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Author:

Lilburgh

Boil Size: 7.75 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.043

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.35

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: 1/28/2015 8:28 PM

Notes: Adding Blood Oranges direct to Primary for 14 days (not minutes) on Brew day. Add fruit just as Fermentation is slowing down, usually 2 days after pitching yeast.

I peel and puree the Blood Oranges in a sanitized blender. I sanitize the blender and my hands while handling the fruit like I do my fermenters, using StarSan.

Author:

EvilDeadAsh

Boil Size: 6.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: N/A

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: Corn Sugar

Priming Amount: 4.1 oz

Creation Date: 8/17/2012 7:51 PM

Notes: This is not my own recipe, but taken from homebrewtalk.com member Biermuncher

14 days primary, then bottle / keg @ ~2.4 vol Co2

Author:

Steve Espach

Boil Size: 3.98 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: N/A

Efficiency: 73

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: 2/21/2011 8:24 PM

Notes: Last holiday season I needed a festive beer to drink under the tannenbaum, so I moving away from any “Wassail” style of heavier bodied winter warmers with orange and clove flavors and going with a comforting favorite like oatmeal cookies which include some flavorings and spices such as: toasted oatmeal, raisins, cinnamon and vanilla.

– Toast the raw oats in the oven at 300ºF until it becomes golden brown and smells like cookies. (Takes around 1 hour)
– Use a mesh bag (aka Brew-in-a-Bag) for grist and oatmeal in the mash.
– 90 min. add Northern Brewer hops
– 15 min. add Irish moss
– 5 min. add East Kent Goldings hops
– Post boil add Raisins

Add to secondary Vanilla and cinnamon

I made homemade Dark Brown sugar made by mixing the proportions of 1 cup of cane sugar to 2 tbsp of molasses. The recipe calls for 10 oz. of dark brown sugar which is almost 2 cups loosely packed and I added 4 tbsp. of molasses plus an extra tablespoon to make it dark brown sugar.
Add raisins at the end of the boil to plump them up.
Lightly carbonated using 30.42 g. of Candi sugar at 64ºF to produce 2.0 vol of CO2

The aroma is toasty, vanilla, cinnamon and there is a big bubbled light tan head; the flavor is malty sweet, raisiny, "bourbony"; full bodied, unctuous mouthfeel; light but refreshing carbonation.

Author:

magsta628

Boil Size: 8.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.043

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 69 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/15/2013 4:07 PM

Notes: Dry hopping after 9 days with 1 oz of fresh Cascade and 0.5 oz of fresh Citra. Also added 13 g of grapefruit zest from 6 large grapefruits. Little worried because they had some green areas (underripe??). I washed them before zesting, then put them in a fine mesh bag and soaked them in sanitizer for ~1 minute. Then into the fermenter!

OG = ~1.055
FG = 1.015

Second brew - 10-30-13
Dry hopped after 9 days with 1 oz fresh cascade and 0.5 oz fresh Citra. Added 43 g of grapefruit zest from 3 large yellow grapefruits. These ones yielded way more zest than the last ones! I washed before zesting, then put in a fine mesh bag and dunked in sanitizer before putting into fermenter.

Third brew - 2-15-14
With our full boil setup, had to reduce the hops so it wouldn't be too bitter. Otherwise, kept it mostly the same. This round of Citra hops was super high alpha. Mashed 7.1 pounds grain in 3 gallons of water at ~150-152 for an hour. Heated up to 170, removed grains. Sparged grains with 3 gallons of 170 degree water. Going for a starting boil volume of ~6 gallons, with about a gallon of boil off.

OG - <1.06. Measured ~1.06 then added another quart of water, and the yeast starter. Final volume (before yeast starter) ~4.75. After yeast starter, 5.2 gal or so.

Fourth brew: All grain batch. 9-20-14
First all grain batch! We used a single infusion mash @ 154. It dropped down to maybe 152 by the end of the hour. We opened the cooler and stirred every 15 mins. We collected 6.5 gallons for the boil, it had a gravity of 1.06. I have no idea what that makes our efficiency. Our final boil volume was ~5 gallons, but lost a good amount to trub (lots of hops). Volume was 4.5 gals with an OG of 1.07+. Added 3/4 of a gallon H2O, got it to ~1.64. Pitched yeast starter. Had a kraussen the next day!
9-30-14 Dry hopped with 35 g of grapefruit zest from 7 small (washed) grapefruits. Also 0.5 oz citra and 1 oz cascade. Sanitized hops bags but not hops. Sanitized bag for zest and dunked the zest in sanitizer.

