The Barrel Project - The Recipe

[Shanna]

Ciderhead would you mind paying your beer tools recipe please?

Shanna

[Ciderhead]

Ciderhead would you mind paying your beer tools recipe please?

Shanna

? the recipe
Pm me your mail address thnx

[Shanna]

Bloody mobile predictive text.  Meant to say posting the beer smith recipe. Pm sent.

Shanna

[Bubbles]

Lads, what do you think our finished beer is going to taste like? The only homebrewed stouts and porters I've done have relied heavily on crystal and the darker roasted malts. I can't think what all that toasted malt (amber and brown) is going to lend it, because I have little experience with these malts. It's exciting stuff!!

[Shane Phelan]

My latest brew mightn't be a million miles away from it. It will be at the next SD Meet so you can verify then. 

[Bubbles]

That looks great, and not a million miles from our barrel recipe, true enough.

Makes me think we should have a little wheat malt in our barrel recipe for head retention, but no use making changes at this late stage.

How did you make a "dark" starter? Is there much of an advantage to having the same sort of specialty grains in your starter that you have in your wort?

[Shane Phelan]

Yeah I'm a big fan of using wheat for head retention but after 6 months in a barrel with 10% alcohol or higher I don't think there is going to be much head to retain... 

I just made it dark as i was going to pitch the full starter into my beer. No real scientific reason.

[Bubbles]

True that. There's plenty of crystal in there anyway.

[Ciderhead]

beersmith is telling me 3 packets US05

[Bubbles]

I'd say you'll be fine with two packets. Just remember to rehydrate, I find it makes a big difference. I used to be a "sprinkler"...

[beerfly]

im generally a sprinkler cause im a bit lazy.  but with the amount of sugar in this will definatly be rehydrating.

on a related note due to a slight order mess up on my side i got way too much yeast nutrient last time so if any one wants some can probably pass it about

cant wait to see who's fermenter makes the biggest mess

[Bubbles]

im generally a sprinkler cause im a bit lazy.  but with the amount of sugar in this will definatly be rehydrating.

on a related note due to a slight order mess up on my side i got way too much yeast nutrient last time so if any one wants some can probably pass it about

cant wait to see who's fermenter makes the biggest mess

I hope it won't be me anyway - I'm doing 2 x 15 litre batches, both in 23 litre fermenters. If my fermentations end up spewing out the top, I think I'll have to look closer at my temperature control.