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Author:

donop12

Boil Size: 11 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.049

Efficiency: 72

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.5

Primary Temp: 50 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 1/4/2019 7:32 PM

Notes:

Author:

Boil Size: 25 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.049

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 6.62

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 30 ° C

Priming Method: dextrose

Priming Amount: 103.1 g

Creation Date: 10/23/2023 12:33 PM

Notes:

Author:

tsoybeans

Boil Size: 2.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.023

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: dextrose

Priming Amount: 5 oz

Creation Date: 10/10/2022 5:17 PM

Notes: 1. Bring 2.5 Gallons of water to temp. 155-160F.

2. Add 1lb of your Pilsen DME

3. Steep your speciality grains for 20 minutes -- Oats included.

4. "Sparge" the bag using .25 gallons of 160F water.

5. Bring the wort to a boil.

6. Once boil has been acheived, add 1/2 oz El Dorado Hops to boil for 60 minutes.

7. Add your DME and Lactose at 50 minutes.

8. Turn of heat at 60 minutes

9. Add your mandarin peel to steep in the wort for 20 minutes after flameout.

10. Cool your wort to 160F-170F and add your Cascade/Amarillo hops for 20 minutes.

11. Ferment for at least 14 days in primary, at day 11, add your Galaxy, Cascade, and Amarillo hops.

My goal is to make a citrousy, creamy, smooth, juicy/smooth beer with good head retention and mouthfeel. I might switch around the hops based on what I'm shooting for.

11/4/22: Beer is a tad darker than I hoped. Sparging made a huge difference: I retained my calculated OG of 1.072 even at 5.5 gallons. Chilling with refrigerated water really did the trick to bring the temperature down fast.

11/5/2022: Beer blew out of fermentor after 24 hours. Smells and tastes amazing. Very juicy smelling. Can't wait to dry hop.

11/15/22: Added my dry hop. Galaxy hops were a tad too bitter on the nose for my preference. Finished at 1.020! Very smooth flavor and well balanced sweetness and hop! Slighty tropical/fruity smell, but not nearly as strong as I'd expect, hopefully carbonation will help with this. Color checks out, not nearly as hazy as I hoped, but hopefully this means it won't get that weird "brown" oxidation color.

11/18/2022: Bottling was a disaster. The siphon kept getting clogged which led to a bunch of re-siphoning and oxygen bubbles. I feel oxidation will almost be imminent with this beer. Overall, the flavor and aroma is pretty much where I want it. I would have liked a little more sweet orange, so I will add more orange to the brew next time. The beer is incredibly juicy and hazy, just how I want it.

Author:

RustyBarrelHomebrewing

Boil Size: 12.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.054

Efficiency: 61

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: 10/3/2022 4:05 PM

Notes: ========================
10/7/2022
just brewed last night had FG crush grain got better efficiency and volume, OG 1068 on 10.5 gallons for 61% (last batch on my mill was 51%), added maybe a gallonand a half watered it down to 1059. still could come out too malty sweet....if it hits 1011 it may be sweet from the tap water FG and lowered hops. if it ferments down to 1007 like it has before it may be less sweet but could be too boozy thick. sigh

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10/3/2022

reworking this recipe yet again after tasting the first batch which is too thin.

for this, i think the plan will be
* increase grain bill to 6%
* mash at 150
* keep half and half water
* adjust hops according to original recipe
* plan for an hope for lutra fermenting at 80% down to 1.011....in the past ive experience like 73% eek)

there are a lot of things id like to change. should not do them all at once, but here they are :
* all tap water
* two mashes - mash thickness playing a role?
** supposedly got 70% efficiency on G40 5 gal batch early '22
* brew 5 gallons
* reduce bittering hops
* more mash changes - even higher? 153? seems high
* have FG mill the grain

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10012022.
Brewed again double mill still bad efficiency but a little better. Sparged 6 gallons g40 was maxed out still a little under volume. 45 min mash at 152. Ugh.

