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Re: The Home Brewers Thread
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 6:41 am
by Tigerbass
Joe Gress wrote:I'm hoping to convince my dad to do another batch around thanksgiving. What do you guys suggest? This will be our fifth batch, with our last Double IPA turning out really fucking tasty. I would love to do something heavy like a stout, but I've also been on a red kick lately.
Just looking for something away from a regular Pale Ale again though. Something a little challenging perhaps?
The Breakfast Stout I'm doing this wekend is a bit challenging I suppose. It's an oatmeal/chocolate/coffee stout. It has 5 different grains/malts totaling almost 18 ibs for a 5 gallon batch. 2 different kinds of chocolates, 2 different kinds of coffees and 2 different hops. I'm also adding lactose so it'll be pretty busy for sure!
I actually have an Imperial Red in my kegerator right now that's about ready to go. That wasn't too bad to make tho. Lotsa grains and lotsa hops!
Re: The Home Brewers Thread
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 7:25 am
by phantasmagorovich
Re: The Home Brewers Thread
Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 10:40 pm
by bigchiefbc
bigchiefbc wrote:As I mentioned in the main beer thread, I recently bottled two brews: a Flanders Red Ale, modeled after Duchesse de Bourgogne, which is one of my five favorites beers ever, and a London session pub ale somewhere between Boddington's and Tetley's. We're going to break them open at my annual Oktoberfest party that my brewing buddy Jay and I throw every year. Usually 50-60 people, no bought beer allowed, all beer drank at the party must be homebrewed. My buddy Jay brewed a Doppelbock and a Roggenbier.
I came up with a pretty kick-ass recipe for a Dusseldorf Alt that I have brewed a dozen times or so, and has received rave reviews from several other brewers, including one of the master brewers at Sam Adams. I'll post it here next time I have a few minutes to look through my recipe list.
Well, our homebrew Oktoberfest party was yesterday, and was a rousing success. Both of my beers came out to rave reviews from all in attendance. The London session ale ended up being a bit maltier than I anticipated. It still has the creaminess of a Boddingtons, but the color and malt character came out closer to Fullers ESB. Still a win in my book.
The Flanders Red exceeded all of my expectations. It's malt-forward, but still robustly sour/tart. Has a definite red wine character to it. This one is probably going to be entered in a couple competitions
Re: The Home Brewers Thread
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 2:20 am
by phantasmagorovich
Had my brewing course in the weekend. That was fun, can't wait to drink that stuff.
Re: The Home Brewers Thread
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 6:45 am
by Tigerbass
bigchiefbc wrote:bigchiefbc wrote:As I mentioned in the main beer thread, I recently bottled two brews: a Flanders Red Ale, modeled after Duchesse de Bourgogne, which is one of my five favorites beers ever, and a London session pub ale somewhere between Boddington's and Tetley's. We're going to break them open at my annual Oktoberfest party that my brewing buddy Jay and I throw every year. Usually 50-60 people, no bought beer allowed, all beer drank at the party must be homebrewed. My buddy Jay brewed a Doppelbock and a Roggenbier.
I came up with a pretty kick-ass recipe for a Dusseldorf Alt that I have brewed a dozen times or so, and has received rave reviews from several other brewers, including one of the master brewers at Sam Adams. I'll post it here next time I have a few minutes to look through my recipe list.
Well, our homebrew Oktoberfest party was yesterday, and was a rousing success. Both of my beers came out to rave reviews from all in attendance. The London session ale ended up being a bit maltier than I anticipated. It still has the creaminess of a Boddingtons, but the color and malt character came out closer to Fullers ESB. Still a win in my book.
The Flanders Red exceeded all of my expectations. It's malt-forward, but still robustly sour/tart. Has a definite red wine character to it. This one is probably going to be entered in a couple competitions
Rock On Bro!!! Sounds awesome!!! Would love to try the Flanders some day!
Re: The Home Brewers Thread
Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 5:48 pm
by Tigerbass
Brewing a Russian Imperial Stout in the spirit of Old Rasputin right now.
Doing a 90 minute boil, adding the bittering hops at 60 minutes, then the final hop additions of 1oz Northern brewers and 1oz Centennial hops at 2 minutes.
I had the best mash I've ever had...152 degrees for 90 without even a waver, then a perfect 170 degree sparge for 30 minutes.
We're in the home stretch now baby!!! Woohoo!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: The Home Brewers Thread
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 7:37 am
by Tigerbass
I brewed this on monday and wednesday when I got home from work and checked the yeast activity was to the top and ALMOST blowing the top off!! Caught that JUST in time...WHEW that woulda been a messy disaster!!
Re: The Home Brewers Thread
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2011 12:44 am
by bigchiefbc
Tigerbass wrote:bigchiefbc wrote:bigchiefbc wrote:As I mentioned in the main beer thread, I recently bottled two brews: a Flanders Red Ale, modeled after Duchesse de Bourgogne, which is one of my five favorites beers ever, and a London session pub ale somewhere between Boddington's and Tetley's. We're going to break them open at my annual Oktoberfest party that my brewing buddy Jay and I throw every year. Usually 50-60 people, no bought beer allowed, all beer drank at the party must be homebrewed. My buddy Jay brewed a Doppelbock and a Roggenbier.
I came up with a pretty kick-ass recipe for a Dusseldorf Alt that I have brewed a dozen times or so, and has received rave reviews from several other brewers, including one of the master brewers at Sam Adams. I'll post it here next time I have a few minutes to look through my recipe list.
Well, our homebrew Oktoberfest party was yesterday, and was a rousing success. Both of my beers came out to rave reviews from all in attendance. The London session ale ended up being a bit maltier than I anticipated. It still has the creaminess of a Boddingtons, but the color and malt character came out closer to Fullers ESB. Still a win in my book.
The Flanders Red exceeded all of my expectations. It's malt-forward, but still robustly sour/tart. Has a definite red wine character to it. This one is probably going to be entered in a couple competitions
Rock On Bro!!! Sounds awesome!!! Would love to try the Flanders some day!
I am so fucking pumped right now. So, we had a big thanksgiving get-together with a bunch of my friends, and I brought along my last two homebrews so that some people could try them out. My friend Nicki and her boyfriend Andrew (they both work for Sam Adams, he is the aforementioned master brewer there) came, and they tasted both of my brews. He gave me some great criticism on my London Ale, which is awesome and super helpful. But more importantly, they were both FLOORED by my Flanders Red Ale. Neither of them had any criticisms at all, and basically ordered me to submit it to as many homebrew competitions as I could. That was awesome, it really felt like a validation of my brewing skills.
Re: The Home Brewers Thread
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2011 11:50 am
by Tigerbass
BigChief!!! That is AWESOME!!!
I am so pumped for you, right on brotha! I'd love to brew it, PM me a version of it if you don't mind. The wife and I LOVE reds. I'm finishing up my Imperial Red I made a lttle while ago. It was real good, but being an Imperial with quite high IBU's, the bitterness kinda took away from all a good red ale can be.
I am getting ready to brew 1 more pumpkin ale in a hour or so here to have on hand for the holidays!
Re: The Home Brewers Thread
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 6:46 pm
by Tigerbass
Just poured my 1st pint of my 69er IPA. 6.9% abv and 69 IBU's. Single hopped with Cascades and I must say it is delicious!!!
I used Crystal 65 malt so it almost has a light reddish orange hue...quite pretty I must say!