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)
Batch 15: Lagunitas IPA Clone
I brewed this clone by-the-book from “Clone Brews”, along with the help of Kati Campi. I didn’t weigh down the manifold in my mash tun, and thus we lost quite a bit of sweet wort, and the final bottled volume (24 bottles) was way below what we planned on (48 bottles). C’est la vie. Next […]
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 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 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 […]