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Author:

Mad Medic Brewing Co.

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.042

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.5

Primary Temp: 70 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 9/28/2014 12:13 PM

Notes: OG: 1.063

Homegrown Galena and Willamette Hops

This beer placed 2nd place overall for the 1st annual Pies and Pints Homebrew Contest. 10/29/2014

Author:

DeeKay

Boil Size: 1000 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.062

Efficiency: 79

Mash Thickness: 3

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: 2/14/2015 9:38 AM

Notes:

Author:

Lil' Styles

Boil Size: 14.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.052

Efficiency: 76

Mash Thickness: 1.25

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.25

Primary Temp: 65 ° F

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/18/2015 9:37 AM

Notes:

Author:

Fred Klassen

Boil Size: 33.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 180

Boil Gravity: 1.039

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 70 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/13/2014 1:01 AM

Notes: Using Maris Otter 2-row Pale Ale malt and Gambrinus Canadian 2-row Pale Ale.

Boil for 2.5 hours or until you get a nice amber colour. Otherwise final product will be too light and will look like a cheap lager.

Author:

TurnDom4what

Boil Size: 5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.057

Efficiency: 72

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: 4/10/2019 7:20 PM

Notes:

Author:

rolandblais

Boil Size: 2.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.059

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.4

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 66 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 6/1/2017 4:28 PM

Notes: The grains are a total guess, used in those amounts to get the Gravity I ended up at when fermentation started. If/When I track down the actual recipe, I'll adjust accordingly.

From the authors:

"This beer's OG should be 1.059 and its FG 1.011."

This 2 gallon batch was created by using 2 1 gallon Brooklyn Brew Shop Mojito Ale kits.

https://brooklynbrewshop.com/products/beer-making-mix-mojito-ale

Instructions are outlined here, but my mashing mashing was done "BIAB" style, no sparging.

https://brooklynbrewshop.com/pages/instructions-mojito-beer

1: The Mash
During The Mash, you're extracting all the sugars, color and flavor you can from grain. You're basically just steeping grain in hot water. It's a lot like making oatmeal.

Heat 2 quarts (1.9 liters) of water to 160°F (71°C).
Add grain (This is called “mashing in.” Take note of jargon. Or don’t).
Mix gently with spoon or spatula until mash has consistency of oatmeal. Add water if too dry or hot. Temperature will drop to ~150°F (66°C).
Cook for 60 minutes at 144-152°F (63-68°C). Stir every 10 minutes, and use your thermometer to take temperature readings from multiple locations.
You likely don’t need to apply heat constantly. Get it up to temperature, then turn the heat off. Monitor, stir, and adjust accordingly to keep in range.
After 60 minutes, heat to 170°F (77°C) while stirring constantly (“Mashing Out”).

2: The Sparge
If you're familiar with brewing coffee, you should have an idea of how The Sparge works. During The Sparge, you put the grain in a strainer and pour hot water over it to draw out all those sugars you created during The Mash.

Heat additional 4.5 quarts (4.26 liters) of water to 170°F (77°C). (If possible, start this during The Mash to save time.)
Set up your “lauter tun” (a strainer over a pot).
Carefully add the hot grain mash to the strainer, collecting the liquid that passes through.
This liquid is called “wort” (pronounced “wert”). It will be your beer.
Slowly and evenly pour 170°F (77°C) water over the mash to extract the grain’s sugars.
You want to collect 5 quarts (4.75 liters) of wort. You will lose about 20% to evaporation later on, so you want to start with a bit more than you’ll end with.
Re-circulate wort through grain once.

3: The Boil
The Boil is probably the easiest step to understand because it's as simple as it sounds. During this step, you're bringing your wort to a low, rolling boil and keeping it there for a period of time while adding things like hops or spices. It's a lot like cooking a soup or stock in that you'll add heartier or bittering ingredients toward the beginning and more delicate and aromatic ingredients toward the end.

