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Boil Size: 7.25 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.036

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.5

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: 2/20/2017 2:12 AM

Notes: Heat 13 quarts water to 163° F. Crush whole grains and add, with flaked wheat, to liquor. Hold mash at 152° F for 75 minutes. Runoff and sparge with 16 quarts water at 170° F. Add DME, stir well, bring to a boil. Add hops, boil 60 minutes. Remove from heat. Add to fermenter along with enough pre-boiled and chilled water to make up 5.25 gallons.

Cool to 70° F, pitch ale yeast. Ferment at 68° F for two weeks, rack onto fruit in your secondary and add lambic culture. Condition cool (50° F) for three to four weeks. Rack into third vessel to clarify at 50° F for two weeks. Prime with DME, bottle and age at least three to four weeks at 45° to 50° F. Serve at 40° F in either a heavy glass tumbler or a champagne-style flute.

Author:

jeremydgreat

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.053

Efficiency: 70

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: 8/9/2013 2:37 AM

Notes: ==Pumpkin:==
Bake pumpkin on a cookie sheet and bake until it browns on top a bit (20-30 minutes). Put in a steeping bag and add it to the boil @40min left.

==All Spices:==
After primary fermentation and a few days before bottling or kegging, make a small tea with the spices and dump them in.

==8/30/2013==
- Subs: WLP005 British Ale. 1 vial, no starter.
- BHE: 72%
- OG: 1.072 (hydro).
- I put the pumpkin in right at 60min. Also drizzled some maple syrup on top of the pumpkin b4 baking.
- 9/15/2013 (16 days) - FG: 1.027. Going to remove from 68º and let it sit at 70-72º to let the yeast clean & finish. Hydro tasting was good, but maybe a little too much hop bitterness? I also feel like it's a little esthery and I get some yeast fruitiness. Not bad, but noticeable. If it doesn't get to 1.024 I guess I learned my lesson about skipping starters. VERY excellent color and clarity! Next time I might dial back the C40 by 1/2 a lb (from 1.5lbs). Tossing extracted vanilla bean in.
- Result: Very very solid. Adjusting the mash temp from 158º to 154º to try and bring the sweetness down a tad and dry it out a bit. Also brought 1.5lbs of C40 down to 1.2lbs. If it's still too sweet next time, consider removing the vanilla bean.

===10/27/2013===

- OG: 1.070 (refracto) hmm. Brewhouse Efficiency calc said like 65% but this recipe at 71% says 1.07 OG which is what I got soooo wtf.
- First time doing batch sparging.
- Used a massive fine mesh bag for both the pumpkin and the hops. Not sure how this will effect the finished product. It was nice to not have to worry about all that pumpkin though!
- FG: 1.2
- Tasting notes: Batch #1 was WAY better than this batch. Notes for next time: WLP005 is the better yeast. Way less estery. As for the spices, 2 tsp is perfect. Just dump that tea straight in there (don't try to filter it.) For the pumpkin, muslin bags WIN. Don't try to do more complex filtering (nylon bag.)
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===11/2/2014===
- My efficiency has been sucking, so I bumped up the two row 1lb (to 12lbs).
- Put the pumpkin in 2 mouslin bags. Great way to work with it. It decreases in size by about half towards end of the boil.
- Baked the pumpkin as usual and drizzled some maple syrup on the top.
- Pre-ferm yield: 5.5gal OG: 1.076 (hydro)
- Pitched 1 vial of 005 with no starter. :-(
- Tasting notes: ended up pretty thick, sweet, and a muddy orange color. Lowering the specialty grains to from 1.2lb C40, 1.5 Victory, 1.5 Wheat to 1lb each. Lowering the 60oz pumpkin to 30oz.

Author:

Boil Size: 2500 Litres

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.104

Efficiency: 93

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 20 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 10/8/2018 9:03 PM

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Author:

Kruk Brewing

Boil Size: 1.25 Gallons

Boil Time: 30

Boil Gravity: 1.032

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 65 ° F

Priming Method: Dextrose

Priming Amount: 1oz

Creation Date: 10/9/2013 6:13 PM

Notes: From "American Cookery" in 1796, by Amelia Simmons (an American orphan).

Please note: This is an adaptation of the Spruce Beer recipe from American Cookery. This recipe was written mentioning "molasses," however this is what we would call light molasses/golden syrup today...not dark molasses or blackstrap molasses. Dark or blackstrap molasses darkens the color of the brew and changes the flavor characteristics (the 1oz addition of molasses is in fact dark/blackstrap molasses - for color mostly). Ensure that you use golden syrup (like Lyle's) or corn syrup, NOT dark or blackstrap molasses for the 1lb addition.

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Directions:

Start with 1.25 gallon of water. When boiling, add molasses (not corn syrup/golden syrup), spruce tips, and hops according to schedule, and boil for 30 minutes total.

Strain hops and spruce tips out of mixture into another pot, remove from heat.

Add 1lb golden syrup or corn syrup. One bottle of Lyle's Golden Syrup is about 1lb. If you don't have fresh spruce tips, you can substitute 1 teaspoon of spruce essence. Stir until dissolved.

Cool to approximately 70-80 degrees, transfer to a 1 gallon jug, and pitch 1/2 packet of Gluten Free yeast like a Danstar variety (Nottingham preferred). Ferment about 2 weeks, then bottle.

Use 1oz of dextrose or 0.9oz table sugar at bottling for carbonation.

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"American Cookery" was the first American-written cookbook published in America. Previous efforts were adapted from English cookbooks, written by men. This cookbook focuses on new world ingredients and was written by a woman, Amelia Simmons - who is mentioned to be an American orphan on the original edition of this book. Not much is known about Amelia, but this is her recipe for spruce beer. The cookbook is actually a very interesting read about a multitude of cooking subjects from a colonial American's perspective.

The full, free and free to distribute ebook version of this cookbook can be found here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12815

This "spruce beer" recipe can be found towards the end of the book.

At around 4.5 - 5% ABV, this is a small beer. These were common in colonial America as the alcohol and boiling helped make the water safer to drink.

Interesting to note that there is no grain in this recipe, so technically it is probably not really a "beer." It only contains hops, molasses, water, and spruce essence. Using Danstar yeast (all Danstar yeasts are gluten free) and thoroughly cleaned/sterilized utensils will make this a gluten free beer.

I add spruce tips when they're in season and fresh. These are the bright green bushy new growth that pop out of spruce trees in the spring.

With a nice balance of hops to spruce (and perhaps fresh spruce tips instead of the essence), one might also consider this to be a "faux pale ale."

The key to this brew is finding the amount of spruce essence that is not overpowering for you, and marries well with the hops. Adjust the spruce essence, spruce tips, and hops variety as you see fit. Go very light until you reach the ratio that you enjoy.

*Original recipe (about 19 gallons) follows:

Take four ounces of hops, let them boil half an hour in one gallon of water, strain the hop water then add sixteen gallons of warm water, two gallons of molasses, eight ounces of essence of spruce, dissolved in one quart of water, put it in a clean cask, then shake it well together, add half a pint of emptins (see below), then let it stand and work one week, if very warm weather less time will do, when it is drawn off to bottle, add one spoonful of molasses to every bottle.

"Emptins" are a yeast starter. Here is the recipe for that, which immediately follows the Spruce Beer recipe:

Take a handful of hops and about three quarts of water, let it boil about fifteen minutes, then make a thickening as you do for starch, strain the liquor, when cold put a little emptins to work them, they will keep well cork'd in a bottle five or six weeks.

Author:

Jo Hausman

Boil Size: 22 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: N/A

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: Malzzucker

Priming Amount: 80 g

Creation Date: 12/24/2011 5:26 AM

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Author:

brewmer

Boil Size: 7.7 Gallons

Boil Time: 70

Boil Gravity: 1.044

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: 2.2

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 72 ° F

Priming Method: forced carbonation

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 9/3/2013 11:13 PM

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Author:

foamranger

Boil Size: 5 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: Priming Sugar

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/13/2012 4:47 AM

Notes: Brewed June 22, 2012.

OG: ???
FG: 1.019

Lactose (Milk Sugar) and Belgian Candi Syrup added with 15 minutes left in boil.

