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   1. Paul's Hop Burst Ale

      by housecat, 13 years ago in BIAB Recipes

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      Brewed this last week and it's tasting awesome. I just dry hopped it too
      Only change would be to use a more malt forward yeast but it's fine how it is.
      
      Hop Burst Ale (American Pale Ale)
      
      Original Gravity (OG): 1.053 (°P): 13.1
      Final Gravity (FG): 1.013 (°P): 3.3
      Alcohol (ABV): 5.21 %
      Colour (SRM): 5.2 (EBC): 10.2
      Bitterness (IBU): 32.8 (Average)
      
      (Edit: numbers are for post boil volumes)
      
      70% Pale Ale Malt
      20% Munich I
      10% Rye Malt
      
      0.1 g/L Amarillo (8.6% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil)
      0.1 g/L...

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      Lylo: 100 characters or less... Perfect! :P
      
      Housecat: Good on you. Hopefully on your next visit you wont get stuck so far up north. Looking forward to hearing your future taste tests ;).
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      PistolPatch
      13 years ago
   2. New craze.... BIAP

      by housecat, 13 years ago in General Chit-Chat, Nonsense & Rambles

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      BIAB has been superseded. It is now BIAP....... Brew In A Pumpkin
      
      One of the guys on my local forum found and posted this. I thought I'd share it with you all
      
      Check it out here
      
      HC

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      Now those guys are real brewers :). Wonder what the breathalyser reading would have been when they thought of that idea??? :smoke:
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      PistolPatch
      13 years ago
   3. Top cropping and when?

      by housecat, 13 years ago in Yeasts

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      Hi Gurus.
      
      I pitched some 1469 yeast yesterday at about 10am I went back to check it at about 7pm and it was ready to jump out of the fermenter and take over my shed! :argh:
      
      This is 23L in a 30L fermenter. Hopefully it doesn't blow out!
      
      1469 Collab.jpg
      
      1469 Collab 2.jpg
      
      Wondering, how long into fermentation do you wait before you top crop a yeast?
      Also, how much do you take? I have already taken about 1/3 of of the krausen to try and hold it back from world domination!
      
      Cheers
      HC

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      housecat,
      I've top cropped a few times with great success.
      two or three days into the fermentation, when the krausen is nice and thick, i use a large spoon to take as much white foam off the top and into a sanitized jar with some boiled and cooled water in it.
      there is still plenty of yeast in the liquid part of the beer so don't worry about taking as much as the foam as you can. try not to take any brown muck.
      by the way, here's another top cropping idea I've done successfully:
      I brewed a...
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      shibolet
      13 years ago
   4. I'm aging my cube!

      by housecat, 13 years ago in Chilling

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      Following on from my comments Here , I thought I should pull my finger out and do something about it!!
      
      The wort is from a coopers Pale Ale that I did back in January. This is the 1st cube of a double batch that I did on the day in question. The 2nd one has already been fermented and bottled. I'll be keeping a couple of bottles of this to compare it one day down the track when I ferment the 1st cube. Although, I don't know how true the comparison will be due to the aging in the bottle etc. But...

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      Hey Stux,
      
      Thanks for the pep talk :D just so you know, I hadn't lost the faith, it was more of a tongue in cheek post :P
      
      You are right, none of the posters on AHB actually did it on purpose and none of them have shown any tasting notes or side by side tastings, that have been reported.
      
      I am going to do this experiment and keep a couple of bottles from the first batch so hopefully it can be as true side by side testing as can be allowed, under the circumstances.
      We have a case swap here in...
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      housecat
      13 years ago
   5. Funky mold in my NC cube

      by housecat, 13 years ago in Intermediate Brewing

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      Hi all,
      
      I opened up my little 5L NC cube today.
      When I brewed last, I thought I should put the last bit of my kettle in it for starters. Great idea, was a bit of a rushed idea though.
      Today (about 6 weeks later), I thought I'd split it up into 500mL lots for easier management and to feed into my current starter.
      
      I saw what is attached!
      It looks like mold but it didn't smell bad. When I stretched it out a bit it looked like the underneath of a field mushroom. The wort smelled really nice...

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      thanks, I'll add that to my list for cleaning this cube. I may as well do it before I use it again.
      
      How much bleach would you use?
      
      Just pour in a good quantity of undiluted bleach. Slowly turn the cube over a period of hours so that each surface gets a good soaking, then give it a hell of a good shake. Pour off the bleach (I put it back into the original container for a few more uses} and then rinse until you have no more foam (yes, bleach does foam when shaken). That should kill anything,...
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      BobtheBrewer
      13 years ago
   6. Temp control for an urn

      by housecat, 14 years ago in Electric BIAB

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      Hi all,
      
      I have just recently got a 10L Birko urn for doing small batches of beer.
      This is good and I gave it a run last night for a laugh and a test run of how it will go.
      
