Rating System

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

Friday, October 4, 2019

Fresh Hop Brown 2019

The Sunnycroft harvest was completed at the end of August with 7.15 oz dried.  I repeated last year's brown, using all the hops, but used Malt extract this year.

Malts;
     6 lbs Maris Otter extract
     1 lb Muntons Light DME

Specialty Grains:
     Briess Chocolate 8 oz
     Belgian Special B 8 oz
     Briess Victory Biscuit 8 oz
     English medium crystal 8 oz

Hops:
     Sunnycroft 3.5 oz 60 min
     Sunnycroft 2 oz 10 min
     Sunnycroft 2 oz flameout for 20 min

Hops:
     Safale US-05

Brewed 10/2/2019

Kama Citra Session IPA Kit

I am not only repeating the Citra theme as well as a malt extract one, but now moving forward, or backward, to a kit from Northern Brewer.  I must admit I do like the convience and speed of malt extract, for now.

Malts:
     6 lbs Gold Malt Syrup
     1 lb Gold DME

Specialty Grains:
     0.75 Caramel 40

Hops:
     Centenial 11.1%, 0.5 oz 60 min
     Cascade 6.9%, 1 oz 20 min
     Cascade 1 oz 10 min
     Citra 12.4%, 2 oz flame out for 10 min
     Secondary:
          Citra 1 oz
          Cascade 1 oz

Yeast Safale US-05

Brewed 8/20/2019, OG 1046
Secondary 8/20, 1008
Kegged 9/28