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Author:

TampaTony

Boil Size: 13 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.058

Efficiency: 67

Mash Thickness: 1.3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: Force Carb

Priming Amount: 12 psi

Creation Date: 2/26/2014 3:07 PM

Notes: Acidulated malt can be subbed for lactic/citric acid to lower the mash PH of RO water.

Author:

Maltose Falcons

Boil Size: 23.34 Gallons

Boil Time: 120

Boil Gravity: 1.082

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 8/31/2021 1:41 AM

Notes: Mashing Instructions:
Dough malt into 120 degree water. Pull 35% of grist and decoct. Decoction should rest 15 minutes at 147 degrees and boil for 20 minutes. Add decoct to main mash and let rest for 1 hour at 150 degrees. Raise temperature to 160 and mash out.

Extra Ingredients:
Invert and concentrate sugar the week before. Stir constantly and lower heat. Sugar will become thin caramel.

Water should be very hard; similar to Dortmund or Burton-on-trent. High level of Sulfates, Carbonates, and Salts

Yeast:
Wyeast 3787 and White Labs WLP 530 (both Westmalle Strains) should be added right away

Wyeast 1388 (Duvel) and White Labs 550 (Le Chouffe) should be added on day 3

Slurry from bottle of Westvleteren 8 added three weeks into fermentation when gravity falls below 1.025.

Fermentation started at 65 degrees. Temperature raised 2 degrees a day until it reached 85 degrees. Massive starters or starter beers used in all cases.

Author:

branodn

Boil Size: 7.02 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.039

Efficiency: 68

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: 10/30/2015 8:23 PM

Notes: http://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=350929&page=2

Author:

OTB Bike Brewery

Boil Size: 59 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.045

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 3

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: 8/26/2014 12:52 PM

Notes:

Author:

Tylor Miranda

Boil Size: 5 Gallons

Boil Time: N/A

Boil Gravity: 1.092

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 0.8

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 78.5 ° F

Priming Method: turbinado

Priming Amount: 4.2 oz

Creation Date: 7/6/2020 4:39 AM

Notes: This beer should be made in early spring when fresh spruce and juniper tips are fresh. The spruce tips should be foraged in early spring as soon as the bright lime-green buds emerge from their papery casings. This is when they are most tender and their slight resinous flavor is minimal. For safety, juniper tips have been replaced by dry juniper berries purchased from a reputable dealer as some juniper plants are poisonous.

Of the roughly 40 species of juniper, a small number are poisonous and a majority have bitter fruits. Only a few yield edible berries (actually modified cones) and only one is routinely used for flavoring. The flavoring juniper, best known for its contribution to gin, pickling, and Sahti beer, is common juniper, Juniperus communis.

Mash lasts 5+ hours, and there is no boil. Therefore, this is a raw beer.

Hops are added 40 minutes into the 176f mash.

Beer is racked post fermentation and turbinado is added and stirred into the beer. The beer is then bottled and corked quickly as fermentation can be vigorous after just 20 minutes.

Author:

rolandblais

Boil Size: 1.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.039

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 12/5/2018 8:13 PM

Notes: ***NOTE: GRAIN BILL IS A GUESS***

https://brooklynbrewshop.com/pages/instructions-everyday-ipa
(But kit was https://brooklynbrewshop.com/collections/beer-making-mixes/products/beer-making-mix-double-meringue-pie-ipa )

Pre-Brew: Sanitize
Sanitization is important, but it's nothing scary. When brewing, keep everything clean so that you give what you're brewing its best chance to succeed. So when preparing for brew day, wipe any crumbs off the counters. Move any clutter that might be in your way. Read through the rest of the instructions (at least through fermentation) so that you know what to expect. And have fun!

Dissolve half of your sanitizer packet with a gallon of water in a container. Save the second half for when you bottle.
Soak everything you are going to use, rinse with water, and let air dry on some paper towels. If it isn’t totally dry when you are ready to start don’t worry.
Keep the extra sanitizer in a container for now. Chances are you’ll want to re-sanitize something later.

