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IBU Group Brew??

Anyone willing to participate in a group brew?  With all the hops we got at our meeting I think it would be fun if we all tried the same recipe?? or made our own style of beer with the same hops. What do you think??

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Permalink Reply by Keanan Ludeman on January 30, 2011 at 9:45am

Here is what we've got...

 

American Pale Ale

6 gallon batch size

Brewhouse Efficiency - 70%

OG - about 1.055

FG - about 1.014

Est ABV - 5.28%

SRM - about 8.2

 

Extract Version

6lbs Light DME

1lb Pale Munich 10L

1lb Specialty grain of your choice

 

All Grain

11# 2-Row

1# Pale Munich 10L

1# Specialty grain of your choice

 

Hops - You will need to use the hops from the club meeting only.  Which hops at which time addition is up to the brewer, but the quantities must be additions of 2oz, 2oz, 1oz and 1oz...where in the process is up to you.

Vanguard 4.8%

Styrian 1.4%

Chinook 11.4%

Sybilla 7.7%

 

Yeast - Up to the brewer

 

That's all!  We will definitely have an interesting group of beers when they're due. I'm looking forward to it! So get your gear cleaned and ready for Iron Brewer 2011!!

 

All beers will be due at the April IBU meeting - April 18th.  We can discuss a little further if needed at the Feb meeting.

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Permalink Reply by Jeff O'Neal on January 30, 2011 at 1:39pm

One question on "the quantities must be additions of 2oz, 2oz, 1oz and 1oz" should that be ounces total instead of a set addition size? ie. 6oz of hops total used at any amount and time as long as you use 2oz each of 2 varieties and 1oz each of the other 2 varieties.

Permalink Reply by Keanan Ludeman on January 30, 2011 at 2:18pm
I'm fine with that.

Jeff O'Neal said:

One question on "the quantities must be additions of 2oz, 2oz, 1oz and 1oz" should that be ounces total instead of a set addition size? ie. 6oz of hops total used at any amount and time as long as you use 2oz each of 2 varieties and 1oz each of the other 2 varieties.

Permalink Reply by Torrey Johnson on January 31, 2011 at 8:36am
Dude, this is awesome. I'll get this up on the notes section. You can add it to the events if you wish.
Permalink Reply by Jeremy Sievers on January 31, 2011 at 9:07pm

I have another question before I start planing out this brew, should we try to keep it in the specified style? Or do we just need to stick with the ingredient list? 

 

EX. with a higher efficiency or a smaller batch size, and the right yeast you could a have a belgium blond or put in a really dark crystal and have an american amber.

 

I vote that it should stay within the style category...not see how far it can be pushed, maybe that could be two different categories for Iron Brewer 2011.

Permalink Reply by Jeremy Sievers on January 31, 2011 at 9:10pm
I wrote down 1.9% on the Styrian not 1.4%, can someone confirm?
Permalink Reply by Jeff O'Neal on January 31, 2011 at 9:46pm
I say just stick with the ingredients and brew however you like. I think it will be exciting to see what different people do using the same malt and hops as a base. Hopefully we'll end up with 5 - 10 different awesome beers.

Jeremy Sievers said:

I have another question before I start planing out this brew, should we try to keep it in the specified style? Or do we just need to stick with the ingredient list? 

 

EX. with a higher efficiency or a smaller batch size, and the right yeast you could a have a belgium blond or put in a really dark crystal and have an american amber.

 

I vote that it should stay within the style category...not see how far it can be pushed, maybe that could be two different categories for Iron Brewer 2011.

Permalink Reply by Jeff O'Neal on January 31, 2011 at 9:47pm
I'm pretty sure they're 1.4% AA

Jeremy Sievers said:
I wrote down 1.9% on the Styrian not 1.4%, can someone confirm?
Permalink Reply by Matt Melcher on February 1, 2011 at 9:37am

First off - Hat's off to Keenan for putting this all together. Great job on the recipe.

 

Second - I say those that participate go with the base recipe in terms of amount of grain and hop additions. Yeast, specialty grain and other things like batch size or process should be up to you.

Permalink Reply by Jeremy Sievers on February 1, 2011 at 12:55pm

Ok, got my hope schedule worked out, grain bill and boil tweaked

 

We are going to have some seriously spicy pale ales in April! 

 

Again great idea Keenan. We should schedule 2 of these a year, do another for September/October.

Permalink Reply by Keanan Ludeman on February 1, 2011 at 1:13pm
Yeah I agree - we should try and set something up again in the fall.  I thought it would be fun for everyone to brew a similar beer and see how a subtle alteration can change the character of a beer...or maybe it won't. ;) we shall find out!

Jeremy Sievers said:

Ok, got my hope schedule worked out, grain bill and boil tweaked

 

We are going to have some seriously spicy pale ales in April! 

 

Again great idea Keenan. We should schedule 2 of these a year, do another for September/October.

Permalink Reply by Josh Conley on May 17, 2011 at 8:26pm

I think the judging of this could be improved for the next time we have this event, because it was a lot of fun, but maybe turn your kegs into the president, or whomever wishes to take records. and from there the beer will be placed out more as a blind tasting than it was done. i think someone had a tokens idea, so above the tap there would be a glass were all members would have a token and drop it into the "brew" that we enjoyed the best. and from there the recorder could figure out who was the winner easier, this "token placing" idea could be set up before the meeting, and occur during the meeting so shortly after the meeting while we are having our drink fest happen the results could easily be placed and before everyone leaves the winners could be announced.

 

let me know your thoughts, we only get better by discussion. on a side note.......whats next to brew??????

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