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, June 28, 2015

Gose Great on the Patio

5 gallons extract

2 lbs acidulated wheat

3.3 lbs Pilsen LME
3.3 lbs Wheat DME

1.0 oz Saaz @ 3.0% AA (60 min.)

0.5 oz sea salt (10 min.)
1.0 oz ground coriander (10 min.)

Wyeast 1007 German Ale

Pitched: 6/28/15 OG 1.050
Secondary: 7/3/15 SG 1.018
Kegged: 8/11/15 SG 1.014

Notes: I went light on the salt compared to some of the recipes and will adjust as needed for the secondary/keg phases. The fermentation was very vigorous -- foam coming out the fermentation lock after 24 hours.

Monday, June 15, 2015

Dark Rye IPA

What could be better?  Take a great Rye IPA (2/22/2015),  give it some color and tweak the hops.

Grains
     Pale Malt            12 lbs
     Rye Malt              3 lbs
     Special B              1 lbs
     Carapils                      12 oz
     Wheat                   1 lbs

Hops
     Columbus 15.2         0.5  60 min
     Summit 14.2            0.5 30 min
     Summit                    0.5 1 min
     Simcoe 12.2              1    1 min
     Simcoe                      1    secondary

Safale S05

Brewed 6/15/2015  OG  1052
Secondary 6/23/15. 1012  1oz simcoe added

Saturday, June 6, 2015

British Bitter

5 gallon extract (Northern Brewer)

0.5 lb Simpsons Cara Malt

1 lb Golden Light DME
3.15 lbs Maris Otter LME (late addition; 15 min.)

1 oz UK Kent Goldings @ 6.47% AA (60 min.)
0.5 oz UK Kent Goldings @ 6.47% AA (15 min.)
0.5 oz UK Kent Goldings @ 6.47% AA (1 min.)

WLP005 British Ale Yeast

Pitched: 6/6/15 OG 1.035
Secondary: 6/20/15 SG 1.010
Kegged:

Notes: A very slow start, with barely any action after 48 hours, but then steady fermentation for over a week -- never incredibly vigorous but with regular CO2 bubbling.

Something went wrong along the way with this beer, and it developed a very strong "off" taste like iodine, that did not go away -- indeed it seemed to become stronger in the keg. I ended up getting rid of the entire batch.