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Author:

mechamaniaboy

Boil Size: 36.7 Litres

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.025

Efficiency: 63

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.5

Primary Temp: 14 ° C

Priming Method: Forced carbonation

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 5/17/2018 7:35 PM

Notes: Ferment for 4-5 days at 58°F/15°C. Ramp temp to 68°F/20°C and allow beer to finish fermenting (usually 3-5 more days). Cold crash for 12-24 hours, then fine with gelatin and let sit for another 12-24 hours before packaging.

Author:

JeremyLeBlond

Boil Size: 6.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 45

Boil Gravity: 1.045

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.75

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: 1/19/2024 9:29 PM

Notes:

Author:

Markbrew65

Boil Size: 28.5 Litres

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.032

Efficiency: 60

Mash Thickness: 2

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 16 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 1/3/2023 12:25 AM

Notes: Mash at 65 degrees C for 90 minutes
boil for 90mins.
Ferment at 16 degrees C and allow to lager for 4 weeks.

make a starter and save a sample for future brews.

dry yeast option - Lalbrew Koln Kolsch Style Ale Yeast 11g

Author:

RustyBarrelHomebrewing

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.059

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: 1/11/2022 4:20 AM

Notes: ================================
1/10/2022
modifying from egg nog beer to make the chocolate beer.
still need to figure out how to do the chocolate, most likely from cacao nibs and white chocolate flavoring, but how much.

need water chem for this? worried about color and clarity.

doesnt seem on theme but consider using a faint amount of vanilla bean or coconut. they might enhance the chocolate flavor without giving themselves away
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12/22/2021
follow up notes. adding volume to the batch size to account for the 2ndary addition of lactose and nutmeg mixture of approx 0.75 gallon, bringing abv down to about 8.1%. It still doesnt taste like an 8% beer but 8 is probably more accurate than 9.

if and when you rebrew you will prob need to adjust the pre and post boil numbers.
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12/19/2021
final notes - beer turned out great! i think still could use more nutmeg, the color was pretty good - mostly yellow to golden. the body was nice, on the thin side for a hefty beer but that was sort of the intent and it worked well. vanilla came through nice. pretty sweet but not too sweet imo.

still didnt take another FG of the final beer or adjust OG calculations for the added lactose volume. calculator says over 9 that is definitely wrong. it really does not taste or feel like it could be 8% so if I had to guess I would say its probably 7% or 7.5% at most.

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12/3/2021
not sure whats going on with FG. Got a reading at 1.010 dont understand how that is possible with the lactose.

Tasted not very sweet or nutmeggy so I added another 1/2lb lactose and 1.5tsp nutmeg to some water into the keg before transfer. that will dilute the beer a little from these numbers.

beer tastes really thin bodied. Not sure if I like the thin body since that was what I was aiming for? or if it needs to be beefed up with more malt, and maybe reduce the sugar.

Light light color almost too light. It does look like a cream ale, I was picturing more of a yellow, but this is like transluscent bud light / cream ale yellow.

Beer has nutmeg sediment floating around. Next time consider fresh crushed nutmeg in bigger chunks that way you can filter it out.

The beer tastes pretty good though overall. It could probably be sweeter, again with maybe more base malt and less sugar.

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11/19/2021
Brew day boosting warrior to boost ibu from 30 to 46ish .bu to gu seems really low especially with lactose
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11/17/2021
brew day update. got RO water and added some salts to the recipe for light colored and malty profile. i think it wouldve been fine with tap but i was worried about the beer coming out orange which has been happening with some of my ipas using tap only...

the ph is a little low because i already have acid malt in the grist. i think its mixed in so too late to remove it.
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11/7/2021
since egg nog many times is mixed with bourbon, bourbon oak aged version of this wouldnt be off the table....

maybe taste/can half or 2/3 of the batch from the keg then add the oak to the rest...?

--nutmeg discussion--
note that freshly ground nutmeg is not the same by weight/flavor as preground. grating 2 1/2 nutmeg seems like a PITA but im worried about messing up the conversion to preground so i may just do it that way?

"There is no exact standard of conversion between fresh and preground, but to give you an idea, you might only need 1/4 tsp of freshly ground nutmeg where you might need a whole teaspoon of preground – and you’ll probably get more flavor from that 1/4-tsp." from https://bakingbites.com/2009/08/whole-vs-freshly-ground-nutmeg/

that makes me think that 2 1/2 fresh ground nutmeg is really a ton...?

confusingly, my pumpkin ale uses 6 grams pumpkin pie spice. northern brewer winter spiced ale uses 0.5oz mulling spice which is 141g but i think those are whole spices. another winter warmer recipe im seeing is 1 1/4 teaspoon total spices including 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg.

calculator showing 0.25oz nutmeg (which is how much is used in many pumpkin ales is about 7.1 g) that is close to what i use for pumpkin but it might be too powerful for just nutmeg so lets go with something a little lower like 3 or 4g.

it should be easy enough to measure it in grams but in case you want to just use teaspoons : 1tsp nutmeg is 2.37g so 4/2.37 = 1.68 tsp i.e. 1 3/4 teaspoon

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10/28/2021
adding a bit of cane sugar to cut down on base malt just thinking that we want to keep it light colored..? can go against the body thickness of the beer but we are using the flaked barley and oats and we could mash higher for a higher FG? At the same time there is the lactose so we dont want it to come out too too sweet.

noticing high pH so adding some acid malt.

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update 12/31/2019 : combining egg nog stout and blonde stout recipes to create this new blonde egg nog ale which i think would aesthetically be more accurate, and less similar to GBS.

for this im going for like a light colored sweet lactose ale, like imperial cream ale crossed with barley/wheatwine, but adding thick body adjuncts as well like a NEIPA. consider adding wheat.

original stout recipe here : https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/578314
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update 11/26/2018 : there is an egg nog milk stout recipe in brooklyn brew shop's beer making book. it calls for 2 1/2 whole nutmegs (grated), 1 lb lactose, and 3 (!) vanilla beans.
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update 11/25/2018 : not sure the original thoughts here but
i think we would need to add vanilla bean, nutmeg and possibly cinnamon. would this be significantly different than GBS? obviously no ginger, but seems similar. adding british ale yeast just thinking maybe i could then piggy back the yeast and make a barleywine, but might be too roastey to reuse....
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working recipe from left hand milk stout clone : https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/homebrew-recipe/left-hand-milk-stout-clone/

needs scaling for higher abv

Author:

Nelson Smither

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.039

Efficiency: 80

Mash Thickness: 2

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: 23.72 psi

Creation Date: 9/24/2021 3:21 PM

Notes:

Author:

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.048

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 1.25

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 1/20/2021 4:23 PM

Notes:

Author:

Endre

Boil Size: 48 Litres

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.053

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 2.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.5

Primary Temp: 10 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 7/15/2020 8:52 PM

Notes:

Author:

PlatonicBeer89

Boil Size: 6.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 30

Boil Gravity: 13.1

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Plato

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/9/2020 9:43 PM

Notes:

Author:

MeemoNZ

Boil Size: 27 Litres

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.048

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: 2.22 bar

Creation Date: 10/9/2019 2:12 AM

Notes:

Author:

Brave Dog Beers - Leo Cruz

Boil Size: 35 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 10.7

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 3

Sugar Scale: Plato

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.5

Primary Temp: 20 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 11/2/2018 7:05 PM

Notes:

Author:

brag

Boil Size: 34.3 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.04

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 18 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 8/13/2015 9:00 PM

Notes:

Author:

Gemuadrken

Boil Size: 6.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.036

Efficiency: 60

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: 4/29/2018 10:37 PM

Notes: Process
Two things are going to bulk this beer up, and both are to be found in the process. First, we’re actually going to increase the body: mash this beer high, at about 156°F (69°C) (this is one of the few that deviates from my standard 152°F/67°C mash temperature). That mash will yield a lot of long-chain sugars that the yeast won’t be able to convert into ethanol and CO2, and when left in the beer, they will impart a fullness in the mouthfeel that will make the beer feel much more mature and “big” than its ABV would suggest. Second, run off about a gallon of wort and boil it down by 50 percent. This “kettle caramelization” will add a rich malt flavor to the beer, but it will also increase the perception of body.
Once you’ve done your kettle caramelization, run off the rest of the wort (remember to add in a bit extra to your sparge water calculation to account for the evaporation you’ll get during kettle caramelization) and boil as usual.
Fermentation should resemble the kind of conditions our Scottish friends would recognize: cool. Treat this beer like a hybrid rather than a proper ale: I ferment mine at 60°F (13°C) for about two weeks. You can ramp up the temperature if you want, but I’ve never found it necessary. This is a “set-and-forget” fermentation for at least two reasons. First, the yeast doesn’t have much to do—there’s not much sugar hanging around. And second, a less-thorough fermentation won’t hurt you that much, since it will simply add a touch of sweetness and body to the finished beer.
After activity ceases, cold crash and carbonate to 1.5 volumes of CO2. It’s a little low, but I think you’ll find it makes it possible to really appreciate the malt character!

Author:

Boil Size: 26 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.044

Efficiency: 72

Mash Thickness: 3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 18 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/21/2018 8:38 PM

Notes:

Author:

Mike Shea

Boil Size: 13 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.04

Efficiency: 85

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 64 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 11/14/2017 3:11 PM

Notes:

Author:

Starter Hops

Boil Size: 7 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.044

Efficiency: 68

Mash Thickness: 1.19

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 65 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 10/7/2017 10:16 AM

Notes: big starter

Author:

OVBrewer

Boil Size: 28.5 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.032

Efficiency: 75

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: 4/6/2017 9:41 AM

Notes:

Author:

Water'n'Wine Truro

Boil Size: 12.15 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.04

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 1.4

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: 12/22/2016 8:47 PM

Notes:

Author:

Boil Size: 28.5 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.122

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: 2.6

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: 10/3/2016 1:05 PM

Notes:

Author:

markbumpus

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.045

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 2.0

Primary Temp: 50 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 1/15/2016 2:57 PM

Notes:

Author:

etaylor336

Boil Size: 14 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.04

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 64 ° F

Priming Method: Force Carbination

Priming Amount: 15 PSI

Creation Date: 12/31/2015 10:56 PM

Notes: Initial brew of Jamil's Dunkelweizen