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Nouveau Monde
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American Pale Ale
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19 Litres |
1.05 |
1.008 |
5.48 |
41.9 |
9.74 °L
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210 |
1 |
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| Boil
Size: 23.66 Litres |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.045 |
Efficiency: 65 |
Mash Thickness: 3 |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
| Brew
Method: All Grain |
Pitch Rate: 0.35 |
Primary
Temp: 18 ° C |
Priming Method: sucrose |
Priming Amount: 101.7 g |
Creation
Date: 10/14/2024 11:47 AM |
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Grammie Shirley’s Ruby Dark Mild Ale
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Dark Mild
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5.5 Gallons |
1.062 |
1.019 |
5.64 |
19.27 |
30.62 °L
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210 |
1 |
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| Boil
Size: 7 Gallons |
Boil Time: 90 |
Boil Gravity: 1.047 |
Efficiency: 68 |
Mash Thickness: 1.5 |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
| Brew
Method: All Grain |
Pitch Rate: 0.35 |
Primary
Temp: N/A |
Priming Method: InvertSugar |
Priming Amount: 2.9 oz |
Creation
Date: 12/30/2025 1:18 AM |
Notes: 90 min. Mash. Ruby Hughes Ruby Dark mild clone
90 min. Boil.
Open fermentation Days 1-3.
Named for my mother in law Shirley , who inspired me to brew. |
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Cassie's Pilsner
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Czech Premium Pale Lager
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5 Gallons |
1.055 |
1.012 |
5.56 |
45.2 |
5.17 °L
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210 |
0 |
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| Boil
Size: 7.17 Gallons |
Boil Time: 90 |
Boil Gravity: 1.041 |
Efficiency: 67 |
Mash Thickness: 1.3 |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
| Brew
Method: All Grain |
Pitch Rate: 1.5 |
Primary
Temp: N/A |
Priming Method: co2 |
Priming Amount: 8.62 psi |
Creation
Date: 7/23/2025 6:51 PM |
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Nicks Red Ale
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American Amber Ale
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5.5 Gallons |
1.058 |
1.014 |
5.68 |
24 |
11.95 °L
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210 |
1 |
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| Boil
Size: 6.5 Gallons |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.049 |
Efficiency: 70 |
Mash Thickness: 1.25 |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
| Brew
Method: All Grain |
Pitch Rate: 0.5 |
Primary
Temp: N/A |
Priming Method: sucrose |
Priming Amount: 4.9 oz |
Creation
Date: 7/11/2025 10:47 PM |
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Trolleybus II
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No Profile Selected |
5.5 Gallons |
1.06 |
1.017 |
5.65 |
20.08 |
4.61 °L
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210 |
2 |
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| Boil
Size: 3 Gallons |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.06 |
Efficiency: 65 |
Mash Thickness: N/A |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
| Brew
Method: Partial Mash |
Pitch Rate: 0.35 |
Primary
Temp: N/A |
Priming Method: N/A |
Priming Amount: N/A |
Creation
Date: 7/11/2025 4:01 PM |
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Super Galactic HD
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American Pale Ale
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26 Litres |
1.053 |
1.009 |
5.68 |
37.78 |
4.3 °L
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210 |
0 |
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| Boil
Size: 30 Litres |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.047 |
Efficiency: 72 |
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: 3/29/2025 1:01 PM |
Notes: This authentic Pacific Ale is incredibly popular (with everybody else – I personally don’t like hazy beers). I have to keep making this beer it to satisfy demand. Thankfully, it’s the easiest beer to brew using HoppyDays Superblend (Voyager - Compass Pale Malt (85%), Vienna Malt (12%), and Chit Malt (3%)).
The boil is a little strange. I boil ferociously for the first 30 minutes then after adding the first citra hops I keep the boil covered, using a very low heat. No DMS taste or aroma is noticed in the final beer. Some of the citra aroma is retained in the final beer – which surprised me at first.
There are two dry hop additions of 50g Galaxy. First 50g Galaxy into the fresh wort at “High Krausen” for 3 days, the second 50g Galaxy is added after racking the partially fermented beer into a pressure fermenter (not worrying about some air mixing). The second Galaxy addition stays in contact with the beer for about 5 days during which time the ferment is completed, and the chilled, gassed beer is put into kegs.
I hydrate the Pomona yeast in cooled wort from the boil (before hop additions) and get it active before pitching. Initial ferment is too vigorous, so I drop the temperature to 16 degrees C after 24 hours so that it doesn’t get messy. Thereafter I ferment at 18 degrees C.
The Pomona yeast drops well leaving a very stable Haziness. Hazies are very popular nowadays although I personally see them as a travesty of the beermaking craft.
I highly recommend Pomona yeast.
