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MadBrewer wrote:Just brewed an IPA with Cascade Centnnial columbus and Amarillo hops. A take on an Alpha King clone if im lucky.

Oooh. Bet that'll be good!

Me, I bottled 52 bottles of FedoraDave's American Ale this morning. Looking forward to drinking that when the snow finally melts!

Insanitized wrote:Reading through some of this thread man I need to get on the stick here. You guys are serial.

Good way to put it

I am brewing my first attempt at an AG stout. And I think it's one of those "big brews" that you hear talked about.

I got the recipe, again, out of the Sept./Oct 2013 edition of Zymurgy. The issue with the winners of the National Homebrew Contest. It's an Imperial Stout and even converted down to a three gallon batch it still called for 13.2lb of grain. I have only a six gallon brew-pot and I do full volume BIAB brews so by the time I put my three gallons into the pot, added the gallon that I'll lose in the boil plus another gallon to make up for the grain absorption I barely had enough room in the pot for the grain.

Here's the recipe as I have it converted down to a three gallon brew:

10.8lb 2 row malt
1.2lb chocolate malt
.6lb 120° L crystal malt
.6lb CaraMunich® malt
1.2oz Chinook hops (60 min.)
.9oz Chinook hops (30 min.)
.3oz Chinook hops (15 min.)
.6oz East Kent Goldings hops (15 min.)
.6oz East Kent Goldings hops (0 min.)
.6oz East Kent Goldings hops (dry hopped)

Mash at 152° for 60 min.

My wife. I just LOVE her! I just finished up with the mash on my stout and was holding the bag over the pot getting as much of the malty goodness out of it as I can and she comes into the kitchen, wrinkles up her cute little nose and says, "Oh my GOD! That stuff smells simply AWESOME!

At least, that's what it sounded to me like she said.

brewed up a batch of my Middletown Pale Ale

Chuck N wrote:At least, that's what it sounded to me like she said.

And that's all that matters Chuck.

Brewed a fiver of Kingpin IPA this morning. Continuous hopping is a rough schedule (an addition every 5 minutes for the first 30 minutes!). But it'll be worth it.

Just kegged my first 5'er of my Swamp PA..

I brewed a spiced dubbel like beer with special B, 1/2 a chopped up licorice stick (the real natural black stuff, not swizzlers), sweet orange peel, and 1/4oz of Juniper berries.

Yeah weird I know LOL. It just seemed right at the time.

Brewed up a little batch of Smooth Rye'd IPA; Pale, Wheat, Rye, Flaked Rye, Victory, & Crystal 60L malts, hopped with whole leaf Nugget, Tettnanger, & Simcoe hops. Will dry hop with Amarillo & Simcoe.

Bottled my BrewDemon Oatmeal Stout and the sample was great. Now just the waiting game for carb/conditioning.

Kegged a small batch of American Wheat ale Monday night. Pale, wheat, and a bit of Victory malt; hopped with Tettnanger & Comet whole leaf hops.

Rebel_B wrote:Kegged a small batch of American Wheat ale Monday night. Pale, wheat, and a bit of Victory malt; hopped with Tettnanger & Comet whole leaf hops.

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That's a nice looking app screen. What is it?

gwcr wrote:

Rebel_B wrote:Kegged a small batch of American Wheat ale Monday night. Pale, wheat, and a bit of Victory malt; hopped with Tettnanger & Comet whole leaf hops.

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That's a nice looking app screen. What is it?

Brew Pal on my iPhone; super convenient, and it works well!

Don't really have a name for it, but I used my "base" grains, and as far as the hops go, I tried again with the sapphire Hops. (along with citra and cascade). As it stands, this is batch 022514.
OG 1:060, I also wrote down the lot number for the yeast. Like I said in another posting, I will add the yeast batch number to my notes.
And, as I was writing down my notes, I noticed this was the first batch of the year.