[Sam]

I picked up my grain from Quirky a couple weeks ago. Now have a batch in the fermenter for the OTMP grain challenge.

3 months to condition and carbonate should be plenty of time. Hope I can make it last until June. 🙂

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[Sam]

Amarillo is one of my favorite hops. I agree (a bit late), move the late Amarillo and Galaxy to flame out.

Let us know how it turns out.

Sam

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[Sam]

Initial feedback is: good beer. My wife doesn’t always like what I brew (hoppy, sweet, full beers), but she has been asking to ‘sample’ the wild rice brown ale frequently. 🙂

It is one week in the keg, and the flavors are starting to blend. I can definitely taste the wild rice component. It is a little earthy just like a serving of wild rice. The pale chocolate malt flavor dominates at the end. Not too surprising, the body is thinner. I had hoped the Simpsons DRC would add more body. Another week or two should allow this brown to finish conditioning.

Hope I have some left whenever we next have a meeting. 🙂

Sam

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[Sam]

Evan, I agree with your decision. For me, it isn’t so much about meeting 10 – 20 known people to have a beer. It was more about being in a place that has many other people passing through it, and also passing around a community bottle to fill our glasses.

Like Jim, I am also on the cusp of the age group that seems most at risk. So I do consider where I decide to hang out.

My view is that eventually we will all be exposed to covid-19. I think it is a good idea for the general public to limit/reduce public activities to help moderate the rate of exposure.

I wasn’t going to be able to attend this month’s meeting anyway, but I agree with Evan’s decision. See everybody ‘soon’. Meanwhile, time to start planning the Grain Bill Challenge brew.

Sam

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[Sam]

Colter, I’ll have to check with the restaurant where I had the nutty green tea. Roasted brown rice does sound more likely for a green tea instead of some random wild American grass seed head.

Something for me to think about and possibly try in the next brown ale if I don’t get the flavor that I’m targeting.

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[Sam]

I have nothing to add other than it would be great to try some at the meetings. I’m following this thread!

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[Sam]

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

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[Sam]

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

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[Sam]

When will the grain bill be published?

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Is there an option for an individual to set/request only daily digests of new topics and recent thread updates?

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[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.

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[Sam]

I received 1 notice about the ‘Email Notifications’ thread. I also received 2 notices about the ‘Doing Testing with Email Notifications’ thread, but that thread doesn’t seem to exist any longer.

Sam

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[Sam]

That’s great! I saw a link to the episode about Jim’s setup on the Reddit homebrewing sub.

Awesome!

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[Sam]

Looking forward to trying this one!

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[Sam]

I’m not planning to go, but I’ll purchase up to 4 tickets if OTMP members that are going are unable to purchase enough. I definitely want to be reimbursed for any tickets that I purchase for others, so no backing out. 🙂

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