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Author:

comebackoneyear

Boil Size: 8 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.038

Efficiency: 60

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 22 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/1/2014 3:18 PM

Notes:

Author:

Nosybear

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.041

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: Corn Sugar

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 6/16/2013 3:00 AM

Notes: One can of Hershey's Chocolate Syrup added to secondary in the 2.5 gallon split.

Skip the chocolate for "Dirty Blonde"

Author:

YHCDublin

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.029

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.2

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 55 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/10/2017 10:56 PM

Notes: Frozen Raspberries in Secondary

Author:

MarcBrew

Boil Size: 6.2 Gallons

Boil Time: 75

Boil Gravity: 1.042

Efficiency: 73

Mash Thickness: 1.6

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: 7/9/2016 12:17 PM

Notes:

Author:

PsychDoc

Boil Size: 4 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: N/A

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 70 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 5/28/2013 4:50 AM

Notes:

Author:

CuatroCasas

Boil Size: 3 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.113

Efficiency: 35

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 60 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 8/3/2016 2:52 PM

Notes: Steep the remaining grains in 160°F (71°C) water for half an hour. Strain, rinse grains, add extract and dissolve thoroughly.

Author:

hoosier buddy

Boil Size: 12 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.048

Efficiency: 78

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 60 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 1/7/2017 4:14 PM

Notes: For preparation of the spruce, I usually cut off a bunch from a tree, place them in a ziplock freezer bag. Place the ziplock freezer bag in the freezer for no less than 2 weeks. This will kill everything and anything on the spruce.

The spruce I try to pick it right off of the tree. This is just cutting small size bits off of the tree itself. When you do this take some in your hands and rub your hands together vigorously. Then smell and if it's super pungent you can adjust the amount that I add at the times I do. I weigh them out, and do an 8 oz. addition @ 15 mins, and then a 2 oz addition at 0 min/flameout. When adding the additions to the boil I just throw the whole branch/sprig in the boil, tree stem and all. People most times ask if I pull the leaves off the tree/stem but I don't.

Author:

blkiddbrewery

Boil Size: 6 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.029

Efficiency: 81

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: priming sugar

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/4/2015 8:53 PM

Notes: Line the 7.5 gallon kettle with the mesh bag, fill with 2.5 gallons of tap water and bring to 164°F. Remove from heat.

Mash-in by slowly adding all 5.8 pounds of grain into the water and inside the bag. Stir for 2 minutes to prevent balls of grain from clumping together, creating a consistent mash. The temperature should equalize to about 154°F.

Cover the mash, only uncovering to briefly stir every 20 minutes. Heat 3 more gallons of water to 185°F.

After 60 minutes, mash-out by carefully pouring the 185°F water into the mash, stirring to equalize temperature to about 170°F.

Slowly raise the grain bag out of the liquid, allowing the wort to drain from the grain. Hold the grain bag above the kettle for about 5 minutes as the wort drains. Top the wort off with water to 6 gallons

Bring wort to a vigorous boil. When the boil begins, add 0.5 ounce Northern Brewer hops in a mesh bag.

After total of 60 minutes of boil, remove from heat. Warning: After wort cools below 180°F everything that touches it should be sanitary, and exposure to open air should be limited as much as possible.

Cool wort by placing pot in ice bath or by using a wort chiller until it is below 70°F. Transfer to sanitized fermentor (either a carboy or a fermentation bucket).

Use a sanitized auto-siphon racking cane to remove enough wort to take a gravity reading with your hydrometer. Make a note of this number, since you will be using it to calculate the actual alcohol content when it's done fermenting. The reading should be around 1.032.

Carefully pour yeast into cooled wort (it should be below 70°F), and agitate vigorously. Cover fermentor with a sanitized stopper and airlock. Ferment in dark place, keeping ambient temperature consistent, preferably between 65 and 68°F.

Bottle after 1 to 2 weeks when fermentation is complete, using enough priming sugar for a medium level of carbonation. (0.9 oz of priming sugar per gallon)

Author:

Tim Ostrander

Boil Size: 6 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.062

Efficiency: 57

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 75 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 5/5/2015 3:29 PM

Notes:

Author:

SonnyK85

Boil Size: 7.75 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.033

Efficiency: 77

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: 8/3/2017 12:33 AM

Notes: ** YEAST STARTER **

1. Approximately 4 Days prior to Brewing, make 10% DME solution in Erlenmeyer Flask.

MFG Date: ___/___/______
Starter: _____ gm DME / _____ L (per MrMalty.com)

2. Apply Ice Bath until Temperature reaches ~70F.
3. Squeeze 1 packet of WLP530 into DME Solution.
4. Cover with Aluminum Foil + apply to Stir Plate for 18 hours.
5. Refrigerate for ~72 hours prior to brewing.

