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Author:

Banished Scotsman

Boil Size: 5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: N/A

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: Cane Sugar

Priming Amount: 0.25 cup

Creation Date: 7/15/2012 12:58 AM

Notes: 7/24/2011 Start
Pitched 300B of 1728 cells (3 smack packs)
Primary, 72-74 degrees
8/6/2011
Transferred to secondary, 72-74 degrees
10/10/2011
Transferred to tertiary, 66-68 degrees
Pitched 50B (1 pack dry, rehydrated) EC-1118 French champagne yeast
10/30/2011-bottling day

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: 0.75

Primary Temp: 19 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/8/2016 7:43 AM

Notes: ONLY MANAGED TO GET 19 LITRES IN THE FERMENTER AND OG ONLY 1.044

Author:

David Mallard

Boil Size: 27 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.048

Efficiency: 60

Mash Thickness: 3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 18 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/15/2017 9:33 PM

Notes:

Author:

sdbeaudette

Boil Size: 1.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.033

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: 1/7/2017 3:58 AM

Notes:

Author:

Tres

Boil Size: 2 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: N/A

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: Corn Sugar

Priming Amount: 2oz

Creation Date: 10/21/2012 10:15 PM

Notes:

Author:

Steven Walker

Boil Size: 465 Gallons

Boil Time: 75

Boil Gravity: 15.8

Efficiency: 82.5

Mash Thickness: 1.3

Sugar Scale: Plato

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 11/19/2018 10:58 PM

Notes:

Author:

gorefisted@gmail.com

Boil Size: 6.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.035

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.75

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 67 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 7/22/2015 12:26 AM

Notes: MASH SCHEDULE:

- Dough-in @ 95F with 98.4F water, hold for 45 min (phytic acid rest to help prep mash pH)
- Increase to 113F with boiling water, hold for 20 min (beta-glucan/protein rest)
- Increase to 152F with boiling water, hold for 55-60 min (main infusion/sacch rest)
- Collect 3.5 gallons in first runnings, sparge to collect 3 more

So, here we are. Making a bourbon-barrel fermented black gose... I don't think either of us is sure exactly what's going to happen, but that's part of the fun. Here's the breakdown:

We want to make a gose. This style of light-bodied, tart and funky spiced ale is pretty en-vogue right now. However, being us, we can't just do it the normal way. It's go hard or go home. So, we're going to brew a gose with 10.5% midnight wheat malt and alderwood smoked salt (y'know, cuz it's gonna be a black gose...), throw it in our bourbon barrel (which has previously aged Damnation Alley bourbon, our imperial stout and our English old ale), pitch a lactobacillus starter into it, wait a week then pitch Kölsch yeast, then probably wait a pretty long time to see what happens to it. We are doing this primarily to infect this barrel once and for all, and figure an insanely outlandish, reach-exceeding-our-grasp recipe will guarantee both that and potentially yield an interesting beer. If the beer doesn't come out palatable, then we'll at least learn something or another about sour beers and barrel-based primary fermentation. I'll keep this page updated with our trials and tribulations.

7/24/15: The experiment begins (and oh, does it begin). Making a starter consisting of steeped acidulated malt, flour and dextrose. Already pretty bizarre, but we're hoping to just grow a small lacto culture from our single vial of White Labs L. delbrueckii (WLP677).

7/24/15: - 11:50 PM: Just washed our barrel out with boiling water in preparation for filling it with wort and a lacto culture tomorrow night. Smells amazing still, but definitely a little buggy already. We had been considering this for a while, honestly. We've heard tell that a bourbon barrel will really only be able to age a beer to provide the usual woody, tannic and spirit-like characteristics for 2-3 uses before getting sour and bizarre... thus, we're pretty much prepping it for future sours right now.

7/25/15: Brew day. Everything's going fine, actually. We collected a lot but it's pretty weak, so we'll boil it down to get a more concentrated wort.

