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Author:

bowlersp

Boil Size: 2.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.068

Efficiency: 35

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/6/2014 1:59 PM

Notes: The .5lb of UK Coffee Malt is actually .5lb of Northern Brewers Nocturnal Select Grain Blend: http://www.northernbrewer.com/shop/nocturnal-select-grain-blend.html

The Original Gravity came out to 1.067 and was taken at room temperature with the wort temperature around 70 degrees.

Author:

Blackmuse

Boil Size: 4.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 30

Boil Gravity: 1.039

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 7/23/2014 1:53 PM

Notes: Buy 2 packs of Danstar Nottingham dry yeast.

Phoenix is said to have Molasses/Chocolate/Spicy characteristics.

Mash in at 2.5 gallons of water.

Sparge with 2 gallons of water warmed to 170 degrees. This should bring the boil water level to something between 4 and 4.5 gallons.

Boil with an open lid again and a nice roiling boil like last time.

** This method worked great! Originally set for 63% conversion 1.051 OG but instead hit 77% conversion and a 1.062 OG! :)

Author:

BEERngineer

Boil Size: 23.7 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.071

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 18.33 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/18/2015 1:07 AM

Notes: Add Hops, chocolate, and coffee as specified. Ferment for 2 weeks at 65F.

Soak ground kona coffee in 1 cup boiled, cooled water and leave overnight, covered in refrigerator.
Strain out grounds and add cold coffee to secondary. Rack fermented stout into this mixture and condition in secondary at 55-60F for 2-6 mos.

Author:

FatsSchindee

Boil Size: 3.2 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.028

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 62 ° F

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 9/28/2017 2:10 AM

Notes: The second German Smoked malt (10 oz) is actually Oak-smoked Wheat Malt. This brings the total wheat malt to 50% of the grist, and the total smoked malt to 50%, also (33.3% rauch malt and 16.7% smoked wheat malt).

Bring to 10 min boil after mashing, adding whirlfloc at 10 min. Then cool to 95-100°F, pre-acidify to 4.5 pH using Lactic acid, and then Kettle sour with one Goodbelly shot for 24 hours - pH dropped to 3.2. Then bring to a boil to kill off lacto, and add 60 min hops (any noble will work). Chill, then pitch yeast (Kolsch strain or German Ale would work well). Carbonate high.

Won third place in 2018 Cactus Challenge, Historical, Alternative, Speciality Beer category.

Author:

jessiepagan3

Boil Size: 8.73 Gallons

Boil Time: 120

Boil Gravity: 1.126

Efficiency: 52

Mash Thickness: 1

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.25

Primary Temp: 65 ° F

Priming Method: Dextrose

Priming Amount: 3.5

Creation Date: 6/9/2016 6:04 PM

Notes: First off, you'll notice that I calculated this Barleywine at 52% brewhouse efficiency. The first time I brewed this recipe, I calculated it at 60% (I had never attempted anything like this before), but only got 52%. If you're using a cooler mash tun, you're going to want to pick up another cooler and split the mash between the two. If you do so, recalculate your efficiency accordingly.

Don't go with the standard 1.5 qt/lb water/grain ratio with this one. This is meant to be a chewy beer, so we're gonna go with 1 qt/lb in the mash. We'll do a full hour at 144°F to make sure the beta-amylase is happy. Still want some palatable malty sweetness, so raise it up to 158°F for 25 minutes and let the alpha enzymes do their thing. Mash out at 168°F.

Don't rush any of the processes or cut back on any expenses when you brew this beer. If you're going to attempt something like this, go hard or go home. Water chemistry, pH stabilizers, yeast nutrient, etc.; she deserves it all!

Note the 2-hour boil time.

The best way to ferment this is by collecting the yeast from a previous batch. You'll have a significantly higher cell count.

If this is your first time brewing this, you'll want to make two 2 Liter starters with the White Labs WLP099 Super High Gravity Ale Yeast. It's an English Ale that has fruity notes that shine through better at higher gravity points, so have fun with it.

