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Author:

thehaze44

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 30

Boil Gravity: 1.046

Efficiency: 80

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 73 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 7/17/2018 6:15 PM

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Author:

Agata

Boil Size: 158.18 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.058

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 3.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 22 ° C

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: 1.64 bar

Creation Date: 7/13/2022 3:52 AM

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Author:

RustyBarrelHomebrewing

Boil Size: 8 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.043

Efficiency: 72

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: 4/10/2022 11:56 AM

Notes: ========================
6/26/22
plunder contest judges scored it 28 and said it was too sweet, which i can kind of get. we shall see what NHC said. need to check FG from notebook. it is delicious but also could probably be crisper and more conduscive to festival drinking, would also like it to be a little more yellow. consider scaling the malt bill down just a little.
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4/10/22

scaling down to 5.5 gallons, rounding off grain amounts. gonna run it with regular tap water as i did before!

adjusted hops slightly for even amounts and to fall within middle of the ibu range

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1/18/2022
setting up for winter/spring 2022 hopefully submission to NHC.

adjusting for equipment and volumes for G40. adjusting abv a little lower per guidelines.

removing 2row.

consider dropping to 1.0 qt/lb to fit in G40. will need to sparge with 8 gallons...

NEED TO do water profile for this.

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~2021
rebrewed this for 2021. did not enter any contests or even bottle/can any. was on draft in the garage for several delicious months.

did not take any notes for the 2021 batch so i assume i pretty much brewed it the same.

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11/15/2020
won gold medal malty european lagers category in 2020 JRHB Dominion Cup.
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8/27/20
brewed last night. mostly went well. started with 12.5 gallons wort as planned but it easily boiled down to about 10-10.5 gallons. could collect more wort next time or boil softer. first gravity reading was 1.070 and i was at about 8 or 8.5 gallons after trub filtered out. topped up with tap water. chilled overnight in ferm chamber and pitched in the morning.

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8/26/20
brew day. tried to mess with water calculations a little. not really sure what to use for festbier/oktoberfest. playing with balanced profile. ran into the HCO chalk issue again, not sure how to fix. looks like i could make it work with "light colored and malty" profile. going to need 16 or more gallons mash/sparge water, might just run it with tap.

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8/21/2020
i think i am going to go for it with this thing. today adding some acidulated malt based on henrico guess profile to hit pH, hopefully i will remember to take a reading.
todo :
* what to do about head retention?
** adding .75lb carafoam for foam and head retention
*** https://beerandbrewing.com/d-lite-festbier-recipe/
* how much yeast?
** according to yeast calculator (depending on the mfg date) i need 4 packs plus a 4L 1.050 starter, pound and half of DME decanting, etc.. yikes! yeast alone would be like $35.
** alternatively, i have a lot of 34/70 from two batches that i could use...
** brulosophy compared german bock lager yeast with 34/70 and eventually could barely tell difference :
*** http://brulosophy.com/2016/07/21/yeast-comparison-saflager-w-3470-vs-wlp833-german-bock-lager-exbeeriment-results/
** im learning that 34/70 is equiv to WY2124 and WLP830 some say the white labs come out different.
** i think i might just keg the two lagers i have in chamber and rack the 10gal batch on top of the cakes...? or maybe half cakes? after some reading, seems about right. some say only 1/4 cake. at end of fermentation slurry contains about 6x cells. that is 600 billion per 5 gal batch. i need 717 billion for 10 gallons, so 358 billion per 5 gal bucket, divided by 600 = 0.58 so i need 58% of each of the yeast cakes.

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2/4/2020
todo :
* consider some crystal malt - no head retention...possibly some light munich

festbier flavors developed nicely however the beer was way too malty sweet probably because it was up over 7%abv. modifiying recipe down to 5.5% abv.

breakdown on previous recipe formulation :
* i kind of customized a lot. the original aha recipe is only remotely close. but it was designed for 5.8%. i probably just aimed higher than i should have and came out even higher than planned.
* hop adjustments - reduced the hop contribution a little bit to land in the middle of the IBU range but also adjustments to bump up the BU/GU ratio (0.38 previously, currently its at 0.48)
* i got to 1.010 with 85% attenuation. for the updated recipe this attenuation results in 1.007. id considered doing some crystal malt, but lets just do a 30 minute mash and see what that does.

