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1981

General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Kettle Caramelization for a Wee Heavy

« on: December 07, 2009, 03:07:16 pm »

I am debating this issue myself. I was planning to boil down only the first runnings, but now I'm thinking about boiling the first and second runnings together for a few hours. I think it would be easier and I also beleive the beer would benefit from it in that the entire wort would carmelize instead of just the first runnings.

I don't follow this logic here bud.

The idea of boiling down the first gallon is to concentrate the richness.  The richest, highest quality wort is the first running.  

Unless you mean skipping boiling on the 1st gallon and you mean boiling the entire wort, together, for a longer period.  Hard to decipher which you mean.

FWIW, when I made skotrat's recipe, doing the boil down, it was the most malty result I'd ever gotten.

1982

General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Kettle Caramelization for a Wee Heavy

« on: December 07, 2009, 01:36:27 pm »

I don't think I would.  IMO the 1 gallon to 1 quart boil reduction/caramelization replaces the loooong boil.

is that so??? 

1983

General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Kettle Caramelization for a Wee Heavy

« on: December 07, 2009, 01:33:46 pm »

If you do a 2.5-3 hour boil for a Wee Heavy should you still boil a gallon of the first runnings down?

personally, I wouldn't - the 'mini' boil down is to avoid that, IMO.

1984

The Pub / Re: Bama # 1 ?

« on: December 07, 2009, 09:26:31 am »

Wow! That is all I can say. Wow! I don;t think anyone expected Alabama to handle Fla like that. One thing I got a kick out of was Tebow boo-hooing in the end. I like the kid so don;t get me wrong, but man - was he was really boo-hooing like a 12 year old girl who spilled ice cream on her new party dress or what?  

Maybe he just figured out he really won't be a quarterback in the NFL.  

I love Tebow, he has taken over Jack Youngblood, in my eyes, as the best player to ever don Orange and Blue. He's delivered 2 championships and a Heisman to my Alma Mater in 4 years (yes, I know Chris Leak was the QB, but we could not have done it without him).

But that long, Byron Leftwich-esque, wind up and lack of accuracy is not going to cut it in the NFL.  And as a Jaguar fan too, I hope we don't draft him due to the local pressures, unless he is truly the best football player at the time...

Oh, and Hook em Horns?  Saban is going to have a field day with Mr. I Don't Know How to Read a Clock... Texas is lucky Suh is as good as he is - if he didn't bring the pressure, McCoy prob would have held it one second too long.

1985

The Pub / Re: Bama # 1 ?

« on: December 07, 2009, 09:21:02 am »

My wife is an Alabama graduate so I am compelled to say yes.    They played well during the second half.

I'm a Florida grad, and I'm compelled to say they played well the whole freaking game.  We got mopped.

1986

Beer Recipes / Hibernation Old Ale now with Recipe

« on: December 07, 2009, 09:15:55 am »

I can't believe I'm going to put up a noob type    post like this, but:

Anybody have a tried and true recipe/clone of Hibernation Ale by Great Divide?  I had my first ever bottle this week and was just floored by it - what an excellent beer. Wow.

Any help in this direction would be great.

I do have, and have made a few times, a recipe for Old Jubilation (Avery Brewing) direct from Adam, but that is an entirely different beer IMO.

1987

All Grain Brewing / Re: Storing Grain?

« on: December 07, 2009, 08:06:19 am »

MDixon

do you think the pressure of vacuum sealing will be enough to prevent hatching?

1988

Yeast and Fermentation / Re: Suggestions for 1450 Denny's Favorite

« on: December 05, 2009, 08:45:59 am »

In the main page for each style, there's an "Add A Recipe" button that provides great instructions.  I don't know about cavemen, but I think even a financial guy should be able to do it! 

aha - figured it out - took a bit of figuring, but its easy once you get the hang of it.

http://wiki.homebrewersassociation.org/BlatzViennaMaiBock

http://wiki.homebrewersassociation.org/BlatzDortmunderGold

1989

Yeast and Fermentation / Re: reusing yeast question

« on: December 05, 2009, 08:44:44 am »

Vienna Mai bock?  you might as well send me
that recipe too 

here you go:

http://wiki.homebrewersassociation.org/BlatzViennaMaiBock

1990

General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Suggest a brew for next weekend

« on: December 05, 2009, 08:43:23 am »

a10t2 and anyone else out there, here it is:

http://wiki.homebrewersassociation.org/BlatzDortmunderGold

1991

The Pub / Re: Eye Opening Documentary

« on: December 05, 2009, 08:16:08 am »

Keith's got some really good advice there, as do a lot of the posts.