      I learnt some things:
      1: My refractometer only goes up to 18 not the 20.9 I needed it to. Looks like my hydrometer can stay out of mothballs for a bit longer!
      2: 3kg of grain in my 10L urn is too much,
      3: The element in the urn is 2400w and the boil is insane. So much so that it almost jumped out of the urn!!
      
      I can or...

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      Surely what you want is the controller that is used in an electric stove?
      
      And from what Ive seen that's some sortof wave modulator like dick describes
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      stux
      13 years ago
   7. Small batch Brewing 4-8L

      by housecat, 14 years ago in Intermediate Brewing

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      Hi all,
      
      I am wanting to embark on some small batch brewing of about 4-8 litres end product. I want to do this so I can start to whittle down my ever growing list of brews to do! :argh:
      
      My questions;
      
      Has or does anyone do this?
      What changes did you find you needed to do?
      Was it just downscale a bigger recipe?
      And with that, if you found a small batch you liked, was there any problems in up sizing it to your regular batch size?
      
      I am currently looking for a 10L Crown/Birko style urn so I...

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      So after a long search, I finally found a 10L Birko Urn on ebay
      
      Just need to stitch a bag up and it's time for the maiden voyage. Possibly a wheat beer for SWMBO
      
      10L Urn.jpg
      
      IMG_20111220_152854.jpg
      
      IMG_20111221_171408.jpg
      
      HC
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      housecat
      14 years ago
   8. English Pale Ale - Monty Python's Holy Grail Emulation

      by housecat, 14 years ago in BIAB Recipes

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      Hi all, (I have also posted this on Brew Adelaide )
      
      For my next brew, I was gonna try and do a beer in the same style as Black Sheep's Monty Python Holy Grail.
      
      Check out their website here it doesn't give too much away.
      
      I've had this beer a few times and liked it every time but once. (Uncle Dans.... need I say more?)
      
      Here is the recipe I decided on.
      
      Monty Python's HG
      Extra Special/Strong Bitter (English Pale Ale)
      
      Recipe Specs
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      Batch Size (L): 50.0
      Total Grain (kg): 10.500...

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      With my hoppy No Chill brews I've begun doing the late additions using a french press
      
      I found I just wasn't getting enough aroma and too much bitterness.
      
      I had already tried compensating the bitterness by reducing the size of the additions
      
      My current plan is to reduce the additions by 15 minutes. I figure that everything gets an extra 15 mins at hop utilizing temperatures compared to using a chiller.
      
      Any additions which get knocked before flameout I'll steep/boil at ferment time and add...
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      stux
      14 years ago
   9. New recipe opinions please

      by housecat, 14 years ago in BIABrewer.info and BIAB for New Members

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      Hi,
      
      What do you all think of this?
      
      I just played around a bit with Dr Smurto's Golden Ale recipe.
      
      What would you do to improve it? would you change the yeast?
      
      HC's Gold Ale (Extra Special/Strong Bitter (English Pale Ale))
      
      Original Gravity (OG): 1.051 (°P): 12.6
      Final Gravity (FG): 1.010 (°P): 2.6
      Colour (SRM): 6.0 (EBC): 11.9
      Bitterness (IBU): 45.9 (Average)
      
      55.01% Pilsner
      20.93% Munich I
      18.34% Wheat Malt
      5.73% Caramalt
      
      1 g/L Chinook (11.4% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil)
      0.2 g/L Galaxy...

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      This link may help a bit. I haven't had a chance to have a good look at it, so I can't say how good it is.
      Good luck with your brew.
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      wizard78
      14 years ago
   10. I popped my AG BIAB cherry!

       by housecat, 14 years ago in Brew Day Stories and/or Pics

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       Yesterday I did my first BIAB. must say it was a good day and I learnt a few things about following instructions and my equipment too.
       
       I have already written a post on it HERE at AHB.
       
       I printed out the checklist and the calculator and used them for instruction and note taking. They really made the day a LOT simpler to work through. A big thanks to the authors of them :clap: definitely a valuable bit of kit for anyone's first few BIAB's.
       
       HC

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       K&k, the bane of AG brewers :) When I did my first batch of AG BIAB (Schwartzbier) I still had a full keg of k&k, I ended up watering the garden with it. Compared to the AG brew, it was just crap.
       
       Great post on your maiden BIAB cat.
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       hashie
       14 years ago

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