Did anyone actually brew my Black Bear IPA? It will be Spring soon and the sow's will be kicking the young bears out of the den! I may have to brew up another batch of Black Bear IPA? I will be extra careful so I don't fall on the ice again! If I am laying on the driveway unconscious a bear may become too curious?

BobBrews wrote:If I am laying on the driveway unconscious a bear may become too curious?

Haven't brewed the Black Bear yet Bob. Currently fermenting two lagers I cubed last Easter and after that I have another three cubes sitting here . One of the many reasons why I want to think on a nice mini set-up.

Anyway, Black Bear is on the list!

Love to Jenny,
PP

PP,

So what is the longest you have stored a brew? Any noticeable difference? Do you brew a certain beer each time or do you just wait on any type beer needed and brew ahead waiting to reuse a yeast or cold weather for lager? You probably re-read that poorly written sentence a dozen times to try to understand what I meant? I don't know either? Please disregard everything I wrote and just answer any question you want.

I've got bugger all experience in no-chilling/cubing as I really only started doing it last Easter to any extent. My two kettles are large enough to 'double batch' but I never want to ferment 2 of the same beers at the same time. I used to get around this by having another brewer over and we'd do a few brews and have a fermentor each. Had a situation though last Easter where I wanted to do 12 batches (six side by side double batches) to investigate some BIABacus number stuff and to fill my then empty fridge.

Cubing half the wort and chilling the other half worked out really well time-management wise. It's an easy way to get a lot of beer out of a brew day if you have a large kettle.

As mentioned, I have bugger all experience at this but leaving the cubes for this long doesn't worry me one bit. I've read or talked to enough other brewers to know that, fingers crossed, there should be no problems. I can't wait to see how the lagers go. The chilled portions of those brews both got silvers last year (no 'molly-coddling' done on them, just good solid recipes from 'Brewing Classic Styles') but I am hoping that this longer time in the cube might do something interesting to them. Who knows? Am kegging them this weekend.

The only negative I have on no-chilling (or delaying turning on an immersion chiller, plate-chiller etc after flame-out) might not lock in the flavour and aroma hops as well as an immersion chiller employed at flame-out. This doesn't matter as much on something like these lagers and I know there are ways around this but I never have the time to explore them .

Because I had almost zero trub in the cubes, the next time I brew, I am only going to transfer the no-chill bit immediately at flame-out so as I can start my immersion chill at 5 minutes rather than the 20-30 mins I delayed on prior brews. Who knows if I'll notice a difference?

Sorry Bob, what was your question?

PistolPatch,

Sorry Bob, what was your question?

Pat you nailed it! I brewed a beer in January and will re-brew the same exact recipe in early June and ferment them side by side. I want to do a comparison for the 4 Month stretch just to see what shakes out? I may do a long term one also but I am brewing for the Summer party season and need my containers.

I just kegged two beers this morning. I call one "Mock Oktoberfest" because I substituted some ingredient and one is a "Smoked Kolsch" it's just a standard Kolsch recipe with 1 pound (0.45 Kilo) of smoked oak added. I had a sack of Kolsch that was almost empty so I used it up on this. Tomorrow I will keg a "Black Bear IPA" that I added a touch of licorice root too? This may be interesting (or crap)? I reused the Mock Oktoberfest yeast cake to ferment my "Fish Pee" (British Bitter) that I brewed on Sunset Lake last weekend! Normally I use a Nottingham or similar so this is a British Bitter on lager yeast??

My only problem with all of this is I want to brew this weekend and I am running out of room! I guess I will have to drink more or just dump my "Polyester Porter"? The "Poly P" is a Black IPA that uses all hops from (down under and NZ)! I was going to call it "Pacific Night" but I was filming this for my video and I was so frigging concentrating on composition that I melted my newly made bag! I didn't notice that their was a hole in the bag and I was squeezing the bag and squeezing grain into the wort!!! You will see it in the outtakes! (I must bare my soul) The beer at this time is a bit "Tanninfied" I just coined a word! Maybe someday I can tweak it but for now, yuck!

I hope this makes your day? I know you all think I am perfect (perfect idiot) I am not! Just a average idiot.

BobBrews wrote:I know you all think I am perfect (perfect idiot) I am not! Just a average idiot.

There’s too much method in your madness to receive recognition as a “perfect idiot”. I don’t think you even qualify for average idiot status. It all smells badly of a cover-up to me. The laissez-faire attitude, coupled with imagination and humour is a mark of genius. You need to work harder on the idiot thing Bob, if it’s to have any credibility. Sorry, I know you have been trying...

"Tries hard, but could do better"

GuingesRock,

Great insight! Covering genious? genios? genius! is hard to do! You have been practicing a bit in your last post! Welkome two da klub!

PistolPatch wrote:

swamproad wrote:Jenny is unmarried.

I can't believe you only answered that one question swamproad. It was, like, the furthest from my mind .

But, now that you have answered it, let's stay on that topic, purely to satisfy the mods here... Please provide more answers on Q3 of my last post...

PM's with pics are okay by me . Only two questions...

1. Is Jenny a good sport?

2. Can't think of my next question... This thread is just too damn exciting.


PP

Okay, back on topic please. Looks like I'm going to the conference to meet Jenny.

This thing is heating up!

I was looking for a BIABrewer wedding, with Bob as the best man. Looks like we might hava a BIABrewer fight on our hands instead, with Bob as the referee.

May the best man win!

I'm going to get a beer and some popcorn.


Bob, that was a bit better.

swamproad wrote:Jenny is unmarried. She learned to BIAB under Bob's watchful eye. She will be at the AHA Conference in Philadelphia.

Jenny is welcome to come down for spring break, home of the world's most beautiful beaches, Panama City Beach Florida. I have room for her here!

That would give Bob a break from looking at her.

It's no good Guys! You're not playing hard to get! Too keen! it's even putting me off