Pliny The Elder Recipe in Zymurgy

[Charlie]

I needed another corny for the Beer Festival this weekend, and el Pliny clone was going overtime in the keg. So I decided to Beer Gun the remaining Pliny into some bottles.

I had never actually used the beer gun in its intended role.I bought it because I thought it was a cool bottling cane. Didn't realize it was for bottling carbonated kegged beer (damn expensive bottling cane!). Anyway, it came in handy this eve.

The Beer Gun thing works pretty good. I started out at 15 psi, which is way too much pressure, but dropped it after the first bottle and was soon bottling carbonated kegged beer with very little foam.

Got 24 bottles of Pliny in the fridge. This shit is good! And I don't mean dog shit. That aroma/flavor went away after 5 days in the keg (?).

I am definitely going to do this one again. The only downer is that it's 26 lbs of grain now that I've gone to 10 gallon batches. That's gonna kill my sack!

Charlie (he said sack!)

[ThatguyRyan]

Brewing this weekend and have some questions. First I could not get whole hops so its all pellets. Any change needed in amounts? Second does anyone know what the suggested water profile should be for this? My current profile is CA-31, MG-11, NA-8, CL-14, CaCO3-100, SO4-28

[uncle_bad_touches]

I dug this up once, but I can't guarantee its authenticity:

Ca: 76 Mg: 13 Na: 9 SO4: 133 Cl: 56 HCO3: 26

[Dirk McLargeHuge]

One thing I definitely take away from this: I hate pellet hops! The freaking things made a puffy cap on the beer, then plugged up the racking cane. Some of them even racked into the keg. I got a 1/2 sink full of mud trying to clean out the fermenter. I am never going to buy pellet hops if leaf is available. OK, I didn't last time (leaf wasn't available), but just so you know.

I ferment and dry hop my Tasty APA in a Williams bucket with an invert back nut. It keeps the hop trub in my kegs to a minimum. I used my conical, which doesn't have a racking arm, to dry hop once, and I could never get the beer out of the keg. It would clog up.

[Charlie]

I used my conical, which doesn't have a racking arm, to dry hop once, and I could never get the beer out of the keg. It would clog up.

I didn't end up with a lot of hops in the keg, but they pissed me off. The beer was really good so I'm definitely going to make this one again.

Charlie