Additional Ingredients Needed:
2 Lemons
3 Tablespoons Honey
Ice

1: The Mash
During The Mash, you're extracting all the sugars, color and flavor you can from grain. You're basically just steeping grain in hot water. It's a lot like making oatmeal.

Heat 2.5 quarts (2.4 liters) of water to 160°F (71°C).
Add grain (This is called “mashing in.” Take note of jargon. Or don’t).
Mix gently with spoon or spatula until mash has consistency of oatmeal. Add water if too dry or hot. Temperature will drop to ~150°F (66°C).
Cook for 60 minutes at 144-152°F (63-68°C). Stir every 10 minutes, and use your thermometer to take temperature readings from multiple locations.
You likely don’t need to apply heat constantly. Get it up to temperature, then turn the heat off. Monitor, stir, and adjust accordingly to keep in range.
After 60 minutes, heat to 170°F (77°C) while stirring constantly (“Mashing Out”).

2: The Sparge
If you're familiar with brewing coffee, you should have an idea of how The Sparge works. During The Sparge, you put the grain in a strainer and pour hot water over it to draw out all those sugars you created during The Mash.

Heat additional 4 quarts (3.8 liters) of water to 170°F (77°C). (If possible, start this during The Mash to save time.)
Set up your “lauter tun” (a strainer over a pot).
Carefully add the hot grain mash to the strainer, collecting the liquid that passes through.
This liquid is called “wort” (pronounced “wert”). It will be your beer.
Slowly and evenly pour 170°F (77°C) water over the mash to extract the grain’s sugars.
You want to collect 5 quarts (4.75 liters) of wort. You will lose about 20% to evaporation later on, so you want to start with a bit more than you’ll end with.
Re-circulate wort through grain once.

3: The Boil
The Boil is probably the easiest step to understand because it's as simple as it sounds. During this step, you're bringing your wort to a low, rolling boil and keeping it there for a period of time while adding things like hops or spices. It's a lot like cooking a soup or stock in that you'll add heartier or bittering ingredients toward the beginning and more delicate and aromatic ingredients toward the end.

In a pot, heat wort until it boils. Add 1/5 Hops when you start to heat the wort.
Keep boiling until you’ve hit the “hot break” (Wort will foam - you may need to reduce heat slightly so it doesn’t boil over.)
Stir occasionally. All you want is a light boil – too hot and you lose fermentable sugars and volume.
The boil will last 60 minutes. Start your timer and add in the rest of the ingredients at these times:

Add 1/5 Hops 20 minutes into boil.
Add peel from 1 lemon 55 minutes into boil.
At 60 minutes turn off heat. Add 1/5 Hops.

Twenty percent of the wort will have evaporated in this step leaving you with 1 gallon (3.8 liters) of wort. If your boil was a bit high, the surface area of your pot extra large, or you brewed on a really hot day, you may have less than the full amount. Don’t worry – you just reduced your beer a bit too much, but you can add more water in the next step.

4: Fermentation
This is when your beer actually becomes alcoholic. During Fermentation, your jugs should sit somewhere out of the way (and out of direct sunlight) while ale yeast turns sugar into alcohol.

Place brew pot in an ice bath until it cools to 70°F (21°C).
Once cooled, place strainer over funnel and pour your beer into the glass fermenter. Yeast needs oxygen. The strainer helps aerate your wort and clarify your beer (as well as catch any sediment from going into the fermenter). Add tap water to bring wort up to 1 Gallon mark if level is low.

“Pitch” yeast. (Toss the whole packet in.)
Shake aggressively. You’re basically waking up the yeast and getting more air into the wort.

Attach sanitized screw-top stopper to bottle. Slide rubber tubing no more than 1” (2.5 cm) into the stopper and place the other end in small bowl of sanitizer solution. You’ve just made a “blow-off tube”. It allows CO2 to escape.

Let sit for two or three days or until vigorous bubbling subsides. This is when fermentation is highest. You may notice bubbles and foam at the top of the beer. After bubbling calms down, clean tubing and ready your airlock.

