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Author:

AndreaOne

Boil Size: 25 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.035

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: 3.73

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: 9/6/2016 6:45 AM

Notes:

Author:

Mine's an Old Peculier

Boil Size: 13 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.047

Efficiency: 85

Mash Thickness: 3.125

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.5

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: dme

Priming Amount: 106 g

Creation Date: 1/16/2022 3:46 PM

Notes: You should soften teh water

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:

Final Boss

Boil Size: 7 Gallons

Boil Time: 108

Boil Gravity: 1.074

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 70 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 6/3/2021 2:54 PM

Notes: 1/2 Campden Tablet in Strike Water

1/2 Campden Tablet Sparge Water

Water Chemistry

1.5Lb Lactose and 8oz of Maltodextrin added to Wort a few minutes before flame out

3 Madagascar Vanilla Beans cut and scraped and soaked in 6oz of Bourbon added at Kegging

8oz of medium roast whole coffee beans will be thrown into a sanitized Muslin Bag, cracked open and added at kegging.

2oz Chocolate extract added at kegging.

GO BILLS!!!!

Author:

Wolf Pack Brewing

Boil Size: 30.5 Litres

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.04

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: 2.45 bar

Creation Date: 7/8/2020 2:38 AM

Notes: https://shop.theelectricbrewery.com/pages/weizen-weissbier

Add 500mg potassium metabisulphite to 20 gallons water to remove chlorine / chloramine (if required).
Water treated with brewing salts to our Balanced flavour profile: Ca=50, Mg=10, Na=16, Cl=70, SO4=70 (Hit minimums on Ca and Mg, keep the Cl:SO4 ratio low and equal. Do not favour flavour / maltiness or bitterness / dryness. For balanced beers.). For complete details on how to adjust your water, refer to our step by step Water Adjustment guide.
1.5 qt/lb mash thickness.

Start the mash at 113F and hold for 15 mins (ferulic acid rest which helps promote clove-like phenol flavours). This rest works best at a pH of 5.7-5.8 (relative to mash temperature) so if you add mash salts and acid you want to wait and do it after the ferulic acid rest.
Ramp up to 152F and hold for 90 mins (half way between beta/alpha rest).
Raise to 168F mashout temperature and hold for 10 mins.
~90 min fly sparge with ~5.6-5.8 pH water (measured at mash temperature). Collect 14.9 gallons.
Boil for 90 minutes, adding hops per schedule. Lid on at flameout, start chilling immediately. Some brewers choose not to add kettle finings during the boil (such as Whirlfloc) as the beer is supposed to be cloudy, but the cloudiness of this beer comes from the yeast. We still want to remove proteins, hot break material, and so forth.
Cool the wort quickly to 62F (we use a one-pass convoluted counterflow chiller to quickly lock in hop flavour and aroma) and transfer to fermenter.
Aerate or oxygenate the chilled wort to a level of 8-10 ppm dissolved oxygen. For complete details refer to our Aerating / Oxygenating Wort guide.
Pitch yeast and ferment at 62F (wort temperature). We use modified stainless fermenting buckets in wine fridges.
Ferment until approximately 5 points from final gravity and then raise the temperature to 72F until finished. In our case we simply turn off the fermenting fridges and allow the beer to naturally rise to room temperature. Assume fermentation is done if the gravity does not change over ~3 days.
We do not recommend using finings such as unflavoured gelatin as it helps keep as much yeast in suspension as possible.
Package as you would normally. We rack to kegs that have first been purged with CO2. We chill the kegs to near freezing while carbonating at the same time in a 6-keg conditioning fridge. After ~1-2 weeks at serving pressure the kegs will be carbonated and ready to serve. In a hurry? This beer is best served fresh so feel free to raise the CO2 pressure temporarily to 30-40 PSI to carbonate fast over a 24 period, and then turn back down to serving pressure.
Carbonate this beer to higher than normal levels, around 2.5 to 3.5 volumes of CO2.
If you keg, you will find that over time the beer naturally clears as the protein haze and yeast settles. You may occasionally jostle or flip the keg to stir up the sediment to re-introduce the cloudy appearance. Some brewers will use a spare liquid out dip tube on the gas line such that the incoming gas hits the bottom of the keg and automatically stirs up the sediment every time a beer is poured. Others will use a tablespoon or two of flour at the end of the boil to set up a starchy permanent haze. The simplest solution is probably the most popular: Consume quicker

Author:

seetu

Boil Size: 7.25 Gallons

Boil Time: 30

Boil Gravity: 1.046

Efficiency: 80

Mash Thickness: 2.66

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 82 ° F

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: 24.43 psi

Creation Date: 1/17/2020 5:18 PM

Notes:

Author:

