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| By Leslie Fox on Mar 13th 2004, 2:25 am | Permalink |
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Had a nice brew day today. Moved the oatmeal stout to the basement for some pre keg settling, Racked my west coast pale ale, and had a go at brewing koelschish type beer. 7 lb muntons two row pale .5 lb crystal luv 20 .5 Caramunich 1 1 oz perle 7.2aa 60 min .5 oz Hallertauer mit 5aa FWH WLP029 mashed at 150 for 80 min OG 1.051 IBU 45.5 I plugged it into promash and I'm pretty much off on every measurement there is for the guidlines. I guess I could of put some German malts in there as well. That's why it's a koelschish and not a koelsch. At the end of the day it's still beer. |
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| By Leslie Fox on Feb 10th 2004, 2:14 am | Permalink |
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Well after about two weeks or so in the shop the old brew machine is back on track. First I had to futs around with my draft system. I wanted to get three beers going at once. Then I decided to change from a manifold to a hose braid for sparging purposes. So tonight I'm kegging my India Brown Ale and racking my disastrous rye ale. Tomorrow it's lager time. Denny, no worries. Anytime you drop a little knowlage my way It's aprieciated. |
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| By Leslie Fox on Jan 27th 2004, 2:09 am | Permalink |
| I had those hops on hand so I decided to use them. I guess I'll try and find some hose braid before I brew next. Thanks for the imput. | |
| By Leslie Fox on Jan 26th 2004, 2:31 pm | Permalink |
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Robb I've got a slotted copper manifold. I've never really had a problem with it till this last batch. My plan is try again with my normal grind. If that doesn't work I may have to change my system. I'd like to avoid changing if I can. Change involves extra work, and work is bad. |
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| By Leslie Fox on Jan 25th 2004, 3:38 pm | Permalink |
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Painful brew session. Was making a stab at this ryepa thing everyones been talking about. Problem is I was fiddling with my crush and I found out how fine is too fine. I got a permanently stuck run off. I dumped everything out of the tun, cleaned up the manifold dumped everything back in, still nothing. Hell is a place where you have sparge one strainer-full at a time. I ended up making the beer anyway, by this point I had nothing to loos on it. But I'll be surprised if anything good comes of it. Rye A-- Pain 9 lb british two row 2 lb rye malt 1 lb crystal 60 .5 lb caramunich .5 lb wheat .75 oz fuggles 4.5aa FWH .5 oz centenial 9.9aa FWH 1 oz magnum 15.1aa 60 minutes Wyeast 1056 OG at this point I figured why bother? It's fermenting so we'll see how it goes. I'm gonna chalk this one up to a learning experience. |
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