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My Great Nephews graduation in a couple weeks from Yale and he wanted something light for the graduation party.
I'll make something maybe 4.5%
I have a party pale ale recipe I made for my mother to celebrate her 92nd birthday. I'll revisit it

https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/1150143/nicolai-s-pale-ale
feedback?
I'll probably bring another 1/2 keg of something else I have around
 
Brew Cat said:
My Great Nephews graduation in a couple weeks from Yale and he wanted something light for the graduation party.
I'll make something maybe 4.5%
I have a party pale ale recipe I made for my mother to celebrate her 92nd birthday. I'll revisit it

https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/1150143/nicolai-s-pale-ale
feedback?
I'll probably bring another 1/2 keg of something else I have around
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Looks good. Other than the hops it looks very similar to the type of beers I brew all the time
 
Sunfire96 said:
Looks good. Other than the hops it looks very similar to the type of beers I brew all the time
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Yeah I remember everyone drank it but I actually made it with more IBUs
Trying to lighten it up
He asked for something light
That could mean a lot of things to me
 
I think I'll up the crystal to 10%
My usual % for a pale with a higher ABV
Maybe try to get it to finish a bit higher to hit 4.5 ABV
 
Looks like a nice beer, I have never used that yeast, how would it compare to US-05, or S-04?
 
It is going to be a while before I brew again.
Daughter and Son in Law are going to be moving back in with us for a while at the end of June. I have some stuff to sort out in preparation for that which will occupy my weekends for a while
 
Craigerrr said:
It is going to be a while before I brew again.
Daughter and Son in Law are going to be moving back in with us for a while at the end of June. I have some stuff to sort out in preparation for that which will occupy my weekends for a while
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Is this a
Yes
or a
No
event?
 
BarbarianBrewer said:
Is this a
Yes
or a
No
event?
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A little of both really.
It will cramp our style a bit, but will cramp theirs too. They have saved a pretty significant amount of money towards a down payment while renting, but this will help them get to home ownership sooner. It will also help them get to producing grandchildren sooner!
 
Craigerrr said:
A little of both really.
It will cramp our style a bit, but will cramp theirs too. They have saved a pretty significant amount of money towards a down payment while renting, but this will help them get to home ownership sooner. It will also help them get to producing grandchildren sooner!
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Hm. A thought occurred: more freely-available beer might increase grandchild production. I wonder…
 
I just found out that I am off this weekend, so I have been running all over hell tonight so I can brew on Sunday. I'm going to make my first Hefeweizen. I just ordered the grain tonight. White Labs says that the yeast likes 68-72. Given how active that shit is supposed to be and that I want something a little more balanced, I might start at 65 (ambient temp) and ramp it up to around 68 after the fermentation calms down a little. I don't want to go too cold, but I also don't want a total banana bomb. Any thoughts on this? By the way, I did order a 1/4 oz of Melanoidin as suggested by Don.
 
sounds like a good plan. I used Mangrove Jacks (dry) which has a 59-86F range. Of course, I check and find no data on pitch temp :-/
I default to ~70 for ales generally and at the time I already had a conical- it was about 5.75 gallons in my 7 gallon fermenter. Even so, I on the first full day of fermentation it clogged the airlock and the fermenting beer pressed out the lid seal making a respectable mess. I pulled the airlock and connected a tube for an improvised blow off valve. It pushed through the blow off valve and into the jar of water+star san.

It came out good in the end, but It was a shít brew day, early on with my 220v kettle so I tripped over a lot of gotchas.

Ramp that temp up slowly.
 
Dave Y said:
sounds like a good plan. I used Mangrove Jacks (dry) which has a 59-86F range. Of course, I check and find no data on pitch temp :-/
I default to ~70 for ales generally and at the time I already had a conical- it was about 5.75 gallons in my 7 gallon fermenter. Even so, I on the first full day of fermentation it clogged the airlock and the fermenting beer pressed out the lid seal making a respectable mess. I pulled the airlock and connected a tube for an improvised blow off valve. It pushed through the blow off valve and into the jar of water+star san.

It came out good in the end, but It was a shít brew day, early on with my 220v kettle so I tripped over a lot of gotchas.

Ramp that temp up slowly.
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I have read about the airlock. I'm going to use a blow off tube into a growler. I can't get water cold, so I am going to set the refrigerator to 50, go out, have a couple of beers, and let the fermenter get down in the 60s after about three hours before I pitch and turn up the temperature to about 65.
 
After a few months off, ill be brewing Saturday with my son on law.
15 gallons IPA
15 gallons Kolsch
5 gallons American Amber
10 gallons Cider
5 Gallons apricot something
 
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