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Author:

jspirko

Boil Size: 3 Gallons

Boil Time: N/A

Boil Gravity: 1.091

Efficiency: 35

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 65 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 5/9/2017 1:40 AM

Notes: Making the Must:
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Pour the apple concentrate into a sanitized 6 to 8 gallon fermentor. Add 2lbs of honey and pectin enzyme to the juice, stirring well.

Primary Finish Gravity:
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When fermentation is complete, make sure it is done fermenting by checking it with a hydrometer; it should have finished down to 1.000 or lower.

Secondary / Additives:
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Transfer to secondary. Now add the stabilizer pack and stir vigorously for 2 minutes, this will help release any sulfur dioxide created during fermentation. Continue to stir twice a day for 2 minutes each time for 3 days.

Finings:
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Add the Isinglass Finings and stir gently for 20 seconds and let sit for 3-7 days or until your cider has cleared out.

Back Sweetening:
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Once it has cleared, transfer off sediment into a bottling bucket. Nor stir 2lbs of honey into the cider making sure it has dissolved, it will all dissolve you just need to keep stirring until it has dissolved completely. Now add the cherry concentrate, apple flavoring pack and stir gently until incorporated.

Kegging:
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Recommend kegging this cherry cyser.

Author:

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.039

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 1.75

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: 23.72 psi

Creation Date: 1/26/2025 7:18 PM

Notes:

Author:

Beer440

Boil Size: 296.5 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.051

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 3.65

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/23/2024 11:34 AM

Notes:

Author:

pbahls

Boil Size: 7.25 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.046

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 72 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 6/20/2022 3:27 PM

Notes: Full-imersion Steps:
1.) Bring 7.25 gallons of water to 162 degrees F.
2.) Mash for 1 hour.
3.) Bring to a boil.
4.) Boil for 60 minutes total, following hop schedule.
- Once boil starts, add 1oz Cascade
- 30 mins into the boil, add 1oz Cascade
- 50 mins into the boil, add 1 tbsp Irish moss to ensure clarity in the final product
- With 5 mins left in the boil (55 mins in to the boil), add 0.5oz Centennial and 0.33oz Ekuanot (can replace Ekuanot with similar AA hops e.g. Galaxy, El Dorado, Chinook, etc.)
5.) Chill to ~70 degrees F and pitch yeast.
6.) Ferment in primary for at least 2 weeks, then keg.
7.) Carbonate for at least a week then enjoy!

Author:

RustyBarrelHomebrewing

Boil Size: 7 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.044

Efficiency: 62

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: 11/28/2021 6:53 PM

Notes: ================================
11/28/2021
reworking this for round 3. round 2 stunk, had to add DME later, not sure i cooked and mashed the grits long enough. beer turned out infected or something smelled and tasted like wine vinegar.

this time removing the DME boosting the base malt to get to 5.3% although it will be fine if it floats back to 5.0 or 4.8 even. last brew was 59% efficiency, hoping to at least get 62 this time. using my old setup and brewing in parallel to another batch on the GF

Last time was nobility this time trying evergreen. Adjusting hop amounts to stay under 18 ibu.

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7/8/2021
Brew day last night, kind of sucked. Tried the brew easy setup for mash and ended up light on efficiency and OG. refractometer said 1035 preboil and about 1038 post boil. then i took less than a gallon of wort and heated up on stove and added 1lb DME. lets see how much that ruins the color. anyway the refrac was still showing low gravity, recalibrated it, and now its saying 1049.

also i forgot about whirlfloc until after the boil so i heated for like 5 extra minutes to give it time to dissolve.

also i forgot to cook the grits before i started the mash so i cooked them during the mash kind of quickly and with less water than instructed, added them about halfway into the mash.

a lot of mistakes here, havent brewed in over a month. also not sure about the brew easy if it was low efficiency because we did not sparge meaning there were leftover sugars in the grain when i was done mash/went to kettle.

i am reading now that we may do better with proper water profile. also i did not take ph reading so unclear if that was an issue. possibly next time we want to try this, we make a straight up pilsner or blonde ale without the grits and use a real water profile built from RO.

also we did not have a proper sparge arm so its possible efficiency was affected by channeling.

