A year ago tomorrow, I started home brewing. Hells yeah, 16 batches!!! As the final brew of our California experience, and in homage to our amazing time here, I am going to brew an Imperial IPA. I’ve named it ‘fashionably late, double the trouble’ as it’s a double IPA characterized by late additions of some […]
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Batches 16-18: Fashionably Late, Double the Trouble (DIPA)
Batches 13/14: Partigyle – Imperial IPA and a Porter
I’ve been reading about Partigyle brewing and I want to give it a shot. I’m brewing 2.5 gallons of an Imperial IPA, then 5 gallons of a Porter. I planned the grain bill for a 7.5 gallon, 1.060 FG beer, with the understanding that this would give me a <strong OG> 2.5 gallon first running, […]
Batch 12: Mad Elf Clone
In an ode to one of our favorite winter seasonals, and in acknowledgement of the fact that Tröegs hasn’t made it to the west coast yet, I’m attempting a clone of the infamous Mad Elf. It has Tröegenator (doppelbock) as it’s base, using belgian ale yeast instead of lager, and with cherries in the secondary. […]
Batch 11: Dark Forest Stout
Dark given that it’s black as night, forest given that I’ve used a rather healthy serving of Northern Brewer hops (for a stout) which are purported to have a piney resinous flavor and/or aroma, and stout because it doesn’t seem (after consulting BJCP) that it’s any form of porter, even though that’s what I originally […]
Batch 10: Belgian Holly Ale/Winter Warmer
Doing a second batch of jmo88’s holly ale from homebrewtalk.com. This time, I’m going to use a belgian yeast (WLP530), and I’m using the original grain bill proposed (instead of doing an extract batch), with slightly different quantities (probably negligible) due to the portions that my LHBS sells in: 13# pale 2-row 0.5# crystal 60 […]
Batch 9: Dogfish Pumpkin Clone
variation on this recipe: http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/dogfish-pumpkin-clone-questions-349561/ brewed Saturday 9/1/2012 carmelized canned pumpkin – spread into a baking pan, cooked at 350* for 1 hour SG (first 2.5 gallons): 1.059 (corrected from 1.042 at 148*) SG (second 1.5 gallons): 1.044 (corrected from 1.026 at 150*) OG: 1.071 !? (after cooling, measured before pitching yeast, suspecting it’s artifically high […]
Batch 8: Citra Cascade IPA
first beer with the new cooler mash tun! I have a sub-optimal mash tun manifold, made of a single tube of 1/2″ PEX with 1/8″ slits cut every 1/2″ by a dremel with a high-speed cutter. Next time, I will have a more complex and appropriate manifold. Recipe: http://hopville.com/recipe/1600762/american-ipa-recipes/shinken-shobu Boiled 1.5gal 15 min, added to fermenter […]
Batch 6: Pale Zythos SMaSH
Briefly, I am finding myself in the midst of a SMaSHing experiment 🙂 Last batch was a pale/nugget ale that I ended up splitting between two containers to dry hop with either Nugget or Zythos. This batch will be the compliment, brewing with Zythos and them splitting the batch to dry-hop with either Zythos or […]
Batch 5: Pale Nugget SMaSH
So, this technically isn’t quite a SMaSH (Single Malt and Single Hop), as I’m using both 2-row and crystal 60. However, it is my FIRST ALL GRAIN BATCH! Yes kids, daddy has taken his first step onto the field. After reading a ton on BIAB (brew in a bag, a method of no-sparge all grain […]
Batch 4: Belgian Wit (or Dunkel?)
I couldn’t easily get the last batch to ferment below the low 70s, so I figured for this batch I’d brew something where the esters of a hot ferment might be in-style. I chose the Belgian Wit style, as it seems straight-forward, gets a bit fancy with adjuncts (coriander and orange peel) and fits the […]