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ELK
Advanced Member
Username: Elkski
Post Number: 969
Registered: 01-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 19, 2004 - 12:21 pm: | 
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The wrench got in my brewing schedule. I must brew today. I am interested in the lower IBU SSOS as aluded to in a post about 1020 % 1728 yeasts..
I guess Bill P. has lowered the IBU's to 86?
ELK |
ELK
Advanced Member
Username: Elkski
Post Number: 970
Registered: 01-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 19, 2004 - 12:45 pm: |
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I see Bill P. posting tracks so I think he will be along shortly..THe flame is on the HLT now. ITs dard and about 38 degrees, high of 40 today and fog. I tweaked Promash and lowered the 60 min bitter hops from 6 - 3 oz chinnook and IBUS go from 160- 91.5... Any comments?
ELK
Sidebar...Anyone want to "virtual brew" today?
Did you hear about that guy in TX that has a .22 hooked up to the internet where you can aim it an shoot? He is now thinking about doing the same on wild game animals???? |
robert rulmyr
Intermediate Member
Username: Wacobob
Post Number: 408
Registered: 02-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 19, 2004 - 02:17 pm: |
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I'm sticking with 6 ounces chinooks in mine. I think you get 'flavor' from the 60 minute addition too! I may be wrong...3 ounces of hops are only a few pennies after all. Don't be cheap.
My 2 cents.
WacoBob |
robert rulmyr
Intermediate Member
Username: Wacobob
Post Number: 409
Registered: 02-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 19, 2004 - 02:18 pm: |
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We are both making 10 gallon batches, eh? |
Bill Pierce
Moderator
Username: Billpierce
Post Number: 1212
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Friday, November 19, 2004 - 02:54 pm: |
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I'm not sure I can taste more than 86 IBUs, and it just seemed like a waste of hops to me. Besides, I admit I like malt with my hops, which is one of the reasons this beer is so satisfying to me. But you're free to do whatever suits your fancy. |
ELK
Advanced Member
Username: Elkski
Post Number: 973
Registered: 01-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 19, 2004 - 03:06 pm: |
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Waco, have you tried it with the 6 oz before? I have and it is kinda bitter and plety of hops no doubt. I have the hops. I just tied up 3 oz into the first bag and might go with that. Yes I just added the last of my fly sparge water now... I have 9 gallons and the boil pot is on! 10 gal batch.. I actuall shoot for 12.6 into kettle and final 10.4 into fermenters... |
ELK
Advanced Member
Username: Elkski
Post Number: 974
Registered: 01-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 19, 2004 - 03:39 pm: |
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45 min left in the boil for me...I did end up with a little over 13 gals...The max for a 15.5 kettle... |
Hophead
Senior Member
Username: Hophead
Post Number: 1054
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Friday, November 19, 2004 - 03:44 pm: |
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Recipe purists aside, this is (to me) one of those recipes that gets better with age due to the (over)hopping. If you want to drink it in a month instead of 3-6 months (pine suckers excluded), then I would reduce the hops, say way downto 90ibus or so...
Of course, for your first time, one shouldn't tweak until one tastes the original...
I feel so PC today... |
ELK
Advanced Member
Username: Elkski
Post Number: 975
Registered: 01-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 19, 2004 - 04:36 pm: |
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Flame out coolant on at 9:30am. A new brew record for me. And the MT is dumped and rinsed out...I even remembered everything? That is like so many hops bags its sick!!!! I Did the 90IBU version because I do want it for New years and last years batch was only enjoyed by me and a very few other hophead wanna bees.
Darn its cold out without the sun and with wet body parts. ITs so fooggy that I should be duck hunting...This will be the last batch (4@10gal since fall) till after the new year.
ELK |
ELK
Advanced Member
Username: Elkski
Post Number: 976
Registered: 01-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 19, 2004 - 04:44 pm: |
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Darn it... I did just see that I through in my old small IC and not the new big one...Add 25 mins for cooling...Dang It is one of those 25' 3/8" that Ic's where the coils are all wired together and my theory is that the tubing is to close together (.1"). |
Denny Conn
Senior Member
Username: Denny
Post Number: 3856
Registered: 01-2001
| | Posted on Friday, November 19, 2004 - 05:02 pm: |
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There is no such thing as a lower IBU SSOS...that would be a different beer.
LIfe begins at 60...1.060, that is.
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robert rulmyr
Intermediate Member
Username: Wacobob
Post Number: 410
Registered: 02-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 19, 2004 - 05:04 pm: |
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Yes, I've made it with 6 oz. My notes show that I tapped the 1st keg 5 weeks after filling ( my keg is my 'secondary' ).
I'm sure it is great with 3 oz. Chinooks too. Enjoy! |
Bill Pierce
Moderator
Username: Billpierce
Post Number: 1220
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Friday, November 19, 2004 - 05:07 pm: |
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Denny, I still don't see how you could taste any more than about 90 IBUs. I suppose the only way to be sure would be to split the runoff and boil and ferment it in two batches. My instincts tell me they would be very similar. |
Beerboy AKA The Jolly Brewer
Advanced Member
Username: Matfink
Post Number: 573
Registered: 03-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 19, 2004 - 05:16 pm: |
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I don't think it's the ibu's that one tastes, it is the hop. Chinook is a distinctive hop and you get that clean sharp taste coming through even with all the goldings and fuggles flavour and aroma. That is why I think using the full quantity is a must. As far as the IBU's are concerned 90 -160 same difference!
Real Ale Crusader and all round Hophead
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Denny Conn
Senior Member
Username: Denny
Post Number: 3857
Registered: 01-2001
| | Posted on Friday, November 19, 2004 - 05:19 pm: |
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Bill, I'm just being crabby cause it's still early here! Don't go throwin' logic at me!  OTOH, I think anybody who can't handle a 120 IBU beer when it's fresh just doesn't get it...
LIfe begins at 60...1.060, that is.
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davidw
Advanced Member
Username: Davidw
Post Number: 735
Registered: 03-2001
| | Posted on Friday, November 19, 2004 - 05:24 pm: |
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There sure is a lot of hop resin floating around this thread . . . |
Bill Pierce
Moderator
Username: Billpierce
Post Number: 1222
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Friday, November 19, 2004 - 05:45 pm: |
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I wonder what we're all smoking?  |
ELK
Advanced Member
Username: Elkski
Post Number: 977
Registered: 01-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 19, 2004 - 06:11 pm: |
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Well I will be able to tell you the differnce in memory anyway of the 3 oz less Chinnook. Yeast in at 11am another record for me. 6 hours after jumping out of bed with no prior setup and now most of the stuff is clean!! I do predict another messy ferment..I had 5 + 5.5 gals and then foamy O2 and those darn 3 pint starters for each and I am waiting for the head to go down some to seal the lids. Ferment temp will be 65 amb probably 68 in the pails??? IS that good?.
ELK |
ELK
Advanced Member
Username: Elkski
Post Number: 978
Registered: 01-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 19, 2004 - 06:22 pm: |
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OG hit 1.077 target 1.074 Eff promash 80+%
ELK |
Andrew Pearce
Intermediate Member
Username: Live4beer
Post Number: 311
Registered: 02-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, November 20, 2004 - 02:43 pm: |
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Maybe you can call it DRSOS. Distant Relative Star of the Sun. |
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