*Pro-Tip: Make your second starter out of the boiling wort and dilute it down to 1.040 SG. It'll make the starter environment closer to the one you're pitching into*

Pitch the first starter slurry at 65°F after you aerate the crap out of the wort. For you carboy-shakers, that means 5 minutes of vigorous shaking. If you're worried about over-oxygenating your wort (which is pretty hard to do with a brew of this size), use the olive oil method by dipping the tip of a sanitized sewing pin into olive oil and stirring it into the chilled wort.

After 48 hours, hit this bad boy with another dose of oxygen to ensure maximum yeast reproduction and full attenuation (if you used the olive oil method, skip that step), then immediately pitch the second starter slurry (still at 65°F).

*Note: It's important to yell "SEND IN THE CALVARY!!!" when you pitch your second starter*

After primary fermentation starts to slow down a bit, melt 4 lbs of dextrose down into a simple syrup/caramel (DON'T BURN IT!), then pitch directly into the fermenter. You don't want to use too much water to make the syrup. Don't add the sugar at flame-out (like many recipes call for), because you want the yeast to chew through the maltose first, then let it get to the simple sugars. If you pitch the yeast after the dextrose, it will chew through the simple sugars first, and then be too tired to get through all of the maltose.

Primary fermentation at 65°F for 3-5 weeks. In the old days, the English Barleywine brewers would roll the barrels around the courtyard after primary fermentation to rouse the yeast. I like to go by tradition, so shaking the carboy at around the 4 week mark should do the trick. DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP! After rousing the yeast on my first batch, I saw a significant increase in activity over the next few days. Once you're sure primary activity is done, go ahead and move onto secondary fermentation. Make sure you save that yeast for another batch!

Secondary fermentation at at 68-69°F for 2-6 months (use a CO2 blanket if you want to be safe)

If you're bottling, use a priming solution made of 3.5 oz of priming sugar for a 5 gallon batch. Pitch this solution along with another 1/2 package of WLP099.

Give this beer a few months to condition before preliminary tasting. Don't babysit; let the yeast do the work for you. Trust me, you'll reap the rewards in the end.

Save a few bottles by cellaring at 55°F (lay the bottles on the side). Try to plan it out so that you open one bottle each year for the next 10 years, and watch the flavors develop. Save them for a special occasion (birthday, anniversary, your biannual air filter changing, etc.)

Happy Brewing and Cheers!

Author:

scottarcher07@gmail.com

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.044

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: 3/1/2015 12:44 AM

Notes:

Author:

Jensebrygg

Boil Size: 29 Litres

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.046

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 16 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 10/20/2015 6:56 PM

Notes: Ferment at low temperature for a dry and crisp finish.
5 days at 16-17C, then raise to 19-20.

Author:

Nosybear

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 120

Boil Gravity: 1.043

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.25

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: Corn sugar

Priming Amount: 2.7 Oz in 2 C water @ 32 degrees

Creation Date: 4/14/2016 10:19 PM

Notes: Change hopping to FWH, drop zero minute addition.

Bronze Medal, the Brew Hut Docktoberfest competition, September 2016

Author:

Mr Norman

Boil Size: 49.5 Litres

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.072

Efficiency: 80

Mash Thickness: 4.6

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: 8/12/2016 2:27 PM

Notes: 90 minute boil. Add soft sugar at beginning of boil. Add syrup at flameout. Chill to 65F (18C). Oxygen for 90 seconds. Ramp primary for 7 days up to 72F (22C). At near-terminal gravity (1.010), rack off primary yeast and drop temp to 60F (16C) for the next 5 days then crash at 50F (10C) until bright. Bottle prime with Simplicity at 32g/gallon. Cellar for 6 months.

