TEST Beer

[Mautobu]

I used to be really into brewing beer and want to get into again. I'd like to devise a recipe for TEST Squadron branded beer. Any thoughts on what style it should be?

I was thinking an IPA (India Pale Ale) or ISA (India Session Ale), but I'm open to ideas. I also thought about a mid-west American Lager (Bud Light, basically), so more beers can be consumed, but then I realized that those suck.

Since I'm a Canuck, I thought that a lumberjack would be an appropriate mascot for this. Here is a mock up design:

 

[AwesomeDude]

dat watermark doh :P

 

[AccidentProne8]

I vote Pale Ale rather than Session. IPA would be fun though.

 

[UbEcLoWn]

I vote for a Belgium.

We should also buy a barrel of bourbon so we can drink it all and then age the beer in the barrel.

 

[Ocean]

I vote for a Belgium.

We should also buy a barrel of bourbon so we can drink it all and then age the beer in the barrel.

it comes in barrels??? im getting one

 

[Mautobu]

@UbEcLoWn I could do a Belgium Ale. I've done tripels before and one that I nick named the Belgium Quad (one bomber really fucked us up lol). Maybe I'll do that and a IPA?

it comes in barrels??? im getting one

Yes, they sell for like $10,000.

 

[Mautobu]

dat watermark doh :p

I'm actually surprised no one has noticed the Montoya belt buckle yet.

 

[Ocean]

@UbEcLoWn I could do a Belgium Ale. I've done tripels before and one that I nick named the Belgium Quad (one bomber really fucked us up lol). Maybe I'll do that and a IPA?



Yes, they sell for like $10,000.

have you seen the prices on some of the ships... that's nothing (jk)

 

[Mautobu]

have you seen the prices on some of the ships... that's nothing (jk)

Hmmm... This may be a good way to fund that Idris I want. Sell beer!

 

[UbEcLoWn]

@UbEcLoWn I could do a Belgium Ale. I've done tripels before and one that I nick named the Belgium Quad (one bomber really fucked us up lol). Maybe I'll do that and a IPA?

Sounds brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

 

[WarrenPeace]

I've always been interested in getting into homebrewing, but I only recently got an apartment where that kinda thing might be feasible. My vote would go towards a Belgium as well, if we're not talking porters or stouts.

 

[Dalarast]

I've always been interested in getting into homebrewing, but I only recently got an apartment where that kinda thing might be feasible. My vote would go towards a Belgium as well, if we're not talking porters or stouts.

You can easily do a extract homebrew kit in an apartment. Even more so if you have a gas top stove... the biggest challenge with apartment brewing is getting your wort up to temperature and maintain it before the cool down and addition of yeast.

My vote: A custom IPA. Something that speaks to what is TEST to you or the community. I would probably do a fruity IPA (such as a lemon zest) to appeal to my wife (who with my children bottle all of my beers.. sooo yeah gotta play the audience ;) )

 

[Mautobu]

You can easily do a extract homebrew kit in an apartment. Even more so if you have a gas top stove... the biggest challenge with apartment brewing is getting your wort up to temperature and maintain it before the cool down and addition of yeast.

My vote: A custom IPA. Something that speaks to what is TEST to you or the community. I would probably do a fruity IPA (such as a lemon zest) to appeal to my wife (who with my children bottle all of my beers.. sooo yeah gotta play the audience ;) )

Zesty eh? I like it. I reckon a white IPA would support fruity flavors a little better. So, wheat heavy. Some coriander too. Might need a bit of a ph balancer too.

 

[Black Sunder]

Made from the tears of our enemies when we crash a Bengal?

 

[Dalarast]

Zesty eh? I like it. I reckon a white IPA would support fruity flavors a little better. So, wheat heavy. Some coriander too. Might need a bit of a ph balancer too.

I've done a white IPA with orange and another one with Lemon. I used peels during the boil and also used orange extract once to get even more flavor. Works pretty well.

I have two kits at home I still have to make... a white ipa and a chocolate stout for the wife. Perhaps I will make them when I get home this week after reading this.... INSPIRED!

 

[honcho12]

Do you guys bother to figure out the alcohol content of your brews? If you do, how do you do it?

 

[BlackHawkK]

we can go with the weak lager and go with the motto " its like making love, by a stream...." meaning ( its f#$@*ng near water...) :P

 

[Mautobu]

Do you guys bother to figure out the alcohol content of your brews? If you do, how do you do it?

It's pretty easy - you measure the specific gravity before and after and there's a chart out there that gives you the ABV.

You need one of these: http://www.northernbrewer.com/shop/beer-and-wine-triple-scale-hydrometer

 

[honcho12]

It's pretty easy - you measure the specific gravity before and after and there's a chart out there that gives you the ABV.

You need one of these: http://www.northernbrewer.com/shop/beer-and-wine-triple-scale-hydrometer

My dad brews, and he uses the same thing, but he doesn't think it's very accurate. He's a chemist so we started tinkering around with measuring the CO2 the yeast produces, and calculating from that. It's mostly just for fun, but I was wondering if it might be useful for anyone.

 

[Shutter]

Do you guys bother to figure out the alcohol content of your brews? If you do, how do you do it?

I use a device called a Hydrometer. It has three measurement scales on it, specific gravity, balling, and potential alcohol. I use balling. You get your initial reading prior to fermentation, and a reading after fermentation. Get the difference of the two readings, and multiply that number by .42 (not a coincidence) and that will give you the approximate alcohol percent by weight. To get the percent alcohol by volume multiply that number by 1.25.

Or you could just get a measurement off the "potential alcohol" before and after, take the difference, and that is what you have, almost

Example: I make a brew, the wort has an initial ball of 22, and after fermentation a finishing ball of 3. Difference is 19. 19 times .42 is 7.98 percent alcohol by weight. 7.98 times 1.25 is 9.975 percent alcohol by volume.