In a pot, heat wort until it boils.
Keep boiling until you’ve hit the “hot break” (Wort will foam - you may need to reduce heat slightly so it doesn’t boil over.)
Stir occasionally. All you want is a light boil – too hot and you lose fermentable sugars and volume.
The boil will last 60 minutes. Start your timer and add in the rest of the ingredients at these times:
Add 1/4 Hops at start of boil.
Add 1/4 Hops 30 minutes into the boil.
Add 1/4 Hops 45 minutes into the boil.
At 60 minutes turn off heat. Add remaining Hops, Fresh Mint, and Lime Peel. Dissolve Candi Sugar.
Twenty percent of the wort will have evaporated in this step leaving you with 1 gallon (3.8 liters) of wort. If your boil was a bit high, the surface area of your pot extra large, or you brewed on a really hot day, you may have less than the full amount. Don’t worry – you just reduced your beer a bit too much, but you can add more water in the next step

4: Fermentation
This is when your beer actually becomes alcoholic. During Fermentation, your jugs should sit somewhere out of the way (and out of direct sunlight) while ale yeast turns sugar into alcohol.

Place brew pot in an ice bath until it cools to 70°F (21°C).
Once cooled, place strainer over funnel and pour your beer into the glass fermenter. Yeast needs oxygen. The strainer helps aerate your wort and clarify your beer (as well as catch any sediment from going into the fermenter). Add tap water to bring wort up to 1 Gallon mark if level is low.
“Pitch” yeast. (Toss the whole packet in.)
Shake aggressively. You’re basically waking up the yeast and getting more air into the wort.
Attach sanitized screw-top stopper to bottle. Slide rubber tubing no more than 1” (2.5 cm) into the stopper and place the other end in small bowl of sanitizer solution. You’ve just made a “blow-off tube”. It allows CO2 to escape.
Let sit for two or three days or until vigorous bubbling subsides. This is when fermentation is highest. You may notice bubbles and foam at the top of the beer. After bubbling calms down, clean tubing and ready your airlock.
Sanitize, then re-assemble airlock, lling up to line with sanitizer.
Insert airlock into hole in stopper.
Keep in a dark place at room temperature for two weeks without disturbing other than to show off to friends. (If beer is still bubbling, leave sitting until it stops.)
In the meantime, drink beer with self-closing swing tops, or ask for empties at a bar that has some. If you have a bottle capper and caps, you can save two six packs of non-twistoff beers instead.

5: Bottling (2 Weeks Later)
Once your beer's in bottles, it carbonates naturally with the help of just a little extra sugar. It wakes up your ale yeast (that went dormant during fermentation) to create just enough bubbles for some nice fizz.

Thoroughly rinse bottles with water, removing any sediment.
Mix remaining sanitizer with water.
Fill each bottle with a little sanitizer and shake. Empty after two minutes, rinse with cold water and dry upside down.
Dissolve 3 tablespoons honey with 1/2 cup water. Pour into a sanitized pot. You will be siphoning your beer into the same pot in the next steps.
Carbonation comes from adding sugar when bottling, so if you filled your jug with less than the full gallon in the last step, use less honey when bottling. Using the full amount can result in your beer being over-carbonated.
Siphoning (It all happens pretty fast. You may want to practice on a pot of water a few times.) To see it in action first, watch the How to Bottle video at brooklynbrewshop.com/instructions.
A. Attach open tubing clamp to tubing.
B. Fill tubing with sanitizer.
C. Attach sanitized tubing to the short curved end of your sanitized racking cane. Attach the black tip to the other end - it will help prevent sediment from getting sucked up. It will probably be a snug fit, but you can get it on there.
D. Pinch tubing clamp closed.
E. Remove screw-cap stopper and place racking cane into jug, just above the sediment at the bottom (“trub”).
F. Lower end of tubing not connected to racking cane into sink. Suction will force beer up and through the racking cane and tubing. Open tubing clamp, let sanitizer flow into sink until beer just starts to flow out of the tubing, then clamp shut. Open clamp on tubing, allowing beer to flow into pot with sugar solution. Tilt jug when beer level is getting low, but be careful in not sucking up the trub.
Siphon beer from pot into bottles, pinching tube clamp to stop flow after each bottle.
Close bottles.
Store in a dark place for 2 weeks.

