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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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You do realize that you've now been touched by the Flying Spaghetti Monster, right?
It looks the same!


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Bottled the final batch of St. Valentine's Cherries in Honey.
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Currently using 6 LBKs.

Beers I regularly brew:
Bell's Best Brown clone
Irish Hills Red - I call this "Ann Arbor Red"
Mackinac Island Red - I call this "Michigan Red"
Oatmeal Stout - I call this Not Fat, Stout - Oatmeal Stout

Bottled 5 gallons of Ann Arbor Red on 4/18/17. Bottled 5 gallons of Michigan Red on 5/8/17.

Brewed in 2017 - 22.13 gallons (19.91 in 2012, 48.06 in 2013, 61.39 in 2014, 84.26 in 2015,46.39 in 2016)
Brewed in lifetime - 282.14 gallons
Drinkable beer on hand -  13.58 cases, with 6.11 cases ready in May and early June.
Average cost per 12 pack through all beer brewed - $6.27(ingredients only)
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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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Brewing my "Winter Steam" beer. First time with this style, which is like a dark California Common. Here's the recipe
HOME BREW RECIPE:

Title: Winter Steam
Brew Method: BIAB
Style Name: California Common Beer
Boil Time: 60 min
Batch Size: 2 gallons (fermentor volume)

STATS:
Original Gravity: 1.061
Final Gravity: 1.020
ABV (standard): 5.37%
IBU (tinseth): 33.19
SRM (morey): 21.79

FERMENTABLES:
0.5 lb - American - Vienna (10.4%)
3.25 lb - American - Pale 2-Row (67.5%)
0.5 lb - American - Caramel / Crystal 60L (10.4%)
1 oz - American - Chocolate (1.3%)
0.5 lb - American - Caramel / Crystal 80L (10.4%)

HOPS:
0.25 oz - Northern Brewer, Type: Pellet, AA: 7.8, Use: Boil for 60 min, IBU: 21.81
0.25 oz - Northern Brewer, Type: Pellet, AA: 7.8, Use: Boil for 10 min, IBU: 7.91
0.2 oz - Northern Brewer, Type: Pellet, AA: 7.8, Use: Boil for 5 min, IBU: 3.48

MASH GUIDELINES:
1) Temp: 152 F, Time: 60 min

YEAST:
White Labs - San Francisco Lager Yeast WLP810
Starter: No
Form: Liquid
Attenuation (avg): 67.5%
Flocculation: High
Optimum Temp: 58 - 65 F
Fermentation Temp: 65 F
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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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Starting my 2015 clone series. First up... Nashville Pre-Prohibition Amber Ale (my take on Gerst). I based the recipe on this post by Linus, as well as further conversations at the brewery. I rounded a few things a touch from the percentages just to not drive the LHBS folks crazy with the exact measurements. Linus says:
50% Pale malt
31% Vienna malt
12% Cara 20 malt
7% Flaked maize

Bittered with Perle, flavor and aroma with Tettnanger

OG: 11 Plato
FG: 2.5 Plato [4.52% abv]
IBUs: 11
SRM: 5.0

Fermented on the cool side with our house ale yeast, around 62 F for primary fermentation.
My recipe ended up at the following. I may tweak the hops a bit, but am otherwise pretty settled:
Nashville Pre-Prohibition Amber Ale
American Amber Ale

Type: All Grain
Batch Size: 3.00 gal

Ingredients

Amount Item Type % or IBU
3.00 lb 2-Row (2.0 SRM) Grain 49.05 %
2.00 lb Vienna Malt (3.5 SRM) Grain 32.70 %
0.70 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 20L (20.0 SRM) Grain 11.50 %
0.41 lb Corn, Flaked (1.3 SRM) Grain 6.75 %
0.16 oz Pearle [7.70 %] (55 min) Hops 7.2 IBU
0.16 oz Tettnang [4.50 %] (20 min) Hops 2.6 IBU
0.16 oz Tettnang [4.50 %] (7 min) Hops 1.2 IBU
1 Pkgs London ESB Ale (Wyeast Labs #1968) Yeast-Ale


Beer Profile

Est Original Gravity: 1.050 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.015 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 4.53 %
Bitterness: 11.0 IBU
Est Color: 6.8 SRM
This will go into a fermenter somewhere between Friday and Monday...

