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Author:

stickman192

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.071

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.25

Primary Temp: 70 ° F

Priming Method: Molassas

Priming Amount: 1 cup

Creation Date: 12/30/2015 5:23 PM

Notes: In prep for this brew buy american oak spirals (medium) and a bottle of cheap bourbon (wild turkey or Jim beam). Soak the spirals in the bourbon for 2 months minimum. After primary fermentation of 3-4 weeks, transfer to secondary and add 1 spiral. Leave in secondary to age for up to 4 months. Taste weekly, when happy with flavor bottle next day.
Expect low efficacy due to massive grain bill.
Note: priming volumes is high due to high alcohol thus less CO2 staying in solution.

Author:

Ombank

Boil Size: 7 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.043

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.25

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: dextrose

Priming Amount: 4.8 oz

Creation Date: 6/5/2021 1:12 AM

Notes:

Author:

elaplant74

Boil Size: 8 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.045

Efficiency: 80

Mash Thickness: 1.75

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.5

Primary Temp: 55 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 6/15/2017 6:16 PM

Notes: Cold steeped the dark grains in 2.5 quarts of water for 48 hours and added the liquid post boil. They did not add to the gravity. 6.45 oz roast barley, 4.8 oz chocolate malt, 6.2 oz de-husked carafa 2, 4.35 oz pale chocolate.

Author:

richard_mcateer

Boil Size: 28.5 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.041

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 3.1

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 20 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 6/10/2017 5:10 PM

Notes: Oatmeal was 5 packages of maple/brown sugar Quaker oats, as I had planned poorly for this batch...

Author:

Germainium

Boil Size: 3.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 70

Boil Gravity: 1.047

Efficiency: 66

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: CO2

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 6/6/2017 3:55 AM

Notes: From distilled water:
CaCl2 (Calcium Chloride) - 7 grams (1.6 tsp)
CaSO4 (Gypsum) - .5 grams - (.1 tsp)
Epsom Salt - 4 grams (.9 tsp)

Fermentation Notes:
Will start at 68F for first 3 days then will dry hop round 1 and let rise to 70-71F for remainder of fermentation dry hopping rd 2 on day 7 and sampling / checking gravity. Will likely use hop bags due to lots of hop trub. Will also cold crash this batch.

Fail #1 - I forgot to pull the yeast smackpack out of the fridge in advance, so at brew start I put upstairs (where it's generally 80) and let it inflate for 4-5 hours.

1. Used distilled water and added salts as described, mash went well and temps stayed right around 152 in the water, around 156 if I put the thermometer in the grain near the bottom. Stirred every 15 mins and checked temps until mash ended. Pulled bag and let drip before squeezing and moving into a pot. Let drain longer and poured that wort while I heated to boil.

2. Started boil and hopped as listed. Finished boil and cooled with an immersion chiller to 160. I targeted 170 but it cools fast so I went with 160 to Hop Stand using a hop bag for 30 mins.

3. I continued cooling to 80 which is about as low as it'll go and transferred via ball valve and tube into my fermenter. I pulled a sample and took a gravity reading which was right on 1.066.

Fail #2 - I forgot to insert the pickup tube in my ss brewtech mini so that sucked but didn't feel like risking oxidization by messing with it. I'll filter it on the way out...

4. I placed my fermenter in my chamber and cooled to about 67 then pitched my inflated smack pack that sat out for about 5 hours before pitching.

Fail #3 - I made another process error and didn't shake the fermenter to aerate. What can I say, it was 1:30am. I realized this the next morning and shook.

5. I left town overnight and came back, fermentation is going and blow off tube in sani water jug is bubbling away. Dry hop 1 will happen tomorrow night 3 days in.

6. Dry Hop 1 went will using a hop bag and stainless spoon to push bag through krausen layer to try and sink it. I raised the ferm temp to 70-71 for remaining ferm.

7. At 7 days I dropped Dry Hop 2 via sani'd bag, and took a sample gravity reading which read 1.014, which was about 5 points lower than brewer's friend had expected. At this point I dropped the temp to 41 to cold crash and left for 2 days.

8. After cleaning, sanitizing, and co2 purging the keg, I transferred from the SS mini using spigot + tubing and filtered through a sanitized muslin bag to catch any hop debris. I clogged the keg last time so was not going to do that again. I also put a screen on the dip tube in the keg to prevent clogging.