8/15/15: Just to update a bit... we went with the original plan on 7/25/15 after brewing to throw this directly into the barrel and add the previously-mentioned lacto starter we made. Additionally, however, we pitched ~65 mL of Omega Labs lactobacillus blend after throwing the other ~35 mL into a small batch of blueberry hefeweizen. Last week (a week after pitching the lacto blend and the Kölsch yeast, mind you), we tasted this monster and it's already pretty damn sour. However, it also hasn't really fermented much. Considering we only hit 1.042 for our OG (already a couple points off) and the Kölsch yeast seemingly barely did anything, likely due to the pH of the barrel's contents being too low (2.5-3.5) for fermentation to truly get underway, we may have our first "stuck" fermentation, cuz the sample we took, though awesome tasting, was about 1.020. Doesn't really matter cuz we can always throw some Brett in. I think it'll still come out awesome, but it needs time and TLC. We were asking for issues with this idea though, so it's fine.

8/29/15: It's been a couple weeks since tasting this and checking hydrometer readings. Last time we checked, this guy was actually, really fermenting, though pretty slow. Even though we believe the yeast we pitched has been all but completely halted by the low pH of the barrel's current contents, it seems lacto has been slowly chipping away at the complex dextrins and other sugars hanging out in there, as the hydrometer revealed us to actually have a then-current gravity of ~1.020. Checked again today with another 8 oz sample and we are progressing, this time with around 1.014. It's slow going, but at this point we actually have a very tasty, complex dark sour beer that presents a lot of challenging flavor components and which has a well-rounded body to boot. In terms of ABV, we are hovering somewhere around 4%, which is actually pretty solid. Changed the blowoff assembly to an airlock and sipping on the sample as I type. As I mentioned, it's very complex. In the nose I get notes of bourbon and sherry, cocoa, oak, vanilla and an intense tangy funk note, not unlike something like Boulevard's Love Child sours (which are also BBA darker sours, incidentally). The wine-like notes also linger on the tongue, though the finish is sharply sour, salty and surprisingly very dry considering there's still a decent amount of residual sugar. I think we'll probably bottle this one pretty soon, honestly. We're trying to strike a balance between taking 8 ounce samples to check gravity every few weeks and just cutting our (volume) losses and collecting what we can, bottling it and enjoying it. Besides, we're both itching to do something insane with Brett in the barrel, so that's even more reason to get this wonderful little science project out of there and into our beer fridge. Until next time.

9/18/15: We bottled this last week, using Lalvin champagne yeast to hopefully carbonate it nicely given the main yeast in the barrel probably gave up when it was added to such a low pH environment. It's somewhat carbonated in only a week which is good, but the most important thing is...

IT'S FUCKING AWESOME.

Holy shit, this is basically everything we wanted it to be, and pretty much all of the notes, nuances and flavors come together amazingly. It's smoky, salty, sour, malty, roasty, coffee-forward, tannic and bourbon-laced with an absolutely insane acid profile. Super good. Insanely pumped.

Author:

ddobrovolskyi

Boil Size: 5.2 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.055

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: 1.7

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: 1/14/2020 9:12 PM

Notes:

Author:

mleathers777

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 75

Boil Gravity: 1.053

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

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: 7/7/2013 10:13 PM

Notes:

Author:

Perrylodgic

Boil Size: 17.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.044

Efficiency: 74

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: 4/30/2015 12:14 AM

Notes:

Author:

pongball

Boil Size: 38.2 Litres

Boil Time: 180

Boil Gravity: 1.072

Efficiency: 80

Mash Thickness: 2

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: 5/27/2022 12:24 AM

Notes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLF8YpYCfV4

IMPORTANT INFO - DO NOT SKIP.
Mash at 2:1 liquor ratio.

Reiterated mash.

Water chemistry wise, aim for London water but raise the chlorides to around 150ppm.
(I chose English Ale, but when I raise the Chloride to 150 ppm my pH gets too low. Adjust accordingly!)
You will have to stir the mash to avoid a stuck mash.

Add the sugar in two parts – 250g at day two of ferment, 250g at day three.

