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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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Currently I am half way through the boil of a Rye Pale Ale. This is a modification of Fedora Dave's 100 Years War IPA. I have added more malt and slightly more Rye. I think of it more as a Pale Ale than a true IPA. However, it is a great beer.
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Good to hear from you Doc and that you are still brewing......... :clink:
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Will try to check in more often :fedora:
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berryman wrote:
TonyKZ1 wrote: Today I brewed a Midwest Supplies Simply Beer-Brown Ale 5G Extract w/steeping grains recipe. This turned out pretty good last time, so hopefully it'll be a repeat and a good beer too.
Tony, I've seen that series of Simply Beer from Midwest, just wondering what it is and how come it is only about 1/2 the price of their standard 5 gal extract kits. Was just thinking this could be a way for one of my brewing buddies to step up from his Mr Beer brewing into a 5 gal for less money then a MB kit.
I like them, I originally noticed them just because of the price and figured it was just a special that would go away soon. I've now brewed all 6 of their Simply Beer Recipes, and I've brewed the stout and brown ale again, they've all turned out well. As for the price, I don't know how they're selling them so affordably since everything is included, even the dry yeast, mesh bag if needed for the steeping grains, and priming sugar for bottling. It depends on the recipe of course, but they usually have around 6 lbs. of LME, also a 1 lb. of DME in the stout recipe.

They say "Everything You Need, Nothing You Don’t!" and that's pretty much it. However, if there is any sales or specials going on, these recipes don't qualify. They aren't very hoppy nor do they have a high alcohol content, mostly around 5% or so. Only three out of the six have steeping grains included as the recipe requires. It's just good beer. From reading a comment by a customer service rep they might be adding more recipes too.

I've shared them with friends and relatives, they've liked them all, even my supervisor said it's the best stout he's ever had, :fedora: taking that for what it's worth. Midwest is now offering a Simply Beer Brewing Starter Kit too.
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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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Wow, it's been a while. Six months since the last brew day. Ugh. Time to burn some leftover ingredients (DME, older hops) by doing a partial mash with new grains and some new hops. Working with a cut of Conan yeast that I've been reharvesting/reusing since 2013, so I was fearing I might have to buy some new yeast, but after a good starter it is kicking butt on the ferment. Lowered the AA for the older hops (just an estimate based on online research), so who knows what I'll get from them. I used them primarily for bitter, and pushed the fresh citra up front. They smelled fine... what can possibly go wrong? Fun to be brewing again...

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Method: Partial Mash
Style: Specialty IPA: White IPA
Boil Time: 30 min
Batch Size: 3 gallons

Original Gravity: 1.073
Final Gravity (est): 1.014
ABV (standard): 7.7%
IBU (tinseth): 71.3
SRM (morey): 4.45

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Amount Fermentable PPG °L Bill %
3 lb American - Pale 2-Row 37 1.8 44.4%
3 lb Dry Malt Extract - Wheat 42 3 44.4%
0.75 lb Flaked Corn 40 0.5 11.1%
6.75 lb Total

Hops
Amount Variety Type AA Use Time IBU
0.7 oz Simcoe Pellet 6 Boil 60 min 21.73
0.6 oz Warrior Pellet 8 Boil 60 min 24.83
0.7 oz Ahtanum Pellet 3 Boil 20 min 6.58
1 oz Citra Pellet 11 Boil 7 min 15.28
0.8 oz Saaz Pellet 3.5 Boil 5 min 2.89

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Amount Description Type Temp Time
3.5 gal Infusion 148 F 75 min

Yeast
Conan (harvested from Cool Springs Brewery in '13)
Attenuation (avg): 78.5%
Flocculation: Med/Low
Optimum Temp: 64 - 72 °F
Starter: Yes
Fermentation Temp: 65°F
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nada... zip...

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nada... zip... maybe an N/A beer here and there...
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Ive been thinking about doing a White IPA lately too. The only one I did was a few years ago and it was mostly extract as I recall. I don't have many notes on it but I seem to remember it was rather malty, high abv and average so I may see what I can find for all grain and take a chance.

I'm interested in finding out how it ends up. Pls let us know.
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Just found out the Browns Backers event I brew for was pushed back till the end of March instead of the beginning, which gives me a bit more time to get done, I may have to brew another something up for Asheville......... Gerst Clone???
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Not Sure you have time for a Gerst clone.
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BlackDuck wrote:Not Sure you have time for a Gerst clone.
Gerst is easy, quick and good. Forced carbed it could be ready for Asheville. I have some 1968 in the fridge I need to brew it again, but I won't have time till after Asheville.
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I know I still have the recipe, wonder how I got that? :whistle: :o but I've never made it, so if it's quick and easy, then by all means make it for Asheville.
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Bottled 5 gallons of No Lightfoot, a Great Lakes' Edmund Fitzgerald Porter clone. Last for a while.
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I bottled the beer I called ""California Uber Alles" which was basically a California Common except with some more "German" crystal malts, and some Mosaic and Simcoe mixed with the Northern Brewer. Because... Mosiac! Simcoe!

Tasted good, I'm gonna like it.
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That's great that you like it. I did a Cali Common with NB and Simcoe once and really didn't like the combo.

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Kealia wrote:That's great that you like it. I did a Cali Common with NB and Simcoe once and really didn't like the combo.

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I don't know how much it matters, but I basically blended all the hops together and then added the blend at every interval. I also short boiled it because with all the AA I didn't need to do a full duration bittering addition.
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Tomorrow is MLK day, as in Mash, Lauder, Krausen day and several of my HBC peeps will be brewing together at the Liberty Street Production Facility. We're all bring out brew pot and propane burners so we can brew right next to the big boys. :banana:

I decided to reprise the RCE recipe that The_Professor and I did almost 2 yrs ago in 2015 and brew the Wm. Younger No. 1 Scotch Strong Ale. This one turned out great and I decided it was time to get this one back in the pipeline. :fillup
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