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, June 22, 2010

Celis Wit

Celis Wit Clone (recipe from Modern Brewer)
5 gallons extract
June 19, 2010

1 lb flaked oats (15 min @ 155F)

3.3lb wheat LME
3 lb wheat DME

1.5 oz Kent Goldings @ 4.5% AA (60 min.)

1 oz bitter orange peel (15 min.)

1 tsp ground coriander (5 min.)

Whitelabs WLP400 Belgian Wit Ale Yeast

60 min boil

Pitched: 1.044 OG on June 19, 2010
Secondary: 1.013 on July 2, 2010
Kegged: 1.012 on July 28, 2010

Sunday, June 13, 2010

La Fin Du Pistoles

La Fin du Pistoles
(5 gallons)
6/13/2010

11.0 lbs belgian pilsner
0.5 lbs special b
0.25 lbs briess carapils
0.25 lbs weyermann caramel wheat
1 lb dark candi sugar (0 min)

1.0 oz tettnang (60 min)
1.0 oz hersbrucker (60 min)
0.5 oz tettnang (30 min)
0.5 oz tettnang (0 min)

yeast:
wyeast 3864 canadian/belgian ale

Infusion mash at 155 for 60 min
60 min boil

1.066 OG on 6/13
1.020 secondary
1.020 keg on 7/10

Friday, May 28, 2010

Belgian Pale Ale

Belgain Pale Ale
(5 gallons)
5/28/2010

6.0 lbs belgian pilsner
2.5 lbs german vienna
0.5 lbs belgian caramunich
1 oz debittered black malt
1 lb corn sugar (0 min)

1.75 oz saaz (60 min)
0.25 oz saaz (15 min)

yeast:
wyeast 3655 belgian schelde

Infusion mash at 153 for 60 min
60 min boil

1.044 OG on 5/28

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Dark IPA

Dark IPA
(5 gallons)
5/08/2010

11.5 lbs rahr 2-row pale
0.50 lbs briess caramel 80L
0.25 lbs weyermann dehusked carafa II
0.25 lbs simpsons chocolate malt
1 lb corn sugar (0 min)

1 oz summit (60 min)
1 oz simcoe (15 min)
1 oz centennial (10 min)
1 oz cascade (5 min)
1 oz amarillo (0 min)

yeast:
wyeast 1272 american ale yeast II

Infusion mash at 153 for 60 min
60 min boil

1.070 OG on 5/08

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Capacity @ 26 lbs of grain

Biere de Garde

Biere de Garde
(10 gallons)
2/07/2010

20.0 lbs dingerman's pilsner
4.0 lbs german vienna
1.0 lbs dingerman's aromatic
1.0 lbs gambrinus honey malt

2.00 oz styrian goldings (90 min)

yeast:
Safele S-23 lager yeast

Infusion mash at 153 for 60 min
90 min boil

1.058 OG on 2/07

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Shepherd Neame IPA

Shepherd Neame IPA Clone
(5 gallons extract)
January 3, 2010

7 oz crystal 60 (substitute for crystal 55)
4 oz flaked wheat (substitute for torrefied wheat)
3 oz amber malt

6.5 lb Munton's Light DME

1.5 oz Target (unknown AA) (60 min.)

Wyeast 1275 Thames Valley Ale Yeast

60 min boil

Dry hopped with o.5 oz Styrian Goldings

Pitched: 1.054 OG on January 3, 2010
Secondary: 1.020 on January 19, 2010
Kegged: 1.010 on January 29, 2010