Amber Lamps 2024

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1/31/2024
brewed last night. issues :

• realized the homebrew store gave me 4oz whole hops instead of 2. used all four in the mash
  
• forgot to add mash hops at beginning of mash. added them at the end for sparge and lauter. total about 20 minutes contact time with that lauter
  
• warrior addition was supposed to go in for 30 min but i added at the beginning of the boil. i tried to shorten the overall boil to 45 minutes but it ended up being 60 minutes
  
• origianlly id had both a 20 min and 15 min additions of amarillo. since my boil was messed up and probably over bittered, i combined the two into a 5 min addition. they still had more contact time during chilling, maybe 20 minutes.
  
• those are all the mess ups i can remember at the moment...smh
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  1/26/2024
  gonna rebrew this.
  
  Last batch was a good game day brew, which I did enjoy. But there was a metallic taste to it that I'm starting to blame on all those old BSG hops. At first I thought it might be the evergreen but I used some other variety in an IPA recently and it had a similar taste. Time to toss those.
  
  Redoing this recipe to return the hop sched to cascade in the mash hop, warrior for a little bittering, and amarillo the rest of the way.
  
  Not sure if I should modifying the water more like an IPA, but for now lets just use tap and re-assess later.
  
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  9/25/2023
  originally this was supposed to be cascade, warrior and amarillo but did not have enough amarillo brewday so supplemented half of it with evergreen. im starting to feel that i dont particularly care for evergreen....we shall see..
  
  gravity numbers came out about right i believe.
  
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  9/11/2023
  
  revamping this for 2023 amber lamps / ale to the commanders.
  
  adding biscuit malt and adjusting grain bill for about 5.8% abv. going with english ale yeast to go along with the biscuit idea. redo-ing the hops, choosing amarillo sort of randomly. hopping more firmly like a sierra nevada pale ale or almost like an ipa.
  
  not sure on water, normally amber ale i would use tap but for more crisp hoppy profile i could make some adjustments....
  
  (side note. despite how bitter and crisp it is, sierra nevada pale ale is only 38 IBU)
  
  https://sierranevada.com/brews/pale-ale/
  https://sierranevada.com/blog/our-beer/pale-ale-homebrew-recipe/#recipe-jump
  
  
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  11/15/2022
  rebooting this again. going back to cascade and centennial combo. considering a more ipa water profile to boost bitterness? not sure....
  
  adjusting volumes, efficiencies, etc. adding acid malt for ph.
  
  i like continuing with the english yeast idea
  
  could consider doing a small dry hop, 1-2 ounces. especially if no water profile it will be less sharp so might could use a little more hop boost.
  
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  11/2/2020.
  ok well yet again this will not turn out like the original.....brewed this on 10/28. took pre boil gravity at 1.055 but forgot to take OG. based on that i am adjusting the recipe here to get to 1055 pre boil gravity and adjsuting the volumes. also on brew day i was missing cascade so i substituted with tahoma which im predicting to be kind of citrusey? maybe not fitting for amber ale but oh well.
  
  note to self. might have discrepency with water profile versus whats coming from my tap. predicted 5.53 but measured 5.32.
  
  before these changes, on brew day this recipe was sitting at :
  pre boil size 7 gal
  post boil size (not set)
  batch size fermenter 5
  efficiency 64%
  pre boil SG 1.047
  post boil OG 1.065
  for a 6.6% abv
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  10/3/2020
  resurrecting this old one. keep in mind i brewed it a 2nd time with adjustments (called his shoe broke) but i remember it being subpar. going back to this recipe. will try to do some work on the water profile (for malty? or hoppy?)
  everything else looks fine actually. it maybe could use a little more hops but also for amber ale its probably fine like this. there were notes in the other recipe about mashing a little higher. maybe like 152 or 153? needs some research for confirmation. could maybe use rva manchester also since ill be using it for another brew.
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  initial recipe notes 12/7/18 : referenced bells amber ale recipe from brew your own december 2018. im reading the victory has higher diastatic power than munich so im going to use more of that. aiming for about 6% and 45 IBU using magnum cascade and centennial based on this amazing beer i had while in california last weekend called daylight by track 7 brewing in sacramento.