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7/7/2021
first batch was indeed good the way it was, but altering for todays brew day. low on grits. was gonna just run it but 4.8% is just so low. adding half pound of 2row.

using slightly less acid malt because i feel some of my brews might be too acidic in the end? havent quantified that. pH readings tend to be low.

also going to use some nobility instead of having to hacksaw more of that crystal. adding some to end of the boil because why not....hopefully doesnt pull off too much hop flavor or bitterness in whirlpool (....it shouldnt, with that tiny amount)

not really doing any water chemistry here. going to just run tap and see if i can really tell the difference. fits with the theme of this beer being super easy and cheap as well.

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2/8/2021
recipe creation.

malt :
considered using at least a portion of 6row malt which has higher diastatic power; this is/was used for classic (particularly pre-prohibition) american lager to ensure enough enzymes to convert the starch in the corn (which seems to have very low diastatic power). i think this recipe is using relatively low amount of corn adjunct for the style. this is partly because i would like to have a decently malt / body to the beer and also would like to just use my normal 2row base malt and not have to order more stuff from the homebrew store.

corn :
flirted with the idea of using flaked corn, its a little more expensive, for some reason id rather use something from the grocery store. popped popcorn and corn flakes cereal are options but kind more in the direction of a goofy brew. im reading a little about raw corn : it needs gelatinizing before the starches can be freed up enough to convert to sugar in a mash. you'd need to cook it first to do this step. wondering what about thawed frozen corn, maybe thats already been cooked, would that work? anyway this all seems a little goofy still. maybe for another brew. anyway for this i will use a can of instant corn grits. (not convinced this will add any flavor, so really does it even make any sense to use this as opposed to corn sugar? if we're gonna do corn sugar might as well do cane sugar? i guess lets just go with the corn grits since we havent done it before)

it sounds like quick grits we can just drop into the mash without doing a cereal mash beforehand (this is what i did previously with instant rice). (ref: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/quick-grits-confused.431229/)

gravity / abv :
id like this to come to 4.5% but not sure how much the grits will convert so im setting it to 5%abv to give a little slack in case the efficiency is bad.

water :
build from distilled. minor calcium chloride addition. i tried fooling with BF light lager profile but it has this HCO/bicarbonate level that i am not sure with what i am supposed to add to increase the HCO levels to the target. anyway just go with the czech pilsner profile i have used in the past. i looked up some light lager water profiles and they are similar to this.

hops :
gonna use these old frozen wet hops hopefully theyre not bad.

yeast :
going back and forth between 34/70 and lutra. would like to try lutra but i do like the sulfur notes of 34/70 but maybe its not quite appropriate for this beer. also considering some maybe 2007 i do remember it was pretty clean tasting.

Author:

BigPeteB

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 11.6

Efficiency: 85

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Plato

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.5

Primary Temp: 62 ° F

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: 9.71 psi

Creation Date: 5/29/2021 10:06 PM

Notes: Clone of New Belgium Fat Tire. They're a fantastic brewery, and Fat Tire is an excellent crowd pleaser that's easy to drink and easy to like.

