What’s Brewing at Brewer’s Friend – December 1, 2024 - Brewer's Friend
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What’s Brewing at Brewer’s Friend – December 1, 2024

Monday, December 9th, 2024

Here’s a look at what’s been happening at Brewer’s Friend over the past month. Check out the latest and greatest recipes, styles, ingredients, and more.

Trending Styles

1

Dry Stout

 
6

Belgian Tripel

2

Vienna Lager

 
7

Best Bitter

3

American Light Lager

 
8

English IPA

4

Fruit Beer

 
9

Munich Helles

5

Winter Seasonal Beer

 
10

American Pale Ale

Most Brewed Recipes

Avg. Perfect Northeast IPA (NEIPA)
Specialty IPA: New England IPA by kcq101
OG: 1.062 FG: 1.013 ABV: 6.5% IBU: 59
Lord Vader Imperial Stout
Imperial Stout by Herr Braumeister
OG: 1.096 FG: 1.019 ABV: 10.1% IBU: 57
Tank 7 Clone
Saison by SchuBrew
OG: 1.073 FG: 1.015 ABV: 7.6% IBU: 41
Celebration 2024
American IPA by PHB2234
OG: 1.061 FG: 1.017 ABV: 5.8% IBU: 67
Zombie Dust Clone – ALL GRAIN
American IPA by Players Only Brewing
OG: 1.061 FG: 1.016 ABV: 5.9% IBU: 62

Top Forum Threads

1

Star San contaminationby Cruyf with 32 posts

2

How old is too old? Dark maltsby Josh Hughes with 17 posts

3

IPA Base Grain Questionby Yontsey with 12 posts

4

November meetingby Josh Hughes with 31 posts

5

Happy Thanksgiving!by Minbari with 12 posts

6

Brewing with distilled waterby Over The Cliff Brewing with 10 posts

7

Cleaning soda keg and fermentorby Brews Bros with 28 posts

8

Is it essential to boil wort?by Brewer #443108 with 21 posts

9

Hello out there!!!by Tim Bulin with 9 posts

10

Trying to understand length of time to fermentby Brewer #442461 with 14 posts

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Trending Fermentables

1

Caramel Malt – 120L

 
6

Bonlander Munich Malt 10L

2

Caramel Malt – 60L

 
7

Caramel Malt – 40L

3

Brewers Oat Flakes / Flaked oats

 
8

Barke Pilsner Malt

4

Roasted Barley

 
9

Pale Ale Malt 2-Row

5

Carahell

 
10

Victory Malt

Trending Hops

1

Amarillo

 
6

East Kent Goldings

2

Motueka

 
7

Northern Brewer

3

Hallertau Hersbrucker

 
8

Nelson Sauvin

4

El Dorado

 
9

Simcoe

5

Chinook

 
10

Galaxy

Trending Yeast

1

LALBREW® NOTTINGHAM HIGH PERFORMANCE ALE YEAST

2

London Ale III 1318

3

California Ale Yeast WLP001

4

American Ale 1056

5

Verdant IPA

6

Safale – American Ale Yeast US-05

7

LalBrew NovaLager™

8

Safale – English Ale Yeast S-04

9

Saflager – German Lager Yeast W-34/70

10

Saflager – German Lager Yeast S-23

Trends in Recipe Stats

Typical recipe stats this past month and how they compare to the previous month.

Bitterness (IBU) 30.91 ( +1.81 )
Alcohol by Volume (ABV) 5.67% ( -0.02 )
Color (SRM) 7.83 ( +0.30 )
Batch Size (gallons) 11.00 ( -1.00 )
Original Gravity (OG) 1.057 ( +0.000 )
Final Gravity (FG) 1.013 ( +0.000 )

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