Tis the season to make tasty firepit beer 🙂 Recipe Type: All-GrainYeast: S-05Yeast Starter: 24g from a big brickBatch Size (Gallons): 5 gallonsOriginal Gravity: 1.064Final Gravity:IBU: ~25Boiling Time (Minutes): 60Color:Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 10# 2-row1# C601# Special B1# brown sugar (@ flameout) 0.5 oz Northern Brewer (7.8 AAU) 90 oz Libby’s canned […]
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Batch 98: Pumpkin Amber Ale
Batch 97: Wet Hopped IPA
The hops were poppin! and some were beginning to dry out and brown, so I thought it might be a good time to brew a wet hopped IPA. I collected 12oz wet hops, some Cascade and some Fuggles (in an unknown proportion), with a tiny bit of some norther brewer likely mixed in. Cascade and […]
Batch 96: IPA
I was going for a dank west-coast-style DIPA, but ran into a stuck sparge, tried to re-filter the first 3 gallons of fresh wort after fixing things, and ended up drawing way more wort than I had originally intended (~9 gal), and the beer ended up far lower gravity than I had planned. Welp. Hopefully […]
Batch 95: Cocoa Sombrero
Batch 94: Vienna Lager
Recipe Type: All GrainYeast: WLP830Yeast Starter: worked up from .5L to 2L starterBatch Size (Gallons): 5Original Gravity: 1.047Final Gravity: 1.006 (5.4% ABV)IBU: 25Boiling Time (Minutes): 60Color: 9.5Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 63° first day, 56° second daySecondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 5# Vienna4# Munich2# Maris Otter0.5# C60 1oz German Hallertau (3.8%) – FWH1oz German Hallertau (3.8%) – 30 min1 whirlfloc – […]
Batch 93: Love is the law, love under hops
I’m now trying to fill the fridge for the winter. We have the prospect of a Belgian Dubbel (previous batch), some very dark and spiced ale (coming soon to a beer blog near you), a Vienna Lager (also coming soon), and Sarah and I loved Batch 91 so much (my first attempt at a NEIPA), […]
Batch 92: Dubbel the demand
I put out a call to Twitter, and the good people of the interwebs voted that I should brew a Belgian Dubbel next 🙂 https://twitter.com/FredBarrettPhD/status/1299136363770646528?s=20 So, here we are. I’m using a hybrid of a number of recipes, including the Ommegang Abbey Dubbel at Homebrewtalk.com (https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/ommegang-abbey-dubbel.207079/), my first dubbel (http://home.kimusubi.net/beer/?p=348), and the dubbel recipe in […]
Batch 91: Motueka NEIPA
Batch 90: Mexican Lager
Adapted from https://www.whitelabs.com/recipes/pilsner-lager/amigo-mexican-lager – I figured I needed to brew a mexican lager at some point during the pandemic. Might as well do it now. Recipe Type: All GrainYeast: WLP800Yeast Starter: worked up from .5L to 2L starter, let it sit for months, topped it off with a 1L wort, pitched 2 days laterBatch Size (Gallons): 5Original Gravity: 1.038Final Gravity: 1.006 […]
89: Black Death (black IPA)
Inspired by the dire global circumstances of the age, as well as the generous and delicious-looking recipe shared by Kal from the Electric Brewery: https://shop.theelectricbrewery.com/pages/firestone-walker-wookey-jack-black-rye-ipa scaled roughly in half, and brewed in parallel by my friend and fellow cubscout leader, Kurt Nachtman, we bring you: the Black Death Recipe Type: All GrainYeast: S-05Yeast Starter: yeast cake from Batch […]