What's in your fermenter??

[Don]

Russian Imperial Stout
TYPE: All Grain
Batch Size: 5.25 gal
Boil Size: 7.61 gal
OG: 1.094 SG
IBU: 81.2 IBU
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:

1.4 lbs Rice Hulls
19 lbs Maris Otter
1 lbs 8.0 oz Roasted Barley (Thanks John)
1 lbs Special B Malt
8.0 oz Chocolate Organic
8.0 oz Pale Chocolate Malt
3.00 oz Northern Brewer HD [10.80 %] (60 min)
2.50 oz Goldings,US HD [4.40 %] (10 min)
2.50 oz Goldings,US HD [4.40 %] (1 min)
1.00 tsp Irish Moss (Boil 15.0 min)
1.00 tbsp PH 5.2 Stabilizer (Mash 90.0 min)
@ 600 ml in a 3 qt. starter of California Ale Yeast, Cultured 3rd. use (White Labs WLP001)

Mash with fly sparge
90 min 154.0 F 170.0F
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Did a second beer with the leftover sugar in the tun.

Continued fly sparge until SG was 1.011 @ 6 gallons into second kettle, and did a 90 minute boil.

"My little Russian" this is closer to a Brown I think
Batch Size: 4.00 gal
Boil Size: 5.80 gal
OG: 1.043 SG
@ IBU: 48.2 IBU
Boil Time: 90 Minutes


1 lbs Amber Dry Extract (60 min) To get the OG up
2.00 oz Tettnang [3.60 %] (60 min)
1.00 oz Fuggles [4.50 %] (15 min)
1.00 oz Fuggles [4.50 %] (1 min)
1.00 tsp Irish Moss (Boil 15.0 min)
2 Pkgs SafAle American Ale (DCL Yeast #S-05)

Blowoff tube in the Stout first night. Second beer was working in a short time also.

[FoamFace]

Just did a spur of the moment Wednesday night AG batch.

Batch Size 8 gal.
13 lbs. Pale 2-row
1 lbs. Chocolate Malt
1 lbs. Crystal 80
3 oz. Hallertau @ 60 min.
14g Coopers

O.G. 1.056

I don't know what this will make. Hoping for a Vienna Style Ale.

We will see. Tasted great going into the fermenter. Very Malty.

[FoamFace]

I must have confidence in this recipe...I cooked another yesterday. I only had 2 oz. of 4.5 Hallertau, so I substituted 1 oz. of 4.9. Willemette.
Should work out fine. Everything else was the same.

Of note is this: I used Saflager 34/70...my first lager yeast. My basement is a steady 68. I want to put the fermenter in the fridge after primary. Maybe at about 54... Any opinions?

Batch Size 8 gal.
13 lbs. Pale 2-row
1 lbs. Chocolate Malt
1 lbs. Crystal 80
3 oz. Hallertau @ 60 min.
14g Coopers

O.G. 1.056

[BREWsmith]

I brewed a Belgian Blonde yesterday and had my first eruption, so this a.m. I put on a blow off. it seems the crisis is over. should I put an airlock back on?

[sirgiovanni]

wait a few days. ;)

[Don]

Winter Warmer - Christmas Beer
Style: Scottish Wee Heavy Ale
TYPE: All Grain
Batch Size: 5.25 gal
Boil Size: 7.50 gal
OG: 1.087 SG
Color: 22.7 SRM
IBU: 30.0 IBU
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:

19 1/2 lbs Maris Otter
12.0 oz Crystal Malt - 80L
4.0 oz Black Patent Malt
4.0 oz Carapils
1.15 oz Northern Brewer HD [10.80 %] (60 min)
1.00 tsp Irish Moss (Boil 15.0 min)
1.00 oz Goldings,US HD [4.40 %] (1 min)
1/8 tsp Allspice Power (Boil 1.0 min)
1/8 tsp Nutmeg Power (Boil 1.0 min)
1/4 tsp Ginger Power (Boil 1.0 min)
1/2 tsp Cinnamon Power (Boil 1.0 min)
2 Pkgs Nottingham Yeast
60 min Mash at 152.0 F ; 1.25gts/#; Fly Sparge

[FoamFace]

Did it again!

