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Author:

RustyBarrelHomebrewing

Boil Size: 7 Gallons

Boil Time: 120

Boil Gravity: 1.101

Efficiency: 41

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 6/16/2024 2:08 AM

Notes: ===============================
8/20/2024

just brewed this. a list of screw ups :
* forgot to add phosphoric acid. calculated mash ph still seems in range though
* only bought 2 packs us04. added another pack of us05. prob needed a lot more andor a starter
* forgot to add oxygen
* it took a long time to collect all the wort and get it up to boiling....
* ...sparged 3 times split into inductions plate, did not boil as long as id hoped and ended up with too much wort. sparge less or boil longer
* i did boil some in the induction plate which helped
* ended up with more wort than i used to
* bumped hop addition from 1.5oz to 2oz
* efficiency was poorer than I'd hoped for 52%, more like 42%. may start to make sense to just do 1070 ish wort and just DME the rest
** 1083 before DME (shouldve been 1096)
** 1098 with 3lb DME
** 1117 with 6 total lb DME
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6/15/2024

The 2023 version of this beer won a couple silver or bronze medals, and is at this point advancing to national homebrew competition finals. The judges complained about its harshness. I thought it lacked body, depth, and girth/thickness.

This time, we will sub standard DME for wheat DME, and boil it a shit ton. Because of work schedule it might be as long as 8 hours.

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4/6/2023
took FG of 1034 after 9 days. fermented pretty fast... this base beer may not be black enough, kinda brown looking. vaguely remember the last batch being that way but maybe forgot since it got blacker once it went into the barrel.

updating OG to 1117 from brew day photos. should be 10.8% currently.

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3/29/2023
brewed last night on igloo and digiboil + induction burner. did a full batch sparge (i mean, filled the igloo all way up) twice and got about 7 gallons of wort. first running was 1078 final runnings was 1060, that all without the DME. there was still more wort in the mash tun that couldve come out, probably couldve pulled more wort for the main batch or at least for a partigyle.

got a little better than 50% efficiency. splitting up the wort def helped, was able to boil off 2 gallons in 2 hours which is more than i usually get with the digiboil.

i used a pretty big slurry of s04 from the fridge from a british golden ale plus two cans of propper starter for a couple days before brew day. it looked like a ton of yeast.

adjusting recipe according to the brew day output. if all goes well it could be above 11%. hoping for bigger body with the carapils and oatmeal.

next time consider adding some wheat malt as well!! possibly wheat DME or LME!!!
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3/26/2023
notes on next batch

question is, to DME or not? will be brewing on digiboil which doesnt boil down so much so maybe it should be in consideration. also consider LME, although they make it annoying at the homebrew store....?

making more mods to the grist, going all out for a thick beer, adding carapils and oats, will try to mash at 156...

changing to english yeast. will probably use slurry from fridge with a starter

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3/26/2023
(notes on previous 2022 batch)
unclear on the notes below. if there was DME added i would estimate 10-11% otherwise probably 9.5%. the body is pretty thin. main issue with this beer is it stayed in the oak barrel way too long it just tastes like harsh wood. shouldve saved some on the side without to wood to evaluate separately.

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???/2022
Reading byo session to imperial article about imperial stou they suggest using brown sugar to get up to gravity I’d consider that. Also they mentioned double mash which I should def do it should def help since last time mash tun was maxed out and really too thick
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5/25/2022
majore lapse in note taking. unclear the OG or abv of this beer. somewhere between 9.5 and 12% smh. The OG on brew day was 1095. however there was 3 lb DME added to the recipe separate from what was already in the grain bill making me think i added it later. correcting the efficiency to 55% for the 1095 OG then adding the DME gives 1.116 down to 1020 making it 12.5% not considering the whiskey.

before today the efficiency was set at 50% not sure if that was corrected after brewday? not sure. leaving it there gives us 1.109 down to 1020 for 11.6%.

maybe i put the 3lb in the recipe just to calculate what it would be but never actually put it in? if thats the case it would be 1095 down to 1020 for 9.4% abv

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2/28/2022
Measured 1020 FG ...could that be right? That would be 80% attenuation for 11.6%. Its pretty brown and not black. Maybe there is more volume in there than I have here in recipe

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2/18/2022
considering adding LME to boost grav...(thinking LME instead of DME might be easier to work with),...adjusted volume and turned up the projected attenuation

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2/16/2022
last minute pulling out the oats. worried about stuck mash and wont be able to babysit....

