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, March 6, 2011

Breakfast Stout

Breakfast Stout (recipe from Northern Brewer)
5 gallons extract

0.5 lbs Simpson's Roasted Barley
1.5 lbs flaked oats

3.5 lbs dark LME
1 lb lactose

1 oz Willamette @ 4.7% AA (60 min.)

Wyeast 1084 Irish Ale

60 min boil

Pitched: OG 1.035 on March 6, 2011

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Competition Porter

St Paul Porter
(5 gallons)
1/23/2011

0.5 lbs simpsons chocolate
0.5 lbs simpsons dark crystal malt

6.0 lbs dark malt syrup
1 lbs dark dry malt extract

2.0 oz cluster (60 min)
1.0 oz cascade (1 min)

yeast:
wyeast 1026 british cask

60 min boil

1.050 OG on 1/23

1.018 keg on 2/20

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Chinook IPA

Chinook IPA (recipe from Northern Brewer)
5 gallons extract

o.75 lbs Dingemans Caramel Pils
0.25 lbs Briess Caramel 120

6 lbs Pilsen LME
1 lb Pilsen DME

1 oz Chinook @ 11.2% AA (60 min.)
0.5 oz Chinook @ 11.2% AA (10 min.)
0.5 oz Chinook @ 11.2% AA (1 min.)

Wyeast 1056 American Ale

60 min boil

Pitched: OG 1.050 on January 1, 2011
Secondary: SG 1.018 on January 17, 2011 (plus 1 oz Chinook @ 11.2% AA dry hop on 1/22/2011)
Kegged: FG 1.014 on February 18, 2011

Sunday, December 12, 2010

The Innkeeper

The Innkeeper English Ale (recipe from Northern Brewer)
5 gallons extract

o.25 lbs Simpsons Extra Dark Crystal
0.25 lbs Belgian Biscuit Malt

3.15 lbs Pilsen LME
1 lb Pilsen DME
1 lb corn sugar

1 oz Fuggles @ 4.2% AA (60 min.)
1 oz East Kent Goldings @ 7.2% AA (45 min.)
1 oz Styrian Goldings @ 4.6% AA (5 min.)

Wyeast 1469 West Yorkshire Ale

60 min boil

Pitched: OG 1.042 on December 12, 2010
Kegged: FG 1.012 on December 21, 2010

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Peat-Smoked Porter

Peat-Smoked Porter (recipe from Northern Brewer)
5 gallons extract
October 17, 2010

1 lb black malt
0.25 lb Briess caramel 80
0.25 lb peated malt

6 lbs dark LME
2 lbs dark DME

1 oz Cluster @ 7.5% AA (60 min.)
1 oz Willamette @ 4.7% AA (40 min.)
1 oz Willamette @ 4.7% AA (15 min.)

Wyeast 1056 American Ale

60 min boil

Pitched: OG 1.060 on October 17, 2010
Secondary: SG 1.021 on October 31, 2010
Bottled: FG 1.020 on January 22, 2011

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Cider

Cider
6 gallons)
10/16/2010

6 gallons local unpasturized cider
mix of common New England apples)

yeast:
Wyeast 4766 Cider

1.052 OG on 10/16

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Fresh Hop Porter

Fresh Hop Porter
(5 gallons)
9/4/2010

7.5 lbs english maris otter
0.5 lbs simpsons dark crystal malt
0.5 lbs simpsons chocolate malt
0.5 lbs simpsons black malt

1.0 oz pellet kent goldings (60 min)
0.5 oz fresh chinook (60 min)
0.5 oz fresh cascade (15 min)
5.5 oz fresh fuggles (5 min)

yeast:
safale S-04

Infusion mash at 150 for 60 min

60 min boil

1.046 OG on 9/4
1.022 secondary on 9/11
1.022 keg on 10/9