Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
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American IPA
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10.5 Gallons |
1.064 |
1.016 |
6.27 |
69.26 |
6.88 °L
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1.2K |
0 |
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Author:
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Italian_Stallion
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Boil
Size: 12.5 Gallons |
Boil Time: 70 |
Boil Gravity: 1.054 |
Efficiency: 80 |
Mash Thickness: 1.28 |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
Brew
Method: All Grain |
Pitch Rate: 1.0 |
Primary
Temp: 66 ° F |
Priming Method: N/A |
Priming Amount: N/A |
Creation
Date: 6/13/2016 3:58 PM |
Notes: |
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#54 - Wet Hop Homegrown Centennial Pale Ale
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American Pale Ale
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5.4 Gallons |
1.051 |
1.011 |
5.29 |
35.34 |
3.41 °L
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1.2K |
0 |
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Boil
Size: 6.5 Gallons |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.042 |
Efficiency: 74 |
Mash Thickness: 2.25 |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
Brew
Method: All Grain |
Pitch Rate: 0.75 |
Primary
Temp: 65 ° F |
Priming Method: N/A |
Priming Amount: N/A |
Creation
Date: 8/14/2018 4:04 AM |
Notes: |
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Kjeller 5 - SMaSH Cascade 25 Liter
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American Pale Ale
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25 Litres |
1.049 |
1.009 |
5.25 |
33.76 |
5.6 °L
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1.2K |
0 |
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Boil
Size: 28 Litres |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.044 |
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: 1/29/2018 1:20 PM |
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Hazy Daze NEIPA
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American IPA
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5.5 Gallons |
1.058 |
1.015 |
5.69 |
68.1 |
6.1 °L
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1.2K |
0 |
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Boil
Size: 7 Gallons |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.046 |
Efficiency: 70 |
Mash Thickness: N/A |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
Brew
Method: BIAB |
Pitch Rate: 1.0 |
Primary
Temp: 65 ° F |
Priming Method: N/A |
Priming Amount: N/A |
Creation
Date: 8/22/2017 5:40 PM |
Notes: |
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Small Batch Hoppy Wheat
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American Wheat Beer
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2 Gallons |
1.052 |
1.011 |
5.4 |
67.44 |
4.61 °L
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1.2K |
0 |
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Boil
Size: 2.4 Gallons |
Boil Time: 30 |
Boil Gravity: 1.043 |
Efficiency: 70 |
Mash Thickness: N/A |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
Brew
Method: BIAB |
Pitch Rate: 0.5 |
Primary
Temp: 67 ° F |
Priming Method: N/A |
Priming Amount: N/A |
Creation
Date: 6/12/2017 6:11 PM |
Notes: 3.10 gal mash water
assume
0.2 gal boiloff @ 30 min (0.4 gal/hr)
0.125 gal/lb grain absorb
Morning:
-5.0 grams Yeast
-2.5 grams dextrose
When Get Home:
-1.0 gram Yeast
-0.5 gram dextrose
SMB = 0.71 grams
Brewtan B = 0.47 grams (Slurry)
Cinnamon = 0.60 grams (Slurry)
Brewtan B = 0.59 grams (Slurry @ 17 Minutes)
Irish Moss = 1.00 grams (Slurry @ 15 Minutes)
Wyeast Nutrient = 0.88 grams (Slurry @ 10 Minutes)
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Beyond The Stars NE IPA
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American IPA
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2.5 Gallons |
1.066 |
1.017 |
6.42 |
82.41 |
6.81 °L
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1.2K |
0 |
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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. |
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Irish Red
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Irish Red Ale
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25 Litres |
1.052 |
1.009 |
5.65 |
24.51 |
10 °L
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1.2K |
1 |
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Boil
Size: 31 Litres |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.042 |
Efficiency: 82 |
Mash Thickness: 2.5 |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
Brew
Method: All Grain |
Pitch Rate: 0.75 |
Primary
Temp: 18.5 ° C |
Priming Method: N/A |
Priming Amount: N/A |
Creation
Date: 5/15/2017 2:26 PM |
Notes: |
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American Chocolate Bourbon Porter
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American Porter
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5 Gallons |
1.072 |
1.022 |
6.58 |
52.74 |
40.87 °L
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1.2K |
0 |
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Boil
Size: 7 Gallons |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.051 |
Efficiency: 70 |
Mash Thickness: 2 |
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: 2/7/2017 1:23 AM |
Notes: |
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Templeton Rye Porter
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American Porter
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11 Gallons |
1.062 |
1.019 |
5.63 |
39.17 |
36.65 °L
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1.2K |
0 |
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Boil
Size: 13 Gallons |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.052 |
Efficiency: 70 |
Mash Thickness: 1.25 |
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: 11/20/2016 7:58 PM |
Notes: |
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Stout
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American Stout
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2.5 Gallons |
1.063 |
1.018 |
5.91 |
39.48 |
38.94 °L
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1.2K |
0 |
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Boil
Size: 3.25 Gallons |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.048 |
Efficiency: 70 |
Mash Thickness: N/A |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
Brew
Method: BIAB |
Pitch Rate: 0.35 |
Primary
Temp: 70 ° F |
Priming Method: N/A |
Priming Amount: N/A |
Creation
Date: 9/13/2016 8:24 PM |
Notes: Placed 3rd in the Stout category of the 2016 New England Regional Home Brew Competition. http://www.bfd.org/nerhbc/NERHBC_Winners.html |
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Left Overs To Use APA Brewed 12-22-2013
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American Pale Ale
