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Dark Braggot
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Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer
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5 Gallons |
1.097 |
1.019 |
10.18 |
46.01 |
19.49 °L
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427 |
1 |
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| Boil
Size: 6.79 Gallons |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.075 |
Efficiency: 70 |
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: 1/14/2021 12:15 AM |
| Notes: |
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Perkele!
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Sahti
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3 Gallons |
1.1 |
1.016 |
10.95 |
0 |
14.52 °L
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427 |
0 |
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| Boil
Size: 3 Gallons |
Boil Time: N/A |
Boil Gravity: 1.1 |
Efficiency: 67.8 |
Mash Thickness: 1 |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
| Brew
Method: All Grain |
Pitch Rate: 0.35 |
Primary
Temp: 70 ° F |
Priming Method: dextrose |
Priming Amount: 1.7 oz |
Creation
Date: 6/2/2024 4:39 PM |
Notes: Terve, perkele! This is a recipe for Finnish sahti, a historical farmhouse ale that dates back at least 500 years. I've adapted my recipe for the Anvil Foundry 6.5, an electric kettle that typically brews small 3 gallon (11L) batches.
Perkele is a Finnish word meaning 'evil spirit' and a popular Finnish profanity, used similarly to the English phrase god damn, although it is considered much more profane.
The most common sahti brewing process in Finland involves lautering the wort through juniper branches. I use an electric Anvil Foundry kettle, which limits my mashing and sparging abilities, so instead I will make a juniper infusion for my strike water. This approach is more common for Norwegian farmhouse brewers, but can also be done with sahti.
I am following a more traditional method of a very long, complex mash schedule, without boiling, and with no hop additions. This is a raw ale.
Since I am unable to get my hands on Suomen Hiiva fresh baker's yeast, I am experimenting with a split batch using three other yeast strains: Jovaru Lithuanian Farmhouse, Lutra Kveik and Weihenstephan Weizen 3068.
To simplify temperature control across three fermenters, I will maintain a narrow temperature range of 70-75°F for primary fermentation. This range is shared by all three strains and should produce the fruity and banana esters characteristic of this beer style.
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JUNIPER INFUSION (STRIKE WATER)
Lay juniper branches on bottom of kettle. Add in strike water. Steep juniper branches at 170°F for 3 hours. Skim off spiders, bugs and other impurities during infusion.
WATER ADJUSTMENT & DOUGH-IN
Remove juniper branches. Let infusion cool down to strike temperature. Adjust mash pH to 5.4 with phosphoric acid. Dough-in grist and add juniper berries.
MASH AND VORLAUF
Mash for about 4 to 5 hours, stepping up 10°C every hour:
40°C (104°F) - 1 hour
50°C (122°F) - 1 hour
60°C (140°F) - 1 hour
70°C (158°F) - 1 hour
80°C (176°F) - 15 minutes
Recirculate throughout the mash (or vorlauf for 10-20 minutes afterwards) until wort runs clear.
PREP SPARGE WATER
Acidify sparge water to 5.4 pH with phosphoric acid. Heat to 175°F.
SPARGE & NO-BOIL
Fly sparge until 3 gallons of wort have been collected. Do not heat to boiling; sahti should be heavy with proteins and has no hot break to remove them. Do not add hops.
CHILL, AERATE & PITCH
Chill wort to 70°F. Split batch into three fermenters. Aerate wort and prepare to pitch each yeast seperately.
GJÆRKAUK
Very important step. Scream "PERKELE!!!" into the fermenter as you pitch the yeast, to frighten away the evil spirits.
FERMENTATION & CONDITIONING
Ferment at 70-75°F for 1-3 days.
Before fermentation is complete (gravity is approx. 1.034-1.038), transfer sahti to cold storage and condition at 32-54°F for 7-10 days.
CARBONATION & SERVING
Serve still or with very low carbonation (1.6-1.8 vols of CO₂).
Drink fresh, within a few weeks.
