Brewing and tasting for the win!
This Belgian golden recipe has an aggressive hop schedule and requires a lot of patience. I love Belgian beers and complex flavors. This is a beer that really stood out and I have a lot of memories sharing it with friends and family. I was determined to use a Belgian candy sugar to get more gravity out of this and it worked. A very strong ale using WLP570 and Fuggle, Saaz and EKG hops.
| Type of Ingredient | Amount |
| 2 Row | 5 |
| Vienna | 5 |
| Crystal 15 | 1 |
| Caramel Munich | 1 |
| Belgian Candy Sugar | .5 |
A second try at getting a good hefeweizen recipe going. Tweaking the hop schedule to include more bittering hops this time. Hersbrucker and Willamette were on sale with time with a bit of Tettnang for good measure in the aroma.
| Type | Amount |
| White Wheat | 7 |
| Pilsen | 2 |
| Munich | 2 |
| Melanoiden | 6 oz |
| Acidulated Malt | 2 oz |
Few beers are very special to my heart. This one I kept it close to the chest and did a mountain of research to get. Questions lead to conversations, conversations lead to hours researching recipes and stories that lead to more conversations and discussions. This leads to ultimately picking a special day to make dreams come true. This was a special brew for me to make and it was indeed a gift. Not easy to make, but way too easy to drink.
| Type of Ingredient | Amount |
| 2 Row | 8 lbs. |
| Carapils | 1 lb. |
| Crystal 40 | 1.5 lbs. |
| White Wheat | .75 lbs. |
| Rolled Oats | 1 lb. |
| Acidulated Malt | .2 lbs. |
Chasing beers that I have tasted elsewhere always lead me into trouble. Glorious time allocating adventures into flavors and locations unknown. A new frontier awaits and then burns you out. I tasted a Blind Pig and thought I could do the same. These hop schedules are not easy in IPA territory and the amount of grain had me spilling over more than I liked. After this beer I held back on IPAs because I wanted something more robust than grassy flavors. I love a good IPA, just not all the time. Tastes change and hearts change. I changed with this labor of love and rarely made it again.
| Type of Ingredient | Amount |
| 2 Row | 8 lbs. |
| Carapils | 1 lb. |
| Crystal 40 | 1.5 lbs. |
| White Wheat | .75 lbs. |
| Rolled Oats | 1 lb. |
| Acidulated Malt | .2 lbs. |
A Cream Ale with 2 pounds of flaked corn, Vienna, Oat Malt and Pilsner Malt with Vanguard hops. Oat malt gave this one some character, but not much.
Single Infusion at 158 degrees for 60 minutes.
Grain Bill:
| Type of Ingredient | Amount |
| Pilsner Malt | 4 lbs |
| 2 Row | 1 lbs |
| Flaked Corn | 2 lbs |
| Vienna | 1 lb |
| Oats | 0.5 lbs |
| Oat Malt | 3 lb |
I collaborated with a few friends on this beer in my garage. This led to a lengthy consideration of malts and hops. Hearty discussions can make a good beer, most of the time. Since I was brewing the beer, I had final say until the hops got dropped in. EKG, Fuggles and Willamette.
| Type | Amount |
| 2 Row | 9 lbs. |
| Roasted Barley | 1.5 lbs. |
| Rolled Oats | 1 lb. |
| Melanoidin | 8 oz |
| Carapils | 8 oz |
| Aromatic | 4 oz |
An American Brown ale I researched quite a bit and batted the creation back an forth with a few collaborators. I added 4 oz of cocoa powder the last 15 minutes of the boil, then later added a cup of coffee beans and 2 oz of cocoa nibs in the keg. Chinook and Galaxy hops.
| Type of Ingredient | Amount |
| Maris Otter | 10 lbs |
| Brown Malt | 2 lbs |
| Oat Malt | 2 lbs |
| Crystal 60 | 1 lb |
| Pearl Malt | 4 oz |
Making a different ale than I have made before. I bought some oat malt and it made me quite excited to use it. Oat malt lends head retention and mouthfeel while adding a light haze. I wanted to experiment more with the grain and it added a great quality. I wanted to make this a high abv beer with great mouthfeel using Chinook hops and ingenuity.
| Type of Ingredient | Amount |
| 2 Row | 12 lbs |
| Oat Malt | 3 lbs |
| Crystal 120 | 1 lb |
| Special B | .5 |
Still tweaking this recipe and making it unique. Using lots of Citra and Mosaic hops with a really tough schedule quite normal for an IPA. Trying out these oat malts to enhance some flavors.
| Type of Ingredient | Amount |
| 2 Row | 9 lbs |
| Rolled Oats | 2 lbs |
| Crystal 30 | .75 lbs |
| Oat Malt | 2lbs |
A rebrew and tweaking of the recipe as part of an experiment with Oat Malt.
| Type | Amount |
| Maris Otter | 10 |
| Rolled Oats | 1 |
| Flaked Barley | 1 |
| Malted Oats | 1 |
| Caramel Vienna 20L | .5 |