There's a lot of debate about their "house" strain of yeast, which they're unsurprisingly secretive about. I've seen suggestions for Wyeast 1792 (an old limited release that was supposedly Fat Tire's strain), WLP001/Wyeast 1056 American Ale (an obvious go-to), a mix of that and Chimay, Wyeast 1272 American Ale II, Nottingham (used in some kits), Wyeast 3655-PC Belgian Schelde Ale (sub WLP515), or Wyeast 1746-PC Pacman (sub Imperial A18 Joystick). I'm trying the Pacman as another homebrewer reported success with it. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/heavily-researched-fat-tire-clone-grain-bill-hop-schedule-what-yeast.167754/

From an interview with a former head brewer at New Belgium: "When trying to emulate Fat Tire Amber Ale, Bouckaert advises that you pay particular attention to the malt bill and the aging process. 'We have a malt character that asks for a lot of light-colored malts,' he says. 'Specialty, Munich and light caramel malts comprise up to 30 percent. For the signature toasted biscuit flavor of this brown-amber beer, add from 5 to 10 percent of malts with a nutty character.' For hops, he recommends shooting for 16 IBUs with a subtle late addition of aroma or dry hops. 'Don't use Cascade or other overpowering hops,' Bouckaert adds." That said, their website lists it as 22 IBUs.

Author:

Scrattajack

Boil Size: 28.5 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.041

Efficiency: 77

Mash Thickness: 3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: sucrose

Priming Amount: 104.7 g

Creation Date: 12/26/2020 5:16 PM

Notes:

Author:

Redleg Ed

Boil Size: 6.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.036

Efficiency: 78

Mash Thickness: 1.68

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: 12

Creation Date: 8/5/2019 2:20 AM

Notes: From MaryB...her standard "house" ale.

Author:

joetothemo

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.034

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.75

Primary Temp: 50 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 9/27/2018 3:43 PM

Notes:

Author:

AlastairMtl

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.041

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 66 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/1/2018 4:52 PM

Notes:

Author:

seamus garrett

Boil Size: 13.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.049

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: 6/30/2015 5:14 AM

Notes:

Author:

Boil Size: 20 Litres

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.05

Efficiency: 84.4

Mash Thickness: 6.25

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 24 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/22/2017 12:33 AM

Notes:

Author:

citybrewbrew

Boil Size: 130 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.051

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: 12/12/2016 3:59 PM

Notes:

Author:

BrewMasterSteve

Boil Size: 7 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.037

Efficiency: 66

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 70 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 8/31/2016 3:13 PM

Notes: Warm OG from kettle reading was 1.048.

Room temp OG from fermenter 14 days later was 1.010.

Author:

Woodbrews

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.036

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 74 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 7/11/2016 1:35 PM

Notes: Original author's notes: I designed this as an easy drinking hot weather beer. Just enough yeast character too peek through the hops. Very crisp and dry. I set out to brew something that would satisfy my need for hops and still be ultra quafable. This fit the bill. For those of us who love saisons and IPAs, this is the best of both worlds.

Author:

sumerchuck

Boil Size: 1.75 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.02

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: 3/21/2016 3:18 PM

Notes:

Author:

Maxmester

Boil Size: 73.5 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.042

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 2.7

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.5

Primary Temp: 20 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 1/5/2016 11:07 AM

Notes: Fermentation:
2 days 18degC
12 days 20degC
2 days cold crash (bring temp down to 2-3degC)

Carbonation: 6g/L table suger for 14 days in room temperature (20-22 degC)

Storage after carbonation(recommended): 2-4 weeks in cold environment.

Author:

PorterbleBrewing

Boil Size: 18 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.03

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 21 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 11/3/2015 2:18 AM

Notes: Mash full volume and sour with Lacto P. to pH 3.6

Boil and ferment as usual.

Author:

Stevobrews10000

Boil Size: 26 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.044

Efficiency: 69

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 17 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 10/27/2015 3:52 AM

Notes: In cube till 12-12-15.

Also mixed pitched with Wyeast American Ale 2.

Author:

Longfellow Brewing

Boil Size: 2 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.141

Efficiency: 35

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 60 ° F

Priming Method: Sugar

Priming Amount: 3/4 cup

Creation Date: 9/26/2015 7:01 PM

Notes: Nips and Coffee soak in vodka for two weeks then are added during the secondary fermentation stage.

Alexander’s Sun Country Pale Malt Extract