8. After a very easy transfer, as all hop trub clumped at bottom, I put pressurized and purged the keg again to seal the lid and set at 2.3 CO2 vols for set and forget method. I pulled a sample and did another reading, and as expected, it was 1.014 meaning it was complete.

Upon initial sample, it was pretty aromatic although not as much as I expected. It has very low bitterness and is very smooth. I'll be excited to try once fully carbonated to see if this came out as Juicy as expected. I really don't like dry hopping in bags, but since last time I lost so much beer/wort to hop trub and also had keg clogging issues, I decided to try it this time. One additional thing it may have helped with is reducing bitterness from the wort/beer not sitting on hop trub for so long. The last batch had a huge amount of trub that was transferred into the keg which I believe increased aroma, but impacted overall bitterness and taste.

Tasting Updates: Beer is smooth but has a bit of a yeasty / alcoholic taste. My belief is that this came from forgetting the yeast aeration step as well as only fermenting for a week before cold crashing. Other than that beer is decent and has notes of grapefruit, faint banana, light citrus. For the aeration issue, I bought an aeration pump kit.

Author:

SchuBrew

Boil Size: 10 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.064

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 12/6/2016 5:19 PM

Notes:

Author:

jlongstreet

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.038

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 5/22/2016 4:20 PM

Notes:

Author:

dkcollier@yahoo.com

Boil Size: 8 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.046

Efficiency: 69

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 2.0

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/28/2016 3:19 PM

Notes: ♦ BREW DATES: Great Beer! Still w/o Dry hopping.
Date: Brew Day • 04.29.16
Gravity End of Boil (OG) • 1.066
Gravity (FG) • 1.016
Date: Pitch Yeast Day • 04.30.16
Date: Keg Day • 05.13.16 Tapped 05.20.16
Drafted Who’s House • Dan
2 Weeks fermentation

♦ SESSION NOTES: Well it was so good on it's own I'm making it again and still not dry hoping it. This is a good one for people that aren't crazy for craft beer. (Now I would add the dry hops!)
Phantom didn't have 7.75 lbs Finland Wheat so I combined with American Wheat to a total of 6.75 lbs. Not dry hopping this beer on the first run.
Recipe from Zymurgy magazine. These are the one's I'm leaving out of this batch.
•0.75oz(21 g)Amarillo,8.5% a.a.(dry hop 5 days)
•0.75oz(21 g)Cascade,5.5% a.a.(dry hop 5 days)
•0.75oz(21 g)Centennial,10% a.a.(dry hop 5 days)
•0.75oz(21 g)Chinook, 13% a.a.(dry hop 5 days)
•0.75oz(21 g)CTZ, 14% a.a.(dry hop 5 days)

♦ STANDARD BREWING NOTES:
♫Create 8 gallons sparge water. Bring to 154° strike temperature. Prime pump. Pump water through hose. Add tablespoon 5.2 pH balancer
♫Add 2 drops Fermcap before adding grain.
♫Add grain – Sparge at 154° for 90 minutes (Minimum 60) (One gallon loss during sparge process) Water burn rate: 1-1/2 gallon per hour.
♫Boil clean water for end of boil session adjustment. Adjust to 5.5 water line.
•Dark beers – Add x tablespoon Calcium Carbonate
•IPA beers – Add 5 tablespoon Gypsum for IPA

WAKE UP!!!!!!
15 minutes – Add immersion chiller
15 minutes - Add Whirlfloc
10 minutes – Add 1 teaspoon Yeast Nutrient last

♦ Check to see if fermentation tank nozzle is pointed upwards

♦ KEGGING NOTES:
Purge oxygen with CO2
Chill keg 24 hours before force carbonation.
Force Carbonation Calculator: 20 psi 4 days
Volumes of CO2 2.5 at 36°F = 10.2 psi American Ales

♦ The Decoction Method
All decoction mashes start with a single infusion step where hot water is added to the mash to start the mashing process. Typical temperatures for the first step vary. Multiple step decoctions are often used. Some examples of steps include:

♥ DRINKABILITY: Great base to work from. Very light in color. Has a little citrus in character.

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Author:

ThatOldPC

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.061

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.5

Primary Temp: 72 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/10/2016 4:23 PM

Notes: Add Candi Sugars and Honey at Flame-Out. Stir until thoroughly mixed. (Adjust Candi Sugar and Honey amounts until proper gravity is reached.) Then proceed with chill and pitch yeast accordingly.

Double-Pitch Wyeast 3787 for needed yeast count.

Author:

chokabojr

Boil Size: 3 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: N/A

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Partial Mash

Pitch Rate: 1.25

Primary Temp: 75 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 6/22/2013 2:12 AM

Notes:

Author:

Buzz9

Boil Size: 1.4 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.044

Efficiency: 35

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 11/18/2015 1:03 AM

Notes:

Author:

Boil Size: 4.1 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.051

Efficiency: 57

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Partial Mash

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 69 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 9/22/2015 9:36 PM

Notes:

Author:

wazootyman

Boil Size: 6.75 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.047

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 65 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 9/20/2015 12:36 AM

Notes: Add 64 oz of Cherry Juice added 4 days into primary fermentation.

Author:

Boil Size: 0.75 Gallons

Boil Time: 45

Boil Gravity: 1.009

Efficiency: 50

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 65 ° F

Priming Method: corn sugar, grams

Priming Amount: 64

Creation Date: 3/28/2015 9:48 PM

Notes:

Author:

Boil Size: 5.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.048

Efficiency: 35

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 76 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/18/2015 8:00 PM

Notes:

Author:

Cali Duck

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.056

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: Dextrose

Priming Amount: 1.6oz

Creation Date: 2/10/2015 9:22 PM

Notes: Add 500mg potassium metabisulphite to 20 gallons water to remove chlorine/chloramine (as required).
Water treated with brewing salts to: Ca=110, Mg=18, Na=16, Cl=50, S04=279
(Basically Randy Mosher's ideal Pale Ale numbers with slightly less Sulphate).
1.5 qt/lb mash thickness. Single infusion mash at 150F for 90 mins. Mashout to 168F.
60-90 min fly sparge with ~6 pH water. Collect 14.9 gallons in the boil kettle.
Boil for 90 minutes. Lid on at flameout, start chilling immediately.
Cool wort to 66F and aerate well. Ferment at 66-68F until complete.
Add dry hops once fermentation is nearing completion (ie: below 1.015). Dry hop for 7-10 days total.
Rack to brite tank (secondary), crash chill to near freezing (if possible), add 1 tsp of unflavoured gelatin dissolved in a cup of hot distilled water per 5 gallons of beer, and let clear for 2-3 days.
Package as you would normally. I keg and carbonate on the low side (around 2 to 2.2 volumes of C02) to minimize carbonic bite and let the hop/malt flavour come through.

If you prefer to use liquid yeast, either of these is an excellent choice as they are the same clean fermenting Chico strain as US-05:

Wyeast 1056 American Ale (Buy at: Amazon, MoreBeer, HighGravity, AiH, OBK)
White Labs WLP-001 California Ale (Buy at: Amazon, MoreBeer, HighGravity, AiH, OBK)

Author:

Brew1

Boil Size: 5.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.036

Efficiency: 66

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.5

Primary Temp: 70 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 10/7/2013 6:59 PM

Notes:

Author:

RyDog

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.026

Efficiency: 38

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 63 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 9/5/2015 5:03 AM

Notes: Very tasty, came out darker than expected. The lme rye malt was a couple years old maybe that played a role.

Author:

Boil Size: 2 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.111

Efficiency: 35

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/3/2015 3:43 AM

Notes:

Author:

VT_jlee

Boil Size: 6.75 Gallons

Boil Time: 30

Boil Gravity: 1.055

Efficiency: 95

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 95 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 10/31/2018 12:10 AM

Notes: Water treatment: 3g gypsum, 3g CaCl2, 2mL lactic acid

TOTAL WATER NEEDED 7.28 Gallons
STRIKE WATER TEMP 158 Fahrenheit
TOTAL MASH VOLUME 8.12 Gallons
PREBOIL WORT 6.75 Gallons
POSTBOIL WORT 6.00 Gallons
INTO FERMENTER 6.00 Gallons