What are you brewing?

[JIGSAW Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JIGSAW]

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I like the Polycar it's been reducing my chill haze and helped with getting a few nice and clear beers. Ill try again in a bit to see if there's a difference if I use it or not, for now I have it so will use it till it's finished. it does work a lot better than irish moss for me tho.

Yes, I liked Polyclar way more than Irish-Moss, but I stopped using it altogether a few months ago after a discussion I think on this forum, and i get the same results (clear beer) when only using gelatin.

Before It was Polyclar in the boil and gelatin in the keg as polyclar alone didn't do the beer justice.

[AlexBrew Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close AlexBrew]

Couple of foto's from today's brew:
I bought this thermometer from Plastics Warehouse a week ago.. Nice to see analogue is matching digital. Temp there was 70.3 digital. Bit unclear in the dial .. urgghh
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Like an IPA .. hitting the numbers:
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1.068 ..1.070 you decide. Good enough for me.
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1.069

[Snyper564 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Snyper564]

Guinness clone was a winner, I managed to get some lactic acid last week and added a few drops to the beer that I poured and it def added a great taste and slightly different mouthfeel will add next time when bottling

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[JIGSAW Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JIGSAW]

Guinness clone was a winner, I managed to get some lactic acid last week and added a few drops to the beer that I poured and it def added a great taste and slightly different mouthfeel will add next time when bottling

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What would you say is a good dose? how many drops to X ml ?

[AlexBrew Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close AlexBrew]

What would you say is a good dose? how many drops to X ml ?

What I read was 3-4ml per 5gal.
I used the conservative 3ml dosage and def taste a difference between with or without.
I also read to get a dropper and just add drop to you taste in your glass ..

"...add one to two drops with an eye dropper to a 16 oz glass of beer and see what you think. One drop per 16 oz is equivalent to 2 ml in 5 gallons. Careful not to overdo it!"

EDIT: I had my boet here yesterday - we had a glass of my Extra Stout and he confirmed : this is very close to the real thing.

[JIGSAW Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JIGSAW]

What I read was 3-4ml per 5gal.
I used the conservative 3ml dosage and def taste a difference between with or without.
I also read to get a dropper and just add drop to you taste in your glass ..

"...add one to two drops with an eye dropper to a 16 oz glass of beer and see what you think. One drop per 16 oz is equivalent to 2 ml in 5 gallons. Careful not to overdo it!"

EDIT: I had my boet here yesterday - we had a glass of my Extra Stout and he confirmed : this is very close to the real thing.

Noted

[Snyper564 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Snyper564]

decided to do the scottish heavy another day and give a belgium tripel a shot. Made the candi sugar last night for the batch, using la trappist yeast from Liquid cultures.

[JIGSAW Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JIGSAW]

Kegged a stout yesterday ...

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and also transferred this from cube to FV. Thanks Alex for the recipe.

Final recipe was this:
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[AlexBrew Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close AlexBrew]

Kegged a stout yesterday ...

and also transferred this from cube to FV. Thanks Alex for the recipe.

Final recipe was this:
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Cool. Please let us know how it comes out.
I'm thinking of brewing one similar to the Pilsner Urquell next .. same grainbill, but different hops. Keen to try out the Saphir .. after that I'll brew one with Hersbruker. IBUs are almost spot on with 37.2 IBUs maybey bit too much .. think make it round 34 next time.

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Did an American Pale Ale yesterday. One of David Heath's recipes on Brewfather. It was the most hops I've used to date (not that I've brewed anything other than Blondes and British Ales) and even included a hopstand. All new to me.

I think I did well, hit the numbers exactly, a first for me. Got 75% mash efficiency and 69.8% brewhouse efficiency. Looks like I have my equipment dialed in.

Pitched Kveik Voss this morning just after 5am and at 15h30 it was going like a jet at 35⁰. Guess I'll have to start cleaning bottles, cause this isn't going to take long at all.

[PaBz0r Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close PaBz0r]

Did my first pressure transfer, was a bit of stop and go at first, seems I clogged up the JG fittings, but smooth sailing from there. Also tested the flow stopper, did what was advertised.



HerKölsch / Hersbrucker Kölsch

[BeerHolic Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close BeerHolic]

My next brew.
Using 2 50L converted kegs. One for mashing the other as boil kettle.
BIAB.
Fermenter in fridge at 20C, rack, cold crash and bottle.

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[JIGSAW Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JIGSAW]

^ But if you BIAB you technically only need 1 keg ? ... a 2nd for sparge water maybe ?

[BeerHolic Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close BeerHolic]

^ But if you BIAB you technically only need 1 keg ? ... a 2nd for sparge water maybe ?

Yes you could do it that way, but I prefer
I mash out, transfer to kettle.
Add sparge water that was heated in a seperate 25L pot.
Transfer sparge water to kettle.
Boil.
Remove bag with grains from mash tun.

[Dewald Posthumus Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Dewald Posthumus]

Made a Pilsner over the weekend, and could not get hold of Kveik Oslo as per usual, so I opted for the LC077 strain from Liquid Culture.

*YAWN* - Made a huge starter and pitched Monday evening, it's taking forever to get going...back to Oslo for my next batch - would have been close to complete by now..will buy extra Oslo next time..