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9162022
brew day last night awful eff new mm3 maybe to blame but did entire mash in the g40 that also maybe to blame. Prob needed to collect more wort. Boiled total 2 hours to try to boost grav and came out with only 9 gals. Anyway this will be lighter than intended but probable ok.
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9/10/22
this recipep pretty universally people said was too sweet. lets try to dry it out. try to knock down the OG and prob want to mash as low and long as possible. maybe 149 for at least 60-75 mins. last brew was over 6%abv lets go for like 5,7=6.0

for water i am diluting tap with RO and it pretty much matches pilsen light lager profile with no adjustments so lets go with that. there is also a munich profile which might also be more fitting but it said for marzen and maibock, darker maltier versions so lets just try this.
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6/26/22
plunder contest judges scored it 28 and said it was too sweet, which i can kind of get. we shall see what NHC said. need to check FG from notebook. it is delicious but also could probably be crisper and more conduscive to festival drinking, would also like it to be a little more yellow. consider scaling the malt bill down just a little.
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4/10/22

scaling down to 5.5 gallons, rounding off grain amounts. gonna run it with regular tap water as i did before!

adjusted hops slightly for even amounts and to fall within middle of the ibu range

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1/18/2022
setting up for winter/spring 2022 hopefully submission to NHC.

adjusting for equipment and volumes for G40. adjusting abv a little lower per guidelines.

removing 2row.

consider dropping to 1.0 qt/lb to fit in G40. will need to sparge with 8 gallons...

NEED TO do water profile for this.

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~2021
rebrewed this for 2021. did not enter any contests or even bottle/can any. was on draft in the garage for several delicious months.

did not take any notes for the 2021 batch so i assume i pretty much brewed it the same.

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11/15/2020
won gold medal malty european lagers category in 2020 JRHB Dominion Cup.
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8/27/20
brewed last night. mostly went well. started with 12.5 gallons wort as planned but it easily boiled down to about 10-10.5 gallons. could collect more wort next time or boil softer. first gravity reading was 1.070 and i was at about 8 or 8.5 gallons after trub filtered out. topped up with tap water. chilled overnight in ferm chamber and pitched in the morning.

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8/26/20
brew day. tried to mess with water calculations a little. not really sure what to use for festbier/oktoberfest. playing with balanced profile. ran into the HCO chalk issue again, not sure how to fix. looks like i could make it work with "light colored and malty" profile. going to need 16 or more gallons mash/sparge water, might just run it with tap.

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8/21/2020
i think i am going to go for it with this thing. today adding some acidulated malt based on henrico guess profile to hit pH, hopefully i will remember to take a reading.
todo :
* what to do about head retention?
** adding .75lb carafoam for foam and head retention
*** https://beerandbrewing.com/d-lite-festbier-recipe/
* how much yeast?
** according to yeast calculator (depending on the mfg date) i need 4 packs plus a 4L 1.050 starter, pound and half of DME decanting, etc.. yikes! yeast alone would be like $35.
** alternatively, i have a lot of 34/70 from two batches that i could use...
** brulosophy compared german bock lager yeast with 34/70 and eventually could barely tell difference :
*** http://brulosophy.com/2016/07/21/yeast-comparison-saflager-w-3470-vs-wlp833-german-bock-lager-exbeeriment-results/
** im learning that 34/70 is equiv to WY2124 and WLP830 some say the white labs come out different.
** i think i might just keg the two lagers i have in chamber and rack the 10gal batch on top of the cakes...? or maybe half cakes? after some reading, seems about right. some say only 1/4 cake. at end of fermentation slurry contains about 6x cells. that is 600 billion per 5 gal batch. i need 717 billion for 10 gallons, so 358 billion per 5 gal bucket, divided by 600 = 0.58 so i need 58% of each of the yeast cakes.

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2/4/2020
todo :
* consider some crystal malt - no head retention...possibly some light munich

festbier flavors developed nicely however the beer was way too malty sweet probably because it was up over 7%abv. modifiying recipe down to 5.5% abv.

breakdown on previous recipe formulation :
* i kind of customized a lot. the original aha recipe is only remotely close. but it was designed for 5.8%. i probably just aimed higher than i should have and came out even higher than planned.
* hop adjustments - reduced the hop contribution a little bit to land in the middle of the IBU range but also adjustments to bump up the BU/GU ratio (0.38 previously, currently its at 0.48)
* i got to 1.010 with 85% attenuation. for the updated recipe this attenuation results in 1.007. id considered doing some crystal malt, but lets just do a 30 minute mash and see what that does.

