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Celebration beer - Big Black Balls!
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2014 9:02 am
by gibbiem
Knocked together a recipe for a beer, its a bit of a celebration brew as her indoors got a job offer yesterday in Manchester! We've been planning to move down there closer to family etc. Anyway, its a bit different, a bit random but f**k it, what's the worse that could happen!!
2kg MO
2kg Munich
2kg Vienna
1kg crystal 80l
500g carafa 1 (cold steep)
500g oats
1kg of DME in the boil
20g Magnum FWH
50g Chinook @ 90
30g Cascade @ 30
30g Nelson Sauvin 30 min steep
20g Amarillo 30 min steep
50g citra dry hop
50g Ahtanum dry hop
OG 1083 (8.6% abv)
IBU 130
A big beer, as black as night which requires balls to drink.
Big
Black
Balls
Re: Celebration beer - Big Black Balls!
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2014 11:45 pm
by gibbiem
No one fancy a comment? Thought this would be a bit controversial
Re: Celebration beer - Big Black Balls!
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 2:20 pm
by sbond10
Feck the halls in holly that's a small amount of grain.... Welcome to Manchester btw
Re: Celebration beer - Big Black Balls!
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 3:10 pm
by gibbiem
Not really, 8kg in total plus 1kg of DME! Not down there yet mate, probably gonna be January
Re: Celebration beer - Big Black Balls!
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 3:57 pm
by sbond10
Sarcasism doesn't come thru on forums lol 9kg erm yeah that's gonna be big. Where about in Manc u looking at ?
Re: Celebration beer - Big Black Balls!
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 4:04 pm
by gibbiem
Ha ha, kinda thought that afterwards! Gonna be around Chorlton mate, that's where she'll working. Literally right in front of the Marble Beer house ha ha
Re: Celebration beer - Big Black Balls!
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 5:37 pm
by sbond10
Ah fair enough think there's a few members near you - well closer than me
Re: Celebration beer - Big Black Balls!
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 1:41 pm
by gibbiem
Nice one! Think I'm gonna approach Marble and see if they have any work going
Re: Celebration beer - Big Black Balls!
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 5:38 pm
by sbond10
If you can drive (with less than 6 points) don't mind grafting and bodily fluids then I can suggest somewhere to tie you over
Re: Celebration beer - Big Black Balls!
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 5:40 pm
by gibbiem
Not sure I want to say yes or no here, but I do tick the boxes like!
Re: Celebration beer - Big Black Balls!
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 6:21 pm
by sbond10
My company's currently recruiting in Rochdale n Warrington driving none frontline ambulances so mainly taking old dears home
Re: Celebration beer - Big Black Balls!
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 6:41 pm
by gibbiem
Nice one! Will keep that in mind mate, cheers.
Re: Celebration beer - Big Black Balls!
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2014 10:55 am
by gibbiem
Brew day. Grain weighed, MT warmed and strike water coming up to temp. Just getting the little one to sleep and should be ready to dough in!
Decided I'm going to add the carafa at the end of the mash instead of cold steeping
Re: Celebration beer - Big Black Balls!
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2014 11:59 am
by gibbiem
Letting the strike water cool down a little more to 69c
Re: Celebration beer - Big Black Balls!
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2014 12:37 pm
by gibbiem
Doughed in and settled at 66.8c
Just checked after half an hour and its at 66.9c ha ha. Better than a drop though