final gravity. Seeing the change in action will be neat.
applescrap
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Like your thinking. Sounds good. Dont know anything about pilsners other than I like them.
I'll let you know! Of course it'll Lager for a little while
So, boil-off was a little lower than expected; about 2/3 gallon per hour. So 90-min boil went a little longer.
I'm having a Scotch to celebrate the end of the brew. It took longer than I thought it would. But, in the end I'll have a good Pilsner for the spring/summer, so it's worth it!
Well, not bad. Hit OG! 1.047 on a goal of 1.048. Now let's see how the Tilt works!
allanmorgan
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Just saw that AB Inbev's ZX Ventures has made an investment into Picobrew. Not sure how much of an investment, but there they go again sticking their hands into the home brewing market. 
I wonder if that precipitated the recent discount codes. It would seem that, for the Pico at least, it's like the Amazon Echo or the iPhone/iPad -- primarily tools to sell stuff (Amazon Music/Audible Books and iTunes Music/Apps, etc.).
So, it would really be bad if this investment results in PicoPaks being preferentially priced/marked for AB-InBev products/partners. One of the benefits of Pico is the diversity of beers to brew!
So, it would really be bad if this investment results in PicoPaks being preferentially priced/marked for AB-InBev products/partners. One of the benefits of Pico is the diversity of beers to brew!
allanmorgan
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Only time will tell if that happens. On another note, I saw on Pico's website that they now offer a FreeStyle PicoPak that is in Beta.
I looked at the Freestyle. Right now, it seems like it will be good in the future, but it is really limited. There are only 4-styles and a limited selection of hops and grains. It's not an issue for me as there are plenty of other beers to brew!
TBC
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I have some cascade hop plants in the backyard. Honestly I don't think it's worth the time to grow them. Pruning, watering, harvesting and drying them and not knowing the AA%. This will be my 4th year and I'm considering ripping them out. It's easier to just buy a pound of pellets.
TBC
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Made a orange cascade IPA with my homegrown hops. I used 8oz dried hops and while the beer was fine it was more of a pale ale than an IPA
Hop Hash IPA turned out nice - misjudged the AA on the Hop Hash....so it's really a pale ale.
Hop hash is a concentration of lupulin glands taken off the pellet machines; it contains a lot more of the good stuff, without all the vegetal mass.
From what I heard and how it smells/tasts, the Yakima Valley hop hash Is Centennial.
Interesting! I did a Pale Ale SMaSH with some homegrown Cascade I got from a neighbor. Didn't know AA with certainty, so just guessed. It came out pretty good. Wife and Father even liked it!
Not sure I need juice or hash for what I want to make. I'm still going with small batches.
The Tilt is going. Giving me data at least. Pretty strong - it's in a corny keg inside the refrigerator/fermentation chamber and I get a signal.
applescrap
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Mmmm hop squirting stuff. Sounds good to me.
The Hop Hash does not have as strong of an aroma as I thought it would, but still delicious.
Some have reported if you make a tincture w/ ethanol (or moonshine) the aroma is released.
Some have reported if you make a tincture w/ ethanol (or moonshine) the aroma is released.
applescrap
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I thought they were used in the beginning of the boil just to add bitterness?
allanmorgan
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Yep. Hop oil. I used a couple of them for a Pliny clone. They were/are called hop shots.
Edit: And I used them at the beginning of the boil.
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