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 8, 2015

Fuggle Fool Ale

12 oz Crystal 80
2 oz Light Chocolate Malt

3 lbs Munton's Light DME
3 lbs Munton's Amber DME

2 oz Fuggles @ 4.5% AA (60 min.)
1 oz Fugges @ 4.5% AA (5 min.)

Whitelabs WLP002 English Ale

Pitched 3/8/15 SG 1.050
Secondary 3/22/15 SG 1.012

Sunday, February 22, 2015

Rye IPA

10 gallon all grain

Grains:
     Rahr 2 row                  24
     Weyerman Rye             2
     Rahr WhiteWheat         2
     Belgian Caramel Pils    1

Hops:
     Coumbus   15.2              1 oz 60 min
     Cascade       6.5              1 oz 60 min
     Cascade                          1 oz 30 min
     Simcoe       12.2             1 oz  1 min
     Simcoe                           1 oz secondary

Yeast:
     Safale  us-05
     Safale    s-04

Brewed 2/26/2015  OG  1060

Sunday, January 4, 2015

Bohemian Pilsner

5 gallon extract (Clone Brews, page 70)

6 oz Cara Hell
6 oz German Vienna

3.3 lbs Pilsner Light LME
3 lbs Extra Light DME

3 oz Czech Saaz (AA 3.3%) (60 min.)
1 oz Czech Saaz (15 min.)
1 oz Czech Saaz (3 min.)

WLP820 Oktoberfest/Märzen Lager

Pitched: 1/4/15 SG 1.042
Secondary: 2/8/15 1.014
Kegged: 3/8/15 1/014

Notes: Second attempt at a lagered beer; I decided to risk a direct pitch at a fairly warm temperature rather than doing a starter, so we'll see how close the result gets.

Saturday, December 27, 2014

Porter

This porter is a slight variation of one of my favorite porters, brewed on 5/10/2014.  It is ten gallons, half for Mark, who is temporarily out of brewing commission.  I didn't have enough chocolate but increased the brown, biscuit and German Munich.

Grains:
     Pale malt                      20
     Special B                       2
     Briess Carabrown          1
     Belgian Munich Malt    1
     Belgian Biscuit malt      1
     Chocolate malt                 6 oz

Hops:
     Cascade (6.5%)     4 oz       60 min
     Cascade                 2 oz        15 min

Yeast:
     Safale         us-05

Brewed 12/27/2014  OG   1052
Secondary  1/7/2014         1016





Sunday, November 9, 2014

St Paul Porter

5 gallon extract (Northern Brewer)

0.5 lbs English Chocolate Malt
0.5 lbs English Dark Crystal

6 lbs Dark LME
1 lb Dark DME

2 oz Cluster (AA 7.2%) (60 min.)
1 oz Cascade (AA 6.5%) (1 min.)

WLP005 British Ale

Pitched: 11/9/14 SG 1.052
Kegged: 11/27/14 SG 1.018

Notes: A slow starter, this one... Wort was black as night, looked delicious!

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Lager

Grain:
     Pilsner Malt                  10
     Crystal, light (10)           1
     German Munich Malt     0.5

Hops:
     Summit  14.2%               1 60 min
     Sunnycroft                      1   5 min
     Saaz 6.4%                       1   5 min

Yeast:
     Saflager  s-23

Brewed 10/29/2014      1048
Transfered 11/3/2014   1004
Kegged 11/20/2014      1008

Cider 2014

October 4  16 gallons - MacIntosh/Yellow Delicious/Gass Trees
     5 gallons cider with 4 lbs dextrose, wine yeast (Russ)
          secondary 2 quarts bottled  1014
     5 gallons cider with 1 lb table sugar, safale S-05 (Mark)


          OG  1050 (before sugar)
               estimated alcohol with final gravity at 1.000        6%
                                            with 1 pound sugar per gallon  7%


October 21  5 gallons from Gass Trees and left overs

Russ  bottled 2/25/2015       1000
Mark's kegged 9/20/2015     0998