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1/22/2020
just went into cold crash after 9 days at diacetyl based off of beer & brewing article. other places im seeing say only 2 days is needed. would prob benefit for more time in cold crash (if time is of essence). not sure if it hurts to have it at rest temp for longer tho.
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12/19/2019
i think i am going to retry this to have ready feb 1. took a pound off the grain bill to lower the abv to more standard level.

for fermentation and diacetyl rest strategy :
we are going out of town in a couple days so if i get this brew done before i leave, i will probably just let it go for 6 or 8 days at 50 then slowly raise it up to 55 when i get back. keep it there for another 3 days then cold crash until feb.

alternatively beer and brewing suggests something like this :
* 50deg for first 48 hours
* raise one degree each day for 10 days
* on day 11, allow temp to free rise to (warmest temp in brewery, but lets just say 70)
* 9 days later start the cold crash

i was considering cold crashing for only a couple days then moving to keg. ive read other places tho that it can benefit from sitting on that yeast cake all that time. on the other hand it would be nice to get it into a closed safe clean keg....???idk

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update 10/20/19
this beer is way off. i thought it was too malty sweet but i think it is actually diacetyl (or possibly DMS but diacetyl would make more sense) - i pitched the wort on top of oktoberfest yeast cake that had been sitting (in a covered bucket in cold ferm chamber, but...) for several days, maybe even a week. also i went away in the middle of fermentation and wasnt able to ease it up to diacetyl rest temperature properly accordinig to the schedule written out below. need to retry this with 1) proper fermentation schedule 2) fresh or uncontaminated yeast 3) try the original recipe? i think with no malt changes on my system it will still come out at 6%
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update 10/7/19
ugh looks like this will accidentally come out at 8%. fermented down farther than the average for this yeast. (avg 75% shouldve been 1.018 but its 1.011 at 85%) (i did pitch right onto the cake from oktoberfest so shouldve been a lot of cells). i brewed this first on a double brew day so the mash was sitting for the full 60 if not longer. i was actually away at gabf so didnt do the exact procedure below, but rather rest the chamber for on the morning of day 4 before i left town. on the morning of day 7 i measure 1.011 and turned the chamber back down to 35. consider diluting before kegging?
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basically took the recipe word for word. 90 minute boil because of the pilsner malt, will utilize that time for more IBUs with less hops via FWH. https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/homebrew-recipe/pickelhaube-festbier/

for diacetyl rest, copied from virginia lager recipe :
going to do byo fast ferment approach janFeb2017. reread but start at 44-50 let fermentation go 50% then (remove the probe from the fermentor let it reach ambient temp then...?) raise temp 5 degrees every 12 hours til you get to 65-68. once you get 100% you can crank down to lager temp (<40) for 3-5 days then you done. this will take care of diacetyl rest and apparently gets the lager completely done in 2-3 weeks.

sources :
* https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/homebrew-recipe/pickelhaube-festbier/
* https://beerandbrewing.com/make-your-best-oktoberfest/

Author:

Boil Size: 7.75 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.048

Efficiency: 78

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 10/20/2021 8:45 PM

Notes: BIAB on 10/20/2021
Added 6 lbs of puried pumpkin to mash.

SG = 1.048 g/L
OG = 1.057 g/L hydrometer and refractometer (14.0 Brix)

Author:

Neil S

Boil Size: 6.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 120

Boil Gravity: 1.054

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.3

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: 5/28/2021 8:10 PM

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Author:

metr1ck

Boil Size: 6.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.052

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 85 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/9/2021 1:07 AM

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Author:

Rothrock Brewing Company

Boil Size: 6 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.054

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/14/2021 11:03 AM

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Author:

Joey's

Boil Size: 6 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.048

Efficiency: 60

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: 2/4/2020 5:31 PM

Notes: the first taste is very good and have an after taste of citrus that comes out smooth with a note of summer.