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1/22/2020
just went into cold crash after 9 days at diacetyl based off of beer & brewing article. other places im seeing say only 2 days is needed. would prob benefit for more time in cold crash (if time is of essence). not sure if it hurts to have it at rest temp for longer tho.
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12/19/2019
i think i am going to retry this to have ready feb 1. took a pound off the grain bill to lower the abv to more standard level.

for fermentation and diacetyl rest strategy :
we are going out of town in a couple days so if i get this brew done before i leave, i will probably just let it go for 6 or 8 days at 50 then slowly raise it up to 55 when i get back. keep it there for another 3 days then cold crash until feb.

alternatively beer and brewing suggests something like this :
* 50deg for first 48 hours
* raise one degree each day for 10 days
* on day 11, allow temp to free rise to (warmest temp in brewery, but lets just say 70)
* 9 days later start the cold crash

i was considering cold crashing for only a couple days then moving to keg. ive read other places tho that it can benefit from sitting on that yeast cake all that time. on the other hand it would be nice to get it into a closed safe clean keg....???idk

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update 10/20/19
this beer is way off. i thought it was too malty sweet but i think it is actually diacetyl (or possibly DMS but diacetyl would make more sense) - i pitched the wort on top of oktoberfest yeast cake that had been sitting (in a covered bucket in cold ferm chamber, but...) for several days, maybe even a week. also i went away in the middle of fermentation and wasnt able to ease it up to diacetyl rest temperature properly accordinig to the schedule written out below. need to retry this with 1) proper fermentation schedule 2) fresh or uncontaminated yeast 3) try the original recipe? i think with no malt changes on my system it will still come out at 6%
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update 10/7/19
ugh looks like this will accidentally come out at 8%. fermented down farther than the average for this yeast. (avg 75% shouldve been 1.018 but its 1.011 at 85%) (i did pitch right onto the cake from oktoberfest so shouldve been a lot of cells). i brewed this first on a double brew day so the mash was sitting for the full 60 if not longer. i was actually away at gabf so didnt do the exact procedure below, but rather rest the chamber for on the morning of day 4 before i left town. on the morning of day 7 i measure 1.011 and turned the chamber back down to 35. consider diluting before kegging?
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basically took the recipe word for word. 90 minute boil because of the pilsner malt, will utilize that time for more IBUs with less hops via FWH. https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/homebrew-recipe/pickelhaube-festbier/

for diacetyl rest, copied from virginia lager recipe :
going to do byo fast ferment approach janFeb2017. reread but start at 44-50 let fermentation go 50% then (remove the probe from the fermentor let it reach ambient temp then...?) raise temp 5 degrees every 12 hours til you get to 65-68. once you get 100% you can crank down to lager temp (<40) for 3-5 days then you done. this will take care of diacetyl rest and apparently gets the lager completely done in 2-3 weeks.

sources :
* https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/homebrew-recipe/pickelhaube-festbier/
* https://beerandbrewing.com/make-your-best-oktoberfest/

Author:

elaplant74

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 45

Boil Gravity: 1.048

Efficiency: 77

Mash Thickness: 1.17

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: dextrose

Priming Amount: 4 oz

Creation Date: 8/14/2022 3:25 AM

Notes:

Author:

HighVoltageMan!

Boil Size: 13.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.049

Efficiency: 85

Mash Thickness: 1.5

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: 5/31/2022 10:52 PM

Notes:

Author:

Andy_D

Boil Size: 8 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.049

Efficiency: 70

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: 8/23/2020 10:34 PM

Notes: ADDITIONS INFO:
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1 tsp ≈ 3.6 g → in 5 gal this adds about:
Ca²⁺: +~50 ppm
Cl⁻: +~90 ppm

No gypsum as we don't want to make it drier that our water profile already pushes things

MASH INFO:
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60 min at 157 °F single infusion → maximizes dextrins for body

Single mash focuses on alpha rest:
Beta amylase
Most active: ~140–149 °F (60–65 °C)
Cleaves maltose units from starch chains → highly fermentable sugars
Too long in this range → thin, dry beer

Alpha amylase
Most active: ~154–162 °F (68–72 °C)
Chops starch randomly → mix of fermentable sugars + dextrins (unfermentable)
More alpha activity → fuller body, higher FG

YEAST AND HOPS INFO:
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https://www.whitelabs.com/yeast-single?id=137&type=YEAST&srsltid=AfmBOoolNkgfKh2kKPXvmrKOCyooTK9sZehhmsf0wlHra7_sJNrxK62u

https://yakimavalleyhops.com/collections/french-hop-varieties/products/strissel-spalt-hop-pellets

https://yakimavalleyhops.com/products/mistral-hop-pellets?variant=41201998463109

Author:

mbhein

Boil Size: 11 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.055

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 67 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 7/29/2020 1:01 AM

Notes:

Author:

RustyBarrelHomebrewing

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.051

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: 8/26/2019 2:42 PM

Notes: 3/31/2020:
i am unsure if i actually brewed this version. there was a bit of a notetaking snafu. i am archiving this recipe, the running version of this beer recipe is here : https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/edit/952513

8/26/2019 :
adapted from brew your own clone recipe. unclear when this appeared in print. https://byo.com/recipe/stone-ipa-clone/

they boil for 90 minutes (probably to get more bitterness out of less hops, those smarties) they also use perle + magnum but i will just use enough magnum for 60 mins to get up to IBU. the recipe calls for whole hops for dry hop but that will depend on availability / convenience...

Author:

CiaranFebers

Boil Size: 620 Litres

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.06

Efficiency: 80

Mash Thickness: 3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/19/2019 7:16 PM

Notes:

Author:

Sanker

Boil Size: 3 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.109

Efficiency: 25

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 72 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/18/2014 11:18 AM

Notes:

Author:

Slade Wolf

Boil Size: 3 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.098

Efficiency: 25

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Partial Mash

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 70 ° F

Priming Method: corn sugar

Priming Amount: .75 cup

Creation Date: 10/12/2018 5:51 PM

Notes:

Author:

Basshook Brewery

Boil Size: 3 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.102

Efficiency: 35

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: Priming sugar

Priming Amount: 5 oz

Creation Date: 10/16/2017 2:22 AM

Notes:

Author:

gumoya

Boil Size: 3.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.043

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: 1.3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.5

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: 35.48 psi

Creation Date: 9/16/2017 8:01 AM

Notes:

Author:

Matthew Dawes

Boil Size: 17 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.049

Efficiency: 60

Mash Thickness: N/A

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: 2/14/2017 3:24 PM

Notes:

Author:

Duguid1080@gmail.com

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.053

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.3

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: 8/6/2016 12:53 PM

Notes: This beer is rich and malty, but with a devilishly huge hop aroma and flavor. It’s the perfect homebrew recipe for malt lovers and hopheads alike.

Author:

Beamers Creek Brewery

Boil Size: 42.3 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.059

Efficiency: 72

Mash Thickness: 2.5

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: 4/6/2016 12:24 AM

Notes:

Author:

strle

Boil Size: 33 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.04

Efficiency: 68

Mash Thickness: 3

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: 12/8/2015 10:12 PM

Notes:

Author:

Manhole

Boil Size: 28.5 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.045

Efficiency: 70

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: 9/20/2015 1:46 PM

Notes: Yeast alt: wlp002/ Wyeast 1968

Author:

Justin Keenan

Boil Size: 5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: N/A

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Partial Mash

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 11/13/2012 11:29 PM

Notes: I had the Vanilla porter from Mill St. in Toronto, ON and loved it. This was a recipe I found to try and produce the same beer. Compared to the Mill St. version I thought this one was a bit hoppy and not quite enough vanilla. However the beer was fantastic even for my non-dark beer drinking friends. I will definitely try this recipe again!