Rochefort beers spend six to seven days in primary from 68 (20C) to 73 deg F (23C), three days in secondary at 46 deg F (8C), and 10 days bottle conditioning at 73 deg F (23C), according to BLAM.
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Braumeister 50L
Finished volume (L) 45
Grain (kg) 12
Mash Water (L) 42
Mash thickness 3.5
Loss to grain (L/kg) 0.69
Loss to boil (L/hr) 2.9
Boil time (h) 1.5
Top-up Water (L) 6.5
Loss to grain total 8.28
Post Mash Volume 33.72
Loss to boil total 4.35
Sparge water (L) 9.13

Author:

DerbyshireNick

Boil Size: 28.5 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.036

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 2.5

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: 6/4/2016 5:05 PM

Notes:

Author:

Steasa

Boil Size: 26.5 Litres

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.061

Efficiency: 72

Mash Thickness: 2.5

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: 12/27/2022 5:42 AM

Notes: It's been fun following this thread, which I started a few years ago. I'm onto somewhere around my 7th attempt at cloning this beer. My last try had the right flavor but the carbonation was a bit off and the mouthfeel was too thin. So I'm employing a step mash and I'm going to carb in the keg with sugar, instead of force carbing with straight CO2. I brewed this recipe yesterday. It went well, only flaw was my efficiency was low and I missed my targeted OG of 1.081. My second use of a Grain Father so I'm still figuring out how to get better efficiency. I ended up starting at 1.075.

5.5 Gallon Batch - Filtered Tap Water w/ 3 TSP Calcium Carbonate
10.5 LBs Dingmans Pilsner
2LBs Flaked Wheat
1LB Weyerman Wheat Malt
4oz Flaked Oats
4oz Oat Malt
4oz Flaked Barley
1LB Clear Candi Sugar (FO)

.5oz Styrian Goldings (90)
.5oz Styrian Goldings (45)
1oz Saaz (15)
1oz Saaz (5)

2 Star Anise (30 minutes left in boil) (by 2 I mean two stars, not ounces)
1.5oz fresh orange zest (5)
.5oz crushed coriander seeds (5)

Primary Yeast - White Labs 500
Carbing Yest - Salfale BE-256

Mash Steps:
43C Acid Rest (10 Minutes)
50C Protein Rest (15 minutes)
65C Beta Rest (30 Minutes)
70C Alpha Rest (30 Minutes)
77C Mash Out (10 Minutes)

I'm going to follow the fermentation schedule in Brew Like A Monk, 23.8 degrees for the first week. I might go a bit longer. Then I plan to secondary at 0C for three weeks before kegging (I didn't use any finings so I'm going to have to cold crash to clear it up a bit). I'll update in a few weeks when I transfer to the secondary.

Author:

Kevin Zix

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.033

Efficiency: 65

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: 11/20/2016 12:47 AM

Notes:

Author:

Bigpopps

Boil Size: 4 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: Dextrose

Priming Amount: 5oz

Creation Date: 1/28/2012 3:00 AM

Notes:

Author:

TheGecko

Boil Size: 15 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.055

Efficiency: 85

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 75 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 11/10/2016 1:23 PM

Notes: 9.5 gallons of this water combined with specified grist is targeting a 5.25 mash

Author:

Tom Davis

Boil Size: 26.5 Litres

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.025

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 4

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: 11/22/2016 10:16 AM

Notes: Add honey to cube with last set of hops.

Author:

larkvi

Boil Size: 7 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.084

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: 1

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: 1/23/2015 12:50 AM

Notes: Note: after the boil, dilute with equal amount of treated water to hit
OG:
1.053
Final Gravity:
1.008
ABV:
5.91%
IBU:
0.96
SRM:
7.09

Author:

rolandblais

Boil Size: 2.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.048

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: N/A

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: 10/14/2018 3:38 AM

Notes: ***GRAIN BILL IS A GUESS***

https://brooklynbrewshop.com/pages/instructions-unicorn-ipa

Pre-Brew: Sanitize
Sanitization is important, but it's nothing scary. When brewing, keep everything clean so that you give what you're brewing its best chance to succeed. So when preparing for brew day, wipe any crumbs off the counters. Move any clutter that might be in your way. Read through the rest of the instructions (at least through fermentation) so that you know what to expect. And have fun!

