Rating System

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

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Porter

Porter
(10 gallons)
7/29/2014

18.0 lbs chateau pale ale
1.5 lbs chocolate
1.5 lbs black
1.0 lbs crystal 40

3.0 oz Chinook (60 min)
1.0 oz Chinook (15 min)
1.0 oz Chinook (5 min)

yeast:
S-05

1.056 OG on 7/29
1.020 secondary on 8/5
1.020 keg on 8/5

Friday, July 4, 2014

Petite Saison d'Été

5 gallon extract (Northern Brewer)

0.5 lbs Belgian Cara 20

3.15 lbs Pilsen LME
1 lb Pilsen DME
1 lb Wheat DME

1 oz UK Kent Goldings (60 min.)
0.25 oz Styrian Goldings (Celeia) (10 min.)
0.25 oz. Saaz (10 min.)
0.75 oz Styrian Goldings (Celeia) (2 min.)
0.75 oz. Saaz (2 min.)

Wyeast 3711 French Saison

Pitched: 7/4/14 SG 1.040
Secondary: 7/19/14 SG 1.005
Kegged: 8/11/14 SG 1.005

Notes: I was up at dawn on July 4th to get this one going, with the aim of ensuring that we could actually drink some of it during the eponymous season. By 10:30 a.m. the yeast was pitched, and bubbled very nicely for a full week before starting to taper off.