6: Enjoy (Two Weeks Later)
You did it! You made beer.

Put beers in the fridge the night before you drink them.
Drink. Share with friends if you’re the sharing type.

Author:

VGdogy

Boil Size: 28.5 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.042

Efficiency: 72

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 17 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 9/28/2014 7:41 PM

Notes:

Author:

LTS1681

Boil Size: 33 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.037

Efficiency: 68

Mash Thickness: 2.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.5

Primary Temp: 10 ° C

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: 0.52 bar

Creation Date: 4/2/2021 6:50 AM

Notes: Strike of 24L works well

Author:

omerhdd

Boil Size: 24 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.058

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 23 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 1/30/2019 6:38 PM

Notes:

Author:

Whistle Punk

Boil Size: 50 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.057

Efficiency: 72

Mash Thickness: 1.15

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 64 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/29/2017 4:44 AM

Notes: Add fruit puree as fermentation slows and condition for two weeks.

Author:

Marz

Boil Size: 3.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.068

Efficiency: 72

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: 11.19 psi

Creation Date: 4/3/2021 1:20 AM

Notes:

Author:

Lionheart

Boil Size: 4.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.111

Efficiency: 78

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Partial Mash

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 58 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 5/14/2013 7:39 PM

Notes: Use marris otter LME

Boil 1 gallon of wort down to a quart then put it back in the boil kettle.

Fermented at 60* for 5 days and it was finished. Taste is amazing! Extremely complex for being so young! I will condition cold for 8 weeks then carb. Tastes of burnt caramel with a hint of smoke, and some dark fruit character. Huge malty backbone with a hint of hops for balance.

This extract version is just as good as the all grain version with a slightly nuttier and a bit less sweet flavor. Still an awesome wee heavy!

Author:

Akwitayne

Boil Size: 7 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.05

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: 11/18/2012 4:18 PM

Notes: @15 min
1 lb. Jaggery, light

@ 10 minutes:
Zest: 1 lemon, 2 key lime, 1 clementine
1 tsp. coriander seed, crushed
1/4 tsp carraway seeds, crushed
1/8 tsp black pepper powder

Author:

bladesworn

Boil Size: 1.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.04

Efficiency: N/A

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 50 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 1/27/2017 7:51 PM

Notes: Grits are buckwheat.

Author:

Genus Brewing

Boil Size: 2.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.125

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: 6/30/2016 6:02 PM

Notes:

Author:

guco

Boil Size: 6 Litres

Boil Time: 70

Boil Gravity: 1.047

Efficiency: 79

Mash Thickness: 2.6

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 11/3/2018 11:12 AM

Notes: if your like me and love hops just add an ounce of Cascade to your keg, let it slow carbonate for a 3 or 4 days then take it out and enjoy a great beer!

Adjust your caramel 60L and shoot for an SRM of 8.

Author:

octopussy

Boil Size: 7 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.037

Efficiency: 82

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: 1/15/2016 3:17 PM

Notes:

Author:

GUY235

Boil Size: 3 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.084

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Partial Mash

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: dextrose

Priming Amount: 1 cup

Creation Date: 4/24/2015 3:03 PM

Notes:

Author:

Patrick_Annapolis

Boil Size: 13 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.05

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/20/2019 6:59 PM

Notes: Rob Vrabel of Farmington Hills, MI, member of the Kuhnhenn Guild of Brewers Homebrew Club, won a gold medal in Category #13: Stout during the 2014 National Homebrew Competition Final Round in Grand Rapids, MI. Vrabel’s Stout was chosen as the best among 708 final round entries in the category.