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woodywoodduck 
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 Topic: Brewing some beer.....Posted: 10 March 2011 at 21:12 |
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I'll be making 2 different beers on Saturday and maybe a 3rd if I can get another Ale Pail to use as a primary fermentor....
I'll have pictures up later saturday of the process...
An Octoberfest, Doppelbock and a Clone Foster's.
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woodywoodduck
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Posted: 11 March 2011 at 17:19 |
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the doppelbock and foster's are for the Wife's Family Reunion in July, I always make 2 different beers for it and have 2 half gallon Growlers for them to use in their chinese auction to raise money for the next reunion....it has become a hit and some expect it...the octoberfest is for my Brother who lives in Oregon, he will be home in june for his Son's wedding and has been dropping hints that he would like some more octoberfest...he spent 17 years in the Army and was in Germany for 5 years...he told me that my octoberfest tastes pretty close to what Germany has over there...he said it is like their octoberfest, not like the octoberfest we get here that is wimpy and light bodied!
If you really want to taste them, I have a way to get a bottle of each to you to try!
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woodywoodduck
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Posted: 12 March 2011 at 09:40 |
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The Octoberfest is done and cooling in the Ale Pale...
Start out with crushed grains for some flavor and color...
 These go into a Seeping bag that is pretty much cheese cloth made into a bag...
 That goes into 2 gallons of water and is seeped for 20-30 minutes...
After they have seeped at 155 degrees the bag is removed and left to drip back into the pot...
Then the water is heated to a boil and the dry malt extract (DME) 1 pound and liquid malt extract (LME) 6.6 pounds are added and heated back to a boil...
After it is boiling a second time the bittering hops are added
  This is boiled for 40 minutes, after the 40 minute boil the Flavoring Hops are added (they look the same)
 After the flavoring hops are added the wort is boiled for another 20 minutes, after that 20 minutes of boil, total of 60 minutes of boiling the wort is strained into the Ale Pale and cooled...
 After it cools to around 70-80 degrees the yeast is sprinkled ontop of the wort and left to start the fermenting.
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woodywoodduck
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Posted: 12 March 2011 at 09:42 |
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Onto the Foster's....
I'll try to Remember to get pictures of the LME and DME which I forgot above!
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woodywoodduck
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Posted: 12 March 2011 at 10:36 |
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the Dry Malt Extract (DME)
 and the Liquid Malt Extract (LME)
 They look like that.
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woodywoodduck
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Posted: 12 March 2011 at 11:28 |
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The House Smells WONDERFUL to ME but the wife is doing nothing but Complaining!
"Dam Hops Smell"
I just HAD to say it...
"That Dam Hops smell, Smells so WONDERFUL to ME!"
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Posted: 12 March 2011 at 15:55 |
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Yes, but is she still mopping the malt off the floor?
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Go ahead...play with your food!
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woodywoodduck
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Posted: 12 March 2011 at 19:36 |
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HA, I had to keep Mopping while I was making the 2 beers....the floor would dry and it would be Sticky again. I think it took about 100 moppings to get all the stickiness off the floor
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Posted: 13 March 2011 at 10:13 |
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Keep this up and you're going to get me back into brewing again. I brewed for years and stopped 14 years ago but I remember how sticky malt extract can be. Good grief, almost impossible to clean up. I got to the point where I was doing all-grain beers and it just became so much work I gave it up. I may try a malt extract brew again in the near future if I get time.
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woodywoodduck
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Posted: 13 March 2011 at 12:28 |
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the Octoberfest and Foster's Clone is working just nicely....
The Foster's Clone...
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Posted: 28 May 2011 at 04:45 |
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Forgive my ignorance, I'm an Aussie and have never heard of an Ale Pail but I get the idea. Going on your photos, do you brew with your pail uncovered??
Edit: I am an all grain homebrewer.
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woodywoodduck
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Posted: 28 May 2011 at 08:51 |
an ale pail is a 6 gallon plastic fermenting bucket (used as the Primary Fermentor in making Both Beer and Wine)that is marked on the side to 5 gallons, the extra gallon is for the froth made when the wort ferments (Head space for the Froth) there is a Top and YES it is used LMAO....those were just pictures to show to the folks who have never done it what the end result is after boiling... the top has a small hole in it with a rubber gasget around it so when you shove a "Plumbers Lock" into it (that S shaped thing that you fill with water to let Gas Out and not air Back In) there is no gap between the "Plumbers Lock" and the Lid of the Bucket
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Posted: 29 May 2011 at 01:26 |
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Thanks for that, I'm enlightened. Figured there had to be a lid and the plumbers lock is what we know as an "air lock".
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