Barking Kettle SJ

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.039

Efficiency: 70

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: 7/6/2018 3:59 PM

Notes:

Author:

Bruno Rchk

Boil Size: 22 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.07

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 18 ° C

Priming Method: Primming Garrafa

Priming Amount: 7g/l

Creation Date: 6/3/2018 8:27 PM

Notes: Descrição bla bla bla bla

Author:

BenBurwash

Boil Size: 6 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.059

Efficiency: 60

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 70 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 9/2/2017 3:49 AM

Notes:

Author:

nmacaluso

Boil Size: 7 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.045

Efficiency: 60

Mash Thickness: 1.3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 70 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 8/30/2017 5:15 PM

Notes:

Author:

Barking Kettle SJ

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.049

Efficiency: 70

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: 12/23/2015 3:39 PM

Notes:

Author:

Guido

Boil Size: 6.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.043

Efficiency: 55

Mash Thickness: 1.25

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 72 ° F

Priming Method: pure cane sugar

Priming Amount: 5 oz

Creation Date: 8/28/2016 11:36 PM

Notes: Brewed: 3 Sep 16

Mash all malts.
O.G.: 1.048

2nd: 11 Sep 16

Bottled: 2 Oct 16
F.G. 1.007

Consumed: 15 Oct 16

Author:

Samwhois75

Boil Size: 13 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.053

Efficiency: 80

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: 8/24/2016 2:48 AM

Notes: X5 gallons with recultured Wyeast Kolsch yeast

Author:

Billy-Bob Brewery

Boil Size: 40 Litres

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.061

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 4

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 20 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 6/14/2016 7:38 PM

Notes:

Author:

fluidjuice

Boil Size: 35 Litres

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.053

Efficiency: 68

Mash Thickness: 2.6

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 19 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/13/2016 7:12 PM

Notes: This recipie is a Pliny the elder from brewing with style although a direct descendant abv might be a little bigger from converting to Homebrew scale

Author:

4Gs Brewing

Boil Size: 8 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.037

Efficiency: 68

Mash Thickness: 1.25

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/28/2016 12:25 PM

Notes:

Author:

Treetop Brewer

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.054

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.5

Primary Temp: 69 ° F

Priming Method: Corn Sugar (bottle conditioned)

Priming Amount: 5 oz.

Creation Date: 2/25/2016 4:19 PM

Notes: I brewed this one a year ago and let it bottle condition for 6 months. It was a great late summer beer and people really liked it.
The nuts are toasted at 325 degrees then diced. Added to the wort last 15 min in a grain sack. An incredible amount of oil leaches from the nuts. Used 2.5 pounds of Crystal for head retention. When poured the beer is mid brown with a healthy and long lasting beige head. Plenty of lacing in the glass.

Author:

jneighbors

Boil Size: 7.25 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.059

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.5

Primary Temp: 67 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/7/2016 4:20 PM

Notes: Mash Temp 152 Avg. 155 target
Mash time: 90 min. Lauter water not to temp at 60 min.
Fermenter: Oxygen with Agitation

EKG Hops: (2.4 oz.) 2012 Fall harvest, 2 Yr Age. Low aroma

Ahtanum Hops: (2 oz.) 2013 Fall harvest 1 year age. Med. Low aroma

Coffee: med. dark,6 oz. soaked in 1.75 qt. 34 degree cold stored, 5 days. Cold pressed to remove grounds. Extracted 1 qt. Good flavor, no bitterness.

Cacao Nibs: Roasted 300 degrees 5 min. to reddish brown with better aroma than 15 min. roast times, ground briefly in coffee grinder, added to 1.5 cup Johnny Walker Red whiskey, Brought to 1 min. boil, cooled and stored 10 days prior to addition at day 7 in fermenter.

Ahtanum Hops: Scheduled for day 3 in fermenter.

Fermentation: Oxygenated/agitated. 167 degrees start, ramp 1 degree a day to 170 starting day 3. 2 week total.

Day 7: Added hops,chocolate, 32 oz. coffee. Measured FG: 1.009.

Start cold crash day 12 to 65. Day 13 to 55. Day 14 to 45.

Keg day 15.

Author:

bdr0679

Boil Size: 13 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.053

Efficiency: 68

Mash Thickness: 1.3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.25

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 1/7/2016 6:23 AM

Notes: last 2 dry hop additions are going into the keg of one of the kegs, the other will have no keg additions.

Awards:
2nd - American Pale, score 34 - CASK, 9th Annual Virginia Beer Blitz (2015)

2nd Specialty IPA, score 37 - CASK, 9th Annual Virginia Beer Blitz (2015)

Silver Certificate, score 37, 17C: Specialty IPA (BJCP style 21B) - 1st Round NHC (2015) - Nashville, TN