Brewday Hudson 20th April. What to make?

[matthewdick23]

So I have a good bit of two row and a bit of specialty grain and hops left over. lots of different yeasts too.

will get a detailed list once I'm home

What do folks want to brew?

Matthew

[sub82]

Would keeping it simple with a pale ale using a couple of malts and hops be best?

What does everyone else think?

[matthewdick23]

could do that, aye

or what if we made a bigger batch- say around 30-40 L of something then split it and each used different yeasts at home- could be a fun experiment

I'm very tempted to get into sours too- but this is maybe not the day for that

what you think?

[sub82]

Yeah definitely - that'd be cool! Even try different dry hopping etc.?

You could give the sours ago - is that adding brettanomyces?

[matthewdick23]

adding brett would be one option, yeah.

hmmm, maybe a simple (i?)pa grain bill then split boil into two batches for diff hops.

or, same hops, different yeasts at home

[sub82]

Maybe just the one batch would be better, at least for our first demo, then do the different yeasts?

[matthewdick23]

yeah sounds good.  i have a good bit of two row malt- should be enough for a big batch- i'll put it into the software and see what the max is i can make wit my boiler n mash tun

any thoughts on hops or specialty grain?

i double checked the grain bill on that iipa i had done for our last meet- it is just amber as a specialty. crazy huh?

[sub82]

Definitely!

We've a load of Maris Otter that can be used. Not sure - maybe Munich and crystal? No idea on hops - do you've any preference? What about cascade?

We've black and chocolate malt that can be brought on the day for people to taste.

[matthewdick23]

how much mo do you have?

and do you have any hops? i'll check and see what I have- could be nice not to have to order anything for this brew!

[sub82]

We should have around 10kg MO.

We actually need to order some hops ourselves. Got 2 brews on last week - might have some magnum and mount hood, think around 20g of each, probably not enough for a big brew.

[matthewdick23]

k, ill check and see what i have and put it all into beeralchemy. maybe split your base grain and mine 50-50.  maybe a 4% pale ale? what kinda ibu?

[matthewdick23]

good shout!

thx

[sub82]

k, ill check and see what i have and put it all into beeralchemy. maybe split your base grain and mine 50-50.  maybe a 4% pale ale? what kinda ibu?

Not sure - we've very little experience working to IBUs. Something similar to dead pony club might be good?

[matthewdick23]

cool, that's what i was thinking too

[sub82]

Ah nice one!

Do you have a method to follow on the day? What equipment is needed?

Also - Rossa says there is a handout for brew demos in the Capital forum that we can use for ours.

http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1354881886