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2/15/2022
got water report updating to that, looks like ph will be a little high so adding a little phosphoric acid.

thinking about mash. G40 is 11 gal in mash so we'll go 1 qt/lb mash thickness on 28 lbs grain. adding a line for DME in case we go to that later.

looks like it will be a little over 7 gallons strike water and 5 gallons sparge water.

pitching 1 jar of RVA 101 into almost a gallon of 1040 starter wort 2 days before. no stir plate.

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2/8/2022
wondering if this will all fit in the GF. could possibly do it all in the cooler or split between the two.

thinking about setting this up early in the day to mash during work and have it boil for 3 hours while i do dinner/bedtimes. setup the GF in the driveway if possible - will be a lot of steam.

see big beer schedule https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gaWvnYevKP9I8mmRzW54MrnqfOVuWlsOEhzyezW-kaY/edit#gid=0

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1/16/2022
adding notes to sparge strategy to try to achieve decent efficiency.
adjusting yeast - use rva 132 plus 3L starter

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12/1/2021
* adding oats and removing DME for now.
** adjusting recipe for 65% efficiency and trying to hit 10%abv counting the oats as zero points contribution.
** probably want to use a grain bag if possible
** remember to take preboil gravity, and throughout. maybe last 10 minutes of the boil take gravity and decide whether or not to throw in some DME
* adjusting to 2 hour boil
* will plan to double mash.
** not sure the plan for that because g40 will be maxed out at 10g preboil and thats without grain
** ...maybe just take the first mash out and put the 2nd one in. then take it out and sparge to get to volume? will be leaving behind sugars in first mash...
** ...alternatively sparge both mashes. after first mash and sparge and mash is pulled, should have about 6-7 gallons, that should leave enough space to drop the 2nd mash in. when that comes out, i would think we'd then have 5-6 gallons left. and will have to sparge to get the rest of the way. 2nd mash will have absorbed some of the 1st mash wort so it should probably be richer in the end for more sparging?
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11/3/2021

RECIPE REBUILD
* reducing roasted barley from 1.25 down to 0.5
* reducing black patent from 1.25 to 0.5
** wanted to use less but keeping it here to get within SRM for style
* adding 1lb 120L for flavor and body
* get rid of the fricking kviek!!! change to london3
* adjusting efficiency to 70% :
** going to 2 hour boil
** im now on G40 which has been doing 2gal/hr so we'll go from 10g down to 6 during a 2 hour boil

for yeast would need rva 132 200B pack and a 2L starter or equivalent

todo :
* need to figure out yeast requirements (packs, starters...)
* consider oats
** its 21 lb grain...consider double mash
** ...if double mash consider more base grain and less DME
** any changes to grain bill, try to keep abv at 10%...

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11/2/2021
this brew came out tasting funky again. submitted to JRHB dominion cup they said umami and i think that is correct. This is the third time this has happened to varying degrees, I previously thought it might be bad ingredients but I think hothead and/or too much roasted malt is to blame...

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5/1/21
Not sure what happened only came to 1.100 OG even after the 2 hour boil and DMe. It was 1075 before the DME.

Last minute adding 2 lb base malt and reducing DME. Gonna play by ear how much dme to add
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4/30/21
booting this back up for big brew day with ryan tomorrow. we are doing two 5 gallon mash sparges into my 15 gallon kettle to boil all at once so that could change things. im expecting better efficiency even without the dry malt extract. plan to boil 90 minutes, check gravity, then potentially add 3 or 6 lbs total DME for the 10 gallon batch. i think we will need 14 gallons to start, boil down to 11 or 11.5, leave 1 behind for trub.
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5/25/2020
FG 1.036 (cold sample)
appears the starter wasnt necessary and didnt do anything anyway. Hit an official 10%
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5/11/2020
SG 1.036 - made a 2x starter from a new hothead pack and tossed half of it into the batch.
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5/2/2020
SG 1.041
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4/27/2020
SG 1.045 fermented like crazy the first couple days just off the kveik pack no starter.
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4/16/2020
brew day. Idk what just happened I hit 1.112 and high volume really, couldnt tell exact because of the foam but maybe it was only 5. I guess eff prob goes up if u add a lot of DME. This could be disaster or awesome
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4/15/2020
just changing the batch size from 6.5 down to 5.5 and taking the 2row down from 15lb to 12lb to still arrive at 10%. considering using kviek yeast for this....

