Pics of recent brews?

beersk · September 28, 2015, 8:27pm

Village Taphouse:

beersk:

Village Taphouse:

Thanks Beerheads. My attention to clarity has been a bit of a sickness since I started brewing. I have gotten more into some dry-hopped pale ales lately which seems to cause some clarity issues but I will accept that. For other styles… I like to see bubbles rising in the glass. LOL. Cheers.

Hey, Ken, long time no see. We miss you around the Northern Brewer forum. I was hoping you were still around and brewing. Your beers always look so delicious. Cheers and good to see you back!
By the way, since you are obsessed with clarity like you are, what do you do to clear your beers? Gelatin? Time and cold conditioning?

Beersk: Good to see you over here. I was probably visiting too many forums at once and decided to cut it back a little. The board I have been on lately has turned into a cesspool of bad behavior plus Denny has always told me that the best information was over here. The brewers on my normal board are excellent but I thought I would look around here a little. On the clarity… I think it could start with mash, sparge and kettle pH. Kai’s site shows some golden wort at a lower pH and a higher pH and the lower pH shows a nice, clear golden wort while the higher pH wort darkened and ended up with a pesky haze that will not go away. So I keep my mash pH in the 5.2-5.3 range and make sure that my batch sparge is in the mid-5s. That should create a good kettle pH in the low-to-mid 5s and these steps have helped with clarity and flavor as well. I do use secondaries and add a gel solution every time I send a beer to secondary. In the rare case that I send a beer from primary directly to a keg, I will get the keg cold, hit it with a gel solution and then carb it. On gold beers where clarity is important to me, I will use a gel solution in the secondary and then hit it again when it’s cold in the keg before I force-carb. The first pint or two will be incredibly hazy but it will start to flow clear after that. I’m also rarely in a rush to get beer to the taps so the beer does get the chance to drop bright most of the time. If I make a dry-hopped beer, I’ll want to get the keg to the taps while the hops are still fresh and those beers aren’t going to be as clear anyway so they get fast-tracked. Cheers gang.

I get it, it was probably Homebrewtalk. That’s how Denny has described that place. Lots of great info over there, but also lots of whack sh*t going on too.
Thanks for the info on clarity. I change it up occasionally. I’m not a fan of using gelatin, but I use it here and there.

wort-h.o.g · October 4, 2015, 4:34pm

My o’fest

jonhughey_att.net · October 4, 2015, 4:38pm

Awesome looking beer, man. Love the foam.

blatz · October 4, 2015, 4:42pm

Beautiful!!

wort-h.o.g · October 4, 2015, 4:47pm

Coming to you Jon in swap. Made with 833 and nice malt with dry finish.

TexasHumuluslupulushead · October 4, 2015, 4:52pm

All Mosiac IPA racked on to 3lbs of frozen blueberries in secondary- bout as clear as I was gonna get it! Dry hopped with 2oz of mosaic and 3lbs of bleberries!

wort-h.o.g · October 4, 2015, 4:57pm

Cool funky magenta / purple color IPA!

TexasHumuluslupulushead · October 4, 2015, 5:16pm

Super happy with the way it turned out- Wife absolutely loves it

did this exact recipe 2 years ago- right after a sour mashed berlinerweisse - didnt go so well… guess i didnt get all the lacto out of the primary… Lesson learned. Turned out this time though

Village_Taphouse · October 7, 2015, 2:42pm

Questionable lighting but this is Jamil’s Vienna… delicious!

Village_Taphouse · October 7, 2015, 10:40pm

A blonde ale (2-row, wheat, Mt. Hood for bittering, 3 ounces of Santiam for flavor and aroma, 1056)…

wort-h.o.g · October 9, 2015, 7:25pm

Pils really shined up nice

toby · October 9, 2015, 7:31pm

Mosaic IPA

wort-h.o.g · October 9, 2015, 7:49pm

that sounds good right about now! nice beer Toby.

Village_Taphouse · October 9, 2015, 8:40pm

Those beers look great. Nothing like good beer porn. Except real beer and real porn. :D

wort-h.o.g · October 9, 2015, 9:46pm

My Munich dunkel

blatz · October 9, 2015, 9:46pm

Yum!! Recipe?

wort-h.o.g · October 9, 2015, 9:50pm

http://wiki.homebrewersassociation.org/HeisenbergDunkel

http://wiki.homebrewersassociation.org/HeisenbergNorthernGermanPilsner

Village_Taphouse · October 9, 2015, 10:28pm

Hooray on that dunkel. I have one fermenting right now with 2308 and it smells like heaven.

wort-h.o.g · October 9, 2015, 10:34pm

yeah love them. first time i pressed the dark munich% that high. key is balance of hops and dryness, and then the malt really shines.

Village_Taphouse · October 10, 2015, 4:15am

I’m a huge fan of dunkel but this may be the first one I have made in 16+ years of brewing. I think I was 65% Munich II (the 9-12L stuff), 35% pilsner along with maybe 3 ounces of Carafa Special III. I did balance the water with some gypsum to create a bit of dryness as you mention so I hope I’m on the right track. It sure smells nice fermenting. Cheers!

Topic		Replies	Views
Pictures The Pub	9	3	November 7, 2018
First Pils Ingredients	33	4	March 10, 2016
Suggest a brew for next weekend General Homebrew Discussion	13	2	December 7, 2009
Nice Compliment on my Beer! General Homebrew Discussion	9	2	February 10, 2011
Special Delivery from The Beerery General Homebrew Discussion	17	4	November 30, 2021

Pics of recent brews?

Related topics