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Author:

RapTom

Boil Size: 36 Litres

Boil Time: 80

Boil Gravity: 21.6

Efficiency: 83

Mash Thickness: 2.5

Sugar Scale: Plato

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 14 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 11/28/2015 7:14 AM

Notes:

Author:

Umoyk

Boil Size: 15 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.052

Efficiency: 80

Mash Thickness: 3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.5

Primary Temp: 20 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/7/2013 11:43 AM

Notes: Pitch yeast at 18°C. Allow it to rise to 20°C in the first 24 hours and to 22°C in the first 48 hours. Keep it there until fermentation is complete (4-6 days?).

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:

Bensen

Boil Size: 6.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.047

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.25

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 63 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/17/2017 6:05 PM

Notes: Use distilled water to control PH and add 5 grams of Gypsum

Author:

VT_jlee

Boil Size: 6.25 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.047

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 62 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 7/20/2016 2:03 AM

Notes: Water adjustments: 5mL acid, 3.5g gypsum, 5g CaCl2

Total Water Needed 6.98 Gallons
Strike Water Temp 158 Fahrenheit
Total Mash Volume 7.78 Gallons
PreBoil Wort 6.38 Gallons
PostBoil Wort 5.00 Gallons
Into Fermenter 4.25 Gallons

Notes from call with Imperial Yeast:
Invert can on brew day
Crack and off gas
Pour 25% out, and then swirl up the can for ~1min and dump in

Water profile suggestions: 75-125 PPM calcium, 150-175 PPM sulfate, 100-125 PPM chloride, 5-15 PPM magnesium, <20 PPM sodium, and <50 PPM carbonate

My profile: (aim for 150 chloride, <100 sulfate)

Author:

jakesnake2384

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.038

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 64 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 11/27/2016 3:48 AM

Notes: Mash in with with 3.6 gallons and add mineral adjustments to mash water (3 g calcium chloride and 1.5 epsom salts). Mash at 154 for 60 minutes. Batch sparge with 5.25 gallons (4.3 grams calcium chloride and 2.1 grams epsom salts) at 185 for 30 minutes. Collect around 7.25 Gallons in Kettle and boil for 60 minutes. Add hops accordingly. Add whirlfloc and wyeast yeast nurtient at 10 minutes left. Chill to 70 with chiller, put in kegerator and chill to 64-66. Oxygenate and pitch yeast and place in water bath to hold temp around 66-68. Wait about 10-14 days (but as little as 7 is OK).

Add 2 split vanilla beans and 3.8 oz organic coffee beans for 36 hours directly to fermentor.

Rack to keg and carbonate to 2.8 volumes.

Author:

Monty Rowden

Boil Size: 7 Gallons

Boil Time: 75

Boil Gravity: 1.047

Efficiency: 75

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: 6/9/2015 4:46 PM

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Author:

Jan-Erik

Boil Size: 36 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.072

Efficiency: 72

Mash Thickness: 1

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 22 ° C

Priming Method: Sukker

Priming Amount: 7

Creation Date: 1/27/2016 11:10 AM

Notes: Mash:
Neste gang stabilisere temp på rundt 58 grader før du slenger opp i kornet. Beerbrew tok opp for mye av temperaturen. Kanskje rundt 13 liter? Kan ikke ha så mye mindre tror jeg.
2 step: måtte bruke rundt 10 L denne gangen. Vær litt forsiktig neste gang hvis du bruker mindre på første step. Måtte ha i litt mer varmt vann etter hvert for å opprettholde temperatur.
Endte opp på ca. 28 L til slutt. 19 L vørter hvis jeg tapper tomt. Mangler 17 L vanning bare :\
3 step: Siden jeg allerede var på 28 L, så valgte jeg å tappe ut 7,5-8 L vørter og koke det opp i stedet for å tilsette mer vann. Vær forsiktig, så ikke temp blir for høy. Tilsett 80% av vørter, rør om og sjekk temp. For høy? Kjøl ned vørter. Edit: Ble for lav i stedet. måtte bruke beerbrew og tappe ut 3 liter vørter til, og varme det opp til 75 grader.
4 step: ingen mash out, fordi altfor mye volum allerede. Vanner rett ut med 78 grader vann.

Author:

B1lldozer

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.034

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

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: 7/24/2013 9:53 PM

Notes:

Author:

BKL

Boil Size: 8.11 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.066

Efficiency: 72

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.25

Primary Temp: 62 ° F

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 1/17/2018 1:17 AM

Notes:

Author:

square toast

Boil Size: 28.5 Litres

Boil Time: 70

Boil Gravity: 1.043

Efficiency: 84

Mash Thickness: 3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 8/27/2016 6:41 PM

Notes:

Author:

Brett

Boil Size: 5.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.036

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 1.25

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 64 ° F

Priming Method: Corn Sugar

Priming Amount: 3.8 oz

Creation Date: 11/27/2013 6:49 PM

Notes: Pitch yeast at 64°F (18°C) and let temp rise to 70°F (21°C) over the course of one week.

Package then carbonate beer to aprox. 3 to 4 volumes and allow to lager for one month at 45 to 50°F (7 to 10°C).

Priming Calculator:
Volumes of CO2: 3.0
Corn Sugar: 3.8 oz

Author:

mystikhybrid

Boil Size: 6.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.048

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: N/A

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: 11/23/2015 9:00 PM

Notes: Gypsum: 6g
Epsom salt: 1g
Calcium chloride: 2g

HALF TO MASH... HALF To SPARGE

http://www.themadfermentationist.com/2013/04/nanus-naardensis-and-custersianus-three.html

Author:

Sergio Stout

Boil Size: 27 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.035

Efficiency: 68

Mash Thickness: 3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 21 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 1/18/2016 1:53 AM

Notes:

Author:

YHCDublin

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.029

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.2

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 55 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/10/2017 10:56 PM

Notes: Frozen Raspberries in Secondary

Author:

Ozarks Mountain Brewery

Boil Size: 8.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.036

Efficiency: 80

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 62 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 10/5/2015 11:59 PM

Notes: very nice and very drinkable, love this stuff

Author:

tzaccario

Boil Size: 3.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.06

Efficiency: 20

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 62 ° F

Priming Method: CO2

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 12/20/2016 7:49 PM

Notes:

Author:

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.037

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: 0.75

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 72 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/2/2016 9:08 AM

Notes:

Author:

Outlaw Brews

Boil Size: 28.5 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.045

Efficiency: 68

Mash Thickness: 3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 14 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/7/2017 1:24 PM

Notes:

Author:

gneissrocks

Boil Size: 28.5 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.037

Efficiency: 70

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: 11/1/2018 8:59 PM

Notes: