What's your next brew

Zambezi Special said:
I'll be playing around with something wheaty once I get a fermenter free.
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RoadRoach said:
That looks pretty good, albeit, perhaps a little bitter for my tastes. I like hoppy, but not bitter, if that makes any sense.
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For a "Blonde Ale", I would have to agree it's a bit too bitter. But call it a Pale Ale and that looks fantastic!

What's in a name anyway? :D
 
Nosybear said:
Nobody ever gets a zero, either, so it's really only two....
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Oh no, are you saying there's participation awards in beer judging? Say it ain't so, please! I guess that's the world we live in. When I was growin' up, getting your feelings hurt once in a while was also considered learning experience. We always called 2nd place the first place loser as an incentive to make us try harder. Can you imagine what younger generations are ultimately going to do to competitive sports? o_O :rolleyes:

Well, guess I won't bother trying any contests then. Nobody wins if nobody loses. "No child left behind" has done a lot of damage to our society. It should more properly be called "No Child Gets Ahead" or "What size shoe do you want on your neck?".

As for my next brew, hmmm, maybe LA Mud Puddle (Kona Big Wave knockoff). I do like the hops in that one. Makes it taste like mangoes. Might as well simulate tropical summer in our nasty wet semi-freezing weather. I'm thinking maybe a slightly heavier dose of the Galaxy in the dry hop to really kick the hop flavor.
 
RoadRoach said:
That looks pretty good, albeit, perhaps a little bitter for my tastes. I like hoppy, but not bitter, if that makes any sense.
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It's all percieved bitterness remember ;)

It's subject that Enigma is 18%AA I think this is throwing the WP bittering out​
 
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Josh Hughes said:
It will be a few weeks for me since I have 3 kegs full and one waiting on the lager brewed yesterday. My next 4 are planned and grain ordered.
  1. Irish Red
  2. Irish Stout
  3. Helles
  4. Dunkel
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I will switch the German lagers and Irish beers. I’m trying Imperial Global instead of dry 34/70 and that pack expires sooner than the Irish ale yeast in my fridge.
 
RoadRoach said:
Oh no, are you saying there's participation awards in beer judging? Say it ain't so, please! I guess that's the world we live in. When I was growin' up, getting your feelings hurt once in a while was also considered learning experience. We always called 2nd place the first place loser as an incentive to make us try harder. Can you imagine what younger generations are ultimately going to do to competitive sports? o_O :rolleyes:

Well, guess I won't bother trying any contests then. Nobody wins if nobody loses. "No child left behind" has done a lot of damage to our society. It should more properly be called "No Child Gets Ahead" or "What size shoe do you want on your neck?".

As for my next brew, hmmm, maybe LA Mud Puddle (Kona Big Wave knockoff). I do like the hops in that one. Makes it taste like mangoes. Might as well simulate tropical summer in our nasty wet semi-freezing weather. I'm thinking maybe a slightly heavier dose of the Galaxy in the dry hop to really kick the hop flavor.
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If you choose to interpret what I was saying that way, fine. We don't give anything below a 13 and we never give 50s. Any score in between is fair game. I've judged a few and no one gets a participation award, in fact, I've judged flights where no medals were awarded. What we don't do is criticize without offering suggestions for improvement. That said, I have given 45s, and 13s. But I've never insulted a brewer on a scoresheet and never will, not even a 13.
 
Nosybear said:
But I've never insulted a brewer on a scoresheet and never will, not even a 13
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Like writing 'yer mother wears army boots'?

I don't enter competitions to win. I enter to get nominally unbiased expert opinions as to my beer's adherence yo a specific, well-described style.

I could imagine entering distilled water as a beer. And it should correctly receive a low score. But a 13 is hardly a participation trophy. Even the SATs* score from 200 to 800: you get 200 just for writing your name (and spelling doesn't count). A 13 means you've entered some kind of liquid and nobody died.

* The Scholastic Aptitude Test is a common test in the US taken by 11th and 12th graders and often used by colleges as part of their admissions decision. It is declining in popularity.
 
Trialben said:
It's all percieved bitterness remember ;)

It's subject that Enigma is 18%AA I think this is throwing the WP bittering out​
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Yeah, that bitterness calculator makes me scratch my head some. That one must have been written by the same accountants that the company uses to calculate it's costs. I can't get close to the same numbers that I get on the recipe sheets of my LHBS. But, they sell their bittering hops by AA, and flavor/aroma hops by the ounce. Doesn't matter it's exactly the same hops. That's where my wheel usually comes off.
 
Bitterness or IBUs are just a number An fluid number so to speak. Yes boil hops for a certain amount of time your going to get alpha acid isomerisation but this I've read is hard to put a number on especially when it comes to late additions and Whirlpooled hop additions.

I'm no chilling so I extend the boil for an extra 30mins to account for the extra hop issomerization past when i turn the heat off.
I imagine it takes roughtly half an hour for the boiling wort to drop below 80c a threshold where supposed hop issomerization is reduced meaning less bittering is going on. ;);)

So what I've been doing is bittering a beer to 30ibus tasting and gauging if I like that percieved bitterness or could I dial it up a bit.
This is where I'm at 42 ibu almost a BU/GU ratio 1:1 but I'm putting my money on it not tasting near that bitter in the final product going by the last two runs of this blonde recipie using thereabouts that many hops (especially in the WP where the numbers IBU's get wonky).

Ok I'll get to brewing it now and get off my soap box:D
 
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