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Fermenting:
nada... zip...

Drinking:
nada... zip... maybe an N/A beer here and there...
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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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cool, I use flaked corn in both my Middletown Pale ale(apa) and My Bengal in the Rye(Kentucky common). I don't think you can brew a true American ale with out either rice or corn and I don't like rice so...
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Pretty neat idea, Swen! I assume you're going to be posting reviews on these beers when the time comes. Gotta go full circle, after all.

Me, I'm bottling a 2.5 of 100 Years War on Friday, since I have to work Saturday. Then Sunday, I'll be brewing a 2.5 of Trilby Brown Ale.

After that, I'm not sure what I'm going to brew. I think the calendar's open, actually, and I should really try a new style/recipe. Maybe I'll spend the intervening time researching a Kolsch, and see how that turns out.
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I've just bottled and kegged ten gallons of Belgian Witbier this past Sunday and now I'm putting the finishing touches on my newest Irish Red Ale recipe. I'm so exited to be brewing a new beer style for the very first time and if my new 5000ml Erlenmeyer flask and stirplate arrives today, UPS had scheduled my delivery for yesterday, I may even get to brew it on Sunday.
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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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Getting ready to do my Nashville beer, Dry Dock's Breakwater Pale Ale. Just waiting for it to warm up a bit.
OK you northerners, go ahead and laugh! Was 44 when I woke up and by 11, it should be 55. I like that much better, thank you. Nothing worse than cleanup when it's colder out.
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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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Brewed 5 gallons of Rick Slobbers All Over Brown Ale.
I have over 9,000 posts on "another forum", which means absolutely nothing. Mr. Beer January 2014 Brewer of the Month with all the pomp and circumstance that comes with it...

Certificate in Brewing and Distillation Technology

Sites to find beer making supplies: Adventures in Homebrewing - Mr. Beer - MoreBeer
My Beer - click to reveal
Currently using 6 LBKs.

Beers I regularly brew:
Bell's Best Brown clone
Irish Hills Red - I call this "Ann Arbor Red"
Mackinac Island Red - I call this "Michigan Red"
Oatmeal Stout - I call this Not Fat, Stout - Oatmeal Stout

Bottled 5 gallons of Ann Arbor Red on 4/18/17. Bottled 5 gallons of Michigan Red on 5/8/17.

Brewed in 2017 - 22.13 gallons (19.91 in 2012, 48.06 in 2013, 61.39 in 2014, 84.26 in 2015,46.39 in 2016)
Brewed in lifetime - 282.14 gallons
Drinkable beer on hand -  13.58 cases, with 6.11 cases ready in May and early June.
Average cost per 12 pack through all beer brewed - $6.27(ingredients only)
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I just dry hopped my latest batch of "1421 Shire Ale" pale ale. I'll be bottling next week.
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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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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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waiting for my priming sugar solution to cool down so I can bottle a Blackberry wheat
"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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Bottled my Dark Cherry Saison today.
Drinking my Not Quite Red Pale Ale.
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Kegged 3 today, first two were the Banjo-Dawg RCE Parti-Gyle beers
NIT WIT BELGIAN STRONG ALE 11.2% 3 gal.
AFTERTHOUGHT BELGIAN PALE ALE 4.8% 3 gal.
And 5 gallons
TWEAKED AND TWISTED WITBIER 4.8%
Also stopped at LHBS for ingredients for a 5 gal. Lager and a 5 gal. Red Ale for Nashville, since I'm off work for a week!
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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

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Dry-hopped a batch of Smooth Rye'd IPA with Amarillo & Simcoe hops, then brewed another batch of Double Black IPA. Consistency is a good thing; hit exactly the same OG (1.086) as the previous 6 batches of this recipe.
Drinking: Columbus Double India Pale Ale
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Just finished bottling my Chocolate Stout. Tasted pretty yummy.
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