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Date Created: 07/23/2008
Even my wife knows... I *need* to freakin' brew! I'm burned out at work, I've
just been feeling dragged down and worn out, and I'm blaming the empty
fermenters!
Weather looks like it's going to be decent; actually, Friday looks gorgeous,
maybe I'll take a personal day (I work enough on the weekends anyway). I'm
thinking about basically squeezing three beers in.
Before the summer is out, I'd like to re-brew the spiced American wheat, using
grains of paradise and some sweet orange peel. I'm thinking, though, about also
FINALLY doing the Berliner Weiss. Just had some of the DFH Festina Peche, which
my wife likes and I'm kind of intrigued by.
I'm thinking about collecting about nine gallons of wort and using that for both
beers. Boiling for ten minutes, pulling off three gallons, cool that, and put it
in the 3-gallon carboy with some lactobacillus and US-05. Let it ferment out
for a while, then add either some peach puree or some of that peach "nectar"
that you can buy in the juice isle (just peach juice and a little sugar, I
think).
Finish boiling the rest of the wort, with the spices and orange peel, for
another fifty minutes (adding them in the last five minutes).
Also, I want to re-do a smoked porter. I've got tons of malts kicking around,
five or six pounds of rauchmalt, some chocolate malt and roasted barley and
Maris Otter and various crystal malts. Probably do that beer a bit on the big
side; maybe even almost in the vein of a smoked Russian Imperial Stout, or a
smoked Robust Porter. Something big and thick and chewy and smokey and roasty
and a little sweet. Winter beer.
I pretty desperately need to get an APA going again, too. It's frustrating the
hell out of me, I have about a dozen beers I want to brew, all the ingredients
to brew them, and no time. ARRRRGH! |
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 | the_bird
07/25/2008 9:16 AM
I think I'm going to drop the
wheat beers for now, and do a
smoked Robust Porter or smoked
Imperial Stout - something BIG and
chewey and thick and complex.
Clean US-05 yeast, I don't want
fruity esters mixing with the
smoke. I'll brew this tomorrow
and probably a basic APA or IPA
(use up some of my Amarillo
pellets) on Sunday. |
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