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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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I'll be brewing my first attempt at a rye beer tomorrow morning. I call a Wrye American.
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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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Version 10 of my Irish Red:
2 cans BRA (last of my old Mr Beer extracts)
1 lb light DME
.25 lb Carapils and .25 lb 20L steeped
1 cup dark brown sugar
.25 oz Amarillo 30 min
.25 oz Cascade 15 min
.25 East Kent Goldings 7 min
will dry hop with Armarillo
S-04 yeast

This is one of my favorites. Has Irish Red malt profile with a bit more hoppiness. Usually comes out to about 7.2% ABV.

Finishing hop boil as I type this.
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Nothing to bottle this weekend, but I'm racking the fiver of FedoraDave's American Ale to a secondary today, and brewing an extract/steeping grain recipe I came up with off the top of my head. It's a 2.5 gallon batch.

2.5 pounds Light DME
1 pound Amber DME
4 oz. Carapils
4 oz. flaked rye

1/4 oz. Warrior @60 minutes
1/4 oz. Centennial @60 minutes
1/4 oz. Centennial @ 20 minutes
1/4 oz. Warrior @7 minutes
1/4 oz. Centennial @ 7 minutes

Will dry hop 1/4 oz. each of Centennial and Warrior

Never used Warrior before, so I'm interested to see what I get. I sniffed it at the LHBS, though, and I think it'll work well with the Centennial.

Because of the hops strains I'm using, I call this beer "100 Years War IPA".
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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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First attempt at DME and partial grain yesterday 4 Gallon Batch:

3 lbs Amber DME
1.5 lbs Light DME
1.5 Crystal 40L
1 lb Flaked Wheat LHBS was out of Flaked Barley
.75 Roasted Barley

1oz Kent Goldings @ 40
1oz Target @ 20
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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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Brewed up yesterday;

Honey Malt steeped 20 mins
1bs of light DME
.25 ozs First Gold 20 mins
.25 Ozs First Gold 7 mins
1 can Patriot Lager flame out
4 Ozs maltodextrin

7 days before bottling will add Blueberries.
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Dawg LB Steve wrote:First attempt at DME and partial grain yesterday 4 Gallon Batch:

3 lbs Amber DME
1.5 lbs Light DME
1.5 Crystal 40L
1 lb Flaked Wheat LHBS was out of Flaked Barley
.75 Roasted Barley

1oz Kent Goldings @ 40
1oz Target @ 20
1 Safeale04
This looks like a recipe for a very nice beer! I command you to follow up! :fedora:
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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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Brewed a batch of "Twisted Monk Witbier"

4oz Carmel Wheat -German
2oz Breiss 10LV Crystal (2 row) Domestic
2oz M&F Cara Pils (2row) British
steep for 30min

.5oz Mt. Hood Hops for 10min
2 cans BD Twisted Monk Witbier HME at flameout

for a 2 gallon batch

Smelled amazing! Wheat with citrus and pine. Hope this one turns out as good as it should be.
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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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Just got done bottling 5 gals. of Nut Brown Ale. Going to brew tomorrow.
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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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Must obey the hat! Dave, I will definatly follow up. Overall I think I did okay, I missed the OG calculated on QBrew by .004. QBrew had it at 1.060, it went into the fermenter at 1.056.
MONTUCKY BREWING
Currently brewing:

Next Up?
Kolsch?
Ginger Beer?
Traveling Red?
Yazoo Gerst Clone?
Peanut Butter Porter?

Currently Conditioning:
Cherry Mead
California Moscato

Currently enjoying:
Hardly Apple Cider on tap
Hardly Cherry Lime-Aid on tap
Oktoberfestive-Ale on tap
PGA Cider (Pear, Ginger, Apple) on tap 3rd Founders Cup 2016 King Of The Mountain on tap
Bottoms Up Brown on tap GOLD 2016 Ohio Brew Week Silver 2016 Ohio State Fair Silver 2016 Son of Brewzilla, Silver 2015 Son of Brewzilla, Bronze 2015 King Of The Mountain on tap
NITWIT BELGIAN STRONG ALE Banjo-Dawg RCE bottled
DAWG LB PALE ALE bottled
CITRA SLAPPED AMBER ALE bottle
MO FREEDOM SMaSH bottle
HOP TO IT IMPERIAL IPA bottle

Medal Count
Gold 3
Silver 5
Bronze 5
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0.004 is nothing to worry about. That could be a result of the temperature of the wort when you took the sample. And it won't affect the taste or quality of the beer at all. Sounds like a winner!
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Bottled up my second batch of my "Heart Of The Country" English Brown Ale.
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Are awake through years with transferred touch and go on glowing
For long years.
And for this reason some old things are lovely
Warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.

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Just finished up a 5'er of my Irish Red. Had 3 friends over to watch my AG process. One just started with a Brewers Best kit last week, one has been doing MB for a few years and just did a Brooklyn Brewing kit, and the other we are trying to get sucked into the obsession. Everything went great, and we may get a few more Borg assimilites out of the day...
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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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I got a 2.5 of a moose drewl clone i'm doing lager style. hit my og dead on..
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Bottled this one (Apocalypto 5) 4 weeks ago. Drinking now. :woot:
In the big mouth bubbler I have "Spawntanica IPA" based on a session IPA recipe called Nazz from Zymurgy Magazine. Label is in the art dept.
This recipe uses 2 Row, Marris Otter, Carapils, Dextrose malts, with Warrior, Falconer's Flight, FF 7 C's hops & WLP001 Yeast. It's going to be a killer! :flag:
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that label is sooo cool
"Filled with mingled cream and amber
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chambers of my brain
-- Quaintest thoughts -- Queerest fancies
Come to life and fade away;
Who cares how time advances?
I am drinking ale today."

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