Open your fermenter and drop 1/5 Hops into your beer. This is called dry hopping and will give your beer intense hop flavor.
Sanitize, then re-assemble airlock, filling up to line with sanitizer.
Insert airlock into hole in stopper.

1 week later you are going to add your remaining hops and lemon as a second dry hop. Cut the lemon into small sections that fit into the fermenter but not so small that they will get stuck in your tubing when you bottle. Place the lemon pieces over a strainer and gently pour boiling water over them for about a minute to sanitize. Drop the lemon and the rest of your hops to your beer.

Keep in a dark place at room temperature for two total weeks without disturbing other than to show off to friends. (If beer is still bubbling, leave sitting until it stops.)

In the meantime, drink beer with self-closing swing tops, or ask for empties at a bar that has some. If you have a bottle capper and caps, you can save two six packs of non-twistoff beers instead.

5: Bottling (2 Weeks Later)
Once your beer's in bottles, it carbonates naturally with the help of just a little extra sugar. It wakes up your ale yeast (that went dormant during fermentation) to create just enough bubbles for some nice fizz.

Thoroughly rinse bottles with water, removing any sediment.
Mix remaining sanitizer with water.
Fill each bottle with a little sanitizer and shake. Empty after two minutes, rinse with cold water and dry upside down.

Dissolve 3 tablespoons honey with 1/2 cup water. Pour into a sanitized pot. You will be siphoning your beer into the same pot in the next steps.

Carbonation comes from adding sugar when bottling, so if you filled your jug with less than the full gallon in the last step, use less honey when bottling. Using the full amount can result in your beer being over-carbonated.

Siphoning (It all happens pretty fast. You may want to practice on a pot of water a few times.) To see it in action first, watch the How to Bottle video at brooklynbrewshop.com/instructions.

A. Attach open tubing clamp to tubing.
B. Fill tubing with sanitizer.
C. Attach sanitized tubing to the short curved end of your sanitized racking cane. Attach the black tip to the other end - it will help prevent sediment from getting sucked up. It will probably be a snug fit, but you can get it on there.
D. Pinch tubing clamp closed.
E. Remove screw-cap stopper and place racking cane into jug, just above the sediment at the bottom (“trub”).
F. Lower end of tubing not connected to racking cane into sink. Suction will force beer up and through the racking cane and tubing. Open tubing clamp, let sanitizer flow into sink until beer just starts to flow out of the tubing, then clamp shut. Open clamp on tubing, allowing beer to flow into pot with sugar solution. Tilt jug when beer level is getting low, but be careful in not sucking up the trub.

Siphon beer from pot into bottles, pinching tube clamp to stop flow after each bottle.
Close bottles.
Store in a dark place for 2 weeks.
6: Enjoy (Two Weeks Later)
You did it! You made beer.

Put beers in the fridge the night before you drink them.
Drink. Share with friends if you’re the sharing type.

Author:

Barnstaple Brewers

Boil Size: 29 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.043

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: dme

Priming Amount: 181.1 g

Creation Date: 1/27/2022 12:16 PM

Notes: 2kg of plums were stewed and added at flame out along with 75 drops of plum essence.
Kegged and primed on 07 02 22.

Author:

AnteK

Boil Size: 25 Litres

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.046

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 1.5

Primary Temp: 10 ° C

Priming Method: Forced carbonation

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/21/2016 12:20 AM

Notes: My recipes are all elaborated for Speidel Braumeister 20L
The recipes clone are sometimes a little different from the original but are adjusted according to the final result.

BIAB method for Braumeister 20l, efficiency 75 %
total Water: 28l.
25l to mash
3l to sparge
Aerate the wort with pure oxygen or filtered air and pitch the yeast. Ferment at 10˚C - 5 days to diacetyl rest at 20˚C.
Rack to secondary and lager for at least five weeks at 40 °F (4.4 °C) or below.