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3/24/2020
revamping this for another attempt. shamefully adding dme and predicting over 70 eff to land at 10%. other than that no real changes. worried it might be too bitter hoppy? would like to NOT split the batch and just do 2 vanilla beans. bourbon oak would be nice but i feel that the failure of the last batch was from trying to do too much at once.
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9/30/19
brewed this on the road, came out with more than 6 gallons at 1.080 which was a mistake shouldve boiled longer. also used some old hops which may be putting off strange flavors.

9/23/19
base recipe is Stone RIS clone found in byo magazine. recipe is scant, and doesnt really add up : https://byo.com/recipe/stone-imperial-russian-stout-clone/ . posted recipe is for 65% efficiency so actually less efficient than my system but i added a pound more base malt anyway to try to get over 10%abv. yeast is a little unclear wlp002 listed 65-70% attenuation so we will have to be perfect and hit 70% to get over 10%abv. but then this amounts to 1030 FG, recipe is listed at 1020. could use wlp007 english dry ale if hittin FG was a concern but i think extra sweetness in this beer is going to be ok.

==========MISC NOTES=============
mona lisa stout

ORANGE
austin homebrew
http://austinhomebrew.com/assets/images/RCPPDF/09611.pdf
1/4oz bitter
1/2oz sweet

https://brewgr.com/recipe/59297/chocolate-orange-stout-oatmeal-stout-recipe
fresh orange peel and juice
(essentially a whole orange)

mrbeer
https://www.mrbeer.com/barleys-brew-chocolate-orange-stout
4oz bakers unsweetened chocolate
2 medium oranges
take off the skins but not too much pith
they soak skins in 1/2 cup vodka, adding allof it
maybe use a thin glass so the vodka covers more

final thoughts
use the brewers peel sweet and bitter, soak in vodka with vanilla bean
use thin glass
add the whole thing
optional : plus the orange juice

CHERRY
austin homebrew
http://austinhomebrew.com/assets/images/RCPPDF/02071.pdf
cherry flavoring

AHA
https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/homebrew-recipe/choc-full-o-cherry-porter/
frozen sour cherries

HBT
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/chocolate-cherry-stout.326884/
cherry juice concentrate
might be better in reducing sugar and other flavors....

final stand
a) i guess prob just use frozen cherries. not sour! sweet/dark any other kind than sour
b) cherry juice concentrate? how sour?
Dark cherries. Aha recipe calls for 5 to 10 lb per 10 gal batch. I think I will go with 5. For split batch 3.333

Author:

Cory Meisch

Boil Size: 5.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.067

Efficiency: 68

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: 4/8/2020 10:34 PM

Notes:

Author:

AGbrewer

Boil Size: 14 Gallons

Boil Time: 240

Boil Gravity: 1.071

Efficiency: 80

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 1.25

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 5/14/2020 6:10 PM

Notes:

Double Mash as my Mashtun only holds about 15 pounds of grain. Once the first mash is done, drain off the wort and soak that in 3 gallons of water in a SS pot. Then clean out the mash tun and fill it with another 5 gallons of water and proceed with mashing the second 15 pounds of grain.

Made 3.5 liter starter of wlp-004 (Irish Ale) and step it up 2 times. Also going to use WLP-099 (Super High Gravity) after the 004 putters out. Probably going to wait a week after I pitch 004 before i pitch the 099.

Primary will be about 3 weeks and secondary will be about 2 months with home made toasted whiskey chips. half of it will be aged with dried cherries that were soaked with bourbon and some chips that were also soaked in bourbon. The other half will only be with the chips and bourbon. Used Evan Williams Bottled in Bond for the Whiskey and toasted some jack daniels bourbon barrel smoking chips for the wood.

Bottle with no more than about 3.5 or 4 ounces of cane sugar.

Takes about 3 or 4 months before they are actually drinkable. Best after about 1 year.

Author:

Magical

Boil Size: 3 Gallons

Boil Time: 5

Boil Gravity: 1.198

Efficiency: 100

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: 6/14/2020 1:01 PM

Notes: First batch was 5.25 gal of 1.112 (18 lbs of my honey added)
- Added Nardone yeast (2 packs, 3 in future) not cooled it down to room temperature after following yeast package. Overly sluggish start, took almost 5 days. Fermentation was sluggish. Fermentation had no airlock activity after 3 weeks. Lots of shaking to degass --> next time I will use the degassing tool that I have. Very sweet when sampled during first rack, but quite delightful.

