National Homebrew Club Ireland

Hi chaps,

Next meet on Thursday, 3rd September. See further details here (http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/forum/index.php/topic,8012.0.html). Please sign up below if attending.

I won't be able to make this one myself, unfortunately.

Cheers,
Bubbles.

Had a plan to go to one of your meets but not this one as that's the day before RDS starts!

Another brewing related event I'm going to miss! :(

Lads, let me know if you want to change this on account of the RDS gig..  :-[

Maybe just pick a night and time for the rds and meet there instead, sans homebrew of course :) We can have fun tasting the commercial products instead.

Quote from: Bubbles on August 09, 2015, 07:01:29 PM
Another brewing related event I'm going to miss! :(

Lads, let me know if you want to change this on account of the RDS gig..  :-[

Would this mean the planned informal competition would have to be rescheduled also? I would not mind this as my beer will only be bottled a week by then.

I would suggest reschedule to the first Thursday in September if that works.

Shanna

Yeah might as well. See when it suits us all and go from there.

Ok lads, we'll change to Thur 3rd September instead?

Can one of the mods change the thread title, please? Ta.

 3rd September sounds perfect to me.

1. Shanna WitWeisbier, Munich "Schlecht" larger

1. Shanna WitWeisbier, Munich "Schlecht" larger
2. Molc - wit

1. Shanna WitWeisbier, Munich "Schlecht" larger
2. Molc - wit
3. Bubbles - Spelt Saison, Cider

Name of this thread has been updated to reflect new date. (Thanks, Garry).

1. Shanna WitWeisbier, Munich "Schlecht" larger
2. Molc - wit
3. Bubbles - Spelt Saison, Cider, Wildflower Mead, American Barleywine

yeah... In Rossa's understandable absence, I'm planning on "doing a Rossa"..

Quote from: Bubbles on August 25, 2015, 07:13:28 PM
1. Shanna WitWeisbier, Munich "Schlecht" larger
2. Molc - wit
3. Bubbles - Spelt Saison, Cider, Wildflower Mead, American Barleywine

yeah... In Rossa's understandable absence, I'm planning on "doing a Rossa"..

I don't see a wheat (Weiss or Wit) beer on the list. What gives?

Shanna

Oh well, I still got a beer I'm enjoying out of the plan regardless :D Plus I won't have any issue enjoying the rest of the beers in this list either=

1. Shanna WitWeisbier, Munich "Schlecht" larger
2. Molc - wit
3. Bubbles - Spelt Saison, Cider, Wildflower Mead, American Barleywine
4. David - Wit, dry stout

A battle of wits??



I'll get me coat...

Quote from: molc on August 25, 2015, 07:25:30 PM
Oh well, I still got a beer I'm enjoying out of the plan regardless :D Plus I won't have any issue enjoying the rest of the beers in this list either=

Given I brewed the wrong beer I suppose I can't be talking :) looking forward to seeing if any of the wits taste like Hoegarden.

Shanna

Quote from: Bubbles on August 25, 2015, 07:55:19 PM
A battle of wits??



I'll get me coat...

:D

I'm at my wits end with my brewing lately.

I so badly need temperature control or just brew to the weather! I should have brewed a wit! Not sure if I will make this, I have a flight at 5am or something daft the next morning.

Quote from: Shanna on August 25, 2015, 07:23:57 PM

Quote from: Bubbles on August 25, 2015, 07:13:28 PM
1. Shanna WitWeisbier, Munich "Schlecht" larger
2. Molc - wit
3. Bubbles - Spelt Saison, Cider, Wildflower Mead, American Barleywine

yeah... In Rossa's understandable absence, I'm planning on "doing a Rossa"..

I don't see a wheat (Weiss or Wit) beer on the list. What gives?

Shanna

Apologies. I just couldn't fit it into the schedule. But I am bringing something Belgian.. and spelt is a type of wheat..  :-[ :P

Quote from: ronnieb on August 26, 2015, 08:07:51 PM
I'm at my wits end with my brewing lately.

I so badly need temperature control or just brew to the weather! I should have brewed a wit! Not sure if I will make this, I have a flight at 5am or something daft the next morning.

Ronnie, I don't have temp control either. I was sick of making shitty beer during the summer months, so a couple of years ago, I decided to do exactly what you suggested - brew with the seasons.

During the summer months, I do turbo ciders, meads, saisons, other Belgians. It's great.