**note - during primary fermentation the foam blew back through the airlock. Let it go a few days then changed out airlock with a fresh one.

Transferred to secondary / clearing carboy July 15,2012.

**note - When transferring to secondary clearing I noticed when I pull the airlock that the plug was full of mold. Took care to try not to contaminate batch when pulling the lock to do the secondary transfer.

Bottled July 2, 2012.

Author:

jimbodaman

Boil Size: 7 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.044

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.4

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 65 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/13/2014 3:13 PM

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Author:

partylights

Boil Size: 7 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

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: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 6/18/2012 3:23 AM

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Author:

MartyWayne

Boil Size: 3 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.117

Efficiency: 35

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: 3/29/2014 6:53 PM

Notes: Get 8lbs of strawberries. Crush them and then freeze them until primary fermentation is done. Once fermentation is complete thaw the strawberries and place them at the bottom of your sterilized secondary. Rack the beer from the primary into the secondary. Wait 3 weeks then bottle.

Author:

Nosybear

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.041

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: N/A

Creation Date: 6/16/2013 3:00 AM

Notes: One can of Hershey's Chocolate Syrup added to secondary in the 2.5 gallon split.

Skip the chocolate for "Dirty Blonde"

Author:

BRASSERIE SAINTE-DÉVOTE

Boil Size: 48 Litres

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.063

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 4.2

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 17 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 1/28/2015 10:13 PM

Notes: Esta famosa levedura alemã é uma cepa usada na produção de cervejas de trigo tradicionais e autênticas. Produz as notas de banana e cravo tradicionalmente associadas às cervejas de trigo alemãs e deixa o olhar desejado das cervejas de trigo alemãs tradicionais.

Author:

Fishingeek

Boil Size: 7.75 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.049

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.5

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: DME

Priming Amount: Calculate

Creation Date: 6/22/2015 6:04 AM

Notes: 70 IBU Deep Gold
Adjust bittering hops to 70IBU based on AAU's of your stock.
Clone provided by 21A via TheBN's Forum.

Single infusion mash at 159 for full bodied beer. Mash out at 170.

Divide dry hop additions into 2 parts, first at 95% attenuation and second for 4 days after yeast have attenuated. Secondary fermentor only needed if not using a conical. Remove from yeast at 95% attenuation (about 1.024SG).

Author:

Boil Size: 10.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.042

Efficiency: 72

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 50 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 1/14/2017 5:58 PM

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Author:

cochran brew house

Boil Size: 7 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: N/A

Efficiency: 75

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: 3/12/2012 2:08 AM

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Author:

Christopher Plystak

Boil Size: 2.5 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: 8/24/2011 6:51 PM

Notes: Directly from Northern Brewer's recipe for their Dead Ringer IPA.

Author:

Sean Sutherland

Boil Size: 8 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.061

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.25

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 62 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/29/2014 1:53 AM

Notes: OG: 1.081
FG: 1.021
ADF: 73%
IBU: 23
Color: 16 SRM
Alcohol: 8.0%
Pre-boil gravity: 1.069 (16.9 P)

Author:

Boil Size: 0.66 Gallons

Boil Time: N/A

Boil Gravity: 1.164

Efficiency: 35

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: 11/10/2016 5:37 PM

Notes: Bring 2/3rd gal water to boil; remove from heat
Let water cool to ~165F
Stir in honey
Cool to ~75F
Pour into carboy, aerate
Top off water if needed
Pitch yeast
Cut lemon in half, squeeze both halves into the carboy - don't worry about the seeds, they'll be fine
Install airlock

This was my first mead ever and I likely made a lot of mistakes!

However, I bottled it after 5 months in primary and it seemed reasonably good! It was a little cloudy so I am now conditioning it and will update this at another time.

Author:

Speckled Pig

Boil Size: 40 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.03

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 22 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 5/15/2015 9:18 AM

Notes: Mash in at 65 degrees.

OG: 1.052
FG:

Author:

Ryan Hass

Boil Size: 13 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.053

Efficiency: 95

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 70 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 9/16/2016 8:11 PM

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