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Ricka,
The Wyeast 1007 makes a great Alt
bruguru wrote:
Thirsty, your veiled Stripes, John Candy reference has not gone unoticed. Crabnut, where are you from, try to make it out to one of the brewdays Thirsty has, it goes a long way to getting you All graining quicker.
haha.. I totally missed that. Good pick up BG....
andrew jensen wrote:
Ricka,
The Wyeast 1007 makes a great Alt
Thanks, I'll check it out.... I also noticed I screwed up when I ordered those grains...too much Pils, not enough Munich... I'll pick up the rest of the Munich this week, and add the extra Pils, make a Big Alt instead....
Ricka, what's your Alt like? I worked in Dusseldorf for quite a while, and love that beer. No matter how many people like it, I can't stand Uerige. If your Altbier tastes anything like Schluessel...I might have to steal your recipe. If I could chose only one session beer, it'd probably be Schluessel Alt.
bruguru wrote:
Thirsty, your veiled Stripes, John Candy reference has not gone unoticed. .
There was a movie Stripes? With John Candy? I just thought your name was Francis!
Oh yeah, its Lauren
Bruguru, to answer your question, I live in the Seattle area. I would love to make it to a brew day with any of you, but I suspect I am a long ways from your respective areas. Brewchez is the only one I can find a location on, and I am unlikely to make a trip to Boston in the near future. I would like to take my brew day efficiency up a notch, and watching someone else’s AG brew would be a good way to work on that. We do have a group out of Larry's Brewing, my normal home brew store, who go by the name "Impailing Alers" but I haven't gotten myself introduced as of yet. Larry has suggested I make it to one of their brew days and after your suggestion, I think I better prioritize it just a bit.
Hey Brewchez, what Cream Ale are you looking at? I am thinking I should branch out a bit on my brewing tastes.
And, just to make you all jealous, I think I better report in on what I finished the day with today. A friend suggested I make a quick jaunt over to help with his hop harvest. Eight vines going up the side of his house, and they weren’t all that fruitful this year. He gave me half for my efforts (he is way overstocked) and I ended up going home with a large garbage sack full of hops to dry. it is a mixed varity of hops, but I think mostly Cascade. I suspect I have enough hops for about two years, if I can be reasonably sure of the variety and/or the characteristics. Not for this forum, but I thought I could at least inspire some envy..
Crabnut, I know there are some seattle guys on this board that get togeter and brew. Just put in seattle in the search bar for brewing kb, and it should come up. I know Rubberchrist is still around, and doing brewdays .
I say go to brew days, because they reallly accelerate your knowledge of brewing. I started doing Mr. beer kits, then moved to extract, then to all grain. This process took about 2 years, but I don't know how long it would of taken if I didn't go to these, Probably about 10 years. I'm not kidding I learned that much. Like most guys I learn by doing, and reading books, and reading on the internet is all well and good, but nothing beats real world knowledge,
Plus my brother lives in seattle, I can give you his address, and you can go and smack him in the head for me. Tell him to send me some god damn Mac and Jacks already.
Crabnut wrote:
Hey Brewchez, what Cream Ale are you looking at? I am thinking I should branch out a bit on my brewing tastes.
My Cream ale recipe is 50/50 Pilsner malt/American 2-row, plus 1lb flaked corn/maize, plus 1 lb of table sugar. I target an OG of around 1.055.
I use all liberty hops.
Here is the recipe 5.5gallon batch:
4.50 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 40.91 %
4.50 lb Pilsner (2 Row) Ger (2.0 SRM) Grain 40.91 %
1.00 lb Corn, Flaked (1.3 SRM) Grain 9.09 %
1.00 oz Liberty [4.30 %] (60 min) Hops 13.9 IBU
0.50 oz Liberty [4.30 %] (20 min) Hops 4.2 IBU
0.50 oz Liberty [4.30 %] (2 min) Hops 0.6 IBU
1.00 lb Sugar, Table (Sucrose) (1.0 SRM) Sugar 9.09 %
1 Pkgs California Ale (White Labs #WLP001) Yeast-Ale
Not even three days old and I got to change my plans. I am overloaded with new hops from this year and a whole bunch of hops from last year. Any suggestions on a really over the top beer for this, or shall I stick with an IPA hop overload?
Crabnut wrote:
Any suggestions on a really over the top beer for this, or shall I stick with an IPA hop overload?
I am always partial to the IPAs. However you can add a lot of hops at flameout to almost any style of beer, and create a wonderful aroma that may take it out of style, but make a great beer.
I judged a belgian IPA this weekend with that intent, and the aroma was absolutely perfect for the beer. The only issue was they raised the bittering level too, and it masked all the belgian pale flavors. I think a nice belg blond with a few ounces of a floral hop at flameout might be nice.
Or a nice clean pilsner with again just aroma, not extra bittering, like an imperial pils. The nice thing about aroma is if you put in 3 oz instead of 2, it may not make a huge difference, a lot goes a little way.
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