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I brewed this today http://www.midwestsupplies.com/lawnmowe ... n-kit.html I brewed it last year and liked it. This beer does need a little aging/conditioning time to make it real good, I secondary it for awhile and then a little more time in the bottle and it is excellent.

Yesterday I brewed my first all grain BiaB! I am really excited that I managed to do this. Had a pretty smooth brew day, with no major problems that I know of yet. This was a SMaSH with Maris Otter and hopped with Falconers Flight. My technique for mashing was to bring the strike water to 10 degrees higher than mash temp and add grain. This brought the temp to 152 with grain. While I was doing this, I brought the oven to temp. the lowest my oven goes is 170. Turned off the heat in oven and put in the pot. On a side note, I also have a pizza stone that I put in the oven while preheating. My thinking is that it would help hold the temp better with the pot sitting on it. When I checked the temp a the end of mash the temp was still 152! Did the hop boil with no issues. I used a ice bath in sink and brought the temp down to mid 70s in 15-20 min. I think That having an aluminum brew kettle, helped with this. Pitched US 04 and was good to go. I now have a nice krausen going less that 12 hours later.

I had to add 3 cups of water to the fermenter to hit my 2 gal batch size, so My initial water volume was a little off, but not much. I missed my og significantly, but I'm not concerned. Brewers friend expected an og of 1.067 and I hit 1.060. Could have been the water volume issue, efficiency or numbers put into brew calculator incorrectly. Either way, I am happy to have made beer. I'm sure I will let everyone know how this turned out.

Good on ya! You can do a mini sparge and/or squeeze the bag to get more wort and sugars. I don't sparge my BIAB but I do squeeze the bag.
Anyway, you seemed to have done very well. I'm sure it will turn out very good.

I always sparge, it helps. Glad you've joined the Grain Gang.

Bottled 5 gallons of Irish Hills Red. Next up are two Mr. Beer batches to use them up - Peanut Butter Oatmeal Stout and St. Valentine's Cherries in Honey.

berryman wrote:

jimjohson wrote:just curious but, you mean your using one of George Washington's recipes?

No its just a porter that I add a few things too. I call it that because I brew it on Presidents Day and start drinking them around the 4th of July.

ah, thanks

docpd wrote:Bottled a Belgian White on Wednesday. Tomorrow I am brewing an AG Bells Two Hearted Ale clone. This is my favorite clone recipe and is dead on to the original. Can post recipe if anyone wants it.

Brewed up a Two Hearted clone recipe, looks like it'll be a good one to me!

Over the weekend I brewed up a Northwest Pale Ale Mod using steeped Carpils, an added pound of amber DME and Amarillo hops in the boil at 25 and 15 minutes as well as put back in the pot during the chilling of the wort for a mini-hop stand. Used an 11.5 g pack of S-33 I had laying around and pitched at 4:00 PM Sunday. By 9:00 PM the churnin and burnin had already started and it's sitting happily in my 64 degree basement as I type this.

My Vanilla Porter is down to 3 16 oz bottles and my Pilothouse Mod is still going strong so I should make it through to the first tasting of the NW Pale Ale. I've heard some don't like it so I am hoping that the added hops will cover up or mellow the PoR.

Brewed up an IPL that I'm calling 'Spring Thaw IPL'.

Wyeast 2042 Danish Lager Yeast, Pils and a couple of pounds of Munich, a little C20 and CaraPils.

Got Centennial and Citra in it and it's at Day 21... Just finishing the D-Rest.

Probably bottle this week.

Brewed next to last batch of St. Valentine's Cherries in Honey and the last batch of Peanut Butter Oatmeal Stout.

gonna be bottling a honey brown ale

Gonna bottle 2 lbk's this weekend, one a Blue Moon Clone with Citra, the other a Diablo IPA PLUS.

Then gonna brew me up a 4th generation Johnny Silk's ESB, I love that one!!!

jimjohson wrote:gonna be bottling a honey brown ale

What a co-winkie-dink. About a month ago my LOLML asked what I was going to do that day and I said, "Gonna be bottling a brown ale, honey."

Chuck N wrote:

jimjohson wrote:gonna be bottling a honey brown ale

What a co-winkie-dink. About a month ago my LOLML asked what I was going to do that day and I said, "Gonna be bottling a brown ale, honey."

Now that's funny right tharrrr, I don't care who you arrrrr.

Tomorrow going to keg Bela's IPA and brew Hop Juice (thanks Chris).