BrewDog Show

[dags]

I listened to the brew dog show this morning. All those hops would give you a buzz before the booze does. I'll have to give it a crack, perhaps I'll put a kilt in the mash tun to add some scottishness to it?

[Brew Engineer]

I'm finally brewing this recipe today! My mash went well I guess... I dropped my electronic thermometer into the strike water and fried it, so I'm not sure what my actual mash temp was.

But the first runnings were a gorgeous deep red color! Smells good now as I've almost reached a boil.

Yum!

[Dirk McLargeHuge]

I'm finally brewing this recipe today! My mash went well I guess... I dropped my electronic thermometer into the strike water and fried it, so I'm not sure what my actual mash temp was.

But the first runnings were a gorgeous deep red color! Smells good now as I've almost reached a boil.

Yum!

Doesn't it smell good?

[Brew Engineer]

I'm finally brewing this recipe today! My mash went well I guess... I dropped my electronic thermometer into the strike water and fried it, so I'm not sure what my actual mash temp was.

But the first runnings were a gorgeous deep red color! Smells good now as I've almost reached a boil.

Yum!

Doesn't it smell good?

Aww, it smells great!! Columbus and Centenial are a good combo.

Not bad for my 3rd all grain. This shit is fun!!

[skipper]

Racked it off the hops Sunday. Used a corny keg as a secondary, and even though I had cut 1" off the dip tube, the transfer was a PITA because the beer out line kept jamming up with hops.

Forced carbed it and pulled a few samples the same day. At the moment it smells and tastes predominatly of pine needles and camphor, is quite bitter with no residual sweetness. I think I screwed up on choice of yeast (Wyeast 1098); it slightly over-attenuated and pulled out too much malt. Will see what it's like in a week after it has had time to settle (allowing me to get rid off all the hop floaties).

[Dirk McLargeHuge]

Racked it off the hops Sunday. Used a corny keg as a secondary, and even though I had cut 1" off the dip tube, the transfer was a PITA because the beer out line kept jamming up with hops.

Forced carbed it and pulled a few samples the same day. At the moment it smells and tastes predominatly of pine needles and camphor, is quite bitter with no residual sweetness. I think I screwed up on choice of yeast (Wyeast 1098); it slightly over-attenuated and pulled out too much malt. Will see what it's like in a week after it has had time to settle (allowing me to get rid off all the hop floaties).

Yes, yes. The aroma is hard to describe. The malt sweetness is muted at best. But so far, I like this. so far, this sounds like my experience with this recipe.

[Dirk McLargeHuge]

I think that those of us who brewed this should consider sharing what we brewed. I'm curious to see if I got it right.

[Brew Engineer]

I'm willing to send out some samples, but it'll be a few weeks yet.

I used the 1098 too... I thought my gravity sample tasted good, hopefully it won't finish too low, or it will be pretty bitter!