Announcement: BrewCon 2015 - Saturday, May 9th 2015

[Pheeel]

If we do run out of hops for home brewers I'm taking my pitchfork to Brewdog to reclaim some. Who's with me? 

[danger_zone]

It really was a fantastic day and was brilliantly orgainised. Well done lads

Ciaran did give the malt bill for Dead Pony so i bet we'll all be trying to brew that next

[johnrm]

Wasn't Dead Pony with 101% Malt bill?

Punk IPA is 1000% Hop bill...

[danger_zone]

you're right. I didn't notice that before

76% pale
20% cara
5% crystal 150
=101%

[DEMPSEY]

I did spot that but he was a little nervous speaking to such an audience that it would have being rude to correct him

[irish_goat]

Had a great day and hats off to the organisers. Great venue, great food and drink and an excellent line up of speakers. It was particularly good to see NHC members speaking professionally on a few topics as well.

[Bubbles]

you're right. I didn't notice that before

76% pale
20% cara
5% crystal 150
=101%

Aside from the numbers adding up, what exactly do you think "20% Cara" means? Carapils? Caramalt? Just light crystal?

I also think that's a lot of very dark crystal for DPC.. Not that I'm suggesting they're intentionally misleading people, but I just don't see that recipe working on my system anyway.

[danger_zone]

you're right. I didn't notice that before

76% pale
20% cara
5% crystal 150
=101%

Aside from the numbers adding up, what exactly do you think "20% Cara" means? Carapils? Caramalt? Just light crystal?

I also think that's a lot of very dark crystal for DPC.. Not that I'm suggesting they're intentionally misleading people, but I just don't see that recipe working on my system anyway.

pretty sure it is caramalt but i'll have to check my notes for sure

[Will_D]

But percentages of what basic weights. A lot of people say that they use x% of this to y% of that with a few 5 b's and c' added.

But they don't state a total weight is 7 kg for a 5 gallon brew!

Or am I missing something?

[Parky]

But they don't state a total weight is 7 kg for a 5 gallon brew!

That's a good point actually, but I think you could get pretty close by taking the ABV into consideration. The ABV of PIPA is 5.6% I think, so tweak the grain bill to give that %, and you've got your basic weight, for a given volume.

Of course there's the added complication of brew house efficiency, but having a target ABV can be a help at least.

[johnrm]

What he said.
Once you know the Target ABV, pick your yeast, apply your attenuation and figure OG and FG.
Did he mention caramunich on the day?

[Damien M]

Any chance that PDF's of the various presentations will be made available here??

[Beermonger]

Yeah, it would be excellent if the speakers would be willing to make their presentations available. A few of them had to speed up towards the end. It would be good to see what we missed!

[dcalnan]

especially the hops presentation