Rating System

1 - don't waste valuable beer calories on me
2 - tasty, walter approves
3 - so good you should have it for breakfast

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Second Time Stout

5 gallons, extract

4 oz Black Patent
4 oz Victory
4 oz Crystal 60
4 oz Chocolate

3 lbs Briess Golden Light DME
3.3 lbs CBW Golden Light LME

1 oz UK Challenger @ AA 6.9% (60 min.)
1 oz UK Challenger @ AA 6.9% (10 min.)

WLP005 British Ale Yeast

Pitched: 9/15/2013 OG 1.052
Secondary: 9/30/2013 SG 1.014
Kegged: 10/29/2013 SG 1.014

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Hop Harvest 2013

Harvested on 9/12/2013.

Fuggles - 6.25 oz
90% came from the more established hill

Mt Hood - negligable (10 cones)

Sterling - negligable (1 cone)

Cascade - 1.75 oz
small cones, lots of brown spots

Chinook - 4.25 oz
large cones

Fresh Hop Pale Ale

American Pale Ale
(5 gallons)
9/12/2013

10.0 lbs Valley Malt pale malt
0.5 lbs Valley Malt Special B

4.25 oz chinook (60 min)
1.75 oz cascade (15 min)
6.25 oz fuggles (2 min)

yeast:
safale S-04

1.5 qt/lb single infusion
water at 167, mash start at 152
Infusion mash 152 for 85 min
60 min boil

1.048 OG on 9/12
1.017 secondary on 9/22