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What are you brewing?

>> No.104266

All grain double IPA.

Dry hopped with about 10 ounces of home grown cascade.

I need to build a wort chiller and mash tun first.

>> No.104274

MEAD ,hard cider

>> No.104272

>>104266
I'm just starting out. Been wanting to do it for a long time. Got half a home brew kit for christmas. Picked up the rest of it this morning in time to watch the cricket while i brew. Its only your very basic just add and stir set ups for now. But i think it will be good to learn on before i step up into the serious world of brewing. Any tips and pointers would be fantastic!

>> No.104279

>>104272
All extract is blah, start with partial.

Move on to all grain later as you can afford it. Learn the terminology. Get a good long probe thermometer. Digital is great, as it gives instant measurements.

Sterilize everything. EVERYTHING. Bleach is fine, but iodophur is easier to deal with.

Run a blowoff tube off your fermenter for a few days. Simply put, put a hose where the airlock goes, into a jug of water...this is in case your fermentation goes nuts and overflows with foam.

Fill your airlock with vodka. It's sterile and food safe.

Be sure to wash your hands and arms. Wear clean clothes. You don't want to infect your batch with an undesired wild yeast. If you're going to take a sample to observe the fermentation, be sure to sterilize your sample equipment thoroughly, and try not to open all the way. You don't want anything falling in.

>> No.104307
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104307

just experimenting something
mead, a mix of Mandarin orange, red plums, cinamon, lemon grass and nutmeg. My first time brewing, has been only one week but its fermentation is getting weak and im starting to doubt its going to work, does the weather affect the fermentation? Because this month was really hot and dry until yesterday when it started to rain.

>> No.104310

>>104307
they do slow down suddenly after the initial burst of fermentation. if bubbles are still rising, or pressure slowly grows, then the yeast is still doing some. the temperature does affect the ferment but not drastically. maybe get a splash more water in there.

>> No.104313

>>104310

thanks, i will try it , maybe put a little more honey too?

>> No.104314

>>104313
yep, you could try some 'drip feeding' to see where the ceiling is. if the ferment carries on accepting, of course. or you could switch to a spike of white sugar for a quick boost.

>> No.104319

>>104314

thanks, im going to wait a little to see if the fermetion gets weaker or will hold itself like that, if it gets weaker i will add the sugar.

one more thing, cristal or baking sugar?

>> No.104322

I got an Apple Wheat beer I need to bottle that I've been putting off. A cider is planned, but not sure when I will start that, probably sometime this week.

>>104279
All extract is nice for beginners as it has the fewest steps. Frankly I'm of the opinion that after 2-3 extracts you can skip partial and go straight to all grain once you decide you want to stick with the hobby. It's a very simple and almost painless transition.

>>104307
I know it's just your fermentation vessel, but the condensed nature of the ingredients bothers me. Did you add a whole orange? For something that size half should be fine, could possibly get away with even less. As another anon said, the brew is fine don't worry about it weakening. They may be right about adding some more water too.

>>104272
Certain home brew kits (Mr.Beer) are sub standard quick buck brewing machines and often result in mediocre beer. If you got one of these types don't let them turn you off of home brewing, there's so many great beers you can make. If you got an actual ingredients kit then it should be fine. Welcome to the hobby.

>> No.104324

>>104319
crystal, if by that you mean the small sand-like granules(?) UK would be granulated. i would also consider just sprinkling it onto the surface, without mixing, so it gets eaten really fast.

>> No.104327

>>104272

Matt?

>> No.104330

>>104322
>>104324

ok thanks guys

>> No.104359

>>104322
Yeah i'm not to bothered by the amount of steps and the percieved difficulties of all grain brewing. I've done it before at one of those places where you go in and do it all with assistance. This is just a kick start into the hobby.

The kit i picked up is just the coopers diy beer package. Http://www.diybeer.com.au

That apple wheat beer sounds tasty. Mind sharing the recipe?

>> No.104362

Also got a Coopers kit. Just bottled a Blonde and got Pilsner on the go with Ginger Beer and Bitter to follow. Doubled the dextrose in each brew to get a higher alcohol content.

>> No.104367

>>104362
Did the doubling of the dextrose affect the taste in any way?

>> No.104369

>>104322
Partial isn't much harder than extract, but it yields a better tasting product for less price...syrup is expensive. Tastes good though, I'd put it on pancakes!

>> No.104383

>>104369
Everyone here is talking about cost. A tin of syrup is $10. How tight are your arses?

>> No.104414

>>104383
You need more than one can for a five gallon batch.

My first partial was like $45 for yeast, hops, DME, syrup, and malt.

My double IPA had a lot shitload of rarer hops, and was still like $41.

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104425

>In the fridge:
Baltic Porter, Rye Saison, IPA, Blonde, Imp. Stout

>Needs to be bottled
Rauchbier

>Next to be brewed
Bochet (mead), Northern English Brown

Pic related, the blonde, stout, rauchbier and IPA in various stages of development.

