Brewing a weizen for our homebrew club weizen tasting with 50% dark wheat/50% pils and CL 930 today.
Will be doing an all brett b blonde tomorrow for a club project where we're all using the same recipe with different yeasts.
I only wished I lived closer to Justin because that brett blonde is a tastey brew...i 'd be over all the time!
i still need to rack my pale ale....jeez!!!
Tim
Founders Kentucky Breakfast clone is kegged and carbed, same with the Apfelwein. Both are outstanding and pouring well, though I'll likely use a different oak for the Founders next time, as this one came out a bit on the earthy side. Not overly so, just, not as toasted/woodsie as I would have liked. A heavy toast using French will likely give me what I am looking for.
I still need to brew up Edwort's Haus Pale Ale, but I am waiting until after we move, as I really do not want to try to move around gallons of beer in carboys during the summer.
I'm brewing a huge Burton ale today. All the members in my club are brewing it and we're all going to secondary in the bourbon barrel that we just drained the Imp Vanilla porter out of.
Founders Kentucky Breakfast clone is kegged and carbed, same with the Apfelwein. Both are outstanding and pouring well, though I'll likely use a different oak for the Founders next time, as this one came out a bit on the earthy side. Not overly so, just, not as toasted/woodsie as I would have liked. A heavy toast using French will likely give me what I am looking for.
I still need to brew up Edwort's Haus Pale Ale, but I am waiting until after we move, as I really do not want to try to move around gallons of beer in carboys during the summer.
Did you soak the oak cubes in bourbon?
Borrowing a buddies plate chiller to see how it works on my system and decide if I want to buy one. Will be testing it out on a saison using some yeast I cultured out of a De Ranke bottle.
Borrowing a buddies plate chiller to see how it works on my system and decide if I want to buy one. Will be testing it out on a saison using some yeast I cultured out of a De Ranke bottle.
Nice Are you using a chiller of any type right now, or are you just going the ice bath route? I built this thing a while ago, and it works outstanding, but I want to build a pre-chiller for it to immerse in ice water:
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I actually have an immersion and a counter flow chiller. ???
They both work ok, but I just got a pump and I really want to be able to whirlpool with it. The CFC restricts it too much and I can't get a whirlpool. I still need to try the whirlpool along with the immersion chiller, but my buddy can go from boiling to pitching temps in 4 minutes with his plate chiller. :0
Borrowing a buddies plate chiller to see how it works on my system and decide if I want to buy one. Will be testing it out on a saison using some yeast I cultured out of a De Ranke bottle.
Nice Are you using a chiller of any type right now, or are you just going the ice bath route? I built this thing a while ago, and it works outstanding, but I want to build a pre-chiller for it to immerse in ice water:
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I actually have an immersion and a counter flow chiller. ???
They both work ok, but I just got a pump and I really want to be able to whirlpool with it. The CFC restricts it too much and I can't get a whirlpool. I still need to try the whirlpool along with the immersion chiller, but my buddy can go from boiling to pitching temps in 4 minutes with his plate chiller. :0
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Wow, not bad at all. I'll let you know how the pre-chiller and immersion works out. I get really good cold breaks right now as is (my tap water is really cold), so I get down to pitching temps in about 10 minutes or less. I figure with a pre-chiller I should be in the 6 minute range, which is perfect for the cost. I get a pretty good whirlpool with the immersion, but I have no doubt that a plate chiller would work better.
Borrowing a buddies plate chiller to see how it works on my system and decide if I want to buy one. Will be testing it out on a saison using some yeast I cultured out of a De Ranke bottle.
Nice Are you using a chiller of any type right now, or are you just going the ice bath route? I built this thing a while ago, and it works outstanding, but I want to build a pre-chiller for it to immerse in ice water:
[url="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/Cubic2AC/Brewing/Beer/6c515071.jpg"]http://img.photobuck...er/6c515071.jpg[/url][/img
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I actually have an immersion and a counter flow chiller. ???
They both work ok, but I just got a pump and I really want to be able to whirlpool with it. The CFC restricts it too much and I can't get a whirlpool. I still need to try the whirlpool along with the immersion chiller, but my buddy can go from boiling to pitching temps in 4 minutes with his plate chiller. :0
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Wow, not bad at all. I'll let you know how the pre-chiller and immersion works out. I get really good cold breaks right now as is (my tap water is really cold), so I get down to pitching temps in about 10 minutes or less. I figure with a pre-chiller I should be in the 6 minute range, which is perfect for the cost. I get a pretty good whirlpool with the immersion, but I have no doubt that a plate chiller would work better.
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Forgot to mention a different buddy has a pre-chiller for his immersion, and it works great. Do you just whirlpool by stirring?