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RE: #BEERSATURDAY 31 Beer Review #2: Farmhouse Ale with Rye, with Massive Nugget Hop Additions
I love a Belgian beer. My first brew was actually one designed to mimic the Chimay Blue.
Your brewing process is fascinating. And so much more advanced than where I am at yet.
Keep up the great work. :)
By the way, I had a weird experience with my beer in my review this week. It foamed up in an insane way at the first pour. Could this be because the bottle was released prior to the bottle fermentation being complete?
Thanks for the kind words.
Yeah I saw that cup of foam. It is possible that they bottled before the beer was dry enough but more likely that the batch or bottle got infected due to either poor sanitation or an infected batch of yeast from the lab. I know at least one brewery is suing White Labs for a multi-million dollar recall they had to do on exploding bottles. I've been meaning to find that post and check read it, just been busy. The wife has left town for the weekend for a stag party and I've got two babies to look after.
I also want to read your 100 days post. Man, I have been here far longer than that with far less results. Do you buy steem and power up? I should have been doing that from day 1 and my life would be a lot easier here. Not that gaining money from interacting here is my primary goal, but it does make the process more enjoyable. More so, by comparison to seeing other people abuse the system and get paid massive amounts for crap it annoys me. I've been trying to do this organically.
Would poor sanitation or infected yeast affect the flavour profile? The beer tasted fine. It’s concerning if it was one of these things though and seems likely.
I’d love your feedback on my 100 day post. I haven’t paid for any SBD or Steem but have converted a decent amount of SBD to Steem Power.
I kind of regret sending a large amount of SBD to the exchanges to buy other coins. I should have just sent this to Steem Power.
The abuse on here can be frustrating but I think it’s best to just focus on your own thing and build organically like you are. Gaming the system is likely to create pointless conflic.
Thanks for your compliments. :)
It could affect the flavor but often does not in beer judging situation where you get a gusher bottle and the beer is relatively fresh. There is little health concern associated with an infected bottle.
Yes, seeing the price of steem now I would agree with your assessment. I'm surprised by the value due to inflation but I suppose people are motivated to tie up supply as the get it.
Whatever it was didn't seem to impact on the flavour, although other reviews said quite different things about the beer. I imagine every batch is different though.
Cryptos are doing good things today. It might be time to sell some off and convert to SP. :)
I just made a complete noob error and overfilled my fermenter by 4 litres (filled to 24 litres rather than 21...). I read the side of the tank wrong somehow so now I have too much liquid.
Is there anything I should do about this? How would it affect the brew?
Hey, sorry I'm so slow to respond. It is probably too late for my comments to help. Typically when I have too much beer or not enough space, I will underpitch my yeast and once I know it is fermenting, I will keep it colder than normal so I don't blow the top off.
My sells on crypto are usually at X2+ so nothing of mine sold yesterday. I just bought 40K dogecoin at .something65. I always thought it was a joke and apparently so did the creator. The market appears to think differently with a $2B market cap. Some people think it is going to hit $1. I think I'll sell half at $.025
No problem mate
I ended up brewing up another 500g or malt with some citra hops to add a little more fruit to the brew and increase the sugars. It’s started to ferment now so we’ll see what comes of this brew. :)
Cool! What did you brew?
If you've got too much wort, you can always just boil it down before adding the first hops until you get to the volume you want to have but you might end up with a stronger beer than you originally intended (and that might change some of your other calculations, like required bitterness- though I just right brain all that shit anyways). If you DO end up with too much finished beer, you can consider ADDING more water to divide it into two weaker batches if the original beer was strong enough. I'll often do this on purpose to get 3 batches where my boil vessel will only hold 2. For many dark styles, you can bump up the gravity with some brown sugar or something similar. If you are doing a Belgian, some white sugar is in line with the style (invert if you want to get fancy). Honey can likely work in most other instances, though that will drastically change the character of the beer. Another option would be fruit juice. I know someone who does an apple/hoppy belgian thing on purpose all the time. I haven't had it but I bet it is good. It sounds good.
I’m making an American pale so added some light malt with the citra hops. Fermentation kicked off today so we’ll see what we end up with soon. :)