CP Home Brewing

[Zebedee DuBois]

In the basement I have 10 gallons of an amber ale in secondaries, dry hopping with Spalt hops.
My previous batch was an Alt, my first go at lagering - which I tried to accomplish in a water\ice bath - which ended up being a pain in the rear. I won't do that again without a refrigerator of freezer - but I don't have the space for one. I was hoping it didn't taste good so that I wouldn't be tempted - but darn it - it was tasty.

[KCUnited]

My wife is out of town this week for work, so one night this week I plan to brew the same beer as above but take the late addition hops and use them in a first wort hop instead to see if I can tell a difference.

I've been doing 2.5 gallon batches inside the condo since I don't have the risk tolerance of firing up a burner on my all wood rooftop deck.

[Marcellus]

Originally Posted by KCUnited

My wife is out of town this week for work, so one night this week I plan to brew the same beer as above but take the late addition hops and use them in a first wort hop instead to see if I can tell a difference.

I've been doing 2.5 gallon batches inside the condo since I don't have the risk tolerance of firing up a burner on my all wood rooftop deck.

Have you added any hops at flame out? I like to do a big hop add at the end of the boil usually 2oz or so in a 10gal batch and let it steep for about 20 minutes. Adds a nice hop flavor.

Ive done FWH as well but havn't been able to tell a huge difference but I have only tried that a few times.

Right now on tap I have a Saison, an APA, a Habanero Stout, and a hoppy wheat beer.

In fermentation I have Belgian blonde that I split a 10gal wart and did half with Belgian yeast and half with a bohemian pilsner yeast. The grain bill seemed close enough to e to make a pils with it. Should be interesting.

[KCUnited]

Originally Posted by Marcellus

Have you added any hops at flame out? I like to do a big hop add at the end of the boil usually 2oz or so in a 10gal batch and let it steep for about 20 minutes. Adds a nice hop flavor.

Ive done FWH as well but havn't been able to tell a huge difference but I have only tried that a few times.

Right now on tap I have a Saison, an APA, a Habanero Stout, and a hoppy wheat beer.

In fermentation I have Belgian blonde that I split a 10gal wart and did half with Belgian yeast and half with a bohemian pilsner yeast. The grain bill seemed close enough to e to make a pils with it. Should be interesting.

I've done a 0 minute hop addition on an IPA, but I brewed this particular beer with 15 and 10 minute additions that I'm moving to pre-boil for this go around. Mostly based on Palmer's recommendation in HTB and the fact that I've never done a FWH. I'd like to see how the 2 compare as it's on the top end of IBUs for the style. I'm keeping the same dry hop schedule, just moving the late additions to FWH.

One of the things I like about small batches is the ability to play around with things.

[srvy]

Originally Posted by Strongside

Anyone here into this? I recently caught the bug, and it's addicting as hell. I'd been toying with mostly 1 gallon batches, and racking via siphon, but I recently upgraded to a larger setup with a FastFerment conical. I'm totally pumped as tomorrow is brew day and I'm whipping up a 5 gallon batch of Cascade double IPA to try this thing out. I'm in a loft downtown now, and am limited on space so I really only have room for extract brewing, but we're buying a house soon and my main requirement is a garage or basement big enough for a fermentation chamber and an all-grain system.

Here's my new setup with the room I have.



If anyone here is into the hobby, share your setup, favorite recipes, etc. it'd be great to have a CP home brew tasting at some point. I know some of you ****ers HAVE to be doing this stuff...

How do you like the fast ferment conical? I got out of this about 30 years ago but my brother kept it up. He can get me one thse for 80 bucks from his supplier. For some reason I want to give it another go as things have changed alot since. I still have all my old equipment bottles, brew bucket 2 glass carboys. Back then I just used a big ass stainless steel sock pot for the boil. I plan to remedy that. My brother bought a grainfather he plans to give a go with looks interesting.
http://www.grainfather.com/#!home/mainPage

[KCUnited]

I brewed another IPA on Friday, this one with all late hop additions. I'm also planning to dry hop at the tail end of fermentation to see what kind of hop flavor/aroma I can get. This will also be the first beer I keg so I'm a little excited about not having to bottle.

[srvy]

Originally Posted by KCUnited

I brewed another IPA on Friday, this one with all late hop additions. I'm also planning to dry hop at the tail end of fermentation to see what kind of hop flavor/aroma I can get. This will also be the first beer I keg so I'm a little excited about not having to bottle.

Nice I'd love to keg also but first things first gotta get back into.

My brother had his Grainfather delivered today and I have rest week off so I helped him set it up and we cut out some aluminum backed insulating he got at HD. We did a cleaning and then a trial boil. This thing rocks he is doing a brew end this week I'm gonna try to be there. Hoping on non cook weekend he will let me borrow.

Sent from my SM-G928V using Tapatalk

[Marcellus]

Originally Posted by KCUnited

I brewed another IPA on Friday, this one with all late hop additions. I'm also planning to dry hop at the tail end of fermentation to see what kind of hop flavor/aroma I can get. This will also be the first beer I keg so I'm a little excited about not having to bottle.

Kegging >>> Bottling. You will love it.

Biggest problem with kegging is sharing beer and not really knowing how much is left.

One thing I do sometimes is use carbonation tabs and bottle some bombers at the time of kegging and put them back.

[KCUnited]

Originally Posted by Marcellus

Kegging >>> Bottling. You will love it.

Biggest problem with kegging is sharing beer and not really knowing how much is left.

One thing I do sometimes is use carbonation tabs and bottle some bombers at the time of kegging and put them back.

That's probably what I'll end up doing as I like to send bottles to friends/family. Plus, I'm space limited and can only house one keg so I'll likely bottle some styles that can sit and keg the stuff I can turnaround quicker.

[KCUnited]

Welp, what's the saying, you haven't homebrewed til you've mopped your ceiling? Decided last minute not to use a blow off tube because it's just an IPA.