Obviously, I don’t gelatin clear this beer… it would defeat the point of making a hazy.
Finally, I dilute the beer to exactly 4.5% ABV using very very pure and sterile water that I have chilled and CO2 gassed. Typically, I have 26 litres of beer at 5.1%ABV which I dilute by addition of 3.6 litres water (calculations are adjusted on a batch-by-batch basis).
The beer is drank fresh. It is consumed very quickly because people like it. It is a light and refreshing drink that suits our sunny climate. The Galaxy hop taste is prominent and there is also some citra taste and aroma.
The yeast haze gives the beer some sweetness which overcomes its otherwise very dry finish, and the yeast haze also contributes some mouthfeel which compensates for the otherwise thin body of the beer (from mashing at 64 degrees C for 90 minutes).
I am proud of this beer, but I leave the drinking of it to other people who like this sort of thing.
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Some Strawberry Lemon Cardamom IPA
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Specialty IPA: New England IPA
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2.5 Gallons |
1.058 |
1.016 |
5.57 |
40.58 |
4.02 °L
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210 |
0 |
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| Boil
Size: 3.53 Gallons |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.041 |
Efficiency: 70 |
Mash Thickness: N/A |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
| Brew
Method: Extract |
Pitch Rate: 0.35 |
Primary
Temp: N/A |
Priming Method: co2 |
Priming Amount: N/A |
Creation
Date: 3/24/2025 7:03 AM |
Notes: Started 3.5gal DI H2O. with 1.25g CaSO4, 2.5g CaCl2, 0.75g MgSO4, 0.75g NaCl. Grist is 0.5lb flaked oats, 5oz carapils, 5lb Rahr Pale ale malt (2L).
1lb4oz strawberries. started frozen. cooked these down at medium heat in a splash of water and 2 tbsp sugar until thick, foamy, and most of the water evaporated.
peeled 1oz lemon peel
Brought water up to temp and added salts. Mashed in with the entire grist including the flaked oats @151F, temp dropped to 147F, kept mash around 147-151 for 1h.
@ start of boil, added 6g Magnum Hops 12%AA
@ 20min left in boil, added 3g each of Amarillo (9.3%), citra(12.8%AA), galaxy (16.9%AA) hops. all hops from artisan hops except Amarillo hops which are BSG
Cardamom: I took one green cardamom pod, lightly toasted it in a pan on the stove, then crushed the pod. I added 2 total of the crushed black seeds from the middle of the pod to the batch. Lots of people have said that cardamom is very overpowering so I'm trying to be conservative and not ruin this beer lol.
Immediately after the boil is finished, I added another 3g of each hop, as well as my cooked down strawberries, cardamom seeds, and my lemon peel. Shortly after adding I wasn't really happy with the amount of strawberry aroma, so I added 2 more handfuls of frozen berries. I stirred immediately after the addition of these ingredients, and did not stir again after, I let the wort sit off the heat for 15min, then began chilling the wort.
I am using the "little DIPA" yeast strain from omega yeast. This is an older pack from the brew store (MFD 07-2024) (this is 03-2025). This is a 150mL pack, I will pitch 75mL. Hopefully this is viable! Saving the other 75mL in a sanitized Tupperware in the fridge for later use. This strain is designed to express some anti-diacetyl enzyme (called ALDC - not sure how this works), which may help with hop creep later? We will see!
not really enough water boiled off: OG 1.042 @Room temp
I'M CHANGING THE PLAN! Just going to bottle this without dry hopping. DOing a fruited light beer I guess!
Bottling with 2.5oz (71g) table sugar.
