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Author:

PavloC

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.041

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: CO2

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 7/8/2016 6:07 PM

Notes:

Author:

Jojo

Boil Size: 7.25 Gallons

Boil Time: 75

Boil Gravity: 1.048

Efficiency: 82

Mash Thickness: 1.15

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.5

Primary Temp: 51 ° F

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: 10.53 psi

Creation Date: 6/11/2023 9:25 PM

Notes: Reusing yeast from a previous brew.

Add pumpkin purée to mash with grains.
Mash 90 minutes at 153F.

Boil 75 minutes, add pumpkin pie spice and maple syrup at flameout with remaining hops.

Ferment at 51. Add vanilla beans for lagering.
Plan to lager for about 11 weeks to have ready for season.
Honestly, I plan to only add 1 vanilla bean for lagering. 3 beans for 11 weeks seems like too much vanilla.

Author:

Arnulft

Boil Size: 22.83 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.041

Efficiency: 69

Mash Thickness: 3.65

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/2/2021 1:32 PM

Notes:

Author:

matlab_

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.064

Efficiency: 81

Mash Thickness: 1.75

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 2.0

Primary Temp: 61 ° F

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: 10.2 psi

Creation Date: 4/6/2020 4:14 AM

Notes: * This is a somewhat aggressive boil off, if doing this on an electric system, you'll need ~2200w to achieve this rate.

* More recently, I've been using L17 Harvest instead of 2124 for the yeast. Both options provide excellent results.

1st Place - Operation Fermentation 2019
1st Place - Lunar Rendezbrew 2019
2nd Place - Lunar Rendezbrew 2021

Author:

Boil Size: 6.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.048

Efficiency: 72

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 1.25

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: KEG

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 7/21/2017 12:45 AM

Notes: BIAB

Author:

GarageBrew

Boil Size: 8 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.057

Efficiency: 85

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 54 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 7/10/2017 8:21 PM

Notes:

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:

Massassi

Boil Size: 60 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.04

Efficiency: 78

Mash Thickness: 2.65

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 24 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 11/15/2016 7:43 PM

Notes:

Author:

GrangeHill

Boil Size: 23 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.05

Efficiency: 35

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 11/3/2016 11:49 AM

Notes:

Author:

Corey Leitch

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

Author:

Spacepuppy

Boil Size: 6.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.063

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: N/A

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: 12/4/2012 4:33 AM

Notes:

Author:

jlongstreet

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.038

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 1.5

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: 5/22/2016 4:20 PM

Notes:

Author:

AirBourn

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.049

Efficiency: 80

Mash Thickness: 1.5

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: 5/17/2016 2:58 PM

Notes:

Author:

MyNameIsGram

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.058

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 72 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 1/20/2016 3:14 PM

Notes:

Author:

wmpontbriant@aol.com

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.051

Efficiency: 75

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: 11/15/2015 4:09 AM

Notes: Well all went well. I used my jet burner for the first time and never will I go back to a normal burner. I did a 90 min boil and added the lactose at 60 minutes. It's fermenting now so we shall see. Bottle conditioning yet and it is pretty perfect. The color is beautiful and black the aroma is of dark burn grains , and the flavor is out of this world and very smooth. The hops is spot on I love this beer.

Author:

KTibb

Boil Size: 3 Gallons

Boil Time: 65

Boil Gravity: 1.021

Efficiency: 35

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: 0.5

Primary Temp: 65 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/22/2015 4:06 PM

Notes: Starting SG - 1.046 (2/8 - brew day)
Finish SG - 1.018 (tested 1st 2/19; 2nd 2/21)

Author:

homebrew99

Boil Size: 7 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.045

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 67 ° F

Priming Method: tablets

Priming Amount: 5 tabs per 16oz

Creation Date: 2/9/2015 8:48 PM

Notes: Mash in at 154F for 1 hr.

Author:

spiro

Boil Size: 4 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.093

Efficiency: 35

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 1/25/2015 8:29 PM

Notes: Agave nectar substituted for honey. Agave put in secondary before racking. Still bubbling after 1.5 weeks.

Author:

Tres Stache

Boil Size: 8.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.047

Efficiency: 80

Mash Thickness: 1.2

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: Brown Sugar

Priming Amount: 1 OZ

Creation Date: 12/22/2014 1:37 AM

Notes: Primary fermentation 14 days.
Carbonation 2 weeks.

Author:

Dan Prokosch

Boil Size: 12 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: N/A

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: N/A

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: 9/3/2011 10:07 PM

Notes: I used Jamil's Robust Porter recipe as a base, added a half pound of Munich when Northern Brewer told me they didn't bill by the partial pound so I rounded up... Hops are leftover stuff from the freezer and a bunch of wet hops I picked this morning... I planted Cascade, Willamette and Fuggle, but they've grown into each other and gone crazy, so a mix it is!

I tried to edit the AA of the hops to account for their age, I actually used 4oz of 5% EKG that were unsealed and about two years old. My hop degradation calculator tells me the AA should be 3%... so I added another ounce of 6.2% EKG that were still vacuum packed. the IBU's should be about 40, which I First Wort Hopped....