Dissolve half of your sanitizer packet with a gallon of water in a container. Save the second half for when you bottle.
Soak everything you are going to use, rinse with water, and let air dry on some paper towels. If it isn’t totally dry when you are ready to start don’t worry.
Keep the extra sanitizer in a container for now. Chances are you’ll want to re-sanitize something later.

Additional Ingredients Needed:
3 Tablespoons Honey
Ice
1/3 cup of shredded beets

1: The Mash
During The Mash, you're extracting all the sugars, color and flavor you can from grain. You're basically just steeping grain in hot water. It's a lot like making oatmeal.

Heat 2 quarts (1.9 liters) of water to 160°F (71°C).
Add grain (This is called “mashing in.” Take note of jargon. Or don’t).
Mix gently with spoon or spatula until mash has consistency of oatmeal. Add water if too dry or hot. Temperature will drop to ~150°F (66°C).
Cook for 60 minutes at 144-152°F (63-68°C). Stir every 10 minutes, and use your thermometer to take temperature readings from multiple locations.
You likely don’t need to apply heat constantly. Get it up to temperature, then turn the heat off. Monitor, stir, and adjust accordingly to keep in range.
After 60 minutes, heat to 170°F (77°C) while stirring constantly (“Mashing Out”).

2: The Sparge
If you're familiar with brewing coffee, you should have an idea of how The Sparge works. During The Sparge, you put the grain in a strainer and pour hot water over it to draw out all those sugars you created during The Mash.

Heat additional 4 quarts (3.8 liters) of water to 170°F (77°C). (If possible, start this during The Mash to save time.)
Set up your “lauter tun” (a strainer over a pot).
Carefully add the hot grain mash to the strainer, collecting the liquid that passes through.
This liquid is called “wort” (pronounced “wert”). It will be your beer.
Slowly and evenly pour 170°F (77°C) water over the mash to extract the grain’s sugars.
You want to collect 5 quarts (4.75 liters) of wort. You will lose about 20% to evaporation later on, so you want to start with a bit more than you’ll end with.
Re-circulate wort through grain once.

3: The Boil
The Boil is probably the easiest step to understand because it's as simple as it sounds. During this step, you're bringing your wort to a low, rolling boil and keeping it there for a period of time while adding things like hops or spices. It's a lot like cooking a soup or stock in that you'll add heartier or bittering ingredients toward the beginning and more delicate and aromatic ingredients toward the end.

In a pot, heat wort until it boils. Add 1/4 Amarillo Hops and 1/4 Mosaic Hops when you start to heat the wort.
Keep boiling until you’ve hit the “hot break” (Wort will foam - you may need to reduce heat slightly so it doesn’t boil over.)
Stir occasionally. All you want is a light boil – too hot and you lose fermentable sugars and volume.
The boil will last 60 minutes. Start your timer and add in the rest of the ingredients at these times:
At 55 minutes, add 1/3 cups shredded beet to the boil.
At 60 minutes, turn off heat. Add 1/4 Amarillo Hops and 1/4 Mosaic Hops.
Reserve the remaining hops.

Twenty percent of the wort will have evaporated in this step leaving you with 1 gallon (3.8 liters) of wort. If your boil was a bit high, the surface area of your pot extra large, or you brewed on a really hot day, you may have less than the full amount. Don’t worry – you just reduced your beer a bit too much, but you can add more water in the next step.

4: Fermentation
This is when your beer actually becomes alcoholic. During Fermentation, your jugs should sit somewhere out of the way (and out of direct sunlight) while ale yeast turns sugar into alcohol.