The Wit had stopped a bit high though maybe my mash tem may have been a bit high.
Seemed a bit light on flavour.
It had been in secondary for 4 weeks expected to drop from 1.020
After the first 2 weeks there was no change in gravity so I re pitched.
left for another 2 weeks but I don't think it moved at all.
I upped the temp to 24, corney in a bucket of water with an aquarium heater, for a few nights nothing, so after 2 nights upped it to 26.
Went down to put it in the fridge and put the gas on it after another 2 nights not expecting any change ago opened the keg to test the gravity and lo and behold there was a krausen on top. and the beer had dropped another few points 1.016, the flavour also improved.
The temp must have dropped a lot lower at night and stalled the yeast.
That was last night hope it is finished and another few points lower.
I have a carb cap how long would it take to carb a bottle full if I just connected to the gas and just left with no agitation would like to have a sample ready for Thursday even if its a couple of points to go.
Can leave the rest to finish in it's own time

I'd say you could carb a bottle in minutes. Turn on the gas and roll the bottle to let the co2 absorb, they wlthry do when they want to rapidly carb a keg.

Was think of doing that to give the extra time to the beer.

Quote from: molc on August 28, 2015, 05:53:02 PM
I'd say you could carb a bottle in minutes. Turn on the gas and roll the bottle to let the co2 absorb, they wlthry do when they want to rapidly carb a keg.

Chill the beer in advance as it helps with the Co2 absorption.

Shanna

  So the plan I'll give it till Monday or Tuesday, flush a bottle or 2 with co2, fill the bottle leave it in the beer fridge to chill. On wed connect the bottle up to the co2 give it a bit of a shake for a few mins and leave on gas till ready to go on Thursday.

Just bumping this for tomorrow night.

Shanna, I'll bring your pump nd can you bring the ncb bits and Bob's?

Quote from: molc on September 03, 2015, 08:22:51 AM
Shanna, I'll bring your pump (...)

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Quote from: bachus on September 03, 2015, 09:29:11 AM

Quote from: molc on September 03, 2015, 08:22:51 AM
Shanna, I'll bring your pump (...)

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;D ;D ;D ;D

Quote from: molc on September 03, 2015, 08:22:51 AM
Shanna, I'll bring your pump nd can you bring the ncb bits and Bob's?

Yep, all packed up and ready to go. In keeping with the Finbarr Saunders theme (https://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCAQFjAAahUKEwij65L4idvHAhUCjdsKHV9sAIs&url=http%3A%2F%2Fviz.co.uk%2Fcategory%2Ffinbarr-saunders%2F&usg=AFQjCNF5W_-AiQ89-SCL8BZRly0sefBFKw&sig2=SNYVOLVXSZ8mqjUrcqpIdw&bvm=bv.101800829,d.ZGU) please emember to bring a large sack to put your bits in to ;-)

Shanna

You mean your not offering a large sack. Tsk tsk.

1. Shanna WitWeisbier, Munich "Schlecht" larger
2. Molc - wit
3. Bubbles - Spelt Saison, Cider, Wildflower Mead, American Barleywine
4. David - Wit, dry stout
5. bachus - sweet Mead, crazy rocket fuel stuff

Thanks guys! Stand outs for me were the Pale Ale from David aka Boboboland! What a beer! I need to start brewing myself.

I made an owie. Excellent night guys. Need it to be the weekend now.

Great session alright.

I really liked craiclad's 4% wheat beer. That's some result considering it was his first all-grain brew. I've nothing against session beers, of course, but I'd love to see that recipe and process scaled up a bit in terms of gravity. Just to see how it compares to some of the common commercial wheat beers.

The elderberry and juniper mead from bachus was outstanding, as was the "black licquer". That was some range of styles we had last night!

Still suffering great night

Fantastic evening, I have to say there were some delicious concoctions going around. Also thanks for not making the new guy drink the slop bucket at the end of the night. 

Bubbles I'm glad you liked my offerings! If you want to mess around with the recipe for that session weizen I'll throw you some notes here.

50% wheat malt to 50% pilsner malt, mashed at 67C to a gravity of 1.040 (in my case at least). About 13 IBUs from magnum hops, and fermented with 3068. I had no temp control at the time, but I would guess it was a fairly constant temp somewhere between 18-20C.

I'd be interested to see how it works at a higher gravity as well, I absolutely love wheat beers so I'm likely going to try and really nail down a quick and dirty house hef over the next couple of months. I have an extract version going with WLP380 so hopefully that gives me some useful info. 


I remember at the end of the night there was some discussion of the best way to bottle from a keg (on the cheap). Have any of you ever used something like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln3sGEmfijs

Yeah I've done that before, but I found the tap a bit fiddly. Now I use plastic bottles with a carbonation screw on top and a rubber bung on the end if I want to fill a glass bottle. Connects to gas first to purge, then onto the beer.