Brewing and tasting for the win!
A complicated recipe I thought I could handle. Very long prep time soaking nibs and vanilla beans in vodka. Smelled delicious in the brew and came out a bit dry because of the vodka.
| Type of Ingredient | Amount |
| Maris Otter | 10 lbs. |
| Chocolate UK | .5 lbs. |
| Black Malt | .5 lbs |
| Victory Malt | .5 lbs. |
| Crystal 120 | .5 lbs. |
| Flaked Oats | .5 lbs. |
| Lactose | .5 lbs. |
Trying out a wheated rye pale ale. Dry hop schedule 7 days out with some Chinook a friend gave me.
| Type | Amount |
| Cara Pils | 10 lbs. |
| Crystal 30 | 1 lb. |
| Torrified Wheat | .5 lbs. |
| Belgian Candi Syrup Amber | 1 lb. |
| Flaked Rye | 1 lb. |
A first try for a fruited Cream Ale with 1 pound of strawberry jam. Strawberry could be worth it to try in a cream ale.
Single Infusion at 152 degrees for 60 minutes.
Grain Bill:
| Type of Ingredient | Amount |
| 2 Row | 7 lbs |
| Honey Malt | 2 lbs |
| White Wheat | 2 lb |
| Crystal 15 | 2 lbs |
| Oats | 2 lbs |
An IPA recipe the second time around. This was part of a double brew day.
| Type of Ingredient | Amount |
| 2 Row | 9 lbs |
| Crystal 20 | .75 lbs |
A new experiment to heat up a west coast IPA recipe. At the time we were thinking about the spicy IPAs that were going around. Some of them were too spicy and we wanted to make some that had little heat and more pepper flavor. The first in the triple brew day and one of the easiest.
| Type of Ingredient | Amount |
| 2 Row | 9 lbs |
| Crystal 20 | .75 lbs |
The first of the I See Red Ale and not the last. We chopped up the recipe we got from brewers friend and it turned out amazing. So many notes we banged heads together in the home brew shop and battled like maniacs. EKG, Fuggles and Willamette. The hop schedule was an on the fly kind of thing. We had the previous beer weighing in on our decisions and they might have not been as pure as we previously thought them through. The last of the triple brew day marathon beers and one of the best. They all came out pretty good.
| Type | Amount |
| 2 Row | 9 lbs. |
| Roasted Barley | 1.5 lbs. |
| Rolled Oats | 1 lb. |
| Melanoidin | 8 oz |
| Carapils | 8 oz |
| Cara Aroma | 4 oz |
A Citra IPA I was experimenting making IPAs. Getting the hang of documenting all of my recipes and brewing as much as I could. I wanted a drinkable west coast IPA and it turned out well. Part of a triple brew day that started at 9am and went until 9pm.
| Type of Ingredient | Amount |
| 2 Row | 13 lbs. |
| Honey Malt | 1 lb. |
| Crystal 15 | 1 lb. |
| Corn Sugar – Dextrose | 1 lb. |
| Melanoidin | .5 lbs. |
I did some research on Brewers Friend while getting used to brewing All-Grain. Huge batch that nearly bubbled out of the kettle. Lasted a good long time and was delicious. Chinook and Willamette hops.
| Type of Ingredient | Amount |
| Pale Malt | 10 lbs |
| Roasted Barley | 1 lb |
| Crystal 80 | 1 lb |
| Chocolate | .5 lb |
| Melanoidin | .25 lb |
| Rolled Oats | .75 lb |
A second brew of this rich porter with chocolate malt, amber and melanoiden malts. Brewed once before to great results. I wanted to keep this one in rotation.
| Type of Ingredient | Amount |
| Maris Otter | 7.5 lbs |
| US Chocolate Malt | 1 lb. |
| Amber Malt | .7 lbs. |
| Flaked Oats | 1 lb. |
| Melanoiden | .5 lbs. |
I have tried this recipe previously to get the vanilla out of this and it was pretty good. Using Golden Promise and tweaking the recipe from brewgr to my tastes.
| Type of Ingredient | Amount |
| Golden Promise | 5 lbs. |
| 2 Row | 2.5 lbs. |
| Flaked Corn | 1 lb. |
| Flaked Oats | 1 lb. |
| Crystal 15 | 1 lb. |
| Honey Malt | 1 lb. |
| CaraPils | 1 lb. |