I brewed today!

[Nosybear]

Bought it from Monoprice, some off-brand but works great and cost a third as much. Mark, you CAN overpitch, you know.... Result can be off flavors as well.

 

[Mark D Pirate]

Yes nosy , i ended up pitching at 0.82M cells / mL / °P so about spot on in reality for a nice clean ferment
Loving these reagent bottles for storage and transport of yeast

 

[GFHomebrew]

Yes nosy , i ended up pitching at 0.82M cells / mL / °P so about spot on in reality for a nice clean ferment
Loving these reagent bottles for storage and transport of yeast

Yep their great i use 500ml ones. Unfortunately my brewery is down to one after opening my keggerator and one toppled onto the floor. Note dont wedge them between kegs!

 

[Nosybear]

Straight mason jars work just as well. While those are some very nice containers, glass is glass. I use the cheapies.

 

[GFHomebrew]

Straight mason jars work just as well. While those are some very nice containers, glass is glass. I use the cheapies.

@$4.50 a glass it's worth it me thinks I like the segmented measurements up the side useful when determining how many mls of compacted yeast You have. Also them lids let the pressure build up out.

 

[Nosybear]

@$4.50 a glass it's worth it me thinks I like the segmented measurements up the side useful when determining how many mls of compacted yeast You have. Also them lids let the pressure build up out.

There's that.... I just leave the lids on a little loose.

 

[Mase]

Brewed a nice Pale Ale (with a few extra hops). Hit and exceeded all the number targets. Recipe was designed for 70% efficiency. Hit 77%.

 

[GFHomebrew]

Brewed my bunyip 2.0 expected FG was supposed to be 1.044 i hit 1.050! Best efficiency yet @85% sweet .

 

[Leglesswondercat]

Brewed my bunyip 2.0 expected FG was supposed to be 1.044 i hit 1.050! Best efficiency yet @85% sweet .

Nice! what did you do different?

 

[Head First]

There's that.... I just leave the lids on a little loose.

Some canning jars have measurements built on in US and Squirrel. We have a large selection of jars so just use the ones from the pantry that have them.

 

[GFHomebrew]

Brewed my bunyip 2.0 expected FG was supposed to be 1.044 i hit 1.050! Best efficiency yet @85% sweet .

Nice! what did you do different?

Well I was up around 300g on base grain I was expecting a point or two from this. When weighing my grain for recipie there was only a little bit left in the bag Hence the 300g extra grain. So I worked out my grain as 4kg total total volume of brew liquor as 30lt FG was 1.050 the efficiency calculator put that at 85%.

I usually hit around 80.

 

[Leglesswondercat]

So you fudged the numbers lol! Only kidding, 80% is still better than I have ever got

Had the skinflint brewery fired up today as well, got 75%, a normal run for my setup.

 

[GFHomebrew]

So you fudged the numbers lol! Only kidding, 80% is still better than I have ever got

Had the skinflint brewery fired up today as well, got 75%, a normal run for my setup.

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Oh i forgot to add one vital thing the malt the best i the world! Well maybe not (the best) but of course not all malts are.mafe equal of.course but i used exclusivey Gladfield Malt except for the special W thats European. But you get excelent extraction from their nice plump barley grown in the gentley sunkissed fertile sea blown lands of New Zealand.

http://www.gladfieldmalt.co.nz

Oh and jeff i aint spammin.

 

[Nugnut]

I agree Trialben I just bought three bags of Gladfield through the AHb Brisbane bulk buy.. I just tapped a Fat Yak I brewed with Gladfield and like it the best of those I have brewed.

 

[Leglesswondercat]

Got a thing for Maris Otter, grown on the rain drenched, mad little Island I call home lol. Look's like I will be back in Oz in 2019, got offered a job there and hopefully can do 6 months here, six months there. If that happens I will need two setups and would love to try the NZ malts and hops. You sell it well though , might be able to find it here in the meantime.

 

[jmcnamara]

Finally got to brew those small test batches to try out some new hops. Eureka yesterday and Experimental No. 07270 today

 

[GFHomebrew]

Finally got to brew those small test batches to try out some new hops. Eureka yesterday and Experimental No. 07270 today

Its a different flavour and aroma the Eureka will be interesting to get your take on it.

 

[oliver]

Brewing a wintery ipa today, lots of pine and lemon hops.

 

[oliver]

Brewing a wintery ipa today, lots of pine and lemon hops.

update! hit 16 plato today on this IPA. Smelled really good. Need to give it a healthy dry hop. and my house strain typically gets me around 73-75% attenuation, which should bring this beer to almost 6.5% ABV

 

[Vallka]

Brewed a Sierra Nevada clone today, changed the first two hops but kept the 4oz of cascade, smelled and tasted great, all numbers were high, hit 89%Brew House so was pretty happy whit this one.
Also bottled a Mango Milkshake NEIPA during the mash....cant wait to drink this one, taste great already!