Vienna Style Ale
13 lbs. Pale 2-row
1 lbs. Chocolate Malt
1 lbs. Crystal 80
3 oz. Hallertau @ 60 min.
14g Coopers

Mad a 5 gal batch of Boston Ale clone also.

Crashed the lager to the cooler!

[JohnD]

Saw a recipe for a clone of The Edmund Fitzgerald Porter in Brew Your Own Magazine. I tried to do things exactly to the recipe but had to change fuggles hops to willamette and London Ale yeast to WLP 028 Scottish Ale Yeast

11# 2 row
3/4# crystal 60
1/2# chocolate malt
1/2# roasted barley
1 oz Northern Brewer 60 min
1/2 oz Willamette 30 min
1/2 oz Cascade 0 min
yeast nutrient 15 min
WLP 028 Scottish ale yeast
3/4 cup dextrose to prime

Mash 155F 60 min
60 min. boil
OG 1.070

Ferment 68F

[Michael Erwin]

A couple of weeks ago I brewed a Kölsch. I put that in the basement and it hovered around 62-63F, just a tad warmer than I wanted, but still lower than Wyeast recommends. I used a monster starter, and it still took 10 days to really slow down.

8 lbs Pilsner
8.0 oz Munich Malt
8.0 oz Wheat Malt
1.75 oz Hallertauer [3.70 %] (60 min) Hops 29.0 IBU
Kolsch Yeast (Wyeast Labs #2565) [Starter 2840 ml]

Then, over the holiday, I did an Ordinary Bitter, using the WL British Ale yeast that I recovered and rinsed from an Extra Strong Bitter last month. I didn't use a starter, b/c I forgot, so I just dumped about 1/2 half the recovered yeast in a 1000 ml starter that morning just to get them alert. Worked out just fine.

6 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row)
8.0 oz Crystal 120L
4.0 oz Special Roast
1.00 oz Cascade [5.50 %] (60 min) Hops 24.6 IBU
0.25 oz Williamette [5.50 %] (Dry Hop 3 days) Hops -
British Ale (White Labs #WLP005) [Starter 1000 ml] [Cultured]

[john mills]

Bloody Hell Cranberry Wheat
10 gallon net batch

9 # Cargill Special Pale 2 row
8.11 # Cargill White Wheat
1 # Crystal 15L
1 # Cara pils
1 # Rye
¾ oz Centennial whole hop 11.5% AA @ 60 min 16.6 IBU’s TOTAL IBU’s: 25.0
1 oz Willamette whole hop 4.3% AA @ 30 min 4.2 IBU’s
¾ oz Centennial whole hop 11.5% AA @ 1 min 2.8 IBU’s
1 oz Willamette whole hop 4.3% AA @ 1 min 1.4 IBU’s
2 tsp Irish moss @ 15 min
Safeale US05
TOTAL SRM: 4.6
OG: 1.052
I'll leave 5 gallons simply as an American Wheat, and I'll add 4 1/2# fresh Cranberries in 2ndary to the other.

[Don]

Cranberries have moderate levels of vitamin C, dietary fiber and the essential dietary mineral, manganese, as well as a balanced profile of other essential micronutrients.
By measure of the Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity with an ORAC score of 9,584 units per 100 g, cranberry ranks near the top of 277 commonly consumed foods in the United States.

One more proof tha beer IS good for you.

I'll have my cranberry beer for breakfast please.

[john mills]

"If you don't start drinking in the morning, you can't drink all day!".
- John Mills Sr., member of the breakfast club at Piggy's bar.

[Dwayne_Delaney]

"If you don't start drinking in the morning, you can't drink all day!".
- John Mills Sr., member of the breakfast club at Piggy's bar.

Or:
"They only call it binge drinking if you stop"
- Unknown sage

[sirgiovanni]

9% Tripel Hopefully. Ran off an extra gallon to use Dwayne's Top Secret Fantome Yeast.

I bet I'm going to hate myself for only making a gallon.

[BREWsmith]

Brewed a Belgian Pale Ale on Saturday (http://hopville.com/recipe/127141/belgi ... 03-version). Also, kegged (3 gal)/bottled (2 gal) of Belgian Blond. The jury is still out of this one. It's kind of funky...funky good or funky bad, I'm not sure.