** MASH **

PRE-HEAT MASH - 2 gal of Boiling Water
PRE-HEAT SPARGE - 2 gal of Boiling Water
(conduct Simultaneously)

Water Volume: 3.4 gallons for 1.5 lb/qt ratio.

1. Prior to heating HLT, check pH of tap water

pH: __________

2. STRIKE WATER: 161F.
3. Add Grains @ 159F.
4. Allow Temperature to fall to 149F prior to closing lid.
5. Check Mash pH ~15 minutes into Mash.

pH: __________

6. Total Mash Time: 90 minutes

FINAL MASH TEMP: __________F
FINAL MASH pH: __________

7. Add 1.2gal of Boiling Water at the end of Mash and stir into solution
8. Begin Vorlauf!

** SPARGE **

1. Add 6gal of water + Kettle salts to Pot. Prior to heating, adjust pH to </= 6.0 with Lactic Acid

Lactic Acid addition: __________ mL
Final pH measurement: __________

2. Heat 6gal of Water to 175F. Add to Sparge Vessel.
3. Recirculate 4 times prior to collecting wort.
4. Attempt to Sparge over 30-40 minutes, collect 7.75gal into boil kettle.

** BOIL **

1. Check Pre-Boil Gravity (goal: 1.033) + pH
** NOTE: Make sure to adjust for TEMPERATURE **

PRE-BOIL GRAVITY: __________ @ __________F

2. Adjust Gravity to Goal (1.032)

Adjusted Gravity: __________ (__________ @ __________ F)

PRE-BOIL pH: __________

3. Adjust Pre-Boil pH to: ~5.2 (+/- 0.1)

Final pH measurement: __________
Lactic Acid addition: __________ mL

4. Boil for 90 minutes.
5. Add Northern Brewer Hops @ 60 minutes.
6. Add Hallertau Hops @ 25 minutes.
7. Add Sugar @ 15 minutes.
8. Add Saaz Hops @ 12 minutes.
9. Add 1 crushed Whirlfloc tablet @ 5 minutes.
10. Chill wort to ~70F after completion of Boil
11. Auto-siphon wort from Kettle into Mash Cooler with fine mesh bag attached (at the end of auto-siphon)
12. Gravity feed wort from Mash Cooler into Catalyst Fermenter
13. Allow Ranco/Chest Freezer to adjust wort temperature to goal starting temp

ORIGINAL GRAVITY: ______________ (goal: 1.051)

** FERMENTATION **

1. Goal Starting Temp: 68F
2. Allow beer to Ferment @ 68F for ~48 hours, then raise the temperature with controls by 1°F / 12-24 hours (max temp: 74F) by the end of 1 week.
3. Allow yeast to flocculate and beer to clear prior to bottling.

** PRIMING **

"carbonate to approximately 3-4 volumes CO2"

Author:

Boil Size: 28 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.042

Efficiency: 72

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: 3/23/2015 11:43 AM

Notes: og 12.2

Author:

Tribs 'n Jer

Boil Size: 6 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.064

Efficiency: 83

Mash Thickness: 1

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 71 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 1/18/2016 3:16 AM

Notes: Beer Style: Saison (16C)
Recipe Type: all-grain
Yield: 5.5 gallons

Ingredients:

10 lbs - Pilsner (2 Row) Bel (2.0 SRM) (Grain)
1 lbs - Vienna Malt (3.5 SRM) (Grain)
1 lbs - Wheat Malt, Bel (2.0 SRM) (Grain)
8.0 oz - Caramunich Malt (56.0 SRM) (Grain)
1.0 oz - Goldings, East Kent [5.0%] - First Wort (Hops)
0.5 oz - Goldings, East Kent [5.0%] - Boil 15 min (Hops)
0.5 oz - Styrian Goldings [5.4%] - Boil 15 min (Hops)
1 pkgs - French Saison (Wyeast Labs #3711) (Yeast)
Additional Instructions

Boil: 60 Minutes

Beer Profile

Original Gravity: 1.062 (15.0° P)
Final Gravity: 1.008 SG (2.1° P)
Alcohol by Vol: 7.1%
Color SRM: 7.2
Bitterness IBU: 29.0
Recipe Type: all-grain
Yield: 5.50 Gallons

Wasn't able to completely sparge. Salvaged approx 3 Gallons. Added 2 cups of sugar. OG~1.065

Author:

Boil Size: 4.1 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.035

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 1.34

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.5

Primary Temp: 50 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 6/8/2016 5:04 AM

