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Offline ECH

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Re: What's Brewing?
« Reply #15 on: September 02, 2015, 03:33:17 PM »
Doing a Hacker Pschorr Oktoberfest clone on Labor Day. Made it last year and got rave reviews from friends. Changing it slightly to adjust to quantities I have of the ingredients.

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Re: What's Brewing?
« Reply #16 on: September 03, 2015, 10:35:54 AM »
Today I'm brewing a Vienna pale ale. I'm gonna try using just Vienna as my only malt, bitter with a bit of Polaris and use freshly harvested Hersbruker hops in the mash and for my flavour and aroma additions. Not quite sure what yeast I'll use yet. I might just do US-05 in one and S04 in the other or Conan in one and Kolsch in the other.
 Either way it sould be interesting...
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Re: What's Brewing?
« Reply #17 on: September 03, 2015, 11:10:31 AM »
Nice roger, I've been intrigued by an all-Vienna beer in the past. I'll be interested to taste these!
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Re: What's Brewing?
« Reply #18 on: September 03, 2015, 02:14:53 PM »
I will gladly drink some too ... I've never had a homebrew'd version of this beer
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Re: What's Brewing?
« Reply #19 on: September 03, 2015, 04:23:27 PM »
I will gladly drink some too ... I've never had a homebrew'd version of this beer
You've had a commercial one?

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Re: What's Brewing?
« Reply #20 on: September 04, 2015, 08:44:48 AM »
Yes, well I think I have anyways ... i've had a commercial version of a vienna lager that I bought at one point while in Maine ... it was decent.

If a brewery brands a beer as vienna lager, safe to assume it's likely brewed with Vienna as a base malt? That's what I assumed but maybe I'm wrong in this assumption.
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Re: What's Brewing?
« Reply #21 on: September 04, 2015, 09:30:41 AM »
Yes, well I think I have anyways ... i've had a commercial version of a vienna lager that I bought at one point while in Maine ... it was decent.

If a brewery brands a beer as vienna lager, safe to assume it's likely brewed with Vienna as a base malt? That's what I assumed but maybe I'm wrong in this assumption.
Yes your right a Vienna lager is made with Vienna as a base malt. I thought you meant the same as the ale recipe I was doing.
I ended up using Conan and Kolsch yeasts. I imagine you'll get to try it...

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Re: What's Brewing?
« Reply #22 on: September 04, 2015, 10:36:59 AM »
Yes, well I think I have anyways ... i've had a commercial version of a vienna lager that I bought at one point while in Maine ... it was decent.

If a brewery brands a beer as vienna lager, safe to assume it's likely brewed with Vienna as a base malt? That's what I assumed but maybe I'm wrong in this assumption.
Yes your right a Vienna lager is made with Vienna as a base malt. I thought you meant the same as the ale recipe I was doing.
I ended up using Conan and Kolsch yeasts. I imagine you'll get to try it...

Nah man, I'm good. Your beer is usually pretty questionable ...  :lol:

...but on a serious note, looking forward to trying em
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Re: What's Brewing?
« Reply #23 on: September 04, 2015, 12:33:18 PM »
Brewing a red IPA today and likely taking apart my grain mill. It was giving me grief this morning.

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Re: What's Brewing?
« Reply #24 on: September 04, 2015, 03:05:04 PM »
Brewing a red IPA today and likely taking apart my grain mill. It was giving me grief this morning.
Looking forward to trying that.
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Re: What's Brewing?
« Reply #25 on: September 04, 2015, 06:09:36 PM »
Is that the OBK mill Rob? Finicky bastards they are
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Re: What's Brewing?
« Reply #26 on: September 04, 2015, 07:49:35 PM »
Is that the OBK mill Rob? Finicky bastards they are
Honestly I'm not sure. I got it from Chris, it doesn't have OBK anywhere on it. It has been solid for the last year and a half so I guess I can't complain.

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Re: What's Brewing?
« Reply #27 on: September 07, 2015, 11:46:57 AM »
Brewing up my harvest ale today, and Imperial Harvest at that. Friend of mine had a real good first year on Columbus so it should be a 100+ IBU hop bomb with Columbus, cascade, centennial and goldings.

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Re: What's Brewing?
« Reply #28 on: September 08, 2015, 02:35:04 PM »
Unexpected brew day. Making another Red IPA. Changing up the hops and a little of the grain bill.

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Re: What's Brewing?
« Reply #29 on: September 08, 2015, 04:14:30 PM »
Also decided to bottle a RIS I brewed in January. Had a stuck fermentation and decided to pitch brett dregs a couple of months ago to lower the FG. @jamie_savoie helped save this batch.