Comments on: Now we can call ourselves brewers! http://www.socalsnow.com/brew/2006/04/30/now-we-can-call-ourselves-brewers/ Brewmasters of the Desert Southwest Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:55:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: J http://www.socalsnow.com/brew/2006/04/30/now-we-can-call-ourselves-brewers/#comment-12 Fri, 25 May 2007 17:28:03 +0000 http://www.socalsnow.com/brew/2006/04/30/now-we-can-call-ourselves-brewers/#comment-12 The first batch indeed was stronger, so Batch number two is the 10lb Brown, and batch 1 shall now be known as the Border Porter! The first batch indeed was stronger, so Batch number two is the 10lb Brown, and batch 1 shall now be known as the Border Porter!

]]> by: Yuma Brewers » Blog Archive » No brew brew night repeat http://www.socalsnow.com/brew/2006/04/30/now-we-can-call-ourselves-brewers/#comment-8 Sat, 27 May 2006 22:01:15 +0000 http://www.socalsnow.com/brew/2006/04/30/now-we-can-call-ourselves-brewers/#comment-8 [...] The first 5 gallons of J’s 10lb brown went into the keg. This was the full strength batch which had no water added after the boil. It was tasting pretty good but is still changing rapidly from week to week. As strong as it turned out to be based on the OG reading I’m not too surprised and expect it to take longer to settle. The other batch is still sitting in primary as J wanted to give it more time so the water added after the boil could assimilate better. [...] […] The first 5 gallons of J’s 10lb brown went into the keg. This was the full strength batch which had no water added after the boil. It was tasting pretty good but is still changing rapidly from week to week. As strong as it turned out to be based on the OG reading I’m not too surprised and expect it to take longer to settle. The other batch is still sitting in primary as J wanted to give it more time so the water added after the boil could assimilate better. […]

]]> by: jhitesma http://www.socalsnow.com/brew/2006/04/30/now-we-can-call-ourselves-brewers/#comment-6 Mon, 01 May 2006 09:26:13 +0000 http://www.socalsnow.com/brew/2006/04/30/now-we-can-call-ourselves-brewers/#comment-6 Hey J - looks like you lost a closing bold tag up there in your recipie somewhere. I'd fix it for you...but I just managed to save the photos and am working on getting them uploaded... When the photos are done they'll be here: http://jhitesma.smugmug.com/gallery/1417073 Hey J - looks like you lost a closing bold tag up there in your recipie somewhere. I’d fix it for you…but I just managed to save the photos and am working on getting them uploaded…

When the photos are done they’ll be here:
http://jhitesma.smugmug.com/gallery/1417073

]]> by: jhitesma http://www.socalsnow.com/brew/2006/04/30/now-we-can-call-ourselves-brewers/#comment-4 Mon, 01 May 2006 09:09:16 +0000 http://www.socalsnow.com/brew/2006/04/30/now-we-can-call-ourselves-brewers/#comment-4 I have good news and bad news a day later. First the bad news. We may have lost the photos :( The batteries were going dead at the end of the night and after taking a photo of the spent grain bread I attempted to make the camera locked up. I had to pull the battery. Today I tried viewing the photos...and it said it could not read the card. All may not be lost...I could still recover them on my desktop..I just didn't have time to try it yet today. I'll have an update later this week. The good news. My attempt at spent grain bread did not work very well since we didn't have any bread yeast on hand. We tried some spare Burton Ale Yeast that was on hand...but alas it seems beer yeast is not suitable for bread....maybe if you let it sit overnight and went for a sourdough type of thing.. However I did take a bag of grains home with me so that today I could try it properly. The first attempt was a VERY simple recipie: http://www.weekendbrewer.com/Cooking/breadfromspentgrain.htm This time I used a slightly more complex recipe that added some wheat flour and egg: http://g_a_b_s.tripod.com/gabscookbook.html The results are great. Amy and I are chowing down on the first loaf, the second just came out of the oven, and the last two just went in. This is more bread than we need, so I'll take a loaf over to Matt tomorrow and anyone else who wants some give me a call! I still have enough grain to do 4-8 more loafs...and a recipie for a sourdough that sounds good: http://www.ptialaska.net/~gbrady/pages/spentgrain.html I have good news and bad news a day later.

First the bad news. We may have lost the photos :( The batteries were going dead at the end of the night and after taking a photo of the spent grain bread I attempted to make the camera locked up. I had to pull the battery. Today I tried viewing the photos…and it said it could not read the card.

All may not be lost…I could still recover them on my desktop..I just didn’t have time to try it yet today. I’ll have an update later this week.

The good news.

My attempt at spent grain bread did not work very well since we didn’t have any bread yeast on hand. We tried some spare Burton Ale Yeast that was on hand…but alas it seems beer yeast is not suitable for bread….maybe if you let it sit overnight and went for a sourdough type of thing..

However I did take a bag of grains home with me so that today I could try it properly. The first attempt was a VERY simple recipie:
http://www.weekendbrewer.com/Cooking/breadfromspentgrain.htm

This time I used a slightly more complex recipe that added some wheat flour and egg:
http://g_a_b_s.tripod.com/gabscookbook.html

The results are great. Amy and I are chowing down on the first loaf, the second just came out of the oven, and the last two just went in. This is more bread than we need, so I’ll take a loaf over to Matt tomorrow and anyone else who wants some give me a call! I still have enough grain to do 4-8 more loafs…and a recipie for a sourdough that sounds good:
http://www.ptialaska.net/~gbrady/pages/spentgrain.html

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