Anyone brew their own beer?

[PhoenixS4R]

14lbs of 2 row
1 lb of crystal 60L
2.5 oz of EKG or fuggles at 60
1.5 oz of EKG or fuggles at 30
1 oz at 15
.5 oz at flameout.

Pitch english ale yeast.

Possibly. Think I can get away with American 2 row? I plan to buy a sack and have no interest on that much English malt, lol.

[Punx Clever]

Sure, no reason to use Maris Otter if you don't like it.

Hell, you could go to centennial's and cascades if you'd like... make it a real american pale ale

[brimo]

Just put down 23 litres of amber ale, http://www.brewerschoice.com.au/recipes/55-beer-kit-recipes/195-malsters-shovel-amber-ale.html  drinking the last bottle of the last batch now. (weather is only now starting to get cool enough to brew again).
This winter gonna have a go at all grain brewing.

[PhoenixS4R]

[the_Journeyman]

Not beer, but I have 8 gallons of strawberry wine going at the moment.  One of them (yeast aided) has the potential to be really strong.  Looking forward to that. 

I also bought the ingredients to an American Pale Ale the other day.  Once one of my batches of strawberry wine is ready, it's on to some beer!!!!

JM

[Punx Clever]

I was wondering about this thread the other day...

I've got a batch of cider going, a batch of oatmeal stout kegged, a batch of koelsch kegged, a batch of Bavarian hefe kegged, and I'm working down an ESB I brewed a while ago.

All good times

[brimo]

English porter now ready for drinking, just in time for the weekend. 

[brimo]

Not beer, but I have 8 gallons of strawberry wine going at the moment.  One of them (yeast aided) has the potential to be really strong.  Looking forward to that. 

I also bought the ingredients to an American Pale Ale the other day.  Once one of my batches of strawberry wine is ready, it's on to some beer!!!!

JM

Not a lot of success with this year's batch of strawberry wine, somehow developed some really off odours, never had a problem in the past with my many previous batches of fruit wines (mango, mulberry, passionfruit, strawberry), it wasn't salvageable so down the drain, bummer.

[Buckethead]

May 10th I took my original recipe for Cheating Whore Amber and went super-sized.

It's done bubbling, but with the amount of malt in there, I'm gonna go ahead and let it sit for a while before I rack it over to secondary.

[the_Journeyman]

Well, my strawberry wine is STILL fermenting.  Been going strong since May 23rd.  Bubbles have only slowed down by about a second. 

JM

[the_Journeyman]

Sampled my current batch of Strawberry Wine.  It is coming along nicely.  I forgot to take a gravity reading when I made it so I don't know content.  However, due to the amount of sugar I used, the particular yeast, and the warm tingly feeling in my belly, I'm gonna say 15%.  The fermentation is loosing about a second a day between bubbles (was at 4 seconds between when first started).  This particular yeast will die off in the 16-18% range.

JM

[the_Journeyman]

Time to bottle!  Tastes great too!



JM

[PhoenixS4R]

Looks pretty. Through together some pale malt with some cherrywood smoked malt and some leftover hops in the freezer a couple of months ago, turned out so good we're doing it again. Cold crashing as I write this.

[the_Journeyman]

That sounds great!  I'm getting into beer for the next batch!  If that's a relatively simple recipe, feel free to pass along!

JM

[PhoenixS4R]

The best part of this recipe is it appeals to all of my friends. It's easy drinking enough for the Bud light crowd, but has enough hidden sophistication to impress folks that really dig their beer.

It's an extremely easy recipe. This is for an all grain, 11.5 Gallon batch:

22 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 1 83.3 %
2 lbs Smoked Malt (9.0 SRM) Grain 2 16.7 %
1.00 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [14.00 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 3 21.9 IBUs
1.00 oz Perle [7.10 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 4 11.1 IBUs
1.00 oz Willamette [4.60 %] - Boil 10.0 min Hop 5 2.6 IBUs
1.00 oz Willamette [4.60 %] - Boil 0.0 min Hop 6 0.0 IBUs
2.0 pkg Safale American (DCL/Fermentis #US-05) [50.28 ml] Yeast 7 -

Beer Profile

Est Original Gravity: 1.061 SG Measured Original Gravity: 1.062 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.010 SG Measured Final Gravity: 1.002 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 6.7 % Actual Alcohol by Vol: 6.8 %
Bitterness: 35.6 IBUs Calories: 206.7 kcal/12oz
Est Color: 5.4 SRM  
Mash Profile

Mash Name: Single Infusion, Light Body, Batch Sparge Total Grain Weight: 24 lbs
Sparge Water: 8.73 gal Grain Temperature: 72.0 F
Sparge Temperature: 168.0 F Tun Temperature: 72.0 F
Adjust Temp for Equipment: TRUE Mash PH: 5.20

Mash Steps
Name Description Step Temperature Step Time
Mash In Add 31.64 qt of water at 161.6 F 148.0 F 75 min

Sparge Step: Batch sparge with 4 steps (Drain mash tun, , 2.91gal, 2.91gal, 2.91gal) of 168.0 F water
Mash Notes: Simple single infusion mash for use with most modern well modified grains (about 95% of the time).


If you do extract, swap the base malt with enough light extract to reach gravity and steep the smoked malt, if you do 5 gallon batches, cut everything in half.

Very nice and easy drinking summer beer, the smoke doesn't even come out until you swallow, so it's not in your face. We actually upped the smoked malt to 4 pounds to see what it will do.


Beersmith puts the FG at 1.010, but both times it's finished at 1.002 for us

Lastly, if you have a cold smoker, pick up some 2-row malt and just smoke it yourself with whatever smoke tickles your fancy. The cherrywood smoked stuff isn't cheap