Final gravity before bottling: 1.000
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Pilsner Ale (My First Recipe)
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Blonde Ale
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12 Litres |
1.05 |
1.008 |
5.59 |
34.61 |
3.16 °L
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210 |
1 |
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| Boil
Size: 15.11 Litres |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.04 |
Efficiency: 70 |
Mash Thickness: N/A |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
| Brew
Method: BIAB |
Pitch Rate: 0.35 |
Primary
Temp: 21 ° C |
Priming Method: N/A |
Priming Amount: N/A |
Creation
Date: 1/18/2025 9:41 AM |
| Notes: |
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DBC Cali Common
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California Common
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7 Gallons |
1.052 |
1.011 |
5.45 |
45.83 |
11.32 °L
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210 |
1 |
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| Boil
Size: 9.25 Gallons |
Boil Time: 90 |
Boil Gravity: 1.04 |
Efficiency: 80 |
Mash Thickness: 1.8 |
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: 11/30/2024 3:34 PM |
| Notes: |
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Baskind Belgian
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Bière de Garde
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110 Litres |
1.047 |
1.006 |
5.48 |
14.73 |
5.88 °L
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210 |
0 |
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| Boil
Size: 110 Litres |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.047 |
Efficiency: 68 |
Mash Thickness: 1.5 |
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: 10/21/2024 10:59 AM |
| Notes: |
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Calaburzia
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Märzen
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70 Litres |
1.06 |
1.018 |
5.55 |
13.88 |
27.43 °L
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210 |
0 |
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| Boil
Size: 70 Litres |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.06 |
Efficiency: 75 |
Mash Thickness: N/A |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
| Brew
Method: All Grain |
Pitch Rate: 0.35 |
Primary
Temp: N/A |
Priming Method: co2 |
Priming Amount: N/A |
Creation
Date: 9/27/2022 8:23 PM |
| Notes: |
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Stout Whippet Forêt Noire
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Sweet Stout
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2.5 Gallons |
1.069 |
1.027 |
5.48 |
20.48 |
50 °L
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210 |
0 |
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| Boil
Size: 2.8 Gallons |
Boil Time: 45 |
Boil Gravity: 1.061 |
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: 10/7/2024 9:12 PM |
| Notes: |
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Lager Wip
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No Profile Selected |
5.5 Gallons |
1.057 |
1.014 |
5.62 |
23.25 |
16.55 °L
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210 |
0 |
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| Boil
Size: 6 Gallons |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.052 |
Efficiency: 75 |
Mash Thickness: 1.4 |
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: 7/23/2024 3:18 AM |
| Notes: |
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BANSAUN BEER
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International Pale Lager
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20.8 Litres |
1.049 |
1.008 |
5.42 |
23.14 |
3.25 °L
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210 |
0 |
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| Boil
Size: 28.4 Litres |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.036 |
Efficiency: 75 |
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: 7/1/2024 3:44 AM |
| Notes: |
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Awesome Recipe
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American Amber Ale
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18.9 Litres |
1.055 |
1.014 |
5.44 |
26.13 |
15.55 °L
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210 |
0 |
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| Boil
Size: 28.4 Litres |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.037 |
Efficiency: 70 |
Mash Thickness: N/A |
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: 6/24/2024 1:06 AM |
| Notes: |
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Sur öl Hallon
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No Profile Selected |
48 Litres |
1.051 |
1.008 |
5.7 |
16.06 |
4.64 °L
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210 |
0 |
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| Boil
Size: 52 Litres |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.047 |
Efficiency: 75 |
Mash Thickness: 3 |
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: 3/31/2024 5:30 PM |
| Notes: |
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BakeApple Wheat
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American Wheat Beer
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42 Litres |
1.05 |
1.008 |
5.53 |
19.1 |
3.57 °L
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210 |
0 |
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| Boil
Size: 46.28 Litres |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.047 |
Efficiency: 75 |
Mash Thickness: 2.5 |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
| Brew
Method: All Grain |
Pitch Rate: 0.35 |
Primary
Temp: 18 ° C |
Priming Method: co2 |
Priming Amount: 2.07 bar |
Creation
Date: 3/31/2024 12:04 AM |
| Notes: Add 1 Gallon of bake apples per fermentor after 7 days/secondary. |
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Citra IPA
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American Pale Ale
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3 Gallons |
1.057 |
1.014 |
5.64 |
55.64 |
5.94 °L
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210 |
0 |
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| Boil
Size: 4 Gallons |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.043 |
Efficiency: 75 |
Mash Thickness: 1.75 |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
| Brew
Method: All Grain |
Pitch Rate: 0.35 |
Primary
Temp: 70 ° F |
Priming Method: N/A |
Priming Amount: N/A |
Creation
Date: 2/6/2024 5:12 PM |
| Notes: |
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NEIPA Experiment
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Specialty IPA: New England IPA
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21 Litres |
1.057 |
1.014 |
5.52 |
91.71 |
4.57 °L
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210 |
0 |
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| Boil
Size: 26.8 Litres |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.049 |
Efficiency: 70 |
Mash Thickness: 3.13 |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
| Brew
Method: All Grain |
Pitch Rate: 0.35 |
Primary
Temp: N/A |
Priming Method: co2 |
Priming Amount: N/A |
Creation
Date: 9/17/2023 11:54 AM |
Notes: - 15 min. mashout at 75 degrees
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Awesome Recipe
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American Pale Ale
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434 Gallons |
12.36 |
2.235 |
5.4 |
38.13 |
7.23 °L
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210 |
0 |
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| Boil
Size: 558 Gallons |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 11 |
Efficiency: 65 |
Mash Thickness: N/A |
Sugar
Scale: Plato |
| Brew
Method: All Grain |
Pitch Rate: 0.35 |
Primary
Temp: 68 ° F |
Priming Method: co2 |
Priming Amount: N/A |
Creation
Date: 3/30/2023 10:16 PM |
| Notes: |
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