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Author:

katdaddy

Boil Size: 5.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 75

Boil Gravity: 1.105

Efficiency: 60

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: 3/25/2015 2:56 PM

Notes: Add grains, steep at 150 degrees for 45 minutes. Remove grains and let drip dry as bringing to boil,
Add malt extract (careful to not scorch). Add hops as scheduled

Cool and ferment at 65-68 degrees for about 3 weeks
Secondary, minimum 12 weeks

Took 1st place in the first round of the American Homebrewers Association (AHA) National Homebrew Competition

Author:

PeteLarney

Boil Size: 1.6 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.039

Efficiency: 65

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: 9/16/2016 7:42 PM

Notes:

Author:

Kaotus

Boil Size: 7.75 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.038

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 65 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 1/15/2020 4:20 PM

Notes: To reduce the oils brought in by the shredded coconut, I covered with paper towels and baked in the oven for about 20 minutes on each side @ 300F and patted down with a paper towel again before putting in the fermenter. Not worried about infection at that point due to the beer already being alcoholic and the paper towel + coconut having been baked at 300F.

Super sessionable, great summer beer.

Author:

Boil Size: 6.75 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.062

Efficiency: 60

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 67 ° F

Priming Method: sucrose

Priming Amount: 5.5 oz

Creation Date: 1/3/2020 1:18 AM

Notes: brew day yield was actually ~4.5+ gallons, OG was 1.092, no DME was used because OG was close enough.

Mash target says 152, though that was just because I think this site doesn't take into account some minimal thermal loss. The mash actually hit 150, which is what I wanted anyway. Had to add a liter or so of ~165F water at about 30 minutes to bring up from 148 back to 150F.

Author:

pcherry

Boil Size: 3 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.077

Efficiency: 35

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/20/2019 4:21 PM

Notes:

Author:

rolandblais

Boil Size: 1.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.039

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 3:32 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:

Sleepy dog brewing

Boil Size: 6.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.054

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 1.7

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: 8/24/2018 6:51 PM

Notes: Vanilla Beans, split and soaked in enough vodka to cover, for
2 weeks before bottling or kegging. Pour vanilla beans and
vodka through a strainer into the bottling bucket or keg.
Alternately, you can add the split vanilla beans directly to
the fermenter 4 days before bottling or kegging.

Brewer’s Notes: This recipe is from Jeremy Railey, who won first place at the
Indiana Brewer’s Cup in the Specialty category with this beer! Jeremy prefers
to zest the skin of an orange or two and freeze it overnight before brew day.
When he brews this beer, he will zest the skin of another orange directly into
the boil at 30 minutes left in the boil, then split the orange open and drop it
directly in the wort for the rest of the boil. He will put the frozen zest in at the
end of the boil. We have included sweet orange peel as an alternative to this,
but if you would like, you can try to brew it his way! He also uses Mexican
vanilla beans, as they give a smooth vanilla cream character to the beer. He
will soak the split beans in enough vodka to cover them for 2 weeks prior to
bottling or kegging, then strain the beans from the vodka extract directly into
the keg or bottling bucket. This is a delicious beer with a lot of fun variables
that can be brewed again and again

Author:

J A

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.041

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 1.25

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: 7/18/2017 3:03 AM

Notes:

Author:

Nosybear

Boil Size: 3.75 Gallons

Boil Time: 120

Boil Gravity: 1.032

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: 4/8/2017 1:50 AM

Notes: Das Projekt is to brew multiple small batches using different base grains - the only thing that will change from batch to batch is the base grain. Each batch will list the base malt in the notes. For each batch, O2, 5 min, 1/32 LPM. Pitch and ferment at 12 degrees C. Extended boil is to develop color.
0. Avangard Pilsner: Used too much water and over-acidified the sparge. Water required going forward: 4.5 gallons. I'l make 5 gallons of brewing liquor but only use what I need. Run 1 was not usable as an experimental run - too much water, extended boil, hop utilization and color but I'll complete it. Oh yes, I forgot to get yeast so I won't pitch it until tomorrow (4/24). Not counting this as a project brew.
1. Floor-malted Bohemian Pilsner.
2. Golden Promise: Slightly darker malt resulted in a much lower pH. Adding some bicarbonate and learned to recalculate for each different malt.

Author:

Monster Brews

Boil Size: 28.5 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.039

Efficiency: 71

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 19 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 1/27/2017 8:40 PM

Notes:

Author:

JoelG11

Boil Size: 13 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: N/A

Efficiency: 78

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: 1/10/2013 11:59 PM

Notes: Will use slurries from 1056 and BRY-97 as a comparison with 1L starters.

Eff: 1 Gallon of loss, 10% boil-off, 4% wort shrinkage

Fermented 2.5 wks in Primary

Actual OG: 1.077, Actual FG 1.016 with 1056 and BRY97

Author:

Boil Size: 4 Litres

Boil Time: 20

Boil Gravity: 1.092

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Partial Mash

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 18 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/19/2016 2:07 AM

Notes:

Author:

theycallmeleroyy

Boil Size: 3 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.138

Efficiency: 80

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Partial Mash

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 70 ° F

Priming Method: Kegging

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 9/6/2015 4:34 PM

Notes: set water temp to 165 and add grains - keep at 150 for 60 minutes

after 60 minutes raise temperature to 170 - keep for 5 minutes and remove grains

remove grains and bring to boil - add hops according to schedule

refrigerate extra water

move wort to fermentor and add cold water to bring to pitching temp

Author:

SpencerG11

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.048

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.33

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 65 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 8/3/2015 2:03 AM

Notes:

Author:

Itbrvilla

Boil Size: 22.5 Litres

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.038

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 24 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 7/22/2015 2:03 PM

Notes:

Author:

polarbearbrewing

Boil Size: 5.14 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.041

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.5

Primary Temp: 62 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/18/2015 10:37 AM

Notes:

Author:

SchuBrew

Boil Size: 5.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.038

Efficiency: 65

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: 5/23/2014 12:17 AM

Notes:

Author:

Pork n beer

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.066

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.3

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: 2/24/2020 2:27 AM

Notes:

Author:

rodfon

Boil Size: 32 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.046

Efficiency: 66

Mash Thickness: 2.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 17 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 12/14/2016 4:38 PM

Notes: 5 mL de Hopshot - para azacca

6 mL de Hopshot - para cascade

Author:

Dave's Dreaded

Boil Size: 14 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.048

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: 6/12/2013 7:55 PM

Notes: