nsaubes
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Curtis: when/where/how are you planning to order? I might be interested to order something... Let me know!
For a full 5 gal batch, a full jug of LME and 1 pound of sugar puts you in british IPA territory with OG ~1.054. An early addition would be advisable for this as an IPA, since it'll increase the malt profile's complexity slightly.
I'd recommend using some coarse crushed biscuit/brown/amber/victory malt to accentuate the bready profile, maybe 6 oz steeped at mashout temperatures for about 40 minutes so you don't get as much tannin out of it.
I'd also recommend a prolonged low alpha hop schedule, maybe Willamete/Fuggles/Styrian Goldings/EKGoldings for british IPA or Centennial (later additions)/Cascade/Chinook (also later additions)/Citra/Simcoe/Amarillo for american IPA.
Curtis, what kind of stuff are you thinking for the group buy? I might def be game
About the DC LME: my first batch using this product is actually fermenting right know, so I'll tell later about the final results. I used 4.5 lbs of it, along with 3.5 lbs of home malted barley, 1/2 lbs home roasted kinda amber malt, 1/2 lbs home roasted kinda pale chocolate, and 1/2 lbs panela (turbinado). I added the LME and panela half way into the boil. Hops: nugget+willamette. I also added some local chile (pasillas and guaque, 5 minutes boil..). Fermenting with S05. OG 1.052. I was hopping to make a kind of "chile brown ale", but it's a bit paler than what I had hoped... Here are my impressions at first sample (one week, grav. 1.012): it feels pretty dry, as I was hoping more residual sweetness from LME... Maybe it's the effect of the late addition into the boil + panela... The chile has not come up yet, I might add more into the fermenter for one week (kind of dry chilliing...).
This product is from Maltexco, a chilean malting company, which seems to produce good quality malts... This actually gave me the idea to speak with DC to see if they could import other products from this company (let's say base malt, plus a couple of specialty grains....). So I'm still waiting for an answer/proposal, but I think it would be possible if we could guarantee them that we gonna buy a certain quantity of the product... Well, anyway I'll update you about this when they give me an answer.
I am in for the september reunion!!!
I will be ordering ingredients. Probably from Austin Homebrew. If we order some common base grains it might be worthwhile to share shipping on TransCargo.
I will definatelty be brewing more Pils this season so a Pils malt and very light DME are on the list.
Any ingredients that might be useful for you?
Curtis: I was thinking about getting a good bulk of base malt, plus maybe a couple specialty grains in a more moderate quantity (medium caramel + chocolate maybe)... I was actually checking the possibility of getting a 50 pounds sack of base malt... I think pilsen malt would do the job too for base malt, though I would prefer 2 row... Would you guys be interested in sharing the 50 lbs? Though you should know that the shipping within the US for such a weight is quite expensive: e.g. with Midwest it almost double the price... though the price for the 50 lbs sack without shipping is only 36$... Then I don't know if Austin is selling the whole sacks. Let me know if you're interested by the idea...
I might be interested in that. Austin Homebrew offers inexpesive shipping w/in the US.
I will check into the details via AHB.
AHB list their 2-row at 1.45/lb so about 72.5 for 50lb. Dont know if they offer any price breaks on larger amounts, but their shipping is only $4.99 for orders over $100 and $6.99 if less.
We make a lot of fermented foods and herbal medicines, so I have an idea about some things. I was originally a chemical engineer, so brewing seems to be the next step, let alone to say one of the more enjoyable things to do with my education ;-) Now I will go back and have a good read of all the other posts to find out more about what I need to get hold of next. Cheers all!
sorry, this just made me think of how much I love Guatemalan coffee, especially Antigua and Huehue. Ya'll should put that in a stout or porter!
I had a look through the threads, sept 7, but where? I may be able to make it, it will depend on business at the time. If you want some organic atitlan coffee from my land to try in your porter, let me know. Did anyone ever try a roasted amaranth or ramon nut in a brew? I saw about rosa de jamaica and maracuja, i was wondering about other easily available grains here.
AHB doesn't seem to sell whole sacks, so you don't have any price breaks, but the flat rate shipping is pretty interesting indeed, so the tradeoff seems to be fair... I guess it would be almost the same, given that at Midwest one sack costs about 38$, but you have to add 39$ for shipping, which give us 77$... Yeah it's the same! Let's order from AHB. But how should we proceed? I guess we should make one single order right? Any suggestion?
I am already putting an order together so can include the 2-row in that order. AHB will pack into separate heat sealed bags on request so I am thinking break it into 10 x 5lb bags...this is easier to use and store and to divide up.
Not sure exactly what the shipping will be w Transcargo but will check. We can just allocate shipping costs based upon # lbs of grains taken (5 lb, 1 bag, min).
Work for you? Anyone else interested?
Curtis: That would work for me but when I was thinking of the 50 lbs sack, I was thinking about sharing it... So if you still order 50 lbs, you would keep a share, right? I'm cool with 20-25 lbs... So if you're placing the order yourself I could deposit money (quetzales) if you have a bank account here in Guate. What do you think? Moreover, I was also thinking about getting some Chocolate, Black patent, crystal 10, crystal 60, 3 pounds each... Do you think you could add that to the order too?
what do you all ferment in? i have been using the 5 gallon water jugs with a #10 stopper and airlock. so my batches are usually 4 gallons to leave room for fermentation and headspace. it would be nice to find something bigger
and what methods do you use to keep ferm temps down?
Hey Curtis, I would be in for around 20-25lbs of base malt and 2 or 3 specialty grains. I found this place that might be a bit cheaper because it is in Orlando: http://www.heartshomebrew.com/
Yes, I was assuming we would share the 50lb. Im Ok w placing the order and then sorting out the cash at the reunion. If you cant make it I can leave it w rappy or pacaya in the City. I do have a BAM acct. I need some specialty grains too so we can combine that as well. Once we know how much I can email TransCargo for an approx cost. I need to do a little recipe work to confirm how much I want. Will post in a few days.
I would ask AHB to package all grains in one box and other stuff in my order in another. I need some specialty grains too.
Im OK w about 20lbs...we can spilt up the rest and then place another order if this works out OK...reduces storage issues too.
what do you all ferment in? i have been using the 5 gallon water jugs with a #10 stopper and airlock. so my batches are usually 4 gallons to leave room for fermentation and headspace. it would be nice to find something bigger
and what methods do you use to keep ferm temps down?
Curtis: sounds good to me! I live in the city, and it seems like rappy will be part of the order so I can easily coordinate with him. By the way we could upgrade to 60 lbs 2 row, as we are 3 people willing to get about 20 lbs each... And yes it will be a nice test, as I'm curious to see what are the costs of transcargo for grains... If it works great we could easily repeat the operation soon, as getting ingredients and brewing the beer leads to more struggle than drinking it, hehe!
I'm using the same system to ferment: salvavida 5gals bottle+stopper+airlock... Works great but yes, these are 4 gallons batches, 4.5 if you use a blowoff tube.
About the sanitizer: I use a vegetable cleaner that I buy at the supermarket, it's called Biocyde... It says it's made of salts of: Poly (hexamethylene biguanide) and alkyldimethil benzyl amonium. 16.40 gramos por 1000ml... This sounds like chinese to me but you guys know about chemistry... I would actually be interested to have your opinion about the product!
About the sanitizer: I use a vegetable cleaner that I buy at the supermarket, it's called Biocyde... It says it's made of salts of: Poly (hexamethylene biguanide) and alkyldimethil benzyl amonium. 16.40 gramos por 1000ml... This sounds like chinese to me but you guys know about chemistry... I would actually be interested to have your opinion about the product!
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