Author:

Joeyb

Boil Size: 25 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.045

Efficiency: 67

Mash Thickness: 3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 12/13/2020 5:59 PM

Notes:

Author:

jbedell2

Boil Size: 7 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.019

Efficiency: 70

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: 6/15/2015 2:12 PM

Notes: Recipe Type: All Grain
Yeast: Red Star Montrachet
Yeast Starter: Nope
Additional Yeast or Yeast Starter: Nope
Batch Size (Gallons): 5
Original Gravity: 1.066
Final Gravity: 0.998
Boiling Time (Minutes): None
Color: Champagne
Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): At least 6 weeks at 74 degrees
Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): None

Apfelwein (German Hard Cider)

This took 1st Place at the 2007 Alamo City Cerveza Fest BJCP sanctioned competition for the Cider and Apple Wine Category and 2nd Place for Best of Show for Meads & Ciders!

Ingredients

5 Gallons 100% Apple Juice (No preservatives or additives) I use Tree Top Apple Juice
2 pounds of dextrose (corn sugar) in one pound bags
1 five gram packet of Montrachet Wine Yeast

Equipment

5 Gallon Carboy (I use a Better Bottle)
Carboy Cap or Stopper with Airlock
Funnel

First sanitize the carboy, airlock, funnel, stopper or carboy cap.
Open one gallon bottle of apple juice and pour half of it into the carboy using the funnel.
Open one bag of Dextrose and carefully add it to the now half full bottle of apple juice. Shake well.
Repeat Steps 2 and 3, then go to step 5.
Pour in the mixture of Apple Juice and Dextrose from both bottles into the carboy.
Add all but 1 quart of remaining 3 gallons of apple juice to the carboy.
Open the packet of Montrachet Yeast and pour it into the neck of the funnel.
Use the remaining quart of juice to wash down any yeast that sticks. I am able to fit all but 3 ounces of apple juice into a 5 gallon Better Bottle. You may need to be patient to let the foam die down from all shaking and pouring.
Put your stopper or carboy cap on with an airlock and fill the airlock with cheap vodka. No bacteria will live in vodka and if you get suckback, you just boosted the abv.

There’s no need to worry about filling up a carboy so full when you use Montrachet wine yeast. There is no Kreuzen, just a thin layer of bubbles (
). I'm able to fit all but 4 oz. of my five gallons in the bottle. Ferment at room temperature.

It will become cloudy in a couple of days and remain so for a few weeks. In the 4th week, the yeast will begin to drop out and it will become clear. After at least 4 weeks, you can keg or bottle, but it is ok to leave it in the carboy for another month or so. Racking to a secondary is not necessary. It ferments out very dry (less than 0.999, see here)

If you want to bottle and carbonate, ¾ cup of corn sugar will work fine. Use as you would carbonate a batch of beer.

Remember to reserve judgment till after 3 glasses. It grows on you.

GENERAL QUESTIONS
compiled by Dammed Squirrels from the first 37 pages of this thread. Thanks DS!

How does it taste?
It ferments quite dry. Some people have tried different yeasts in order to achieve a sweeter taste. It may take you a few glasses to get a feel for the flavor. It is very reminiscent of a sort of apfelwein produced locally in Germany. There really is no comparable product in the United States. It's drier and less sweet than commercial hard ciders.

What is the difference between Apfelwein and hard cider?
EdWort says, “Most ciders are a bit sweeter. Ciders and Apfelwein are about 6% abv, but I like the little boost I give it with 2 pounds of Dextrose. It adds no body or flavor and still tastes like Possmann's Apfelwein, only it will kick your butt much quicker.”

Is this like Apfelmost / Apfel Korn?
No. Apfel Korn is a german liqeur made from wheat spirits. Apfelmost is spontaneously fermented with fresh-pressed apples or apple juice. It is probably similar, but the results may vary as a result of the spontaneous fermentation. Either way, Apfelmost is most certainly has a lower alcohol content since the initial gravity is not increased by the use of concentrate or corn sugar.

What’s the difference between apple juice and cider?
Cider is made by pressing apples. Juice is then filtered to remove all of the stuff that makes it cloudy.