Notes: http://urbanchestnut.com/our-beers/zwickel-2/

http://www.jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=32557

http://www.stlbrews.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4300

http://homebrewingfun.blogspot.com/2014/06/i-hate-this-place-kellerpils-recipe.html

Around 12.2 - 12 Brix OG

Author:

Wootbräu

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 15

Boil Gravity: 1.047

Efficiency: 68

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 72 ° F

Priming Method: sucrose

Priming Amount: 4.4 oz

Creation Date: 7/22/2018 12:21 AM

Notes:

Author:

Kruk Brewing

Boil Size: 1.25 Gallons

Boil Time: 30

Boil Gravity: 1.032

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 65 ° F

Priming Method: Dextrose

Priming Amount: 1oz

Creation Date: 10/9/2013 6:13 PM

Notes: From "American Cookery" in 1796, by Amelia Simmons (an American orphan).

Please note: This is an adaptation of the Spruce Beer recipe from American Cookery. This recipe was written mentioning "molasses," however this is what we would call light molasses/golden syrup today...not dark molasses or blackstrap molasses. Dark or blackstrap molasses darkens the color of the brew and changes the flavor characteristics (the 1oz addition of molasses is in fact dark/blackstrap molasses - for color mostly). Ensure that you use golden syrup (like Lyle's) or corn syrup, NOT dark or blackstrap molasses for the 1lb addition.

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Directions:

Start with 1.25 gallon of water. When boiling, add molasses (not corn syrup/golden syrup), spruce tips, and hops according to schedule, and boil for 30 minutes total.

Strain hops and spruce tips out of mixture into another pot, remove from heat.

Add 1lb golden syrup or corn syrup. One bottle of Lyle's Golden Syrup is about 1lb. If you don't have fresh spruce tips, you can substitute 1 teaspoon of spruce essence. Stir until dissolved.

Cool to approximately 70-80 degrees, transfer to a 1 gallon jug, and pitch 1/2 packet of Gluten Free yeast like a Danstar variety (Nottingham preferred). Ferment about 2 weeks, then bottle.

Use 1oz of dextrose or 0.9oz table sugar at bottling for carbonation.

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"American Cookery" was the first American-written cookbook published in America. Previous efforts were adapted from English cookbooks, written by men. This cookbook focuses on new world ingredients and was written by a woman, Amelia Simmons - who is mentioned to be an American orphan on the original edition of this book. Not much is known about Amelia, but this is her recipe for spruce beer. The cookbook is actually a very interesting read about a multitude of cooking subjects from a colonial American's perspective.

The full, free and free to distribute ebook version of this cookbook can be found here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12815

This "spruce beer" recipe can be found towards the end of the book.

At around 4.5 - 5% ABV, this is a small beer. These were common in colonial America as the alcohol and boiling helped make the water safer to drink.

Interesting to note that there is no grain in this recipe, so technically it is probably not really a "beer." It only contains hops, molasses, water, and spruce essence. Using Danstar yeast (all Danstar yeasts are gluten free) and thoroughly cleaned/sterilized utensils will make this a gluten free beer.

I add spruce tips when they're in season and fresh. These are the bright green bushy new growth that pop out of spruce trees in the spring.

With a nice balance of hops to spruce (and perhaps fresh spruce tips instead of the essence), one might also consider this to be a "faux pale ale."

The key to this brew is finding the amount of spruce essence that is not overpowering for you, and marries well with the hops. Adjust the spruce essence, spruce tips, and hops variety as you see fit. Go very light until you reach the ratio that you enjoy.

*Original recipe (about 19 gallons) follows:

Take four ounces of hops, let them boil half an hour in one gallon of water, strain the hop water then add sixteen gallons of warm water, two gallons of molasses, eight ounces of essence of spruce, dissolved in one quart of water, put it in a clean cask, then shake it well together, add half a pint of emptins (see below), then let it stand and work one week, if very warm weather less time will do, when it is drawn off to bottle, add one spoonful of molasses to every bottle.

"Emptins" are a yeast starter. Here is the recipe for that, which immediately follows the Spruce Beer recipe:

Take a handful of hops and about three quarts of water, let it boil about fifteen minutes, then make a thickening as you do for starch, strain the liquor, when cold put a little emptins to work them, they will keep well cork'd in a bottle five or six weeks.

Author:

cjmck

Boil Size: 4 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.049

Efficiency: 80

Mash Thickness: 1.31

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: 4/16/2016 8:29 PM

Notes:

Author:

HighVoltageMan!

Boil Size: 10.83 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.04

Efficiency: 90

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 2.0

Primary Temp: 48 ° F

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/15/2015 10:55 PM

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