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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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Chuck N wrote:In reality I'm not saving any time but I'll be getting the "eye rolls" only once every three weeks instead of twice every four.
That is EXACTLY why I try combining projects. Depending on the beer, for me it is generally racking to a secondary and bottling up some beer or wine. What it does save on is the cleanup and a bit of StarSan.
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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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Bottled my NW3C-IPA yesterday (April 13) I was hoping it would be a little more Hoppy than it turned out, well we will see once cold and Carbed how it is at In-Service late May
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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

Post by T8rSalad »

As forewarned, I brewed my 4th generation of Johnny Silk's ESB as 5er since I love this recipe (Thanks Old Mr Beer). Finished topping off the glass carboy (science project for the kiddos) as i also poured this wort on top of the Columbus Cascading Amber Ale yeast cake. This beast is already percolating within 1.5 hours of crating it and putting in a frozen water bottle (temps are in the 90's this week outside, inside my brew closet is 67* - 70*). Looking forward to this in 6-8 weeks.

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Recipe Johnny Silk's ESB 4 Style Extra Special/Strong Bitter (English Pale Ale)
Brewer T8r Salad Batch 5.00 gal
Extract
Recipe Characteristics
Recipe Gravity 1.047 OG Estimated FG 1.012 FG
Recipe Bitterness 21 IBU Alcohol by Volume 4.5%
Recipe Color 10° SRM Alcohol by Weight 3.6%
Ingredients
Quantity Grain Type Use
2.42 lb Mr. Beer Bewitched Red Ale Extract Extract
0.81 lb Mr. Beer Booster Sugar Other
0.50 lb Brown Sugar, Light Sugar Other
2.42 lb Mr. Beer Classic American Blonde Extract Extract
Quantity Hop Type Time
1.00 oz Willamette - Very popular aroma hop with earthy, spicy character for any English or American
Ales
Pellet 0 minutes
2.00 oz Mr. Beer Bewitched Red Ale Pellet 5 minutes
2.00 oz Mr. Beer Classic American Blonde Pellet 5 minutes
Quantity Misc Notes
1.00 unit Yeast Cake Yeast Yeast Cake from LBK
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Fermenting: Quiet Kreek Kolsch Deaux, First Pitch Pilsner Ale Trois

Conditioning: Nut Brown Vienna Lager Ale, PilotHouse Pilsner, Johnny Silk's ESB 4th gen, Blue Moon Clone Trois, Fallen Friar Deaux, Arizona Country Canadian Draft Deaux

Drinking & Sharing: Rose's Rambling Red, Blue Moon Deaux, Ruck & Maul Red, American Devil Indian Pale Ale, Quiet Creek Kolsch, Northwest Pale Ale, Golden Czech Pils, Beach Babe Blonde, Grand Bohemian Czech Pils Trois, Diablo IPA+, Columbus Cascading Amber Ale, High Country Gold Lager Ale,
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Re: What are you brewing/bottling?

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Took a walk on the DarkSide today with this one...

It's a Black Saison... Whatcha think?

Should be interesting...

Close your eyes, should be a Saison...

Open your eyes... It's a trick from the DarkSide... :muahaha:


Used Midnight Wheat for the color on a Saison base...

Williamette for Bitter and El Dorado for Flavor/Aroma...

Belle Saison Dry Yeast (rehydrated and tempered as suggested by manufacturer)

Some Special Spices in there too!

Here it is transferring from the boil pot...

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Here it is aerated right before pitching...

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just finished bottling a Jim's American Wheat w/Belma hops
"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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FedoraDave wrote:
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:
Here is the follow up, First Pour I'm pretty sure I'm 6 weeks in on this one. Tastes like stout to me! :clink:
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Put 3.25 Gallons my first AG, MO FREEDOM SMaSH, in the keg today. Tomorrow 1.75 Gallons to the bottle. Must say I need to pat myself on the back for this one, hydro sample tasted great and this one was a high stress brew day and wait batch! Again must keep repeating RDWHAHB :clink:
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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

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Gold 3
Silver 5
Bronze 5
Actively brewing since December 2013
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brewed a 5er of Jim's American Wheat today
"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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Dawg LB Steve wrote:Put 3.25 Gallons my first AG, MO FREEDOM SMaSH, in the keg today. Tomorrow 1.75 Gallons to the bottle. Must say I need to pat myself on the back for this one, hydro sample tasted great and this one was a high stress brew day and wait batch! Again must keep repeating RDWHAHB :clink:
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Racking the fiver of 2Daves Irish Red to a secondary this morning to make room for brewing a fiver of FedoraDave's American Ale tomorrow. I'm also bottling my last ever Mr. Beer recipe today; it was originally Lincoln's Liberty Logger, one of the few Mr. Beer true lager recipes, but I didn't have room in the lager fridge for it, so I used ale yeast instead. End of an era for me.
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Mashed in on my collaboration dunkelweizen that haerbob3 and I came up with! Now just waiting for the Keurig to warm up so I can caffeinify for the morning.
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Kegged and bottled a batch of Screwer In The Rye yesterday, it finished at 1.015 for a nice 6% alcohol beer. It's citrusy spice dark with hints of chocolate and fermented with harvested Nottingham left over from a prior batch.

Drinking my Cascadian Dark Ale, yet unnamed for some reason, on tap this week too. It finished at 1.016 with 6.1% alcohol using harvested Nottingham too. This beer tasted like a cup of coffee just prior to cold crashing it, but after two weeks it's really not as noticeable as before. The colors and malt flavors come from Carafa III, Crystal 60L and Chocolate malts with lots of Amarillo, Cascade and Columbus hops. It gets an ABV increase from a pound of pure cane sugar added to the kettle with 10 minutes left to the boil. It's a complex mix of roasty toasty dark malts, chocolate, caramel and lots of citrus that warms your insides without any harshness.

In the fermentor I have a batch of my 420 Special Wheat beer fermenting with ECY-10, it's original gravity sample was a nice clear 1.052 with plenty of flavor. This beer is my favorite for warm weather drinking. It's light citrusy spiced just right with tons of aroma and a fantastic bready finish. All three were brewed using distilled water I adjusted the ph to 5.4 - 5.6 range and added some salts and minerals too.
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Busy beer day for me. Started an all grain batch of Cascade Pale Ale, after getting that started I kegged a batch of Simcoe Pale Ale, and brewed my last MrB batch (Biere De Saison) during the mash. Gotta get this pipeline re-filled! Finished about an hour ago; out running errands right now (sitting at the barbershop, checking in with the Borg).
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So cool Screwy. :urock: I have another IPA "Tsunami Crush" in the Big Mouth Bubbler that I dry-hopped with 3oz of citra yesterday. Also includes Columbus, Warrior, & Centenniel. OG was 1.070 (target was 1.071) - FG target is 1.017. Hope to keg/bottle this weekend, we'll see. :flag:
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Bottled my first AG BiaB "Grand MOFF IPA". This looks great! Light in color, hop aroma was fantastic, crisp and bright! I have high hopes for this. Final gravity was better than I expected at 1.012. Doing the math, this should give me a 6.29% ABV. Woot!
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