Can I use apple cider instead?
Sure! You can use whatever you want. However, there is not enough information in this thread to give you any better details as to how it will turn out. I recommend starting a new thread or ask more experienced cider-makers.

What kind of Apple Juice should I use?
Ideally, you want to use 100% natural apple juice with no preservatives. The only acceptable preservative is ascorbic acid, which is a source of vitamin C and does not affect fermentation. Pasteurized juice is preferred, since it will have less bacteria.

How much will this recipe cost me?
5 gallons of Apfelwein can be made for between 20 and 25 dollars.

What else can you do with this recipe?
EdWort says, "this makes a great Grog in the winter time. Take a quart in a sauce pan, add some rum, turbinado sugar, and float a cinnamon stick in it and simmer for a while. Serve hot in mugs. It'll warm you right up."

GENERAL WARNINGS

Excessive consumption of Apfelwein WILL get you drunk at warp speed.

Drink a quart of water and take 3 aspirin before going to sleep tol help reduce the effects of excessive Apfelwein consumption as well as the urge to call EdWort a M'F**kR! [IMG]/images/smilies/biggrin.gif[/IMG]

Author:

Mateusz Sokalski

Boil Size: 10 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 27.9

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 3.1

Sugar Scale: Plato

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 10/18/2016 8:28 AM

Notes:

Author:

Boil Size: 14 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.072

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 70 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 7/4/2015 3:40 PM

Notes:

Author:

SMMMHAKAN

Boil Size: 27 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.044

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

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: 5/1/2017 1:17 PM

Notes: Notes
Kademe 1 55 derece 10 dk
kademe 2 63 derece 30 dk
Kademe 3 72 derece 30 dk

Author:

banjo boys brew

Boil Size: 15 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.066

Efficiency: 77.81

Mash Thickness: 1.3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.5

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 10/11/2016 7:16 PM

Notes: Servomyces 15 Min
Lactose 10 Min

Author:

Jupiters Bryggkollektiv

Boil Size: 46.86 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.048

Efficiency: 55

Mash Thickness: 4

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 9/14/2021 3:52 PM

Notes: Ca2SO4 slut. Får tillsätta halva mängden ≈5g ner i fatet vid torrhumlingen.

Dubbel humlemängd för torrhumling inskriven men hälften används då det bara är hälften av detta recept som blir klon.
Resterande blir rest-kveik-på-feeling.

Samma gäller jästen.

Glömde torrified wheat så la till vetemalt. Pga låg effektivitet och förpackningsstorlek ökade jag också mängden från 0.6 till 1kg av både den och Cara Gold

Mäsk pH ~5

Author:

Guillaume Raymond

Boil Size: 26 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.059

Efficiency: 68

Mash Thickness: 3

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: 7/19/2017 1:06 PM

Notes:

Author:

AnteK

Boil Size: 25 Litres

Boil Time: 70

Boil Gravity: 1.044

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 18 ° C

Priming Method: Forced CO2

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 12/14/2015 2:36 AM

Notes: BIAB method for Braumeister 20l, efficiency 75 %
total Water: 27l.

27l water 7 grm of Calcium Chorite

black malt add in the last 40 minutes of the mash

Aerate the wort with pure oxygen or filtered air and pitch the yeast. Ferment at 19 c˚
Fermentation at 20 C˚ - 10 days
Cold crash "5 days" at 0c˚
Carbonation at 2c˚ with 25grm with cocoa's chips

Author:

liriodendron

Boil Size: 28.5 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.061

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.5

Primary Temp: 18 ° C

Priming Method: dextrose

Priming Amount: 140 g

Creation Date: 2/5/2017 8:57 PM

Notes:

Author:

casey langford

Boil Size: 5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: N/A

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: N/A

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: 10/23/2012 2:34 PM

Notes: Recipe is:
3gal - apple cider from Cosby TN
2gal - apple juice (plus 1/2gal in yeast starter)
1 jar - apple sauce (1lb 7oz)

No hops used...