Fresh Hop Ale (Sunnycroft Clone)

Fresh Hop Ale
(5 gallons)
9/19/2014

10.0 lbs chateau pale ale
0.5 lbs brown malt
1.0 lbs crystal 10
0.5 lbs carapils

fresh hops

yeast:
S-05

1.050 OG on 9/19
1.012 secondary on 9/25
1.012 keg on 10/2

Hop Harvest 2014

Harvested on 9/18/2014.

1 lb 11 oz in total

Mostly Fuggles.  Harvested a week or two later than I should have, 25% of the cones were gone by.  Deer damage this year to a number of the varieties.

Black Magic Dark Mild

5 gallon extract (Northern Brewer)

1 lb English Cara
0.5 lbs Pale Chocolate

3.5 lbs Maris Otter LME
2 lbs Muntons Light DME

1 oz UK First Gold (AA 6.4%) (60 min.)
0.5 oz Kent Goldings (AA 6.47%) (5 min.)
05. oz Kent Goldings (AA 6.47%) Dry hopped in secondary

WLP002 Englis Ale

Pitched: 9/16/14 SG 1.040
Secondary: 9/27/14 SG 1.013
Kegged: 10/8/14 SG 1.013

Notes: I'm really not all that sure about the significance of the style description -- mild, certainly, and thus a perfect on-tap-at-home brew, but the colour is not notably dark compared to, say, a porter.

Fresh Hop Ale

Sunnycroft 2014 hop harvest weighed about 8 oz when mostly. Picked on 9/2/2014, but
probably should have picked a week earlier.
Dried in barn for 2 days before weighing and brewing.

Grain:
     Rahr Premium Pilsner     10
     Brown malt                     1/2
     Briess Caramel 10L           1
     Briess Carapils                1/2

Hops Sunnycroft:
     4 oz 60 min
     1 oz 30 min
     1 oz 15 min
     1 oz   1 min

Safale S05
 
Brewed 9/4/2014     OG 1064
Secondary 9/13/2014      1014
Primed with 3.5 oz sugar in 2 cups water, kegged 9/25/2014   1008

Pale Ale

Pale Ale
(10 gallons)
8/15/2014

18.0 lbs chateau pale ale
1.5 lbs crystal 40
0.5 lbs biscuit

3.0 oz Warrior (60 min)
2.0 oz Mount Hood (30 min)
2.0 oz Mount Hood (15 min)

yeast:
S-04

1.048 OG on 8/15

1.020 keg on 9/25

Rye IPA

variation of original recipe from MAF 9/17/09

Grain:
     Rahr 2 row               12
     Weyerman Rye          1
     Rahr White Wheat     1
     Briess Caramel 60L   1
     Briess Carapils           0.5

Hops:
     Saaz     6.4              1     preboil
     Columbus   15.2     1     60 min
     Saaz                        1     30
     Saaz                        1     1
     Columbus               1     secondary

Yeast:
     Safale 05

Brewed 8/6/2014  OG 1074
Transfered to secondary 8/13/2014  columbus added   SG 1010

Porter

Porter
(10 gallons)
7/29/2014

18.0 lbs chateau pale ale
1.5 lbs chocolate
1.5 lbs black
1.0 lbs crystal 40

3.0 oz Chinook (60 min)
1.0 oz Chinook (15 min)
1.0 oz Chinook (5 min)

yeast:
S-05

1.056 OG on 7/29
1.020 secondary on 8/5
1.020 keg on 8/5