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Author:

dpatrickv

Boil Size: 7 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: N/A

Efficiency: 70

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: 6/13/2012 1:41 PM

Notes: Oak cubes soaked in Buffalo Trace bourbon for 1 week before being added to beer in secondary.

Author:

wingin' it

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.049

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 66 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/26/2015 7:49 PM

Notes: Did a side by side comparison and it is almost dead on. Only difference is T7 is a little more orange. Flavor is almost indistiguishable.

Author:

Boil Size: 23 Litres

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.066

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 2.2

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 18 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 8/17/2018 6:36 PM

Notes:

Author:

kblankenship11

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.056

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.75

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 49 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/25/2018 3:51 PM

Notes: Ferment at 48 until signs of fermentation are evident. Ferment at 50 for the next two weeks. Allow temperature to free-rise to 55 and ferment until activity slows. Conduct a long diacetyl at 60 until terminal gravity is reached (7-14 days) before cold crashing to lagering temperature. Cold condition for at least 1 month at 35, although 3 months is better.

1.073 expected OG. 1.013 expected FG.

Author:

spdalton

Boil Size: 1.8 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 7.5

Efficiency: 60

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Plato

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 1/3/2017 12:49 AM

Notes: 1/2# pear flesh, pureed and brought to a quick boil to sterilize, added at high kreusen

Author:

Herr Braumeister

Boil Size: 6.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.039

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.2

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: 8/13/2016 12:25 AM

Notes: Hop bill uncertain other than Hallertau, which is part of the description.

Author:

eric_per

Boil Size: 23 Litres

Boil Time: 65

Boil Gravity: 1.056

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 3.1

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 19 ° C

Priming Method: Sugar

Priming Amount: 205g - 17 liter

Creation Date: 5/5/2016 11:30 AM

Notes: http://olrecept.se/den_blinda_katten

OG: 1.055
FG: 1.012
ABV: 5.63%

Author:

Mark

Boil Size: 11.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.051

Efficiency: 70

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: 9/16/2013 11:47 PM

Notes: Strike at 171F for 6.5 Gallons

Home hops mix of Summit, Chinook, Columbus

Poly Clear Secondary Ferment

Author:

Eugene23

Boil Size: 10 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.076

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 28

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.5

Primary Temp: 73 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 7/15/2018 2:49 AM

Notes: Strawberries and rhubarb should be macerated in the cognac and lemon juice overnight before adding to the secondary. Honey should be added at the end of boil.

Batch & Boil

Batch Size
10.0 gal
Boil Time
60 min

Mash

Efficiency
75.0%

Fermentation

Primary
7 days
Secondary
—

Misc.

IBU Formula

Author:

Wiregrass Brewing Company

Boil Size: 7 Gallons

Boil Time: 120

Boil Gravity: 1.042

Efficiency: 48

Mash Thickness: 1.64

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: -12 psi

Creation Date: 5/12/2016 11:53 PM

Notes:

Author:

emsroth

Boil Size: 8 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.054

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: 1.56

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 65 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/17/2017 6:54 PM

Notes:

Author:

galacticbrewing12

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.044

Efficiency: 55

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 12/27/2015 6:47 PM

Notes:

Author:

rolandblais

Boil Size: 2.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.048

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 62 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 10/14/2018 3:38 AM

Notes: ***GRAIN BILL IS A GUESS***

https://brooklynbrewshop.com/pages/instructions-unicorn-ipa

Pre-Brew: Sanitize
Sanitization is important, but it's nothing scary. When brewing, keep everything clean so that you give what you're brewing its best chance to succeed. So when preparing for brew day, wipe any crumbs off the counters. Move any clutter that might be in your way. Read through the rest of the instructions (at least through fermentation) so that you know what to expect. And have fun!

Dissolve half of your sanitizer packet with a gallon of water in a container. Save the second half for when you bottle.
Soak everything you are going to use, rinse with water, and let air dry on some paper towels. If it isn’t totally dry when you are ready to start don’t worry.
Keep the extra sanitizer in a container for now. Chances are you’ll want to re-sanitize something later.

