Toast Beer / Homebrew Thread

[SpaceClef]

Another tip is to just leave it alone for two weeks before you open the lid or test it or anything. Just get used to brewing it and leaving it for two weeks minimum.

The more you play with it the more likely you'll get a bacterial infection. The same principle applies to beer!

 

[SpaceClef]

Cracked one of my ginger beers yesterday (it's a bit premature but I was curious). Not loving it. Lacks something

 

[KamakazeSalami]

Did a Kosciusko Pale Ale clone and have cracked it. Bit cloudy but bloody nice. Best thing was a mate tried it (hadn't told him what it was) and he straight up said it reminded him of a Kozzy.

I'll take that.

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[avishka5]

Is the cricketers arm pale any good ? Saw my local bottole shop have them reduced. Is it reduced for being shite?

 

[SpaceClef]

Is the cricketers arm pale any good ? Saw my local bottole shop have them reduced. Is it reduced for being shite?

Haven't tried the pale but their lager is pretty damn good IMO. Probably just getting old and they need to turn over stock

 

[SpaceClef]

Tried my homebrew ginger beer again last night this time to test out how it goes with an unfermentable sweetener (Natvia).

Made a big difference and now I'm confident that it'll be delicious with a couple of tweaks to the recipe (more light crystal malt, some fresh ginger post fermentation and way more citrus). Amazing how much difference some sweetness makes to the overall taste.

Also Beer Thread peeps I'm going to disable my BigFooty account for a while.

Have a bunch of projects going on outside of work and I'm spending/wasting way too much time on here rather than being productive.

I'll come back in a few months and let you know what I'm brewing! Cheers

(I bet I won't be able to last more than a week).

 

[avishka5]

Tried my homebrew ginger beer again last night this time to test out how it goes with an unfermentable sweetener (Natvia).

Made a big difference and now I'm confident that it'll be delicious with a couple of tweaks to the recipe (more light crystal malt, some fresh ginger post fermentation and way more citrus). Amazing how much difference some sweetness makes to the overall taste.

Also Beer Thread peeps I'm going to disable my BigFooty account for a while.

Have a bunch of projects going on outside of work and I'm spending/wasting way too much time on here rather than being productive.

I'll come back in a few months and let you know what I'm brewing! Cheers

(I bet I won't be able to last more than a week).

I did that for exams once and was on bf on another browser even tho I was blocked.

 

[DanWCE]

Tried my homebrew ginger beer again last night this time to test out how it goes with an unfermentable sweetener (Natvia).

Made a big difference and now I'm confident that it'll be delicious with a couple of tweaks to the recipe (more light crystal malt, some fresh ginger post fermentation and way more citrus). Amazing how much difference some sweetness makes to the overall taste.

Also Beer Thread peeps I'm going to disable my BigFooty account for a while.

Have a bunch of projects going on outside of work and I'm spending/wasting way too much time on here rather than being productive.

I'll come back in a few months and let you know what I'm brewing! Cheers

(I bet I won't be able to last more than a week).

 

[DanWCE]

Here it is lads! My blueberry Berliner weisse sour. Can't remember the last time I felt this proud.

 

[mattyc75]

Here it is lads! My blueberry Berliner weisse sour. Can't remember the last time I felt this proud.

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Saw it on fb,looks delicious

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[mattyc75]

Should check out beerland on viceland

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[BigBirdz]

I used to do 1 can of coopers pale ale with 1 kg of light dry malt then 25g cascade and 25g of Amarillo boil the kettle and steep hops for 2 mins. Easy as and not a bad drop for extract brewing

 

[DanWCE]

Session XPA on the go gents. Dialled my batch size back to just fill a keg. But not the hops.. 18L target, 3.5% and 340gm hops hahahaha.

Falconers Flight, Fortnight and Simcoe with Chinook for bittering and flavour. They didnt have any Vic Secret unfortunately..

 

[KamakazeSalami]

DanWCE , Here2tellyouwhy ... some advice please. I've had a Cerveza on the go for about two weeks at around 14C with an s189 yeast (gravity sitting around 1.014 currently), I'd planned to dry hop it with some citra but forgot (idiot)...is it too late to bother in the fermenter while I cold crash it? Better off just chucking it in the keg do you think? I'd prefer not to because... well, keg cleanup. Although I do have some tea strainer type thingos that I can chuck them in I guess.

 

[DanWCE]

DanWCE , Here2tellyouwhy ... some advice please. I've had a Cerveza on the go for about two weeks at around 14C with an s189 yeast (gravity sitting around 1.014 currently), I'd planned to dry hop it with some citra but forgot (idiot)...is it too late to bother in the fermenter while I cold crash it? Better off just chucking it in the keg do you think? I'd prefer not to because... well, keg cleanup. Although I do have some tea strainer type thingos that I can chuck them in I guess.

Never too late. Do you need to do a diacetyl rest? I would throw the citra in for 48 hrs, crash chill for 24, then rack to keg. Are any of those numbers different than you'd usually do? Ie potentially longer crash chill?

 

[KamakazeSalami]

First time fermenting at that low...always been a bit nervous so tend to sit it around 15.5-16.5C for the lagers but my temp controller is shit and can sit about a degree or two over the set temp which annoys the shit out of me but haven't really been game to crank it down to compensate. This is lower as I noticed the door was slightly ajar and it's getting cold AF in Canberra right now. But it seems to have gone ok.

My FGs tend to sit around the 1.010 - 1.012. Very rarely does it crack 1.010. Not sure why. However, based on my SG usually around 1.046 the ABVs are around the mark of what I aim for at 4.5% so I haven't bothered trying to figure out why I don't get lower FGs. Have to say on some beers where I've thought I'd be closer to a 5 or 5.5% they've been a bit less than I'd expected.

Not sure what a diacetyl rest is so haven't done it intentionally, but I'm about to google that shit up, so I guess I'll find out.

As you may have gathered over our discussions I don't take an over the top scientific approach to my brewing. Try to cover the basics off and just let it do it's thing without too much fiddling around.

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[KamakazeSalami]

Also, will do as you suggest dry hop it for a couple of days and crash that bad boy down. I had thought about bottling these and trying to 'lager' them over winter to see what that was like. Perfect weather in Canberra to try it. Not sure I can keep my hands off them for that long though.

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[Here2tellyouwhy]

DanWCE , Here2tellyouwhy ... some advice please. I've had a Cerveza on the go for about two weeks at around 14C with an s189 yeast (gravity sitting around 1.014 currently), I'd planned to dry hop it with some citra but forgot (idiot)...is it too late to bother in the fermenter while I cold crash it? Better off just chucking it in the keg do you think? I'd prefer not to because... well, keg cleanup. Although I do have some tea strainer type thingos that I can chuck them in I guess.

Nah youll be fine. Never to late to change something.
Lacks malt. Boil some LDM and add it to the fermenter.
More hops? Chuck em in.
Already kegged? Chuck em in anyway.
Yeast stalls due to poor handeling or stress? Add dry yeast or a different strain.
End of the day youll make beer
I always dry hop as late as possible.

The C02 produced by the yeast scrubs the aroma and flavour of your dry hop.
Temp also can be a factor in dry hopping.

The colder the better. I normally dry hop just before final gravity then the next day crash chill for 48hours. Leaves a clear beer.
Hops only have to be dissolved added for a short time to get their lupinnie goodness IMO.

 

[avishka5]

Here it is lads! My blueberry Berliner weisse sour. Can't remember the last time I felt this proud.

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can you make it in cranberry or raspberry?

just asking for a mate.

 

[DanWCE]

can you make it in cranberry or raspberry?

just asking for a mate.

Yep. Any fruit you like. Feral Brewery do one with watermelon.

 

[squashface]

Yep. Any fruit you like. Feral Brewery do one with watermelon.

Ah the Watermelon Warhead

 

[DanWCE]

Check out my brew day Instagram story if you are curious gents. There's a big delay between my video getting strike temp water and then mash in.

Some ****er tried to break in last night, took my mash paddle and tried to get my sliding door open haha. Found it over the fence! Meanwhile wifey rushed to shops to buy me a new one.

 

[Here2tellyouwhy]

Check out my brew day Instagram story if you are curious gents. There's a big delay between my video getting strike temp water and then mash in.

Some ****** tried to break in last night, took my mash paddle and tried to get my sliding door open haha. Found it over the fence! Meanwhile wifey rushed to shops to buy me a new one.

I keep a spare mash paddle under the bed

 

[DanWCE]

I keep a spare mash paddle under the bed

Somethin' for ya to bite down on?

 

[Here2tellyouwhy]

Somethin' for ya to bite down on?

Nah that's what my gimp gag is for