If making Jonny's Wedding Cake add 500g well-roasted hazelnuts and 3 sliced vanilla pods in mini muslin bags at cold crash. Add 200g cacao nibs after 7 days and condition for the remaining 7 days.

If making Brad's Breakfast add 500g of lactose at the end of the boil. Add 3 vanilla pods and 3 cinnamon sticks in mini muslin bags at cold crash. Add 150g roasty coffee (ideally notes of caramel) with three days left of conditioning.
Carbonate to around 2 vols.

If adding adjuncts DO NOT AGE. DRINK FRESH LIKE AN IPA.

https://www.themaltmiller.co.uk/product/cbc-x-omnipollo-pastry-stout

Author:

MFer Brewery

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.063

Efficiency: 80

Mash Thickness: 1.5

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: 5/25/2015 9:57 PM

Notes: Dry hop in 2 stages. Remove the first stage after 3 days. Add the second for 4 days.

Cara Rye instead of Cara Wheat.

Post taste recommendation: Increase to 2 lbs of rye

Author:

rrenaud

Boil Size: 6 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.042

Efficiency: 60

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 80 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/14/2017 1:30 AM

Notes: split batch, Sigmund Voss Kveik yeast pitched at 90F, room temp ferment.

Sacch trois pitched at 80F, room temp ferment.

morebeer grains -> low efficiency :(

Served at Brooklyn spring coronation, went pretty fast, was well liked by people who were generally not that into beer. Was super clear considering >50% wheat/oat malt and a decent dry hop.

Author:

mhj75

Boil Size: 30 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.032

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 19 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/1/2014 11:38 AM

Notes: Used 32l of water - seemed just a little too much and had a slight drop in efficiency as a result. But maybe I hadn't measured it accurately enough?

Mashed at 64-65c

Author:

Mybuddypete

Boil Size: 6 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.051

Efficiency: 63

Mash Thickness: 4

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.5

Primary Temp: 85 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 12/4/2018 8:01 PM

Notes: Hops low boiled for 30 minutes in 1qt water and added to mash half way through.

No sparge.

Pitched yeast at 100F let drop as fermentation started a couple hours later. Very aggressive fermentation for almost three days.

Kegged 7 days later. CRAZY high attenuation FG:1.002 96%

Author:

Cuds01

Boil Size: 29.97 Litres

Boil Time: 70

Boil Gravity: 1.062

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 18 ° C

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 11/20/2018 10:44 PM

Notes: TOTAL WATER NEEDED - 32.42 Liters
STRIKE WATER TEMP - 70 degrees Celsius
PREBOIL WORT - 29.97 Liters
POST BOIL WORT - 24.45 Liters
INTO FERMENTER - 23 Liters

Pirate life Mosaic is 7% ABV and 58 IBU

Pirate Life Uses Pale 2 row and Carapils and obviously Mosaic.

Tried no sparge method with this brew and still achieved 75% efficiency which is equal to when I sparge. Just stirred the mash a few times.

ABV & IBU were spot on, Beer tastes so close to the PL.
Belgian malt was used as that's all i could get from brew shop at the time but worked well.

Colour was so close to the PL.

You could dry hop more, however it was high in hop flavor and aroma. Will definitely make this many more times to come!!

Author:

edonald774

Boil Size: 14 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 7.9

Efficiency: 79

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Plato

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 18 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 11/13/2015 8:45 PM

Notes:

Author:

jtstrayer@yahoo.com

Boil Size: 6.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 70

Boil Gravity: N/A

Efficiency: 70

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: 9/28/2012 1:57 AM

Notes:

Author:

TheGrayMatter

Boil Size: 2.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 5

Boil Gravity: 1.136

Efficiency: 25

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: 41.02 psi

Creation Date: 7/3/2020 7:15 PM

Notes:

Author:

TheRoguePope

Boil Size: 3 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: N/A

Efficiency: 75

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: 8/24/2012 5:42 PM

Notes: Add Candy Sugar at start of boil.

Ferm temp 68 for first half, then let climb as high as possible.