Author:

Wolf Pack Brewing

Boil Size: 23 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.053

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 19 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 1/29/2020 2:51 AM

Notes: https://beerandbrewing.com/7FW4kwQBtmoQEuk8oU4oYG/article/weldwerks-brewing-co-juicy-bits-new-england-style-ipa

Use Epsom Salt, calcium chloride and calcium sulfate additions to adjust water profile to about 175–200 ppm chloride, 75–100 ppm sulfate, and 125–150 ppm calcium.

Mash at 149°F (65°C) for 60 minutes or until conversion is complete. Add half of the water salt additions to the mash and the rest at sparge. Add the FWH hops during runoff, immediately after vorlauf, and allow them to steep in the hot wort as the mash is sparged.

Boil for 60 minutes. Whirlpool for 40 minutes (from start to rest) following the hops schedule.

Pitch the yeast and ferment at 67°F (19°C) for 2–3 days, then allow the temperature to rise slowly to 73°F (23°C) by the end of fermentation to ensure full attenuation. When fermentation reaches 1.5–2° Plato from terminal gravity (1.020–1.022), add the first dry-hop addition. About 4 days later, add the second dry-hop addition for another 4 days. Package at 2.6 volumes of CO2 and consume fresh.

Takes 20 to 25 days before ready

Author:

Murgen

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.019

Efficiency: 60

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 64 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 10/20/2018 1:27 PM

Notes: Using 2 yeast packages. Hoping for a cleaner beer.

Author:

Aley Ale

Boil Size: 12 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.051

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.25

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: 8/26/2014 3:24 AM

Notes: This beer turned out nice and clear, very hoppy and a bit underattenuated. This was one of the brews that I tried BIAB method. Looking back I learned that method causes low fermentbility issues due to the extra thin mash....something to do with enzymes. Of the hops used, Galaxy and Australian Summer were the most aromatic. Both would be good SMASH candidates. I also learned that the extra dry hops cause a pretty significant haze in the final brew. I will brew this beer again but will use my traditional mash and sparge method, reduce the amount of dry hops, and maybe simplify the hop bill in general.

Author:

mightywhite1

Boil Size: 5 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.178

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: 0.5

Primary Temp: 20 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/22/2017 6:09 AM

Notes: Replaced the dark LME with a tin of Coopers Stout LME, which adjusted the colour of the wort (to suit the style) and it added a bit of hops to the wort (therefore no further hop additions were made). Using the above ingredients the OG came out perfect. The yeast has been pitched and the waiting game begins. Cocoa nibs will be added after fermentation stops and cold brew coffee added at bottling.

Author:

Signatur TJ

Boil Size: 16 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.048

Efficiency: 60

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.5

Primary Temp: 19 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/9/2017 4:30 PM

Notes: OG - 1,060
FG - 1,018

5,7 % inkl priming

Author:

Boil Size: 6.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.055

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: 9/17/2016 1:43 AM

Notes:

Author:

Stevobrews10000

Boil Size: 16.5 Litres

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.042

Efficiency: 68

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 17 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 5/12/2016 11:01 AM

Notes:

Author:

Dafydd

Boil Size: 32 Litres

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.044

Efficiency: 75

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: 6/26/2015 5:06 PM

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Author:

ck16801

Boil Size: 2 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.073

Efficiency: 39.5

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: 6/10/2015 3:15 AM

Notes: Very smooth, not too bitter, but lots of hop flavor and tropical fruit aromas, as expected for hop varieties. Transferred from secondary and for bottle filling with CO2. Brewed once. Has quite a bit of hop debris on bottom (did use the hop muslin bag for dry hopping this time, still hop stuff on bottom); best of series of hoppiness v01 to v04

Author:

SteveJ0912

Boil Size: 3 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.103

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: 5/28/2015 12:15 PM

Notes:

Author:

La Mal Famée

Boil Size: 33 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.033

Efficiency: 69

Mash Thickness: 2.6

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: 5/20/2015 6:14 PM

Notes:

Author:

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.053

Efficiency: 70

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: 3/29/2015 11:39 PM

Notes: