Saturday, July 12, 2014

Lambic Base


Grain Bill:
Maris Otter – 7lb
Acidulated – 0.5lb
Cara-pils - 1lb
Biscuit - 0.5lb
Torrified Wheat – 3lb (crack separately and add 15min before mash out)
DME - 2.0lb (added after secondary to taste)

Fruit or Juice:
6lb Blackberries (plus 1gallon of blackberry juice) *added at secondary
2lb Cherries (plus 2gallons of cherry juice) *added at secondary

Hop Schedule: using Nelson Sauvin 12% and Australian Galaxy 14% in small amounts
Nelson Sauvin - 0.1oz - 90 min
Nelson Sauvin - 0.2oz - 60 min
Galaxy- 0.3oz - 0 min

Yeast: San Diego Super Yeast

Maturation:
Allow 10days fermentation in primary. *Split the primary by racking into two secondary vessels onto the fruit and/or juice. Allow 7days for fermentation. Rack onto trinary onto fruit if desired. Sweeten to taste by adding DME at end of secondary. Mature in keg for 14days at room temp.

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Crowd Pleaser Ale

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V2.0 (27 APR)
Grain Bill:
Maris Otter - 10lb
Biscuit - 0.5lb
Torrrified Wheat - 0.5lb
Cara-pils  - 0.5lb

Hop Schedule:  using Nelson Sauvin 12% and Galaxy 14.5%
Nelson Sauvin - 0.5oz - 90 min
Nelson Sauvin  - 0.25oz - 60 min 
Galaxy- 0.5oz - 0 min

Yeast: San Diego Super Yeast

notes:
Mashed for 2hrs, batch mash out.

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V1
Grain Bill:
Maris Otter - 10lb
Biscuit - 0.5lb
Torrrified Wheat - 0.5lb
Cara-pils  - 0.5lb

Hop Schedule:  using Falconer's Flight 10% and Galaxy 14.5% (plus Challenger)
Challenger - 0.25 - 90 min
Australian Galaxy- 0.5oz - 90 min 
Falconer's Flight - 0.5oz - 90 min
Falconer's Flight - 0.25oz - 60 min
Australian Galaxy- 0.5oz - 0 min

San Diego Super Yeast  

Monday, January 6, 2014

Belhavens Twisted Thistle

Belhavens Twisted Thistle clone








Modified Version
Added Biscuit and Acidulated malt.  Increased malts by 2lb for OG of 1065.

Mashed at 65C for 90min (~3gallons).  Batch mash (~2gallons) out with 80C water, sparged with 1 gallon of liquor reheated to 80C.

grain:
Maris Otter - 11lb
Crystal (60) - 0.5lb    (v2.0 uses 80-100 English Crystal)
Biscuit - 0.5lb
Torrrified Wheat - 0.5lb
Acidulated Malt - 0.5lb     (v2.0 uses 0.25lb)

hops:
Cascade - 0.8oz - 90 min    (v2.0 uses 1.0oz)
Challenger - 0.8oz - 90 min  (v2.0 uses 0.5oz)
Cascade -0.7oz - 15 min (v2.0 hop addition at 30min)
Cascade - 0.5oz - 0 min

San Diego Super Yeast  (v2.0 uses 2nd generation Super Yeast, quite vigorous ) 

OG 1065 (not measured in v2.0)


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Original

source: brew-it-yourself.co.uk

5 gal brew length

grain:

Maris Otter - 4.5kg
Crystal - 0.25kg
Torrified Wheat - 0.2kg

hops:
Cascade - 25g - 90 min
Challenger - 25g - 90 min
Cascade -15g - 15 min
Cascade - 12g - 0 min

whirlfloc 15 min

Nottingham yeast

OG 1046
FG 1011