Rating System

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

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


Friday, September 19, 2014

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

Thursday, September 18, 2014

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.

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

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.

Thursday, September 4, 2014

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

Friday, August 15, 2014

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