Trophy Fishing TN Forum - Caney Fork Trout Fly Fishing - Caney Fork Trout Guide
Holy Crap...Look at all these other forum sections! ~ "Gordie" => Tobacco and Libations => Topic started by: Looper Flies on October 30, 2009, 06:42:20 PM
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So, my wife has agreed to let me brew again. :o :o :o :o
Since the yungin' came along, she likes me closer to home.
So, my college roommate is coming in from Knoxville this weekend to give me a hand -- he's what I would consider a brewing "guide". He's quite good and knows all the secrets.
Our recipe is a Roasted Coconut Cream Stout. I'll have pictures posted on this thread for the next 8 weeks. I'll try to do at least a weekly update.
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after good homebrew most store purchased beer is just beer, this is my latest called Double IPA, most recipes call for 2 to 3 oz's of Hops, this one has 8. It is not officially ready until the 11th of Nov. but I just had to try it, sooothies brew I ever made. The next one to come out of the kitchen only has 17 oz's of Hops. Tom, my fishing partner says you can't have enough hops, we will see ;D
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My last IPA was awful. Wwwaaaaaayyyyy too many hops. I do like a good IPA, but this was just gross. I was quickly reminded today at how expensive it is to brew a batch, so i hope not to screw this one up.
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David, I am like you, I love hops. Taking it to the extreme, I occasionally enjoy Stone Breweries Ruination IPA.
I am seriously considering taking up home brewing but I haven't taken the plunge yet. Somebody needs to encourage me. ;D
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Looking foward to it Sam!
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Steve, I have more information that you could ever possibly want on home brewing. If you like BSing at the fly shop you should head over to All Seasons Garden & Brewery supply on 8th Ave. Ask for Eric and proceed with the BS. I spent almost 2 hours over there yesterday dissecting a recipe in an attempt to make it my own.
Rule 1 when starting -- follow the recipe. I took too many liberties early on before I got into it and wasted a lot of money on bunk beer.
Rule 2 -- become one with the glass container. Many kits come with 5 gallon buckets (food grade), but plastic will eventually taint your flavor. Buy a six gallon carboy and don't look back.
Rule 3 -- don't get cheap. I don't plan to take it this far, but my college buddy has his own trailer with multiple boilers on it. I looks like Mr. Wizard and Otis from the Andy Griffith show got together and had a great idea. ;D As far as ingredients go, generally the cheaper they are and the older they are, the greater the risk of a crap product.
You know, I could keep making up these rules, but I think I'll just give you all a step by step update on how i'm doing with this batch. I certainly don't know it all, but I know where to find the answers or who to ask.
Cheers!
Sam
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Sam, that is great info and I know the place you are talking about on 8th Ave. I am going to do some reading later today after I get done with the things I have committed to do.
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I love the hops as well! Anyone tried the Dogfish Head 120 minute IPA? They have a 60 minute and a 90 minute which are both great, and then the 120 which takes the hops over the top. It is great, but a bottle can be split between 4 people...
I have a buddy in Spring Hill with a serious homebrew operation. The last time I went over there he had 5 taps going, and 7 more varietals bottled for a total of 12 different types of beer. About half are his own creations, and the other half are recipes he follows. He orders a lot of stuff from a place in upstate new york that supposedly has the best of the best ingredients.
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Here, Here! That 120 IPA is the king of all IPAs.
We got started a little late yesterday, and due to the cold outside temps, it took a long time to get the wort to boil. We got finished around 11 last night, so I'll try and post pictures today.
I checked on her this morning and she was gurgling away. Only 6 more days until the secondary fermentation.
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Love Dogfishhead. The 120 is awesome.
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If you like very strong IPA the Maharaja is strong but it's a little to Malty for me. Ruination is great. Hop Devil is one of my fav. Where do you guys typically go to pick up ha beers? I have found frugal mcdougal's to be the cheapest.
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Frugals or when I down in the 'Boro leaving work, Total Beverages.
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grow yer own. Next winter when we go fishing you'll have to bring some home brews along. I had a buddy that was brewing some good beer but he just moved, brutal.
on a slightly related note i picked up a jar of CO made stomp yesterday. haven't tried it yet. i'll let you guys know if it blinds me
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So, here’s the steps I documented so far:
Steep the grains in the water as it starts to boil. This is similar to making tea. I’ve used 3 gallons of water to mash the grains.
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After the water boils, add the malt. I like to use dry malt extract as it has a longer shelf life. The liquid stuff generally gets skunky after only a short time.
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I let this boil for about an hour, reducing by almost a full gallon. After its done, I I add another 3 gallons for a total of 5 gallons of wort. This wort will ultimately become beer, but first, its gotta cool down before I add the yeast.
For the yeast, I chose liquid yeast. I’ve found that the liquid stuff works much more efficient and can even cut the primary fermentation cycle in half.
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I let it start with a pound of malt a few days before I started making the wort. Now its ready to be added to the wort.
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Here it is in the initial stage. I’ve got a blow off tube because the liquid yeast can be known to react violently.
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After two weeks I added the roasted coconut.
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I’ll be ready to bottle next weekend! I’ve thought about priming with honey, but that’s a gamble – I can’t be sure how much sugar it has.
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lookin good... you dont have to start the yeast on a pound of malt though. With those activator pouches you don't have to do anything, but smack it, wait a few hours and add it straight in.
Here are some pics of my set up.
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Roasted cocunut? I'm interested how that shows up in the overall flavor. What hops were used?
Phil
www.arkansastroutbum.com
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Dang Phil. You are not playing are you! :o
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Setup looks killer, Phil. Whatcha workin' with in there?
I know I didn't have to start the yeast with the malt, but I like how quickly the yeast tears into my wort when I start it that way.
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BTW Sam, I need to buy you a beer and pick your brain. I want to brew.
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All that stuff is pretty cool. Phil, how exactly do you think of something like that? Steve you can buy me a beer and pick my brain, if I dont know the first pint I might know by the third.
Blessings
Icthus
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I can't take credit for the idea... I saw a similar setup about 8 years ago. I had a spare fridge and was just getting into homebewing, it was a no brainer actually.
At the current time I only have two kegs running. One is a copper ale with a small ammount of apricot extract that barely shows up in the aftertaste. The other is a really dark Brown Ale originally targeted to be close to Moose Drool by Big Sky Brewing Co in Montana, but it went darker and stronger than the drool. It rotates all the time though, I'll probably get another batch going in a few weeks. I haven't really decided what I'm doing next.
Steve- none of this hard. Once you learn the general procedure it's very easy.
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Here's the label. I'll bottle it in the next few days.
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i'll let you know how damaged i get next week. :-X
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Like the label and I will be a victim if you want. ;D
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Finished another batch recently. It aged for 3 months in the carboy (starting waaaaaay back in Dec.) and then another month in the bottle. Its AWESOME.
CREAM STOUT 2010/2011
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I hope you made some for the gathering... ;D
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hmm beer.
Along with the other IPA's mention (all good choices), Victory Hopdevil is yummy but I really like Bells Hopslam Ale. I want to try Bells Oracle DIPA.
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I hope you made some for the gathering... ;D
I hope he did too but I also hope he did put any baby formula in the beer. :o