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Lesson

Lesson #2 – keep your airlocks clean

On the way to work I noticed an overflowing carboy – and paid the price for
Ignoring it….

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Tasting

Unibrouse ephemere apple beer

Fruit on the nose, is it an ale or isn’t it a cider? None! It’s both!

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Recipe

Penta Porter

5 porters using a porter base.

Maris otter 6kg
Munich 500g
Crystal 330g
Pale choc 520g

Mashed at 68c for 90mins

1030@30c pre boil

20g NZ cascade 7.6% 60 mins 9 ibu
17g super alpha 13.5% 60 mins 17 ibu
26 ibu overall

Robust porter- took first runnings and boiled with 10g NZ cascade

Mini mashes:
Smoke pohutakawa grain 250g with 250g Maris otter

Sparged and added 5g cascade and boiled

Pumpkin ale
2g all spice
2g cinnamon

2g nutmeg

Whole Pumpkin cubes and covered in spice. Roasted for 40mins at 190 fan bake.

Then mashed and added to end of mash, equal
Volumes and mashed for 60mins

Sparged and added 5g NZ cascade

Base porter
1034@28c

Robust 1060@26c

Smoke 1034@34c

Punk 1034@33c

Wood aged
Added3g vanilla oak chips
In 1l

Perry – 1020fg after adding 30g priming sugar

Split pack of so-04 between 5 fermenters, 1,2,2,3,3 gm depending on size

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Recipe

Bière brune solaire

Belg bruin vii

26 litres
All Grain
1.064OG→1.021FG→5.6%ABV 29 IBU 21.4°L SRM
Yeasts
0.3 litres
Fermentis – safale k97
Custom (Ale)
0.17 litres
3522 – Belgian Ardennes
Wyeast (Ale)
0.12 litres
Fermentables
7.87 kilograms
NZ pils
34ppg, 2°L
6.5 kilograms
83%
Candi – Dark
31ppg, 0°L
0.6 kilograms
8%
Cara Hell
30ppg, 350°L
0.3 kilograms
4%
CaraMunich
34ppg, 50°L
0.20 kilograms
3%
Abbey malt
36ppg, 35°L
0.12 kilograms
2%
Special Roast
32ppg, 50°L
0.1 kilograms
1%
Carafa I
30ppg, 350°L
40 grams
1%
Hops
80 grams
Wakatu
7%, Pellet
45 grams
56%
Motueka
7%, Pellet
35 grams
44%
Miscellaneous
17 grams
Orange peel (Sweet)
Flavor
11 grams
67%
Coriander
Spice
3 grams
18%
koppa Flock
Fining
2 grams
15%
Batch/Fly
30 minutes, 38.47 litres
Strike
Target 66°C
22.75 litres
72°C
30 minutes
Sparge 15.72 litres
77°C
Boil
1 hour, 29.64 litres
Motueka hops
7%, Pellet
25 grams
60 minutes (+0)
Wakatu hops
7%, Pellet
25 grams
60 minutes (+0)
Orange peel (Sweet)
Flavor
10 grams
15 minutes (+45)
Add wort chiller 15 minutes (+45)
Wakatu hops
7%, Pellet
10 grams
10 minutes (+50)
koppa Flock
Fining
2 grams
10 minutes (+50)
Coriander
Spice
2 grams
1 minutes (+59)
Orange peel (Sweet)
Flavor
1 grams
1 minutes (+59)
Coriander
Spice
1 gram
1 minutes (+59)
Motueka hops
7%, Pellet
10 grams
0 minutes (+60)
Wakatu hops
7%, Pellet
10 grams
0 minutes (+60)
Ferment
14 days @ (null)

 

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Og 1050 @ 30c = 1053

Pitched bottle dregs from bruin sour onto 5 litre glass carboy

Put aside a starter, split into two

~10l with 3rd gen forbidden fruit

~10l with older smack pack of 3278 lambic blend- waiting till shows sign off starting.

1010 Fg 5.7%

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Tasting

Emerson’s weissbier

No nose, high carbonation, says cloudy but isn’t, tastes malty.

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Tasting

Emersons Weizenbock

Fruity on the nose, full body and mouthfeel, melts like a lolly, coating your tongue. Brilliant

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Review

Emersons Bookbinder

Malt on the nose, great mouthfeel, great session beer.

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Recipe Uncategorized

Wood age Belgian blonde

Add 3g mid toast oak chips to 3l of kegged Belgian blonde

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19 may 2013

White film on surface! No taste of oak – yeast over powers.

2×500 with 2ml priming syrup

2×750 with 3ml priming syrup

1010 fg

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Recipe

Perry

Leah’s grandfathers pears

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Juiced pears 10l
Added 2 Camden tablets. Og. 1.050

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Recipe

Weiss bier, witbier, Dunkleweizen, Weizenbock

12:30 start mash

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25g base
5g thick

Witbier
1,6g peel
2g corriander
2g hops
1035g next day

Will post spreadsheet of grain bill.

Wheat too low in weizenbock…

Rehydrated danstar Munich wheat beer dry yeast in 100ml tap water. Topped with cooled wort, then split into each batch.

American brown for western brewers conference.
Using dark batch, reduced and added 3g simcoe hops. Added more dark up to 1.5l and made ht tea of 3g simcoe aroma hops

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bottling.
19 may 2013
wiess bier
2×500 with 2ml priming syrup

4×750 with 3ml priming syrup

1008 fg

Wit bier

7×500 with 2ml priming syrup

6×750 with 3ml priming syrup

1008 fg

Dunkel

6×500 with 2ml priming syrup

3×750 with 3ml priming syrup

1008 fg

Weizen bock

2×500 with 2ml priming syrup

3×750 with 3ml priming syrup

1012 fg