Beer thread
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Behemoth Brewing - Half Way Down Lager (Japanese rice style)
Quite nice for a change. "Clean" style, perhaps a little on the soda side.
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@roninwc said in Beer thread:
Okay, so lockdowns (here in Sydney/NSW at least) are no longer a thing. But all through the 14 week lockdown I kept thinking about starting to home brew.
Spoke to some friends including my boss who home brew and eventually put together a bit of a plan. To preface this, I live in an apartment and therefore space, smells and mess are very much a consideration especially if I want to maintain a happy wife and therefore, happy life.
So ultimately, based on some suggestions and lots of homework, I chose the BrewArt BeerDroid. A fully temperature controlled automated fermenter that quite frankly, just looks cool
This is the Beer Droid...
With BrewArt, you can brew using their pre-packaged BrewPrints or their pre-packaged ingredients to come up with your own receipes, or clones of well known beers, or fresh wort kits, or even doing your own mash or seep and then adding to the Droid.
Starting with baby steps, I've got my first brew down using the Narci-Citrus IPA BrewPrint. Now 6 days in and there should be another 2 to 4 days left of fermentation, then will dry hop, 48 hours in dry hop mode before it will move into a 24 hr cold crash to help with clarity and then finally warms up to kegging temperature. If at any time I want to, I can alter the times to dry hop or cold crash or kegging temp.
Going to double the amount of dry hops based on reviews of this particular brew print, 40 grams each of Citra and Galaxy hops which should give it a good hoppy taste which I prefer.
One drawback to home brewing is waiting the 4-6 weeks of secondary fermentation/maturation. Hence why my plan is to put 4 litres into my iKegger (in the picture next to the Droid) and force carbonate with CO2. 6 litres will then go into 750 ml PET (BPA free) bottles and will use supplied Carbonation Drops.
Cannot wait to have my first taste.
Have already gone out and purchased a fresh wort kit to make a New England IPA (NEIPA), one of my favourite styles of craft beer as well as extra hops and dextrose to give it some punch
Cheers
That looks fool proof enough that even I couldn’t fuck it up.
Will send this to the woman as a gift idea for Xmas.
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@mn5 said in Beer thread:
That looks fool proof enough that even I couldn’t fuck it up.
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@nzzp said in Beer thread:
@roninwc welcome into the rabbit hole.
Looks a nice bit of kit. I went the other way, started big, with 100L brews. Scaled back since, but dropped an 80L pilsner brew last weekend.
Good fun, best hobby in the world. Enjoy it, but manage your consumption and keep the exercise up. First year i had beer on tap, I put on 10kg. Not complaining, just observing ... it's awesome but high alcohol beers are scary full of empty calories.
Well, empty but for taste.
did you find a tasty sweet spot between not so high calories and a good tasting beer?
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@nostrildamus said in Beer thread:
@nzzp said in Beer thread:
@roninwc welcome into the rabbit hole.
Looks a nice bit of kit. I went the other way, started big, with 100L brews. Scaled back since, but dropped an 80L pilsner brew last weekend.
Good fun, best hobby in the world. Enjoy it, but manage your consumption and keep the exercise up. First year i had beer on tap, I put on 10kg. Not complaining, just observing ... it's awesome but high alcohol beers are scary full of empty calories.
Well, empty but for taste.
did you find a tasty sweet spot between not so high calories and a good tasting beer?
Kinda.
Lower alcohol table beers are good, otherwise manage consumption😀
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@nzzp said in Beer thread:
@nostrildamus said in Beer thread:
@nzzp said in Beer thread:
@roninwc welcome into the rabbit hole.
Looks a nice bit of kit. I went the other way, started big, with 100L brews. Scaled back since, but dropped an 80L pilsner brew last weekend.
Good fun, best hobby in the world. Enjoy it, but manage your consumption and keep the exercise up. First year i had beer on tap, I put on 10kg. Not complaining, just observing ... it's awesome but high alcohol beers are scary full of empty calories.
Well, empty but for taste.
did you find a tasty sweet spot between not so high calories and a good tasting beer?
Kinda.
Lower alcohol table beers are good, otherwise manage consumption😀
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@nostrildamus said in Beer thread:
@nzzp said in Beer thread:
@nostrildamus said in Beer thread:
@nzzp said in Beer thread:
@roninwc welcome into the rabbit hole.
Looks a nice bit of kit. I went the other way, started big, with 100L brews. Scaled back since, but dropped an 80L pilsner brew last weekend.
Good fun, best hobby in the world. Enjoy it, but manage your consumption and keep the exercise up. First year i had beer on tap, I put on 10kg. Not complaining, just observing ... it's awesome but high alcohol beers are scary full of empty calories.
Well, empty but for taste.
did you find a tasty sweet spot between not so high calories and a good tasting beer?
Kinda.
Lower alcohol table beers are good, otherwise manage consumption😀
bold=good bit
italics= reasonable but evil and unlikely bitYes, unfortunate but true
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have i had a rave about these bad boys yet
I've dubbed them Richie McCaws and they are fucking amazing. A pale cloudy gold colour. Bit fruity in flavour but not bad. Not a sour either. Refreshing served real cold from a glass. Not overly sessionable (i've never had more than 4 in a sitting) but at 6% that's not bad.
Would absolutely recommend
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@mariner4life said in Beer thread:
have i had a rave about these bad boys yet
I've dubbed them Richie McCaws and they are fucking amazing. A pale cloudy gold colour. Bit fruity in flavour but not bad. Not a sour either. Refreshing served real cold from a glass. Not overly sessionable (i've never had more than 4 in a sitting) but at 6% that's not bad.
Would absolutely recommend
shame they wouldn't have the cash to be the main AB sponsor. The jersey would be fantastic..
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Just had McLeod's new seasonal sour beer Wicker Basket Tropical Sour. Nice balance of fruit and tartness. Good way to start a session.
https://mcleodsbrewery.co.nz/collections/seasonal/products/wicker-basket-tropical-sour
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surprised a GoFundMe or Givealittle page wasnt created!
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@taniwharugby said in Beer thread:
surprised a GoFundMe or Givealittle page wasnt created!
This is the saddest thing I have seen all year and that’s saying something.
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@taniwharugby said in Beer thread:
surprised a GoFundMe or Givealittle page wasnt created!
People would lie in the gutter for less.
Edit "The disposal will occur over several weeks as Westport’s drains cannot cope with all the beer at once." Not only am I sad there is one less reason to go drinking along the West Coast (and from memory Westport was a lovely place to visit as a drinking tourist, many natural storytellers there), I am having trouble visualizing how much beer is too much for their drains-they get a fair amount of rain-2600 or so mm a year (more than twice Auckland or Wellington). -
@machpants said in Beer thread:
Noice!
Yeah. Had that last night. Like the style they have developed there. Takes away the fruit juice element of a hazy but keeps the mouth feel.
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Had McLeod's Longboarder on tap at Mangawhai Golf Club this afternoon...top drop, but even better after golf!
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@taniwharugby said in Beer thread:
Had McLeod's Longboarder on tap at Mangawhai Golf Club this afternoon...top drop, but even better after golf!
Hard day at work then?
Half Way Down • Behemoth Brewing Company
