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Author:

Distressed Braumeister

Boil Size: 27 Litres

Boil Time: 70

Boil Gravity: 1.05

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 5/20/2017 6:44 AM

Notes: Cold crash on day 10/11 ....
Bottle on day 12/13//14....

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Boil Size: 6.7 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.054

Efficiency: 68

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.5

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: 8.2 psi

Creation Date: 6/19/2021 3:43 AM

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Author:

bhive01

Boil Size: 6.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.037

Efficiency: 75

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: 7/14/2018 9:57 PM

Notes: Revisiting this recipe after a few years. Going with a slightly malty water profile to boost sweetness perception. Adding a bit more citric acid and getting the pH down to 5.2 to give it a bit more sharpness. The citric acid is not 5%, it's powdered so it should be 100% or very near it with some sort of anti-caking agent (cornstarch if anything).

Mixing the two recipes found in the thread.
Added some crystal 10-15L to mix (this is nice as it adds residual sweetness to the beer, which balances the watermelon flavor well.

Add watermelon juice in primary vessel post krausen.

To make watermelon juice. Put whole watermelon fruit into bleach solution to sanitize the outside. Starsan a chopping board, large bowl, knife, and brew bag. Chop up fruit to remove peel and add to bag in the bowl. Bleach/Starsan/iodophor your hands and squeeze the flesh through the bag into the bowl to get juice. Add 2 liters of juice (about 1/2 gallon) to 5 gallons (1 gallon total for two 5 gallon carboys).

This gives a strong watermelon flavor when using a seeded, fully ripe watermelon. If you like watermelon only a little bit, I would cut it by half. I like watermelon a lot so I wanted it front and center. This one goes over very well during the late summer.

From thread:

I decided to not use the watermelon extract that came with the kit and opted for real watermelon instead. I chose the Wyeast 1010 American Wheat yeast option.
Let the primary fermentation process go the full 2 weeks.

For secondary fermentation, I bought a seedless watermelon at the store and put all the watermelon meat into a ninja blender. I did not use any of the rind at all since my research indicated that using the rind may cause an undesirable flavor. I pureed all the watermelon and threw it in the bottom of my bottling bucket. I then racked the fermented beer on top of the watermelon puree. I also chose to NOT boil the puree before adding it to the bucket. I read that boiling watermelon could also cause some really nasty flavors and aromas.

Did everything turn very red??? YES. Did that go away??? YES! The sugars in the watermelon kicked off a secondary fermentation. I let the watermelon/beer mixture ferment for another 5 days. I probably could have gone 7, but did not want to run any risk of the fruit turning into a vinegar taste. On the 5th day, I kegged the beer and chilled it for 24 hours before force carbonating.

Every time I transferred the beer (primary to secondary, secondary to keg), I ran the beer through a sanitized colander. The result was SPECTACULAR. My neighbors and I did a blind taste test with my beer and some Hell or High Watermelon, and my beer blew away the competition. I was concerned that using the real fruit would make the beer too sweet or have an overpowering watermelon taste. Totally not the case at all. The watermelon flavor is subtle. It was described as a great wheat beer taste with a nice watermelon undertone. Now that the weather here in DC has hit the 80's and low 90's, this beer is a great drink on a hot day!

Could sub California Ale Yeast White Labs WLP001 for 1010

Author:

crawmcgraw

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.065

Efficiency: 73

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 1.25

Primary Temp: 64 ° F

Priming Method: bottle condition

Priming Amount: 5oz

Creation Date: 9/4/2017 1:59 AM

Notes: Use cryo hops for dry hopping

Author:

MathiasK

Boil Size: 7 Litres

Boil Time: 40

Boil Gravity: 1.038

Efficiency: 25

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 25 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 6/10/2017 10:55 AM

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Author:

matzou

Boil Size: 28.5 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.03

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 18 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 11/10/2016 7:00 PM

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Author:

Boil Size: 15 Litres

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.055

Efficiency: 67

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 2.0

Primary Temp: 11 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 1/5/2016 1:56 AM

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Author:

Progenitus

Boil Size: 30 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.046

Efficiency: 63

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/30/2015 1:05 PM

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Author:

andete

Boil Size: 11 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.032

Efficiency: 35

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 20 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/23/2015 5:07 AM

Notes: Black Malt is cold steeped and the extract added at the very end of the boil giving it about 2h of steeping time.

2nd beer to hopefully fix the overly sweet first batch of Atlantic Way IPA.

Author:

johannesdeloper

Boil Size: 23 Litres

Boil Time: 70

Boil Gravity: 1.034

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 28 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/4/2016 10:17 AM

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Author:

eikeberg

Boil Size: 25 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.046

Efficiency: 35

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 20 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 8/8/2016 8:36 AM

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Author:

FatsSchindee

Boil Size: 4.1 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.041

Efficiency: 94

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: Corn sugar

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/15/2017 11:38 PM

Notes: After mash, draw off 2 qts first runnings and boil down to 1 qt to carmelize for flavor and color. Normal sparge calls for 5.92 qts- add 1 qt extra (so dunk sparge with 6.92 qts) to make up for this loss.

Author:

mikebanyai

Boil Size: 3.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.073

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/13/2014 10:44 AM

Notes: Brewed 3/16/14...hour mash with grains, then hour boil...

Author:

flexmurphy

Boil Size: 7 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.054

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 66 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/23/2015 2:00 PM

Notes: Split batch with BRY-97 in second half.

Move the intake up a bit before starting the mash so that we aren't pulling right off the bottom of the kettle with the 7.5 oz of hops that will be in there.

WLP545: Start at 66F and let free-rise until end of fermentation (leave out of fridge).

BRY-97: Start at 66F in fridge, ramp up to 72F after fermentation starts to slow down.

Author:

Beer Worker

Boil Size: 50 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.034

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 21 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/1/2018 2:30 PM

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Author:

VanillaMoose

Boil Size: 19 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.032

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.5

Primary Temp: 22 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/4/2018 10:01 PM

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Author:

InspectorJon

Boil Size: 4.7 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.06

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 1.5

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: 32g/gallon

Creation Date: 5/15/2018 10:07 PM

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Author:

Allergic2hops

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.035

Efficiency: 84

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: 6/24/2014 8:34 PM

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Author:

SchuBrew

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 16.6

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Plato

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/13/2018 7:32 PM

Notes: age on bourbon soaked wood chips
at kegging add cherry, orange zest, bitters, and simple syrup

Author:

halfville home brew

Boil Size: 7.75 Gallons

Boil Time: 120

Boil Gravity: 1.072

Efficiency: 72

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 70 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 7/29/2018 12:01 AM

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