BP Home Brews

[sparcboxbuck]

Am I missing something, or do we really not have a Home Brew thread here? If I missed it through my search, please feel free to merge.

Anyhow... Anyone do the home brew thing? It's be a long while since I've brewed. Got the itch to do so again a couple of months ago. Turns out that we're going to host a home brew party this weekend. Expect to get to fermentation on four batches.

Converted the four recipes from grain to extract as we'd never get through four batches in a day with grain. Of the four batches, we're popping two cherries, so going extract / partial mash will be helpful in bringing them along.

On tap, as it were, for the day are:
Blood Orange Gose
American Pale Ale
English Ale
Peanut Butter Brown Ale

The last one sounds very interesting. The guy who chose that recipe has had a Peanut Butter brown before and said it was really good. I'm going to hold judgment until I taste it.

The English Ale will be bottle conditioned. The rest we're going to keg. We'll force carbonate the Gose and American PA with CO2 and we're kicking around the idea of carbonating the Peanut Butter Brown with beer gas. I've got spare cylinders of both so we'll figure it out while the fermentation is happening.

So, anyone else brew? Love to hear what you've done / what you're up to.

 

[buckeyebri]

I’ve done a bit of home brewing over the years. Not as much as of late. My wife hates the smell of the wort cooking. I have to pick my pick my brewing spots.

I enjoy brewing IPAs and PAs with a secondary stage dry hopping. Red Rye IPAs are one of my go to brews. I’m considering trying a blood orange IPA.

 

[sparcboxbuck]

So the beers above are starting to make their way into dispensing mechanisms. English Ale is bottled and conditioning. The APA and my Gose are in kegs. Force carbonating both of them. I'm not a huge APA person, but damn... that is a nice beer. I've never dry hopped before but I really like the effect. It's a much brighter flavor than hopping during the boil. Ended up filtering the APA and Gose with a 1 Micron filter. Very good idea for the APA because the dry hops would have just made for a chewy beer in the end.

The Gose ended up being really solid too. It was supposed to be a knock off of this: https://avbc.com/our-beers/blood-orange-gose/ The flavor profile is right on target. It's a bit heaver in the mouth than the Anderson Valley. And quite a bit higher ABV too. I pitched a pound of blood orange candi syrup at high krausen. My starting gravity was 1.045 and came down to 1.01 after krausen. When I pitched the blood orange it shot back up to 1.04 and the final gravity is 1.01. So, what started off as a session beer intended to be ~4-5% ABV ended up being 7.5-8% ABV. I was originally going to call it "It Gose Something Like This" but now I'm renaming it to "Everything Gose Numb." Artwork below... totally stole that from one of my favorite bands...

Going to be putting the Peanut Butter Ale in keg Tuesday night. That's going to be a huge beer. Looking like 8%+ ABV on that one. Will pressurize the kegs with nitrogen. It should be really silky. Looking forward to trying it.

Rolling onto the next round shortly. Thinking of doing a Margarita Gose this time. I've been a fan of sours for as long as I can remember. And the Gose works well for summer. Will probably do a full grain recipe this time. I'd like to have a really light colored Gose once. I had really good luck with kettle souring with ‎Lactobacillus... It was a lot easier than I expected. Going to go pour a glass now and head to bed.

G'night all.

 

[AJHawkfan]

Surprised there aren't anymore home brewers here than this.

My brother's been brewing for 15 years or so. I've recently started dabbling. Have done two batches so far. The first turned out pretty decent - the 5 gallon keg only lasted 2 weeks or so. I've got a pineapple coconut hazy ipa in the keg right now. Planning to tap it this weekend.