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Re: Today’s brew
« Reply #210 on: February 19, 2024, 02:38:00 pm »
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« Reply #211 on: February 21, 2024, 05:17:00 am »
The club has a cereal beer challenge each year. I drew Oreos cereal so I am brewing a 1 gal batch this AM (because I don’t want a full keg of Oreos Cereal Stout).

Although, last year the chocolate cereal beer wasn’t too bad. It took 3rd at its table in the AL Brewer’s Cup which gave me a check mark in category 15. (I am trying to score above 30 in all 41 categories of beer/mead/cider.). We’ll see if this one brings me success in category 16.

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Re: Today’s brew
« Reply #212 on: February 23, 2024, 08:11:11 am »
Good luck - it looks to be very tasty.  I assume you have already met your goal in the Sweet Stout (16) category?  That would seem the most appropriate category here with Oreo cereal, if you were adding a bit of lactose (which you are not)....or perhaps SHV 30A due to the chocolate as a spice?  The 16 B works, though, since you have oats added, of course, just wondering about the judges reaction to it in this category. 

Good luck and let us know how it goes.  A small batch of it would be nice to have around for a change of pace on the stout front.  I am due to brew something stout-ish and this might just be my inspiration to get it done.
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« Reply #213 on: February 23, 2024, 10:23:09 am »
I am torn to where I should enter it 16A or B. I went through the same iterations you did with the decision. Since I didn’t add lactose I settled on B because of the oatmeal and the cereal is made with oats, wheat, and sugar mainly. …but we’ll see how sweet it ends up and if I get the creamy vibe from the oatmeal.  I believe I can change the entry based on the results of the finished beer.
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Re: Today’s brew
« Reply #214 on: March 13, 2024, 09:50:53 am »
Doing an altbier split-brew day (mash today/boil tomorrow) with some Belma hops as bittering and fermenting with lager yeast.  Giving them a try despite the comments that they impart a strawberry note.  Also did a small batch of German pils with Pils malt, Belma, and lager yeast as another experimental use of those hops.  It will be a while until I taste these batches as I plan on giving as long of a lagering time as I can stand!

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« Reply #215 on: March 13, 2024, 10:44:48 am »
I brewed a Vienna Lager this AM. Not sure why BeerSmith changes the weight of the grains when I did the screenshot


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Re: Today’s brew
« Reply #216 on: March 13, 2024, 12:55:55 pm »
I brewed a Vienna Lager this AM. Not sure why BeerSmith changes the weight of the grains when I did the screenshot


I saw this preview of your post in Tapatalk.


I was like, huh? You don’t know why you brewed a Vienna Lager?

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Re: Today’s brew
« Reply #217 on: March 13, 2024, 02:03:57 pm »