What's in your fermenter??

[Dwayne_Delaney]

Brewed my first Pumpkin beer yesterday. Here is my recipe; I will edit this post after tasting it to let everyone know how it turned out.
Smelled real nice going into the fermenter.
Had to add a blow-off tube last night.

Pumpkin Pie Ale
6.00 lb Maris Otter
4.00 lb Munich Malt - 10L
1.00 lb CaraGold
1.00 lb Victory Malt
2.00 oz Hallertauer Mittelfrueh [3.90 %] (60 min)
1.50 tsp Allspice (Boil 15 min)
1.50 tsp Nutmeg (Boil 15 min)
2.50 tsp Cinnamon Powder (Boil 15 min)
1 pinch Clove Powder (Boil 15 min)
2 large cans Pumpkin (Boil 60 min)
1 Pkgs SafAle S-04

Mash grains @ 155° for 90 min. Roasted the pumpkin in oven @ 250° for 2 hrs.
Ferment @ 60°

[sirgiovanni]

I guess if I had to categorize it, I'd call it a specialty Baltic Porter for hops and ale yeast. The man is always trying to hold me back.

[BREWsmith]

Yesterday was a bank holiday so, of course, I brewed on my day off. This was my first attempt at an IPA. This was also my first time brewing in the fall and I spent all day keeping the yellowjackets at bay. The final score was around 40 to 1, but the one still hurts today. Any suggestions on battling these sugar mongers?

http://hopville.com/recipe/99456/americ ... itions-ipa

[john mills]

Time to use up the 2008 hops in preparation for the 2009 delivery.

Abhirathi (An IPA)

10#Maris Otter 2 row
1# Munich
¾# Crystal 20L
¾# Crystal 40L
¾# Victory Malt
1 ½# homemade Candi Sugar @ 5 min boil (straight off the stove:volcano addition)
1 tbsp 5.2 ph buffer in mash
½ oz Zeus whole hops@ 16.4% AA 60 min boil 27.1 IBU’s
1 oz Amarillo whole hops @ 9.3% AA 20 min boil 10.3 IBU’s
1 oz Cascade whole hops @ 7.2% AA 15 min boil 8.9 IBU’s
1 oz Amarillo whole hops @ 9.3% AA 10 min boil 6.1 IBU’s
½ oz Centennial whole hops @ 9.0% AA 5 min boil 2.5 IBU’s
¼ oz Zeus whole hops@ 16.4% AA 5 min boil 2.3 IBU’s
½ oz homegrown Cascade wet hops Flameout
2 oz Cascade pellet hops @ 6.0% AA Flameout
1 oz Centennial whole hops @ 9.0% AA Dry Hop Secondary
1 oz Amarillo whole hops @ 9.3% AA Dry Hop Secondary
1 oz Cascade whole hops @ 7.2% AA Dry Hop Secondary
Danstar Nottingham Dry yeast with 2 QT starter
152 degree mash.
6.25 gallons net
OG: 16.4 Brix = 1.067 SG
60.2 IBU’s

[Chris Norrick]

Beautiful day for brewing! Went back to the "original" recipe of my dad's favorite amber upon his request. He doesn't seem to enjoy my experimentation as much as I do.

[Chris Alvey]

10 gal of just some simple Kolsch

18 lbs. Pilsner
1 lb. Vienna
Hallertau
White Labs Kolsch Yeast WLP029

[Don]

Is this called a 90 minute Kolsch?
My memory isn't all too clear from Sunday,( I like Randy's Kegerator) but I think someone suggested calling it that.

[BREWsmith]

Yesterday was my first experience dry hopping (see IPA recipe a few comments below). I was concerned that just stuffing leaf hops (US Golding) into the secondary would result in a lot of residual hop material in the final product since I don't have filtering equipment. So, I tried to use a hop bag. After several attempts trying to manuever two 1 oz bags of hops through the neck of a carboy, I abandoned the effort and switched to pellet hops (Styrian Golding). Hopefully, the flavor won't be adversely affected. Time will tell. Any advice for future dry hopping endevours would be greatly appreciated.

[sirgiovanni]

A conical fermenter has just made my life tremendously easier to add fruit and hops to the secondary.

[BREWsmith]

A conical fermenter has just made my life tremendously easier to add fruit and hops to the secondary.

So, do you just dump the trub and then, voila, instant secondary?

[sirgiovanni]

you got it!

[Dwayne_Delaney]

. Any advice for future dry hopping endevours would be greatly appreciated.

I've had no issues with just adding the hops, leaf or pellets directly to the secondary.
I use a Surescreen® connected to my racking cane to filter the hops when I transfer from the secondary; works great. See link below.


http://www.brewinfo.org/surescreen.html

[sirgiovanni]

I needed a bottle of blood for my vampire costume.

1 bottle of Absolute Raspberry Vodka
1 lb. fresh red raspberries
1 oz. cinnamon
1/4 cup sugar

Hard simmer for 45 minutes and strain into a bottle. Decant off of there before the party.

[sirgiovanni]

8.5 Cherry Supernova weekend!

[Michael Erwin]

The house ESB, but this time I thought I'd mix it up a bit. I used the White Labs British Ale, instead of my usual dry Nottingham.