Store cool at all times to prevent spoiling. |
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Saisons Change (dark) / Biere De Guard Split
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Saison
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6 Gallons |
1.063 |
1.006 |
7.41 |
31.15 |
9.7 °L
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427 |
0 |
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| Boil
Size: 7.56 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: 90 ° F |
Priming Method: N/A |
Priming Amount: N/A |
Creation
Date: 6/29/2023 1:21 PM |
| Notes: |
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Capuchino White Stout
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Experimental Beer
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200 Litres |
1.041 |
1.007 |
4.38 |
8.69 |
4.05 °L
|
427 |
0 |
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| Boil
Size: 220 Litres |
Boil Time: 90 |
Boil Gravity: 1.039 |
Efficiency: 70 |
Mash Thickness: 3 |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
| Brew
Method: All Grain |
Pitch Rate: 0.35 |
Primary
Temp: 18 ° C |
Priming Method: co2 |
Priming Amount: 1.5 bar |
Creation
Date: 11/27/2022 12:38 PM |
| Notes: |
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Peat Bomb
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Specialty Smoked Beer
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5.5 Gallons |
1.076 |
1.021 |
7.25 |
36.36 |
6.59 °L
|
427 |
0 |
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| Boil
Size: 6.5 Gallons |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.065 |
Efficiency: 70 |
Mash Thickness: 1.75 |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
| Brew
Method: All Grain |
Pitch Rate: 0.35 |
Primary
Temp: N/A |
Priming Method: co2 |
Priming Amount: 25.61 psi |
Creation
Date: 10/26/2022 6:59 PM |
| Notes: Toast 2 pounds of malt, light toast on one pound and medium toast on the other. |
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Dry Citra Session IPA
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Experimental Beer
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5.5 Gallons |
1.042 |
1.011 |
4.1 |
40.22 |
5.75 °L
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427 |
1 |
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| Boil
Size: 7.15 Gallons |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.035 |
Efficiency: 75 |
Mash Thickness: 1.5 |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
| Brew
Method: All Grain |
Pitch Rate: 0.35 |
Primary
Temp: 62 ° F |
Priming Method: co2 |
Priming Amount: 11.25 psi |
Creation
Date: 5/28/2022 1:06 PM |
Notes: Original version: https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/homebrew-recipe/citra-session-ipa/
Use Spring Water
Original recipe identifies 1.042 as Original Gravity and 1.012 at Final Gravity. ABV should also be at 3.8%.
What changed from original:
-All late hop additions moved till after knockout
-Eliminated all crystal malt
-Added acidulated malt |
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Hamilton Wild 01
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Wild Specialty Beer
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6 Gallons |
1.056 |
1.014 |
5.54 |
0 |
4.1 °L
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427 |
0 |
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| Boil
Size: 7.5 Gallons |
Boil Time: 75 |
Boil Gravity: 1.045 |
Efficiency: 70 |
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: 1/9/2022 4:03 PM |
| Notes: |
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Tripel Van Dendermonde
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Belgian Tripel
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5.5 Gallons |
1.086 |
1.02 |
8.73 |
34.67 |
4.64 °L
|
427 |
0 |
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| Boil
Size: 7.86 Gallons |
Boil Time: 90 |
Boil Gravity: 1.062 |
Efficiency: 75 |
Mash Thickness: 0.65 |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
| Brew
Method: All Grain |
Pitch Rate: 0.35 |
Primary
Temp: N/A |
Priming Method: dextrose |
Priming Amount: 6.6 oz |
Creation
Date: 10/15/2021 4:00 PM |
| Notes: |
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Oostmalle Tripel
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Belgian Golden Strong Ale
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40 Litres |
1.073 |
1.013 |
7.9 |
26.31 |
3.84 °L
|
427 |
1 |
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| Boil
Size: 50 Litres |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.062 |
Efficiency: 70 |
Mash Thickness: 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: 6/30/2021 6:47 PM |
Notes: https://byo.com/article/belgian-style-tripel/
Oostmalle Tripel
(5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)
OG = 1.080 FG = 1.011
IBU = 34 SRM = 3 ABV = 9.0%
Ingredients
11.25 lbs. (5.1 kg) Pilsner malt (or a blend of Pilsner malts)
2.7 lbs. (1.2 kg) sugar (sucrose)
10 AAU Tettnanger hops (60 mins)
(2.25 oz./64 g of 4.5% alpha acids)
White Labs WLP530 (Abbey Ale) or Wyeast 3787 (Trappist High Gravity) yeast
(3 qt./~3 L yeast starter)
1⁄2 tsp. Wyeast Yeast Nutrient Blend (or 1 capsule White Labs Servomyces)
9.5 oz. (269 g) corn sugar (for priming)
Step by Step
Treat your water such that your level of carbonates is below 50 ppm and your calcium level is in the 50–75 ppm range. (If you adjust magnesium, shoot for the 10 to 30 ppm range.) For any calcium additions, use a mixture of calcium chloride and gypsum, unless your water is already rich in either chloride or sulfates and deficient in the other. [As an option, if your carbonates are in the 50–100 ppm range, bump up your calcium to 100 ppm and swap 2.5-5% of the Pilsner malt for acidulated malt. In the above grain bill, that would be about 1–2 lbs. (0.45–0.91 kg).]
