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Wee County Brewers / Re: Friday March 8th
Last post by Acott - February 27, 2024, 09:56:35 PM
1. Helmet - Belgian Pale Ale
2. WackerGunn - Extra Stout
3. PaddyH - Double American Amber
4. Acott - Trident SMaSH
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Capital Brewers / Re: Feb 2024 meet: Wed 28th Fe...
Last post by MichaelE - February 27, 2024, 05:50:00 PM
1. Ronan
2. Michael - Rauchbier
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Best Recipes / Re: Guinness Extra Stout Recip...
Last post by biertourist - February 27, 2024, 12:51:07 AM
Quote from: DEMPSEY on February 22, 2024, 11:10:41 AMon the 70 20 10, I did 70% pale, 20% flaked, 7% roast, 3% acidulated. Was happy with the result. At the time, I used Maryanka hops (Polish) to bitter.


Thanks! Hope you're well.


I ended up brewing a variation of my Stanard Plain stout on Saturday, instead.
69% Golden Promise
18% Flaked Barley
10.7% Roast Grains total split between:4/6ths Roast Barley, 1/6th Pale Chocolate, 1/6th Black Patent
2.5% Crystal 40

A little bit of CaCl and Gypsym in the mash and 88% lactic to get the mash to 5.4 pH at the beginning then 5.3 at the end.  I saved all the roast grains for the last 10 minutes of the mash, per the method that Martin Brungard recommended. 

1.047 OG this time. Tasted like it had a bit too much hop bitterness in the wort; I just moved to using a Grainfather G40 (2nd brew with it) and I forgot that I get higher utilization on this system vs. my old system that I used a Hop Spider on.


I actually just picked up a 4 pack of the O'hara's Irish Stout in nitro cans for my homebrew club to try at our meeting next Tuesday, so that they can try an Irish Craft example. It was $24 for 4 cans; I was NOT prepared for that, but the club's paying for it, at least.



-First time I've tried that. I brew it a bit bigger than it probably should be at 1.047.

I'm going to wait to see what the pH naturally finishes at and I play to acidify the finished beer to at least 4.0, or maybe take it down to a Guinness-like 3.9pH.  I'm afraid the black patent / chocolate malt might get too harsh / astringent all the way down at 3.9...



Adam
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Wee County Brewers / Re: Friday March 8th
Last post by Paddyh - February 26, 2024, 07:36:56 PM
1. Helmet - Belgian Pale Ale
2. WackerGunn - Extra Stout
3. PaddyH - Double American Amber
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Wee County Brewers / Re: Friday March 8th
Last post by WackerGunn - February 26, 2024, 06:09:27 PM
1. Helmet - Belgian Pale Ale
2. WackerGunn - Extra Stout
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Wee County Brewers / Friday March 8th
Last post by helmet - February 26, 2024, 05:50:18 PM
We'll meet again in Mo Chara from about 6.00 on the 8th.
Bring a bottle or two of your finest homebrew or just come along to try what we have on offer on the night. A few quid spent behind the bar is always appreciated by Mo Chara too.

1. Helmet - Belgian Pale Ale
2.
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Capital Brewers / Feb 2024 meet: Wed 28th Febura...
Last post by beerfly - February 26, 2024, 12:04:45 PM
Location
Underdog

Date:
Wed 28th Feburary 2024

Start time:
7.00pm

All new members welcome

If you have some brews for tasting, bring along ~1 Litre of each.

To show some thanks to our hosts for allowing us to drink home-brewed beers in their pub, it is customary to buy some drinks from the house.

1. Ronan
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Best Recipes / Re: Guinness Extra Stout Recip...
Last post by DEMPSEY - February 22, 2024, 11:10:41 AM
on the 70 20 10, I did 70% pale, 20% flaked, 7% roast, 3% acidulated. Was happy with the result. At the time, I used Maryanka hops (Polish) to bitter.
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Competitions / Re: 14 weeks to go until Natio...
Last post by Matt DBrewer - February 20, 2024, 08:13:36 PM
The date is 18th May ... the venue has yet to be announced
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Competitions / Re: 14 weeks to go until Natio...
Last post by Slev - February 20, 2024, 08:07:38 PM
I know I saw details somewhere, but remind me again of the date and venue

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