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General Category => General Homebrew Discussion => Topic started by: dbeechum on March 16, 2011, 06:12:30 pm
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What are you brewing in the post hangover days of this week's festivals? Any March Madness themed beers? Any long term projects?
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Hopefully I can get a Golden Strong going if my 570 resurrection goes well.
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Belgian Dark Strong on Saturday. Need to step the starter up tonight.
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I should be brewing an IPA...instead I'll be in Phoenix.
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Not this weekend, taking the Scouts camping/horseback-riding
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No time for brewing, but I did just get my shipment of Brett B and C, so I may be pitching those into a Saison and a Golden Strong.
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House guests for the weekend, no brewing planned.
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It's the DFH Mad Brewers comp coming up. I am recieving some mysery DFH yeast with a few clues. I'll post the clues when I get them. I need to make a starter for this ? brew this weekend.
Also more brewery reorganization. :(
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I can't decide between an IPA or IBA :-\
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I have been working on the NHC entries. As that progesses, I think a Ballantines IPA knockoff might be in the future. Age it, use some oak, and see if I get a taste flashback to my youth.
For those of you that may be sceptical, when I first had a Jeff Renner CAP at a club meeting, I said, "This is what Dad used to drink!". Of course, I am older than some of you. ;)
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I should be brewing an IPA...instead I'll be in Phoenix.
Surprise!
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Not this weekend, taking the Scouts camping/horseback-riding
Right on!
When I was a Scout, back in the day, I did a lot of my scouting in VA - Shenandoah NP, Appalachian Trail, C & O Canal... Virginia is a great place to learn about the outdoors!
Now I am a leader for my son's troop. It's at least as much fun as when I was a Scout!
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I'm planning on a dubbel on Saturday (starter wort is cooling in the sink right now). Also tapping a Belgian table beer and kegging an ESB this weekend.
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No brewing planned, but I am judging the entries from South-West England for the Champion Beer of Britain this weekend.
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Imperial India Black Lager!!!
:P
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I'm hoping to get a Munich Helles in this weekend. I just kegged a Maibock and an Jalepeno Blonde, and sad to say all my fermenters are empty. That's the first time I think that's happened in at least 9 months.
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Brewing a Munich dunkel with the Hellabock yeast and bottling entries for the NHC.
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AIPA this weekend as long as my foot holds up (no pun intended). Also packing up entries for the NHC.
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Plumbing my brew stand and brewing up my first Dusseldorf Alt Bier. Kegging an APA and, of course, cleaning kegs.
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Saison.
Spring Fever!!!
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Keg 10 gal Bells 2 Heart Clone, brew 10 gal Dry Stout
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No brewing this weekend. I have some dry hopping to do and then some drinking. Need to kill a keg or two to free up space before I can brew again. My fermentation chamber and my dispensing fridge are maxed out at the moment. This is the first time since I started brewing over 5 years ago that I've had to put myself in a holding pattern. Not a bad problem to have, I guess.
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No brewing for me either. Trying to get beer and mead into bottles for the NHC.
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The lehua blossom nectar flow is going strong this year. I pulled 3 full supers yesterday. Today it's extraction time. Should get at least 100#. Some freinds are bringing their supers over too. Extraction party a Hale Punatic today. Hawaiian honey (kiawe, macnut, citrus, lehua, albizia) meads to be served.
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Hawaiian honey (kiawe, macnut, citrus, lehua, albizia) meads to be served.
I don't even know what half of that stuff is, but I'm jealous at the awesomeness of it.
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Bottling a APA. Brewing an IPA.
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Going to brew a hoppy Pilsner, fermenting cold with a slug of WLP810 - SF Lager. Should make a fruity/estery lager.
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Got a BDSA in the fermenter and the BoPils in a keg. Productive beer day. And a pretty relaxing brew session. This is the first time I've brewed the BDSA and it's not part of my "year of perfecting certain beers" so I just took a RDWHAHB approach to it. Ended up hitting all of my numbers and I think it'll be a good brew.
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Brewing Vienna lager on Sunday.
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Hawaiian honey (kiawe, macnut, citrus, lehua, albizia) meads to be served.
I don't even know what half of that stuff is, but I'm jealous at the awesomeness of it.
I'm confused too, but not too confused to taste it if it was in front of me. :) Very envious!
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Kiawe (http://www.na.fs.fed.us/pubs/silvics_manual/volume_2/prosopis/pallida.htm)
(http://www.invasive.org/images/768x512/1294010.jpg)
Macnut (http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Macadamia.html)
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/98/236294274_a4d6002a5f.jpg)
Citrus (http://www.agroforestry.net/tti/Citrus-citrus.pdf)
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3615/3387103904_ba09e672a0.jpg)
Lehua (http://agroforestry.net/tti/Metrosideros-ohia.pdf)
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3619/3370189379_37ebff6eff.jpg)
Albizia (http://www.tropicalforages.info/key/Forages/Media/Html/Albizia_lebbeck.htm)
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SglUFd7ue3A/TMBCN_L-RXI/AAAAAAAAH8A/LpUZ1EamAGo/s1600/Albizia+lebbeck+3.JPG)
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Beautiful pics punatic. I'm jealous. I'd love to try some of those.
I presume you make quite a bit of mead. If so, do you have any good recipes you might share.
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Beautiful pics punatic. I'm jealous. I'd love to try some of those.
I presume you make quite a bit of mead. If so, do you have any good recipes you might share.
Not meaning to be a wise guy, mostly just honey, water, yeast and yeast nutrients. No heat.
Follow Ken Schramm's sugestions in The Complete Meadmaker.
I've been playing around with yeast types. I was inspired by Ken Schramm and Dan McConnell's mead tasting at the Brewstorm in Denver (NHC 1994) Here is what they did:
Mead Success: Ingredients, Processes and Techniques (http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/attachments/0000/1305/Springzym95-Mead.pdf)
Note the experiment section.
Dan is no longer involved in meadmaking, which is really a shame. He and Ken were a great team.
I had the honor of judging best of show meads with Dan and Jackie Rager two years later at NHC '96 in NOLA. That was an amazing experience!
Working on taking my meads pro here in Hawaii.
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Working on taking my meads pro here in Hawaii.
That's great, how far along are you?
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We are writing the business plan now. There are lot of pieces that have to fit together. Regulations are challenging...
I am also inspired by Michael Fairbrother in Londonderry.
I misspoke about Dan McConnell and Ken Schramm's mead tasting: It was at the NHC '95 in Baltimore. Sometimes I get the breakout sessions mixed up - go figure...
One of the cool things about the mead tasting was that they poured the meads from kegs into pitchers and then servers walked through the audience pouring samples in people's glasses. The servers were Charlie Papazian, Byron Burch, George Fix, and Fred Eckhardt. Quite a tasting!