Place brew pot in an ice bath until it cools to 70°F (21°C).
Once cooled, place strainer over funnel and pour your beer into the glass fermenter. Yeast needs oxygen. The strainer helps aerate your wort and clarify your beer (as well as catch any sediment from going into the fermenter). Add tap water to bring wort up to 1 Gallon mark if level is low.
“Pitch” yeast. (Toss the whole packet in.)
Shake aggressively. You’re basically waking up the yeast and getting more air into the wort.
Attach sanitized screw-top stopper to bottle. Slide rubber tubing no more than 1” (2.5 cm) into the stopper and place the other end in small bowl of sanitizer solution. You’ve just made a “blow-off tube”. It allows CO2 to escape.
Let sit for two or three days or until vigorous bubbling subsides. This is when fermentation is highest. You may notice bubbles and foam at the top of the beer. After bubbling calms down, clean tubing and ready your airlock.
Open your fermenter and drop 1/2 remaining Amarillo Hops and 1/2 remaining Mosaic Hops into your beer. This is called dry hopping and will give your beer intense hop flavor.
Sanitize, then re-assemble airlock, filling up to line with sanitizer.
Insert airlock into hole in stopper.

1 week later drop remaining hops to your fermenter as a second dry hop

Keep in a dark place at room temperature for two weeks after you added the yeast without disturbing other than to show off to friends. (If beer is still bubbling, leave sitting until it stops.)
In the meantime, drink beer with self-closing swing tops, or ask for empties at a bar that has some. If you have a bottle capper and caps, you can save two six packs of non-twistoff beers instead.

5: Bottling (2 Weeks Later)
Once your beer's in bottles, it carbonates naturally with the help of just a little extra sugar. It wakes up your ale yeast (that went dormant during fermentation) to create just enough bubbles for some nice fizz.

Thoroughly rinse bottles with water, removing any sediment.
Mix remaining sanitizer with water.
Fill each bottle with a little sanitizer and shake. Empty after two minutes, rinse with cold water and dry upside down.
Dissolve 3 tablespoons honey with 1/2 cup water. Pour into a sanitized pot. You will be siphoning your beer into the same pot in the next steps.

Carbonation comes from adding sugar when bottling, so if you filled your jug with less than the full gallon in the last step, use less honey when bottling. Using the full amount can result in your beer being over-carbonated.

Siphoning (It all happens pretty fast. You may want to practice on a pot of water a few times.) To see it in action first, watch the How to Bottle video at brooklynbrewshop.com/instructions.

A. Attach open tubing clamp to tubing.
B. Fill tubing with sanitizer.
C. Attach sanitized tubing to the short curved end of your sanitized racking cane. Attach the black tip to the other end - it will help prevent sediment from getting sucked up. It will probably be a snug fit, but you can get it on there.
D. Pinch tubing clamp closed.
E. Remove screw-cap stopper and place racking cane into jug, just above the sediment at the bottom (“trub”).
F. Lower end of tubing not connected to racking cane into sink. Suction will force beer up and through the racking cane and tubing. Open tubing clamp, let sanitizer flow into sink until beer just starts to flow out of the tubing, then clamp shut. Open clamp on tubing, allowing beer to flow into pot with sugar solution. Tilt jug when beer level is getting low, but be careful in not sucking up the trub.

Siphon beer from pot into bottles, pinching tube clamp to stop ow after each bottle.
Close bottles.
Store in a dark place for 2 weeks.
6: Enjoy (Two Weeks Later)
You did it! You made beer.

Put beers in the fridge the night before you drink them.
Pour your beer in a glass and add sprinkles on top of the fluffy head for a fun Unicorn look and flavor.
Drink. Share with friends if you’re the sharing type.

Author:

British Ale Dude

Boil Size: 7.94 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.059

Efficiency: 69

Mash Thickness: 2.06

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 62 ° F

Priming Method: dextrose

Priming Amount: 2.6 oz

Creation Date: 11/24/2020 7:49 PM

Notes: Inspired from BJ's restaurant chain. They had a real full bodied pilsner, kind of like lagunitas czech pilsner.

Of course I have no real facility to ferment at lager temperatures so this is a california lager.

Author:

daves1186@gmail.com

Boil Size: 9 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.036

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 64 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 1/2/2014 5:40 AM

Notes:

Author:

nj viking

Boil Size: 8 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.03

Efficiency: 80

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 5/16/2015 8:24 PM

Notes: A variation of Beermunchers centennial blonde. The citra gives a nice fruity touch in the flavor and aroma. I have brewed 30+ gallons of this and every bmc drinker loves it.