What's new

Homebrewers - Who is up for a BOTL brew?

Which style should the BOTL brew be? Vote for your top 3 styles.

  • Scottish Ale

    Votes: 11 28.2%
  • Oatmeal Stout

    Votes: 15 38.5%
  • Russian Imperial Stout

    Votes: 17 43.6%
  • Porter

    Votes: 12 30.8%
  • Nut Brown Ale

    Votes: 11 28.2%
  • English Special Bitter

    Votes: 3 7.7%
  • IPA / Imperial IPA

    Votes: 7 17.9%
  • Belgian Strong Ale

    Votes: 6 15.4%
  • Dopplebock

    Votes: 7 17.9%

  • Total voters
    39
Rating - 100%
64   0   0
Joined
Apr 25, 2014
Messages
7,690
Location
Gilbert AZ
Equipment delays have me behind schedule. I have just taken ownership of a new to me system that I want to do a test run with something a little less complex so I am probably a few months out from brewing. I won't sell any, but if you want some I will put some aside for you. Will probably brew 10 gal and keep half as is and add coffee and bourbon soaked cacao nibs to the other half because bourbon.
 

HIM*

Closer To The Sun
Rating - 100%
6   0   0
Joined
Feb 2, 2015
Messages
1,136
Location
Key West
Finally got a chance to leave town for the first time in forever this weekend. It was an epic day comprising of 1 cigar factory and 4 brewery stops with 3 tours.
Started Saturday off with a trip to El Titan de Bronze where they were working on some new El Oso and La Colemna stuff. Their house lines are fantastic. From there we hit J. Wakefield and just happened to walk up as they were doing a bottle release of Dragon fruit passion fruit Berliner. After snagging bottles we hopped over and got tours of both Wynwood and Concrete Beach before ending our night at MIA Brewing.

DFPF at Wakefields
ImageUploadedByTapatalk1456845085.484489.jpg
ImageUploadedByTapatalk1456845796.145272.jpg

A buddy of ours at Wynwood their training to be one of the assistant brewers.
ImageUploadedByTapatalk1456845168.527125.jpg

Their BA stuff...
ImageUploadedByTapatalk1456845454.621455.jpg

MIAs system...
ImageUploadedByTapatalk1456845498.394909.jpg

Space they just bought to expand(and some DFPF lol)

ImageUploadedByTapatalk1456845598.348166.jpg

Taproom
ImageUploadedByTapatalk1456845645.486675.jpg


And some sweet graffiti from around Wynwood...

ImageUploadedByTapatalk1456845744.067697.jpg
ImageUploadedByTapatalk1456845762.597246.jpg
ImageUploadedByTapatalk1456845827.336169.jpg
 

HIM*

Closer To The Sun
Rating - 100%
6   0   0
Joined
Feb 2, 2015
Messages
1,136
Location
Key West
So... what's the official recipe? Scanned past posts lightly didn't see it. Got a week off come Thursday, and some gift certificates to LHBS to burn.
Heres the scaled recipe for the '14 NHC Gold RIS. Some things are slightly rounded so the grain weights weren't odd fractions.

Batch Size - 5.25
OG - 1.088
FG - 1.018
IBU - 70
ABV - 9.3%
Yeast - WLP001/Chico/US05

Grain Bill....60min mash @ 152

14# 9oz Maris Otter
1# 6.5oz Roasted Barley
1# Special B
7.5oz Pale Chocolate malt
7.5oz Chocolate malt
7.5oz Crystal 80


Boil - 65min

1.5oz Warrior @ 60min
1.5oz Kent Goldings @ 10min
1.5oz Kent Goldings @ flameout
All the stuff that's 7.5oz can be rounded to an even 8oz to make things easier.
 

jasonsbeer

Never Settle
Rating - 100%
52   0   0
Joined
Jan 4, 2015
Messages
1,539
Location
Iowa
12 days in the bottle and I had to try.

I am impressed. The pour produced rolling carbonation, thick tan head. Very thick mouth feel! Dark chocolate and sweet maltiness on the top of the tongue, strong coffee on the back, and a hint of alcohol in the nose. I would say it's a relatively dry finish. This is gonna drink good. A few more weeks in the bottle will only make it better.

20160304_164628.jpg 20160304_164800.jpg
 
Last edited:
Rating - 100%
7   0   0
Joined
Jan 28, 2012
Messages
1,979
Location
Merriam, KS
12 days in the bottle and I had to try.

I am impressed. The pour produced rolling carbonation, thick tan head. Very thick mouth feel! Dark chocolate and sweet maltiness on the top of the tongue, strong coffee on the back, and a hint of alcohol in the nose. I would say it's a relatively dry finish. This is gonna drink good. A few more weeks in the bottle will only make it better.

View attachment 78453 View attachment 78454
Beautiful!

Sent from my SM-N910P using Tapatalk
 
Rating - 100%
58   0   0
Joined
Mar 18, 2014
Messages
4,073
Location
Herriman Utah
Equipment delays have me behind schedule. I have just taken ownership of a new to me system that I want to do a test run with something a little less complex so I am probably a few months out from brewing. I won't sell any, but if you want some I will put some aside for you. Will probably brew 10 gal and keep half as is and add coffee and bourbon soaked cacao nibs to the other half because bourbon.
Oh dude I am so IN....... Just let me know when. I will make it worth your while :D:D:D
 
Rating - 94.7%
20   1   0
Joined
Dec 13, 2014
Messages
1,543
Nice @jasonsbeer!
Absolutely no problems covering the shipping if I end up getting the chance. As well as for anyone else brewing this if they decide to send some out. Shipping, brewing costs, whatever.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
Rating - 100%
64   0   0
Joined
Apr 25, 2014
Messages
7,690
Location
Gilbert AZ
This is what I am getting when I try and "rescale" to my setup on beer smith. What am I doing wrong guys?
Beersmith never seems to scale linear. If I'm scaling I usually just double everything so it gives me even figures. If I do use it to scale I go back and round everything up to even/easy to work with numbers.
 
Top