USCHO Brewing

[Flashy Man]

Re: USCHO Brewing

Just a side note: Depending on your local home brew store selection, sometimes they have recipies where you can brew half grains & half extract. After brewing multiple batches of just extract, I wanted a bigger challenge and a little extra control in the taste of the product. I started brewing grain & extract recipes and had really good results. If you can't find half & half recipes at your homebrew store, find them online (beertools.com is a good source for recipes of all kinds).

I haven't done an all grains brew though. That requires the boil to be more than 2-3 gallons and my brew kettle isn't large enough. And I don't know if I'm good enough to try and tackle that just yet.

Those would be called a partial mash, I haven't journeyed there yet since I just have my second extract batch brewing.

 

[The Exiled One]

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Been a brewer for a while. Extract, all-grain, partial, everything. My second best beer was a two-hearted clone, but that's not surprising because two-hearted is such a good beer to start with. My best beer was a 15% ABV Belgian. It took two years to age to perfection. Well balanced, though the ABV was only slightly hidden. I'd say it tasted about like a 9% beer, but it warmed your belly in a hurry. You couldn't really drink more than 12oz in a sitting, but I bottled in 22oz bombers. Definitely a beer for sharing!

 

[FreshFish]

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you may want to grow your own hops.

IIRC, there is a certain species of hops that can be grafted to the roots of a certain species of cannabis. You get the THC content of the latter yet the leaves of the former which can be used in making a "strange brew" indeed.

No I cannot tell you which species are involved. That particular hops species is probably regulated anyway.


I think it came about during WWII, in which the Navy needed lots of hemp to make rope. They experimented with growing hemp better but either the botanists mis-read the memo or something but they wound up making plants with higher THC concent but not that much better for rope-making. The hops grafting, if I'm not mistaken, was part of that research.

 

[alfablue]

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IIRC, there is a certain species of hops that can be grafted to the roots of a certain species of cannabis. You get the THC content of the latter yet the leaves of the former which can be used in making a "strange brew" indeed.

Dude, we are talking BEER, and being creative with what you can do in your back yard. Not theoreticals.

For instance, I grow wine grapes.

 

[FlagDUDE08]

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Dude, we are talking BEER, and being creative with what you can do in your back yard. Not theoreticals.

For instance, I grow wine grapes.

Perhaps FreshFish is talking about making a "brown-ies" ale.

 

[The Exiled One]

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IIRC, there is a certain species of hops that can be grafted to the roots of a certain species of cannabis. You get the THC content of the latter yet the leaves of the former which can be used in making a "strange brew" indeed.

No I cannot tell you which species are involved. That particular hops species is probably regulated anyway.


I think it came about during WWII, in which the Navy needed lots of hemp to make rope. They experimented with growing hemp better but either the botanists mis-read the memo or something but they wound up making plants with higher THC concent but not that much better for rope-making. The hops grafting, if I'm not mistaken, was part of that research.

I've read a lot about different pot/beer theories, but never tried it. The big problem is that THC in not water soluble, but it is fat soluble (hence "pot brownies"). It's also alcohol soluble, but to extract enough THC to get you high, you'd have to consume enough alcohol that you'd die of alcohol poisoning first. Of course, you could solve this problem by simply adding pure extracted THC. Good luck with that.

 

[skiumah2]

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Been a brewer for a while. Extract, all-grain, partial, everything. My second best beer was a two-hearted clone, but that's not surprising because two-hearted is such a good beer to start with. My best beer was a 15% ABV Belgian. It took two years to age to perfection. Well balanced, though the ABV was only slightly hidden. I'd say it tasted about like a 9% beer, but it warmed your belly in a hurry. You couldn't really drink more than 12oz in a sitting, but I bottled in 22oz bombers. Definitely a beer for sharing!

I've been doing it a while as well. I've moved from the extract brewing in the kitchen to the all grain brewing in the garage. For those of you worried about the next step, you'll never go back once you move to all grain. However, it is quite a jump when you consider the expense of the equipment needed to all grain. The mash tun, larger brew pot (at least 7 gallons preferably 10), burner, etc. can get pretty expensive. It is a one time expense though and you won't regret it. I also quit bottling. I built a two tap kegerator out of an old refrigerator that holds two 5 gallon soda kegs I put my beer in. I brew with my neighbor who has basically the same set up I have. We then spend our summers taking turns drinking each other's beer. Right now, I have a coffee stout and a cream ale ready to keg that I will mix together to make "black and tans".

Anybody have a good recipe for a vanilla porter? How 'bout that Gopher beer served up in Houghton? Even if it's an extract recipe I can convert it to all grain.

 

[Flashy Man]

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My Brown Ale turned out pretty good. Going to bottle my Honey Porter tomorrow and let it sit for a little longer at room temperature.

 

[Patman]

I've been doing it a while as well. I've moved from the extract brewing in the kitchen to the all grain brewing in the garage. For those of you worried about the next step, you'll never go back once you move to all grain. However, it is quite a jump when you consider the expense of the equipment needed to all grain. The mash tun, larger brew pot (at least 7 gallons preferably 10), burner, etc. can get pretty expensive. It is a one time expense though and you won't regret it. I also quit bottling. I built a two tap kegerator out of an old refrigerator that holds two 5 gallon soda kegs I put my beer in. I brew with my neighbor who has basically the same set up I have. We then spend our summers taking turns drinking each other's beer. Right now, I have a coffee stout and a cream ale ready to keg that I will mix together to make "black and tans".

Anybody have a good recipe for a vanilla porter? How 'bout that Gopher beer served up in Houghton? Even if it's an extract recipe I can convert it to all grain.

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