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Author:

Redleg Ed

Boil Size: 2 Litres

Boil Time: 30

Boil Gravity: 1.036

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: 10/22/2016 8:51 PM

Notes: This is just to build wort for a starter using AG instead of DME

Author:

Boil Size: 1 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.066

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 11/6/2018 2:02 AM

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Author:

Aussiedamo

Boil Size: 26.5 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.035

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 1.5

Primary Temp: 12 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 7/18/2018 7:12 AM

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Author:

10 Palms

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.04

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 69 ° F

Priming Method: dextrose

Priming Amount: 5oz

Creation Date: 11/28/2017 12:03 AM

Notes: Gold medal at 2017 Kona Brewer's Fest.
Silver medal at 2018 Kona Brewer's Fest.

Author:

DIY Craft Beverage

Boil Size: 7.25 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.037

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 1.5

Primary Temp: 54 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 9/19/2017 9:02 PM

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Author:

Germainium

Boil Size: 3.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 70

Boil Gravity: 1.047

Efficiency: 66

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: CO2

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 6/6/2017 3:55 AM

Notes: From distilled water:
CaCl2 (Calcium Chloride) - 7 grams (1.6 tsp)
CaSO4 (Gypsum) - .5 grams - (.1 tsp)
Epsom Salt - 4 grams (.9 tsp)

Fermentation Notes:
Will start at 68F for first 3 days then will dry hop round 1 and let rise to 70-71F for remainder of fermentation dry hopping rd 2 on day 7 and sampling / checking gravity. Will likely use hop bags due to lots of hop trub. Will also cold crash this batch.

Fail #1 - I forgot to pull the yeast smackpack out of the fridge in advance, so at brew start I put upstairs (where it's generally 80) and let it inflate for 4-5 hours.

1. Used distilled water and added salts as described, mash went well and temps stayed right around 152 in the water, around 156 if I put the thermometer in the grain near the bottom. Stirred every 15 mins and checked temps until mash ended. Pulled bag and let drip before squeezing and moving into a pot. Let drain longer and poured that wort while I heated to boil.

2. Started boil and hopped as listed. Finished boil and cooled with an immersion chiller to 160. I targeted 170 but it cools fast so I went with 160 to Hop Stand using a hop bag for 30 mins.

3. I continued cooling to 80 which is about as low as it'll go and transferred via ball valve and tube into my fermenter. I pulled a sample and took a gravity reading which was right on 1.066.

Fail #2 - I forgot to insert the pickup tube in my ss brewtech mini so that sucked but didn't feel like risking oxidization by messing with it. I'll filter it on the way out...

4. I placed my fermenter in my chamber and cooled to about 67 then pitched my inflated smack pack that sat out for about 5 hours before pitching.

Fail #3 - I made another process error and didn't shake the fermenter to aerate. What can I say, it was 1:30am. I realized this the next morning and shook.

5. I left town overnight and came back, fermentation is going and blow off tube in sani water jug is bubbling away. Dry hop 1 will happen tomorrow night 3 days in.

6. Dry Hop 1 went will using a hop bag and stainless spoon to push bag through krausen layer to try and sink it. I raised the ferm temp to 70-71 for remaining ferm.

7. At 7 days I dropped Dry Hop 2 via sani'd bag, and took a sample gravity reading which read 1.014, which was about 5 points lower than brewer's friend had expected. At this point I dropped the temp to 41 to cold crash and left for 2 days.

8. After cleaning, sanitizing, and co2 purging the keg, I transferred from the SS mini using spigot + tubing and filtered through a sanitized muslin bag to catch any hop debris. I clogged the keg last time so was not going to do that again. I also put a screen on the dip tube in the keg to prevent clogging.

8. After a very easy transfer, as all hop trub clumped at bottom, I put pressurized and purged the keg again to seal the lid and set at 2.3 CO2 vols for set and forget method. I pulled a sample and did another reading, and as expected, it was 1.014 meaning it was complete.

Upon initial sample, it was pretty aromatic although not as much as I expected. It has very low bitterness and is very smooth. I'll be excited to try once fully carbonated to see if this came out as Juicy as expected. I really don't like dry hopping in bags, but since last time I lost so much beer/wort to hop trub and also had keg clogging issues, I decided to try it this time. One additional thing it may have helped with is reducing bitterness from the wort/beer not sitting on hop trub for so long. The last batch had a huge amount of trub that was transferred into the keg which I believe increased aroma, but impacted overall bitterness and taste.

Tasting Updates: Beer is smooth but has a bit of a yeasty / alcoholic taste. My belief is that this came from forgetting the yeast aeration step as well as only fermenting for a week before cold crashing. Other than that beer is decent and has notes of grapefruit, faint banana, light citrus. For the aeration issue, I bought an aeration pump kit.

Author:

Myndflyte

Boil Size: 6.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.079

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 67 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/19/2017 11:43 AM

Notes: For sugar in grain bill, use barbados or some other semi-refined sugar.

Ferment through the primary and then transfer to 10 gallon secondary. Add 8 pounds of sour cherries and 4 pounds of sweet dark cherries. Both should be previously frozen and warmed to room temp. Add a blanket of CO2 if possible. Allow to sit on the beer for 2 to 8 weeks. Rack to a carboy and allow a couple of months to settle out before kegging or bottling.

Author:

Berkenoski

Boil Size: 6.25 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.047

Efficiency: 63.1

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: 3/21/2017 4:22 PM

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Author:

BachBrew

Boil Size: 7 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.058

Efficiency: 60

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/16/2017 5:19 PM

Notes: Mashed 4.5 gallons
Sparged 4.5 gallons
Hit 8 gallons preboil
Preboil gravity .04
Forgot to add the 2 lbs of oats

Transferred to secondary on top of 10 pounds of strawberry and two vanilla beans. The smell is strawberry and very slight hopiness. The taste is creamy strawberry with just enough vanilla to come through. This has a slight tang near the end which could be from the lactose or the fresh strawberries. This is a keeper

Author:

Yooper

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.031

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 63 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 12/13/2016 1:26 AM

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Author:

Sped

Boil Size: 6 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: N/A

Efficiency: 70

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: 3/13/2012 6:13 PM

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Author:

w@lter

Boil Size: 15 Litres

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.076

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 3.5

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: 6/9/2016 6:51 AM

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Author:

VT_jlee

Boil Size: 8 Gallons

Boil Time: 75

Boil Gravity: 1.064

Efficiency: 78

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 64 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/15/2016 1:05 PM

Notes: Additions: 3mL acid, 2g gypsum, 1.5g CaCl2

Strike Water Needed 8.11 Gallons
Strike Water Temp 157 Fahrenheit
Total Mash Volume 9.19 Gallons
PreBoil Wort 7.50 Gallons
PostBoil Wort 6.00 Gallons
Into Fermenter 6.00 Gallons

Brew day note: Ended up with 8 gals pre-boil, double check water calcs... boiled an extra 15 minutes to get OG back up.

Used 3mL hopshot at 65 min instead of the tettnanger fwh

Author:

Knapptronix

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.051

Efficiency: 60

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: 4/13/2016 7:24 PM

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Author:

Boil Size: 1.75 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.032

Efficiency: 61

Mash Thickness: 1.5

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: 2/15/2016 12:05 AM

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Author:

jason.rosenberger@gmail.com

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.026

Efficiency: 85

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 66 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 10/4/2015 5:55 PM

Notes: Initial Mash is 2 gallons of DI water with full grain bill in BIAB bag. 0.1 tsp of CaCl, 0.1 tsp of MgSO4, 3mL of 88% lactic acid. Cal mash pH is 5.35.
Mash for 60 minutes then add additional 12 mL of lactic acid-- approx. mash pH will lower to 4.25. Tie bag, move kettle to hot box set at 100F. Allow to cool to 110F, then add 0.5 pounds of crushed pils malt to mash, cover with plastic wrap, and allow to sit at 100 F for 24 hours.
After sour mash complete, add remaining 5.9 gallons of DI water and remove bag, boil for 90 minutes, finish as normal.

Author:

Boil Size: 11 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.109

Efficiency: 35

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: 2/25/2015 1:33 AM

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Author:

spiro

Boil Size: 3 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.113

Efficiency: 60

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Partial Mash

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/24/2015 1:14 AM

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Author:

Jason Franssen

Boil Size: 5 Litres

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: 2/5/2012 5:45 AM

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Author:

Paul Miller

Boil Size: 3.01156 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: 12/2/2011 4:40 AM

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