Second batch was 4.5 gal of 1.096 (11 lbs added)
- Added half of the yeast (2 packs total) directly to the fermentor and half according to package instructions. Proper start, fermentation activity slowed after 2 weeks. Lots of shaking to degas --> next time I will use the degassing tool that I have. The first rack to secondaries tasted the best it ever had.

Secondaries

5.25 gal Sacred blue (8 lbs blueberries, 1 lb of mulberries) + 1.5 vanilla beans in tertiary (1 week) then add one cinnamon stick for another week (test it often)

2.5 gal of strawberry mead (3 lbs of strawberries and a handful of mulberries for colour) + tequila chips (1 week or so, test it often)

1 gal of lavender mead (2.2g of 3 week air-dried homegrown lavender, 6 days )

1 gal of chamomile mead (1 oz of chamomile from one SFB package, 6 days)

Any "left over" mead will become straight mead in a bottle.
- ZERO mead leftover. Perfect volumes.

https://www.winning-homebrew.com/melomels.html

future directions on adding nutrients:
https://www.brewperfect.com/homebrew-recipe-vanilla-cinnamon-mead/

guidelines for spices:
https://www.denardbrewing.com/blog/post/Spices/

other advice:
- I was using Lalvin EC - 1118 yeast is I was shooting for about 18% alcohol, but for most dark berry recipes I'd recommend Lalvin 71B-1122 vice D47. D47 is perfect for traditional Meads, 71B-1122 is made to bring out dark berry flavors. Just my opinion.

Author:

Mad Botanist Brewing

Boil Size: 3.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.083

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.5

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: 10/12/2020 3:56 AM

Notes:

Author:

Insanity Brewhouse

Boil Size: 6.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 75

Boil Gravity: 1.095

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Partial Mash

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 11/11/2020 12:26 AM

Notes:

Author:

Boil Size: 6 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.085

Efficiency: 55

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.5

Primary Temp: 64 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 11/28/2018 6:04 AM

Notes:

Author:

miseree

Boil Size: 1 Gallons

Boil Time: N/A

Boil Gravity: 1.096

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

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: 3/2/2021 3:39 PM

Notes:

Author:

105WestBrewing

Boil Size: 35 Gallons

Boil Time: 120

Boil Gravity: 18.7

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: 1.2

Sugar Scale: Plato

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.5

Primary Temp: 65 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 11/14/2021 1:44 PM

Notes:

Author:

Boil Size: 28.4 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.099

Efficiency: 75

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: 6/23/2021 11:47 PM

Notes:

Author:

Gouich

Boil Size: 28.5 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.088

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: 7/27/2021 9:26 AM

Notes:

Author:

Boil Size: 7 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.003

Efficiency: 80

Mash Thickness: 1.25

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 67 ° F

Priming Method: dextrose

Priming Amount: 6.5 oz

Creation Date: 1/20/2021 11:40 PM

Notes:

Author:

Bigbear88

Boil Size: 25 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.015

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

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: 6/27/2023 12:59 PM

Notes:

Author:

Bobbleballs

Boil Size: 28.5 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.018

Efficiency: 67

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/3/2022 12:27 AM

Notes:

Author:

Manitoucole

Boil Size: 1.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 20

Boil Gravity: 1.02

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.75

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: 2/7/2022 10:26 PM

Notes:

Author:

Boil Size: 11.4 Litres

Boil Time: 70

Boil Gravity: 1.102

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

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: 5/20/2021 5:28 PM

Notes:

Author:

Pricelessbrewing

Boil Size: 6.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.001

Efficiency: 72

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Partial Mash

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/21/2020 8:44 PM

Notes:

Author:

lixe

Boil Size: 28.5 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.02

Efficiency: 35

Mash Thickness: 3.1

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: dextrose

Priming Amount: 128.2 g

Creation Date: 9/24/2019 2:32 PM

Notes:

Author:

MT Barrel Brewing

Boil Size: 3 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.01

Efficiency: 35

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Partial Mash

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: Molasses

Priming Amount: 6.6 oz

Creation Date: 9/17/2019 8:42 PM

Notes:

Author:

ShatteredReality

Boil Size: 6.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.021

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: 7/27/2019 6:11 AM

Notes: