Batch #300

[HerbMeowing]

Batch #1
Mr. Beer West Coast pale ale - SEP-06


Recipe: Rip Cat Ale | Cap It Real
Brewer: Herb Meowing
Asst Brewer: Quit
Style: American IPA
TYPE: All Grain

Recipe Specifications
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Batch Size: 2.50 gal
Boil Size: 3.71 gal
Estimated OG: 1.065 SG
Estimated Color: 8.0 SRM
Estimated IBU: 65.0 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 68.00 %
Boil Time: 65 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
4 lbs Pale Malt (Swaen) (3.0 SRM) Grain 64.67 %
1 lbs 4.0 oz Pale Malt, Maris Otter (Muntons) (4.0 SRM) Grain 20.21 %
3.0 oz Cara 45 (Dingemans) (45.0 SRM) Grain 3.03 %
3.0 oz Wheat - Red Malt (Briess) (2.5 SRM) Grain 3.03 %
2.0 oz Aromatic Malt (Dingemans) (19.0 SRM) Grain 2.02 %
1.0 oz Acidulated (Weyermann) (1.8 SRM) Grain 0.97 %
14.00 gm Citra [12.00 %] (Dry Hop 7 days) Hops -
16.00 gm Chinook [9.40 %] (Dry Hop 7 days) Hops -
7.00 gm Columbus (Tomahawk) [13.70 %] (60 min) Hops 22.5 IBU
14.00 gm Citra [12.00 %] (20 min) (Aroma Hop-SteepHops -
18.00 gm Chinook [9.40 %] (20 min) (Aroma Hop-SteeHops -
21.00 gm Chinook [9.40 %] (15 min) Hops 23.0 IBU
14.00 gm Citra [12.00 %] (15 min) Hops 19.6 IBU
1.00 items Chiller (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
1.00 tsp Irish Moss (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
5.81 lb Shipping (LP) (Boil 0.0 min) Misc
6.0 oz Sugar, Table (Sucrose) (1.0 SRM) Sugar 6.06 %
0.5 Pkgs Safale (American) (DCL Yeast #US-05) Yeast-Ale

Mash Schedule: _Single Infusion HM
Total Grain Weight: 5.81 lb
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_Single Infusion HM
Step Time Name Description Step Temp
75 min Step Add 8.75 qt of water at 156.8 F 148.0 F

Notes:
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Sixer $3.45
12 oz $0.58
1L $1.63

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Wort depth: 8 1/4"
Sparge vols: 5 QT

Trub
Expected: 2.25 QT (0.56G)
Measured:

Bru'n Water: pale ale profile

Sparge (2)
0.15 g citric acid each

[Beer-lord]

I love it, "Asst. Brewer-Quit"
And I love me some Swaen malt but it's hard to find most of the time.
Is this really your 300th batch?

[John Sand]

That's very cool. I'm only around batch 75 since January 2013.

[mashani]

I don't even know how many batches I have made since I started back up. But it's a lot since I often do small batches and brew typically once a week or so when I do.

[HerbMeowing]

I love it, "Asst. Brewer-Quit"
And I love me some Swaen malt but it's hard to find most of the time.
Is this really your 300th batch?

Yessiree Bob!
A Mr. B size batch just about every other FRI night.

I get Swaen products from Label Peelers in OH.
#10 bags of pale malt on sale this weekend for ~$10.50.

[bpgreen]

I brewed batch 275 last weekend.

My first 90-100 or so were all Mr Beer sized batches. Some of those were overfilled to get 2.4 gallon batches.

[Beer-lord]

Mad props to you too! That’s quite an accomplishment! Have no idea how many I’ve brewed. And I started in the late 70’s but stopped for about 20ish years.
I’m old!

[HerbMeowing]

I brewed batch 275 last weekend.

Woot!
Keep On Brewin'!

My first 90-100 or so were all Mr Beer sized batches.

Looking back ... I spent way too much time trying on MrB recipes.
Knowing little about beer styles ... kept trying to find cans of hopped LME I really liked.
Moved on to Coopers LME for a while before trying my hand at mashing. Learned a lot @MrBeerFans.

Brew inside year-round every other FRI nite in climate controlled conditions atop a propane-fired kitchen stove with a 5.5G kettle and Baby Gas-X drops to control the foam front.
Everything ferments for three weeks.
Production = Consumption

Got into the sport of brewing beer @home back in the day after watching a DISCOVERY channel program about Prohibition workarounds.
It's done a decent job of filling the hole left in my life when I retired from hang glider.

[bpgreen]

For the first year, most of my brews were HME based, but I started adding DME and LME my third batch in. Almost all of my batches had hop boils after about 6 months. After about a year, most of my batches were my own recipes, usually LME based and sometimes partial/mini mashes. I went around picking up after holiday clearance kits for a couple of years (including Beer Machine kits one year that were cheaper than the DME they included). But then started just making my own recipes (with the occasional kit). A year or two ago, I bought some cans of HME on sale because they were so cheap that they were less per lb than the bulk LME that I get from my LHBS. That taught me the value of using fresh LME. When I buy LME from my LHBS, it comes from a barrel, and it's rare that it was tapped more than a week ago. Beer made from really fresh extract can be very good. Beer made from extract that isn't very fresh is less good. I'm hoping that beer made from all grain is even better.

[Dawg LB Steve]

Congrats, I recently lost track but believe it to be close to 80, since my laptop crapped out my Beersmith took the hit and I wasn't uploading the recipes from the laptop to desktop computer. First brew Mr Beer American Light Dec. 27, 2013