Grain Bill Contest

[colterw]

Hey All,

@chasjs and I were drinking and talking at the last meeting about doing a club contest with the same grain bill. But you can use what every yeast, hops, and water you want. What is everyone’s thought of doing that for the next club contest?

Cheers

Serving: Brooks Irish Red 4.8% ABV
Serving: Robert's IPA
Fermenting: We Are The Dreamer of Dreams (NEIPA)

[Spauld]

It’s an interesting thought, but won’t we end up with like 20 completely different brews, all that would likely fall into different style categories? Might be fun to do, just to see what people come up with, but not sure how you would make it a “competition”.

[RyanP]

I’m up for whatever everyone decides, but would maybe throw out “same yeast competition” as an idea. I’m not sure the grain bill thing will come through as clearly, especially with the muddled “not any style” one ya’ll were talking about.

It’d be interesting to see what everyone did with an english strain for example. Expressive enough to be noticeable, but also flexible enough to do many different styles. Belgian saison could be fun as well.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by RyanP.

[Sam]

True, it wouldn’t be a traditional competition of judging to style. It would be more of a demonstration of the range of possibilities of using a set grain bill (by percentage).

So the awards might have to be more generic like ‘Best of Show’, ‘Best use of overly complex process’, ‘WTF?’, ‘Why?’, ‘I want this every day’, …

I like that a grain bill ‘competition’ might allow more personal interpretation.

Serving:
Genmaicha Brown Ale
Munich Dunkel
IPA

Conditioning:

Fermenting:
House Amber

Planning:
?

[Anonymous]

I absolutely love the idea of everyone using the same grain bill, and then it’s up to them to decide on hops, yeast and water. The creativity of everyone’s final beer would be the ultimate fun piece here.

[colterw]

Jim might be right to not call it a contest but more of a experiment. I just think I would be fun to see what everyone made and came up with.

Cheers

Serving: Brooks Irish Red 4.8% ABV
Serving: Robert's IPA
Fermenting: We Are The Dreamer of Dreams (NEIPA)

[Sam]

When will the grain bill be published?

Serving:
Genmaicha Brown Ale
Munich Dunkel
IPA

Conditioning:

Fermenting:
House Amber

Planning:
?

[evan.sherlock]

Sorry, late to the conversation here. I will also include this in the the next months meeting notes. Posted here for all you homebrewing geeks to plug into your favorite software or notepad.

June Meeting 2020 to showcase these beers.

75% – Crisp Maris – 2 row (not floor malted)
10% – Weyermann – Munich 10°
5% – Crisp 77 / Crystal 77 or a Crystal 60° / 80°
10% – Weyermann – Pale Wheat Malt

Any hops / hop schedule
Any yeast

I just don’t know how partial mash guys would participate; thinking of Jeff and Mick here. I guess would be happy to host anyone if they needed it.

[Spauld]

I might be able to help one of the partial mash dudes. Since this grain bill doesn’t really match anything I make, I’d consider this an “experiment” and probably will only want 5G of whatever I make….so I’ve got room in my mash tun for another 5G-batch-worth of mash. Whomever might join me would need to be somewhat “mobile” with their equipment (at least the key elements) since we’d presumably be hopping this differently and therefore wouldn’t really be sharing the same brew kettle. I’m thinking a common mash, followed by “dueling kettles/burners” on brew day, then just chill into a couple of glass carboys. Wham bam thank ya mam, done and done….and on to sipping a cold bier! LOL

[Sam]

I’ve never been to Quirky Homebrew before, so I think I’ll go there this weekend to get some grain. 🙂

Serving:
Genmaicha Brown Ale
Munich Dunkel
IPA

Conditioning:

Fermenting:
House Amber

Planning:
?

[evan.sherlock]

Sam you might find their online shopping useful for ordering grain. I know when I show up there I am easily lost with the crazy amount and variety of grain the the grain room. The online tool helps me search up exactly what I need and have calculated for. You can let them know when you want to pick it up and as always continue to shop once you get there. I just find ordering my grain online saves me 15-30 min on each trip up there.

[Sam]

Evan,
Thanks for the tip. I’ll check it out. 🙂

Serving:
Genmaicha Brown Ale
Munich Dunkel
IPA

Conditioning:

Fermenting:
House Amber

Planning:
?

[joverturf]

Jim, I would go in with you on your mash if you are up for it. If that doesn’t work I have come up with a partial mash conversion of the grain bill that should be pretty close.

[Spauld]

Absolutely Jeff, let’s plan a brew day! I will zip you an email with some thoughts and we can use that as a starting point for our plan of attack.

[joverturf]

Great! Thanks for the kind offer Jim.

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