Additional Ingredients Needed:
3 Tablespoons Honey
Ice
1/3 cup of shredded beets

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 quarts (3.8 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. Add 1/4 Amarillo Hops and 1/4 Mosaic Hops when you start to heat the wort.
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:
At 55 minutes, add 1/3 cups shredded beet to the boil.
At 60 minutes, turn off heat. Add 1/4 Amarillo Hops and 1/4 Mosaic Hops.
Reserve the remaining hops.

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.
Open your fermenter and drop 1/2 remaining Amarillo Hops and 1/2 remaining Mosaic Hops into your beer. This is called dry hopping and will give your beer intense hop flavor.
Sanitize, then re-assemble airlock, filling up to line with sanitizer.
Insert airlock into hole in stopper.

1 week later drop remaining hops to your fermenter as a second dry hop

Keep in a dark place at room temperature for two weeks after you added the yeast 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 ow 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.
Pour your beer in a glass and add sprinkles on top of the fluffy head for a fun Unicorn look and flavor.
Drink. Share with friends if you’re the sharing type.

Author:

Brewbert

Boil Size: 7.38 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.04

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.75

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.5

Primary Temp: 12.75 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/6/2016 2:22 PM

Notes:

Author:

Pat

Boil Size: 9.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.042

Efficiency: 70

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: 1/10/2016 3:30 AM

Notes:

Author:

rrenaud

Boil Size: 7.6 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.037

Efficiency: 63

Mash Thickness: 1.4

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.25

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 11/25/2015 8:27 AM

Notes: I decreased IBU from base recipe, hoping for more acidity from the lacto.

Added dregs from a Bruery Oude Tart, Drie Fonteinen Gueze, allagash ghoulship, bfm bon chien.

14.5 brix @ 4.8 gal, will dilute to 5

4/20/2016: 1.008 grav, moderately sour, still some sweetness/malt in the background, pleasing.

9/10/2016: 1.005 grav, smells a tiny bit horsey, tastes pretty sour, not much sweetness anymore. putting on 2 pounds dry black currants`

Author:

tracyk

Boil Size: 6.75 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.067

Efficiency: 72

Mash Thickness: 1.25

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 67 ° F

Priming Method: Corn Sugar

Priming Amount: 2.4

Creation Date: 10/1/2015 1:58 PM

Notes: Added 2 oz of toasted oak chips to 6 oz of 1835 Bourbon. Let sit for 2 weeks, then added 2 vanilla beans in the Bourbon mixture and let sit another week. Added all of this in a fine mesh hop bag to the fermentor after 2.5 weeks of fermentation and let sit in the fermentor another 1.5 weeks before putting in the keg. Without adding the Bourbon mixture the beer has a roasted bitter flavor, but once the Bourbon mixture is added it smooths it out.

Author:

Damian_Fuentes

Boil Size: 52 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.045

Efficiency: 68

Mash Thickness: 2.75

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: 1/14/2019 6:05 PM

Notes:

Author:

dazzla

Boil Size: 60 Litres

Boil Time: 70

Boil Gravity: 1.047

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 2.8

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 19.5 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/28/2016 8:54 AM

Notes: Cacao nibs & vanilla pod tincture made on brewday:

Cacao nibs 100g
Vanilla pods 2 off
100ml Vodka or other spirit

add more liqour as it is absorbed, add to fermentor when a gravity of 1.020 is achieved

hydrate yeast, day prior to brewday, add 500ml of brewing sugar/water solution to a gravity of 1.030 on brewday

Author:

Stellenbosch

Boil Size: 46 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.069

Efficiency: 80

Mash Thickness: 2

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 18 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/24/2016 11:05 AM

Notes: Robust Flanders Red Ale
Hops aged for 1 year at room temperature, second addition wild hops (from Poland)
Got 42L of d = 1.076, right to the point
Corn pregelatinized but not extensively
Mash: 63 20', heating up to 73 20', 40 min at 73, 5 min to the end of this rest Carafa was added, within 10 min it reached 78C

Started fermenting at 14C (yeast cake from previous beer), went up to 19C.

Mash very thick to leave some starches even at the cost of efficiency

after 10 days d = 1.011. Split into two - one secondary and second with bugs. 02.05.2016
secondary: 3-4 months, 20-23C. After 42 days (14.06.2016) add oak cubes 1x1x1cm, middle-toasted, 50g.