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11.5 Gallons |
1.056 |
1.016 |
5.26 |
40.1 |
9.67 °L
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1.2K |
0 |
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Boil
Size: 13 Gallons |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.04 |
Efficiency: 70 |
Mash Thickness: 1.33 |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
Brew
Method: All Grain |
Pitch Rate: 1.25 |
Primary
Temp: 64 ° F |
Priming Method: N/A |
Priming Amount: N/A |
Creation
Date: 11/9/2013 7:12 PM |
Notes: Just kegged this brew today 1-8-2014 it has been on gas since 10 AM at 30 psi just tried a glass
I love the Cascade/Willamette hops
drinks well
the roasted barley adds a great color and taste |
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Wil Wheaton's Hefewheaton
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American Wheat or Rye Beer
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5.5 Gallons |
1.058 |
1.015 |
5.73 |
18.3 |
4.13 °L
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1.2K |
1 |
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Boil
Size: 3.5 Gallons |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.092 |
Efficiency: 35 |
Mash Thickness: N/A |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
Brew
Method: Extract |
Pitch Rate: N/A |
Primary
Temp: 68 ° F |
Priming Method: N/A |
Priming Amount: N/A |
Creation
Date: 3/22/2016 8:36 PM |
Notes: |
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Belgian Wit
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Witbier
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1 Gallons |
1.051 |
1.011 |
5.23 |
16.43 |
3.67 °L
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1.2K |
1 |
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Boil
Size: 1 Gallons |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.051 |
Efficiency: 71 |
Mash Thickness: N/A |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
Brew
Method: BIAB |
Pitch Rate: 0.35 |
Primary
Temp: 68 ° F |
Priming Method: Dextrose |
Priming Amount: N/A |
Creation
Date: 10/23/2015 6:22 PM |
Notes: |
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Kjeller 5 Bock 25 L
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Traditional Bock
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25 Litres |
1.066 |
1.016 |
6.55 |
25.84 |
21.65 °L
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1.2K |
0 |
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Boil
Size: 29 Litres |
Boil Time: 90 |
Boil Gravity: 1.057 |
Efficiency: 70 |
Mash Thickness: N/A |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
Brew
Method: All Grain |
Pitch Rate: 2.0 |
Primary
Temp: 10 ° C |
Priming Method: N/A |
Priming Amount: N/A |
Creation
Date: 9/19/2015 10:41 AM |
Notes: Kjøl ned til 10 grader før pitching av gjær. |
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Chinook
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American Pale Ale
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25 Litres |
1.054 |
1.012 |
5.46 |
29.12 |
7.05 °L
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1.2K |
0 |
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Boil
Size: 25 Litres |
Boil Time: 90 |
Boil Gravity: 1.054 |
Efficiency: 67 |
Mash Thickness: 1.5 |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
Brew
Method: All Grain |
Pitch Rate: N/A |
Primary
Temp: 20 ° C |
Priming Method: N/A |
Priming Amount: Sugger |
Creation
Date: 9/4/2015 5:01 PM |
Notes: |
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Red IPA
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American IPA
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5.5 Gallons |
1.06 |
1.011 |
6.51 |
62.75 |
13.13 °L
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1.2K |
0 |
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Boil
Size: 7.5 Gallons |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.044 |
Efficiency: 73 |
Mash Thickness: 1.25 |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
Brew
Method: All Grain |
Pitch Rate: N/A |
Primary
Temp: 65 ° F |
Priming Method: N/A |
Priming Amount: N/A |
Creation
Date: 4/6/2015 12:27 AM |
Notes: |
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White IPA
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American IPA
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5.5 Gallons |
1.063 |
1.014 |
6.44 |
49.29 |
5.43 °L
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1.2K |
1 |
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Boil
Size: 7.25 Gallons |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.048 |
Efficiency: 70 |
Mash Thickness: 1.5 |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
Brew
Method: All Grain |
Pitch Rate: 0.5 |
Primary
Temp: 68 ° F |
Priming Method: N/A |
Priming Amount: N/A |
Creation
Date: 3/30/2015 12:23 AM |
Notes: |
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Coffe Porter
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Robust Porter
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14 Litres |
1.065 |
1.018 |
6.13 |
29.16 |
32.91 °L
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1.2K |
0 |
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Author:
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Tata
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Boil
Size: 17 Litres |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.053 |
Efficiency: 70 |
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: 1/29/2015 8:14 PM |
Notes: |
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Hepne Brygg #11
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Munich Helles
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21 Litres |
1.048 |
1.007 |
5.36 |
21.26 |
4.7 °L
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1.2K |
1 |
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Boil
Size: 27 Litres |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.037 |
Efficiency: 65 |
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: 8/25/2014 7:32 AM |
Notes: |
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Chocco Monster
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American Stout
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17 Litres |
1.071 |
1.026 |
5.83 |
19.33 |
40 °L
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1.2K |
0 |
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Author:
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JohnnyAH
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Boil
Size: 20 Litres |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.06 |
Efficiency: 66 |
Mash Thickness: N/A |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
Brew
Method: BIAB |
Pitch Rate: 0.5 |
Primary
Temp: 14 ° C |
Priming Method: N/A |
Priming Amount: N/A |
Creation
Date: 3/3/2014 10:33 AM |
Notes: 140 grams of chocolate powder at 15 mins to end of boil.
1 drop of chocolate extract at bottling per bottle. |
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