>> No.104435

>>104367

Dextrose is 99% fermentable, so it adds nothing in the way of flavour. It's the reason so many homebrewers use it for bottle carbonation.

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104453

>2011

>using hydrometer

Bro, don't use a cylinder of your brew, risking infection. Just use a drop.

http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&rh=n%3A393272011&page=1

>> No.104532

>>104453

Don't be absurd. You'd have to be partially brain dead to get an infection. No-rinse sanitizer in a spray bottle solves the issue. Not to mention, hydrometer samples are also tasting samples. Refractometers are really only necessary for fly sparging to precise gravity levels.

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104547

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related link, going on right now.

>> No.104574

Mead.

>> No.104577

>>104574
Do you drink it out of your flagan while wearing your chainmale bra? Whats up with all the medieval dragoon whitenights on this board?

>> No.104588

>>104577
it's made from honey so it's sweet

not everyone likes sour drinks

>> No.104600

>>104588
Are you trying to say that beer is sour? What period do you live in?

>> No.104613

I'm going to brew a hefeweizen tomorrow.... It's the 3rd batch I've ever made. My last 2 batches were pretty hoppy (an IPA, so duhhh... and a Maple Syrup Ale.)

Any tips /diy/ for creating an excellent Hef?

>> No.104617

>>104547

Any thoughts on this?

>> No.104621

>>104617
No idea. But i'm op, and whats pictured is easy enough to use.

>> No.104640

>>104359
The recipe I got from homebrewtalk.com forums, a very good source of information for homebrewers. I did edit it a little based on the time of the year and personal taste.

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f70/sunshower-honey-apple-wheat-261838/

>>104383
Normally it will cost $30-$50 for ingredients, but that will give you 5 gallons of beer which provides 40-50 bottles of beer once done. You can certainly get beer at the store for that kind of price, but the quality rarely matches. That and it's fun. Start up costs are the real b.

>>104425
Dat circular carboy, want. Can only imagine it's a pain in the ass to clean though. Do you dry hop at all?

>>104453
I've moved on to the lovely refractometer, but sometimes I miss the simplicity of my hydrometer. The reason I made the change was because I broke 2 of them and by then the cost of replacing them was a refractometer. Hydrometer is still a good tool.

>>104547
>>104617
>>104621
It's a Mr. Beer kit. As I said earlier, it's easy but the results are poor and I know people who actually refuse to home brew because they started off with a Mr. Beer and didn't like the end product. Given the choice I'd never go near Mr. Beer, though I realize a whole set up for around $50 is tempting, but it really is a set up you should only use once.

>> No.104641

At the moment I've got some Cooper's bottled and carbonating and I just put down a gallon of Apfelwein yesterday. I don't think the Cooper's will be very good, but I wanted to have some homebrew ready for New Years. I'm looking forward to the Apfelwein though.

>> No.104647

got a 25litre young's beer brewing kit for christmas that I started up on christmas day, what should I try brewing in 3/4 days when I need to siphon it out of the fermenting bucket?

>> No.104681
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104681

Bottling 20 liters of Belgian witt beer today
Somewhat a clone of Hoegaarden.

All grain - because making extract beer is like making shake-and-bake cake...
Have used 10 % extract once, in a strong Belgian

>> No.104710

>>104577
>Do you drink it out of your flagan while wearing your chainmale bra?

Flagon, retard.

Mead is delicious. It's the only kind of wine I will drink. What do you get off on, homestyle Budweiser? Fuck off.

>> No.104788

>>104640
I started off on a Mr. Beer kit, the brews weren't amazing from it but they weren't bad either. The big thing is that it taught me the basics of brewing and allowed me to work in small batches until I got the hang of things and invested in a larger set up. People who have quality problems from MB kits are typically people who herp derp their way through sterilization or only do a 7 day ferment/7 day bottle condition and try to drink it.

>> No.104792

think i might give this a try, just for fun ofc.

http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=1419

>> No.104804

>What are you brewing?

I have several hundred gallons of jenkem buried in the backyard. It's coming along nicely.

>> No.104813

>>104264
cider. 8 gallons. 4 gal with 1/2# of cane sugar 4 gal with 1/2# brown sugar and a bit of molasses.

>> No.105134

>>104710
Stp pretending you are from middle earth

>> No.105148

5 gals skeeter pee
5 gals hard raspberry apple cider
5 gals chocolate coffee stout
5 gals chocolate orange mead

>> No.106526

>>104710

I'm not this guy, but I feel I must stick up for the glory of mead.

It's seriously good. Try it.

>> No.106536

>>106526

It's seriously overrated, though, too.

>> No.106576

>>106536

I disagree.

It's about as close to liquid perfection as we can get, sort of like how the Christians would view the jizz of Jesus.

>> No.106720

got 5 gallons of vanilla porter in the primary.

>> No.106790

>>105134
Stop pretending you're over 12.

>> No.106914

Just finished a gallon of mead.
Last year I made apple cider.