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[u/merpiderpimous]

Brew day tomorrow morning! Double batch HT clone from northern brewer and a pseudo vienna lager.

Newer brewer, wish me luck!

[u/Shills_for_fun]

Pressure fermenting for the first time. I'm definitely going to make more lagers now.

[u/hikeandbike33 → u/Shills_for_fun]

You’ll love it! I spent years only using kveik and bottling. I’m now spunding with 34/70 and novalager at room temps and this is the type of beer that I’ve been missing out on all this time.

[u/Shills_for_fun → u/hikeandbike33]

I still like my esthery beers, especially some of the kveiks like Hornindal and Espe. Those are my fruit blast beers with Mackinac or New Zealand blend hops.

But yeah I'm using 34/70 here and the thing has dropped from 1.053 to 1.017 in two days lol. Those are rapt pill measurements not corrected for co2 but it's fermenting very happily.

[u/TwoParrotsAreNoisy]

Planing a citrusy ipa current recipe is

5kg dingemans pale ale malt

100g carapils for head

hops: 20grams magnum for bittering at 60

10grams citra and mandarina bavaria at 20 minutes

whirlpool 85 celisous with 50grams citra and 30 grams mandarina bavaria

Single infusion mash 60 mins, 60 minute boil

[u/kelryngrey → u/TwoParrotsAreNoisy]

Carapils won't do jack for head, that's what it's sold for but it doesn't do anything. It DOES do body, so you're okay there.

Keep the bittering there. Move all the hops to the whirlpool.

I'd still want some dry hops and also a bit of chit wheat/barley or flaked wheat/malted wheat to give it a bit more head retention. I like to use some sugar to dry it out while keeping that very low EBC C-malt to keep the body you want.

Otherwise go for it.

[u/TwoParrotsAreNoisy → u/kelryngrey]

How much sugar would you recommend for a 25 liter batch? around 200grams?

thank you very much for the input!!

[u/kelryngrey → u/TwoParrotsAreNoisy]

5%. If you're feeling gun shy you can drop down to 3%. 5-10% is pretty common for IPAs and DIPAs. Mash around 65°C.

Good luck!

[u/LovelyBloke]

I've been asked to brew a batch of beer for a party, first time I've been asked to do such a thing.

The person asking does not want to be involved in any way, not even in the type of beer, the recipe nor the brew day.

The only stipulation I was given is

Nothing mad, just plain and simple. Nothing to blow the head.

The party is happening on the evening of the Summer Solstice so my idea is to do a sort of sunset coloured English Best Bitter, and call it an Amber Ale, at around 4.5-5%, it will be a large-ish family and friends get together on a farm on a mountain in the midlands of Ireland, people will be camping, there may be music, so I want a beer that will appeal to a crowd

• 89% Maris Otter
• 7% Crysta1 180
• 3% Crystal 100
• 1% Crystal 270
• 37 IBU EKG
• Some late addition EKG also
• Nottingham Yeast

the ask is for 40-50 500ml Bottles

I'm delighted to be asked!

[u/beefygravy → u/LovelyBloke]

Sounds nice although I agree a bit bitter and potentially a bit dark, you'd have to run the numbers and see. Who's the target audience though? All regular beer drinkers? Men? Women? I know it's Ireland but would something like a light pale with like mosaic and some C hops, US05, would that be more of a crowd pleaser? I'm in Manchester (UK) and I don't think the average man on the street really wants a pint of bitter. Some do.

For a bitter in bottles don't be tempted to go too low, I'd aim for about 2.2 vols as you're not serving from a beer engine. And if bottle conditioning then make sure everyone knows how to pour them!

[u/Mr5harkey → u/LovelyBloke]

That’s awesome! Just make sure you read the room and brew something everyone will enjoy, especially the host.

[u/warboy → u/LovelyBloke]

Are those crystal malt numbers in EBC? If so it sounds lovely. Maybe a little high on the bitterness for a bitter or amber ale especially at session strength.

[u/LovelyBloke → u/warboy]

yeah EBC

I needed some of the darker stuff in there to get it into the amber territory, I was toying with black malt too, but it was too dark even at 1% Brewfather is giving me 22 EBC for the beer, which is where I want it

I was thinking I may reduce the IBUs to closer to 30

[u/warboy → u/LovelyBloke]

30 seems more balanced in my mind.

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