Step mash with a 45-minute rest at 140 °F (60 °C), then ramp temperature to 152 °F (67 °C) and hold for 30 minutes. (Use 16 qts. (15 L) of strike water.) If you are heating your mash tun, heat at a rate of approximately 2 °F (1 °C) every 4 minutes. Stir every minute or so. (Raising your temperature will take about 20 minutes this way.) If you are adding boiling water to instantly raise your mash temperatures, extend the second rest by about 10 minutes. You can also pull a small decoction, about 1⁄4 of your mash, heat it to a boil and return it to the main mash to raise your mash temperature. As an option, you can raise the mash temperature to 168 °F (76 °C) for a mash out.
If you did not mash out, begin sparging with 190–200 °F (88–93 °C) water until the top of the grain bed reaches 168 °F (76 °C). Continue sparging with water hot enough to keep the grain bed at about 168 °F (~76 °C). If you did mash out, continue sparging with water hot enough to keep the grain bed at 168 °F (76 °C). Quit collecting wort when the specific gravity of the runoff drops to 1.008 or the pH climbs to 5.8, whichever comes first. Heat your wort as you are collecting it, aiming to have the boil start right around the time the runoff ends.
Boil until your hot break appears, then examine it. If it appears as big, fluffy, “snowflake-like” flakes, then proceed with the boil. If it consists of tiny granules of break material (or if you measure the wort pH and it is above 5.2), add 1⁄4 tsp. CaCl2. Boil vigorously for about 90 minutes, or however long it will take to reduce your volume such that you yield 5.0 gallons (19 L) of wort. (This should be at least 60 minutes.) Add the hops for the final 60 minutes of the boil. Stir the sugar into the wort when 15 minutes is left in the boil. Add yeast nutrients at the same time.
Cool to 65 °F (18 °C) quickly and transfer to your fermenter. Aerate well and pitch the yeast from the yeast starter. Maintain fermentation temperature of 65 °F (18 °C) for the first day of active fermentation, then allow it to rise in the next few days up to 70 °F (21 °C). Once fermentation has concluded, let the beer sit and condition for a few days, then bottle.
Bottle the beer in heavy beer bottles, or decrease the amount of priming sugar to 6.5 oz. (184 g) of priming sugar per 5 gallons (19 L). [Note: the 9.5 oz. of priming sugar assumes that your fermentation finished at 70 °F (21 °C); if it was colder, consult the priming chart at byo.com for how much to add.] Be sure to stir priming sugar into beer well enough that the sugar is evenly distributed. Store the conditioning beer warm, optimally, warmer than room temperature — up to 80 °F (27 °C). After two weeks, chill a bottle and test for carbonation. Store carbonated beer cold for at least two weeks before serving.
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Kveik Chinook
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Experimental Beer
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12 Litres |
1.071 |
1.014 |
7.52 |
51.25 |
9.02 °L
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427 |
1 |
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| Boil
Size: 15 Litres |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.057 |
Efficiency: 78 |
Mash Thickness: 2.5 |
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: 3/27/2021 4:46 PM |
| Notes: |
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Scotch
|
Experimental Beer
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200 Litres |
19.59 |
2.356 |
10.03 |
0 |
20.62 °L
|
427 |
0 |
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| Boil
Size: 202 Litres |
Boil Time: 10 |
Boil Gravity: 10.6 |
Efficiency: 84 |
Mash Thickness: 3.3 |
Sugar
Scale: Plato |
| Brew
Method: All Grain |
Pitch Rate: 1.25 |
Primary
Temp: N/A |
Priming Method: N/A |
Priming Amount: N/A |
Creation
Date: 1/29/2018 2:13 PM |
| Notes: |
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Gingerbread Cookie!
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Winter Seasonal Beer
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1000 Litres |
1.063 |
1.014 |
6.49 |
15.27 |
30.8 °L
|
427 |
0 |
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| Boil
Size: 1020 Litres |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.063 |
Efficiency: 74 |
Mash Thickness: 2 |
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: 11/6/2020 11:34 PM |
| Notes: |
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Paters Bier
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Trappist Single
|
5 Gallons |
1.033 |
1.01 |
3.1 |
23.74 |
2.53 °L
|
427 |
0 |
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| Boil
Size: 8 Gallons |
Boil Time: 150 |
Boil Gravity: 1.023 |
Efficiency: 75 |
Mash Thickness: N/A |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
| Brew
Method: All Grain |
Pitch Rate: 0.35 |
Primary
Temp: N/A |
Priming Method: dextrose |
Priming Amount: 3.9 oz |
Creation
Date: 4/4/2020 5:50 PM |
| Notes: |
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Thunder Snow
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Clone Beer
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5.5 Gallons |
1.071 |
1.019 |
6.86 |
33.23 |
28.36 °L
|
427 |
0 |
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| Boil
Size: 7.5 Gallons |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.052 |
Efficiency: 75 |
Mash Thickness: 1.5 |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
| Brew
Method: All Grain |
Pitch Rate: 0.35 |
Primary
Temp: 67 ° F |
Priming Method: co2 |
Priming Amount: -12 psi |
Creation
Date: 9/16/2019 6:18 PM |
| Notes: |
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Spicy A
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Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer
|
23 Litres |
1.048 |
1.008 |
5.23 |
42.87 |
5.51 °L
|
427 |
0 |
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| Boil
Size: 27 Litres |
Boil Time: 70 |
Boil Gravity: 1.041 |
Efficiency: 70 |
Mash Thickness: 3.8 |
Sugar
Scale: Specific Gravity |
| Brew
Method: All Grain |
Pitch Rate: 0.35 |
Primary
Temp: N/A |
Priming Method: White Cane Sugar |
Priming Amount: 99.8 g |
Creation
Date: 6/10/2019 8:12 PM |
| Notes: |
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Hallertau Blanc SMAASH
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Experimental Beer
|
2.5 Gallons |
1.052 |
1.01 |
5.53 |
59.92 |
5.1 °L
|
427 |
0 |
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| Boil
Size: 7.5 Gallons |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.017 |
Efficiency: 70 |
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: 1/12/2019 9:28 PM |
| Notes: |
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Trappist Single
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Trappist Single
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2.75 Gallons |
1.049 |
1.011 |
4.98 |
32.21 |
2.92 °L
|
427 |
1 |
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| Boil
Size: 3.5 Gallons |
Boil Time: 90 |
Boil Gravity: 1.039 |
Efficiency: 70 |
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: 1/12/2019 3:35 PM |
| Notes: |
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1. Rye Dubbel - Lead By Bad Example - 11/18
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Belgian Dubbel
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16 Litres |
1.058 |
1.01 |
6.21 |
16.27 |
18.87 °L
|
427 |
0 |
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| Boil
Size: 23 Litres |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.04 |
Efficiency: 55 |
Mash Thickness: 2.5 |
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: 12/1/2018 11:17 PM |
Notes: Pump and kettle died, mash out dropped to 61 degrees
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Empire
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Brett Beer
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11.4 Litres |
1.038 |
1.004 |
4.42 |
21.56 |
2.9 °L
|
427 |
1 |
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| Boil
Size: 15.2 Litres |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.028 |
Efficiency: 70 |
Mash Thickness: 2.3 |
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: 10/23/2018 4:20 PM |
| Notes: |
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Berliner Weisse
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Brett Beer
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12 Gallons |
1.019 |
1.004 |
1.98 |
0 |
3.22 °L
|
427 |
0 |
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| Boil
Size: 13.5 Gallons |
Boil Time: 60 |
Boil Gravity: 1.017 |
Efficiency: 35 |
Mash Thickness: 1.1 |
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: 3/16/2018 6:36 PM |
| Notes: |
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