Brew on 3/14/15
-changed hop profile to decrease IBUs slightly base on taste of last beer.
-doing larger boil volume to get right amount for fermentation
-mashing at 152.
- OG was a little low (1.06?). Think our efficiency was more like 60%.
Dry hopping on 3/22/15
- 39 g of zest from 7 small grapefruits. Tried a new technique for sanitizing: Sanitized whole grapefruits (after washing), microplane, and a bowl. Zested the grapefruits right out of the sanitizer.Putting zest into sanitized hop bag then into carboy. Avoids putting all the fresh zest into starsan.
Used 1 oz cascade, 1 oz citra (up from 0.5 oz in previous batches), both whole leaf.

Brewing 11-7-15
Increasing hops because we want to. Making Northern Brewer 1 oz (instead of 0.75) and adding another half ounce of Citra, don't know when yet... update later.

Author:

pdoh00

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.038

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.5

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: 2/19/2015 6:14 PM

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Author:

Genus Brewing

Boil Size: 1.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.134

Efficiency: 50

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: 1/7/2014 9:13 PM

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Author:

JL Brygghus

Boil Size: 29 Litres

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.041

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 18 ° C

Priming Method: Sukker

Priming Amount: 8

Creation Date: 5/16/2015 8:04 AM

Notes: Jeg har brukt fersk aprikos som ble hakket i biter, kokt og most til purè.
Denne ble så fryst, tilsettes etter stormgjæring.

Synes 800g gir en balansert smal av aprikos. Om man ønsker å komme enda nærmere originalen kan man øke til ca 1000g purè.

Author:

dpatrickv

Boil Size: 7 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.056

Efficiency: 70

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: 4/17/2012 4:59 PM

Notes: single-rest mash around 150-152
Pitch yeast at 65, ramp up to 75 over 48 hours.

Rakau hops give this beer an amazing tropical note. Very drinkable "Imperial saison"

1st place for 16C Saison cat. at the Buffalo County Fair in Nebraska 2013.

http://bcf.brewcomp.com/?Submit=Beer+%26+Mead+Results

Author:

Boil Size: 28 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.043

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 3.1

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 19 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 6/17/2016 12:01 PM

Notes: Added the mango puree in after a week of fermentation, then dryed hopped for 3 days with a day cold crash ...

Author:

Boil Size: 7 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.061

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.5

Primary Temp: 70 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 1/5/2017 6:37 PM

Notes: 1. Be sure to crush the oat malt well as it tends to crush differently than the barley.
2. Use around a 1:2 sulfate to chloride water profile.
3. Add green apple puree towards the beginning of the boil. This adds pectin to create haze and body.
4. Add flour with 20 minutes left in the boil. See note below.
5. Add the lactose sugar with 10 minutes left in the boil.
6. Do not add fining.
7. Add whirlpool hops slowly over a 45 minute period starting at flameout, keeping the whirlpool moving the whole time.
8. Ferment in the warm range
9. Add half of dry hops in 2-3 days, when the krausen is still high.
10. 4-6 days later, when fermentation is mostly done, rack into a secondary on top of vanilla bean and fruit puree.
11. Allow to condition on the fruit alone for 4-6 days, then add the rest of the dry hops.
12. Cold crash and package 4-7 days later.

Target fermeter volume is 6+ gallons to end up with 5 gallons after all the loss to dry hopping and fruit etc. Use at least a 6.5 gallon fermenter. Add a few drops of Fermcap-S to prevent blowoff.

Flour in the boil tends can make sticky dough balls. Wondra Flour dissolves better than regular flour. Use a sifter if you have one and add slowly.

Tired Hands Milkshakes only use Citra and Mosaic hops. Consider adding Simcoe for dankness. Consider substituting Galaxy or Azzaca for the Citra for a more mango candy sweet, less citrus hop profile.

Author:

TampaTony

Boil Size: 13 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.058

Efficiency: 80

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 64 ° F

Priming Method: Force Carb

Priming Amount: 30 PSI

Creation Date: 7/24/2013 2:47 PM

Notes: Duvel Clone

Infusion Mash at 145 degrees for 90 minutes can be subbed for step mash.

Acidulated malt can be subbed for lactic acid or any other acid to get the mash down to 5.4 PH.

Use a 3-4L starter for 10 gallons
Pitch starter @ 64F and allow temp to rise to 80F over 1 week

About 2-3 days after pitching, when the primary is just past high krausen and falling, boil 1/2 gallon of water and disolve cane sugar in it, cover and let cool to room temp and add sugar to achieve 93% attenuation

After fermentation, cold crash for 24-48 hours, rack to keg with gelatin for crystal clear beer and allow to cold condition for 10 weeks

Force carb @ 30 psi for 48 hours for high carbonation.

Author:

cgrivois

Boil Size: 8.1 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.027

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: 3/6/2016 10:33 PM

Notes: Add tsp of Amylase Enzyme to secondary at day 14

Author:

JamieM

Boil Size: 5.75 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.046

Efficiency: 67

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.5

Primary Temp: 65 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 9/13/2015 11:46 AM

Notes: Double pitch

Author:

LJvermonster

Boil Size: 7.3 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.059

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.25

Primary Temp: 66 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 6/20/2014 2:42 AM

Notes: Total Water Volume Needed = 10.00 gal
Mash Water = 5.5 gal
Sparge Water = 4.5 gal
Strike Temp = 160 Deg
Mash Temp = 148 for 90 minutes

Pre-Boil Volume = 7.3 Gallons
Add Fermcap-S at boil
Add Corn Sugar with 15 minutes left on the boil
Add Whirlfloc tablets 15 minutes left in boil

Rehydrate US-05 prior to pitching
May want to filter hops from brew kettle to primary

Author:

Bakke Brygg

Boil Size: 29 Litres

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.04

Efficiency: 78

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.25

Primary Temp: 16 ° C

Priming Method: Sukkerlake

Priming Amount: 6,5 g sukker/L

Creation Date: 5/2/2014 10:58 AM

Notes: Mengden meske- og skyllevann du bør bruke kommer an på utstyret og metoden du brygger med. Som et anslag kan vi si at du kan bruke 20 l meskevann og 13,3 l skyllevann til dette ølet. Noen bryggemaskiner (f.eks. Speidel Braumeister) kan kreve større mengder meskevann. Sjekk alltid manualen på utstyret du bruker.

Mesking på 65 grader i 75 min. Utmesk på 77 grader i 5 min hvis du har mulighet til å øke temperatur i mesken.

Kjøl ned til 15 grader før pitching av gjær.

Gjæring på 16 grader til stormgjæring begynner å avta (typisk etter 3-5 dager). Øk deretter til 20 grader og hold resten av gjæringsperioden (totalt 14 dager).

Gjæralternativer: WLP011, WLP036, Safale K-97

Author:

Jeremiah White

Boil Size: 7.44 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.035

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 62 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 1/24/2016 10:32 PM

Notes: If Cara Blonde is not available to you, use 10L. Galaxy is pivot-able to this recipe, I suggest not substituting for it. Works well with Kolsch yeasts too.

Won the Brewmaster wars in Fort Walton Beach July 2017 with WLP029 rather than S05.

Author:

hockeycns

Boil Size: 3 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: N/A

Efficiency: 70

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: 10/11/2012 4:11 PM

Notes: This is a recipe that I came up with for a clone of something like coors light. This beer does have a little bit more body than a regular can of coors light but all of my friends who don't like the IPAs or darker beers love it and keep asking for more!

Author:

Seaview Brewery

Boil Size: 7 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.05

Efficiency: 60

Mash Thickness: 1.3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1

Primary Temp: 64 ° F

Priming Method: Forced Carbonation

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/6/2016 7:51 PM

Notes: This recipe most closely resembles Congress Street IPA. I plan to test different ABVs by adjusting the malt weights, but keeping the general grist intact. Also this malt bill would be the base for many different hop combos. For yeast I'm using the Conan strain, but experimenting with different English strains is another possibility. WLP007 Dry English Ale yeast is speculated to be the true yeast used (BYO, 9/15 issue).

Many thanks to Trillium for being so open regarding ingredients on their website and JC for offering tips in the Beer Advocate forum.

Author:

Ozarks Mountain Brew

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.035

Efficiency: 72

Mash Thickness: 1.75

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 62 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 10/6/2014 7:58 PM

Notes:

Author:

Bakke Brygg

Boil Size: 29 Litres

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.058

Efficiency: 73

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.75

Primary Temp: 10 ° C

Priming Method: Sukkerlake

Priming Amount: 6 g sukker/L

Creation Date: 9/25/2013 1:24 PM

Notes: Mengden meske- og skyllevann du bør bruke kommer an på utstyret og metoden du brygger med. Som et anslag kan vi si at du kan bruke 20 l meskevann og 15,8 l skyllevann til dette ølet. Noen bryggemaskiner (f.eks. Speidel Braumeister) kan kreve større mengder meskevann. Sjekk alltid manualen på utstyret du bruker.

I dette ølet kan et mer avansert meskeskjema være verdt å prøve:
55 grader i 15 min (proteinsteg)
63 grader i 45 min (beta-amylasesteg)
72 grader i 15 min (alfa-amylasesteg)
77 grader i 5 min (utmesk)

ELLER:
Mesking på 66 grader i 75 min. Utmesk på 77 grader i 5 min hvis du har mulighet til å øke temperatur i mesken.

Kjøl ned til 9 grader før pitching av gjær.

Gjæring på 10 grader til 2/3 av FG er nådd (typisk etter 10-14 dager). Øk deretter gradvis (ca. 1 grad pr. dag) til 17 grader. Hold på 18 grader i 2-3 dager. Senk deretter til 10 grader eller lavere før tapping (totalt 20-28 dager).

Gjæralternativer: WLP830, WLP838, Saflager 34/70

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