And I think I may have been a little too extreme before when I said I want to start buying everything organic- its just not possible to buy everything organic - but I am trying to be a lot more conscious of what I get, whereas I scoffed at my wife before when she insisted.   The ironic thing is where I live, outside of places like Costco, the organic stuff isn't that much higher priced than conventional (was at the store last night - difference for a ribeye was $2 per lb) - and that premium isn't too bad when you only have one meat eater in the house (well, the dogs are but don't count).

It'd be nice if the Costcos/Sams would start carrying organic.  Perhaps hey might one day.

Oh and I have a sore spot for KM&C too, Keith, but with fish and broccoli??

Interesting note on the Omega-3s.

1992

General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Whatcha Brewin' this week -- 2009 Dec 2 - Dec 8?

« on: December 04, 2009, 03:19:07 pm »

I just brewed my first lager, an Oktoberfest. However, my hydrometer broke, so I am not sure if what I have will be an Oktoberfest or a Vienna Lager. I've been getting 80-83% efficiency the last 5 brews (I should add that my past 5-10 brews have produced far, far better beer than my previous 2+ years of brewing, thanks in no small part to this and other forums), so I built a recipe that would be an Oktoberfest from 78-84% and would be a Vienna Lager from 70-78... whatever it is, I just hope it's delicious. I put a lot of effort into this one, even customizing my water to be similar to Munich water. Also, I ended up with almost 9 gal of sweet wort, so I did a 110 min boil to get the volume down to 5.5 gal. I didn't notice any activity this morning, but the fermometer reads that the carboy is at 48F. in about 10 days when I transfer, I will be lagering this beside last month's altbier and probably taking a 2-month break from brewing.

awesome man.  but FWIW, subtle grist changes are more what makes vienna distinct from oktoberfest, not just gravity.  vienna is typically all or mostly all vienna, whereas fest is usually base of vienna with munich and pils added.

no brewing this weekend, but we're doing a club brew next weekend - 70 gal in two days!

1993

Beer Recipes / Re: Rye Barleywine?

« on: December 04, 2009, 03:13:17 pm »

okay - bunch of things.  1.027 won't be too high with that high of a SG.  and I actually like my ABWs to be 1.020-1.024, but I start ~ 1.090-95.  but with the 1lb of sugar, I doubt you'll finish that high. In fact, I would think you would finish at that level without any sugar.

I have used the dry US-05 in some of my bigs (ABW and RIS) the past 2 years, and not noticed anything different, except the ease of use (since I didn't necessarily have to make a pale ale beforehand to get enough yeast).  Just pitch 2, maybe 3 packs and aerate the heck out of it and you'll be golden.

1272 would be a nice choice though, as would 1450...

1994

General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Black IPA underway

« on: December 04, 2009, 02:05:51 pm »

thats comical dbeechum! 

1995

The Pub / Re: Eye Opening Documentary

« on: December 04, 2009, 01:51:04 pm »

So it's about general food from the grocery store like regular canned corn vs orgranic canned corn or mainly about fast food?

thanks denny - I hope we can keep it from being derailed (and deleted).

ndcube - its actually about both - its really amazing to see how the advent of fast food has driven the industrial manufacturing of food, meat in particular.  but as a result of the powerful hand of fast food, it has also changed the way the food is grown that we buy at the local grocery store.  

unfortunately, this change has made the wrong food choices very cheap (dollar menu at McDs) and has forced the hand, so to speak, of a lot of lower income families.  the increasing frequency of diabetes is one negative result.

I'm going to check out Omnivore's Dilemma and Fast Food Nation next - the authors of those books contributed/narrated the movie.

I encourage everyone to at least watch it - and take what you want away from it.  I know I personally am very concerned about what I eat, so this has naturally swayed me in one direction, but others may have a different perspective.