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| Vessel | Occupant |
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| Ss Conical: | Rye-king the Canoe |
| Ss Primary: | |
| 1 Gal test Batch: | |
| Kegged (O'Connor's keg): | Leafy Blond |
| Kegged (generic keg): | 3x |
| Kegged (Legend keg): | |
| Bottles: | Imperial Apple Cider Kit (IACK) |
| Justin's Name | Kentucky Common Bluegrass Benchmark (recipe) |
| SG | Target 1.050 |
| FG | Target 1.010 |
| ABV | Target 5.2% |
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| Justin's Name | Maypole Maibock (recipe) |
| SG | Target 1.066 |
| FG | Target 1.010 |
| ABV | ~6.5% |
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| Justin's Name | Whitelot 2024 (recipe) |
| SG | Target 1.060ish |
| FG | Target 1.010 |
| ABV | Target 6ish |
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| Justin's Name |  Junie Likes Pilsners (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.040 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 4.0% | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Vaso del Lupulo 2024 (recipe) |
| SG | Target 1.066 |
| FG | Target 1.010 |
| ABV | Target 6.7% |
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| Justin's Name | Rye-king the Canoe |
| SG | 1.049 |
| FG | Target 1.010 |
| ABV | Target 5.0% |
| Brew Date | 12/2/2023 |
| Brew Time | ~3.5 hrs |
| Bottle Date | Target 12/21/2023 |
| Ready Date | Target 01/14/2024 |
| Brew Notes | Media brew day with Mat! no surprises; let the wort chill in the van and pitched yeast when i got home from PA. |
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| Justin's Name | 3x (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.075 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 0.999 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Ready Date | About 4 weeks fermenting | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Started spontaneously fermenting at about 100 degrees. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | iack (recipe) |
| SG | high |
| FG | low |
| ABV | Targeting 8-ish |
| Bottle Date | In primary for about 6 weeks |
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| Justin's Name | Leafy Blond (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.060 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | about 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Bombomb (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.065 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | ~6.5% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | ?? | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ?? | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | ?? | ||||||||||||||||||
| keg Date | ?? | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Taste Notes | Really solid pale. Could use some increased bittering hops to make it more like Torpedo and not Sierra Nevada Pale. I'll be making this again. | ||||||||||||||||||
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https://sierranevada.com/blog/torpedo-ipa-homebrew-recipe/
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| Justin's Name | Kveikin in einem schwarzen kanu (recipe) |
| SG | 1.055 |
| FG | 1.010 |
| ABV | ~5.5% |
| Brew Date | 2023/06/09 |
| Brew Time | ~4 hrs |
| Rack Date | Target 2023/06/20 |
| Keg Date | Target 2023/06/20 |
| Ready Date | Target 2023/07/01 |
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| Justin's Name | Kveikin' en una Canoa (recipe) |
| SG | 1.050 |
| FG | 1.010 |
| ABV | ~5% |
| Brew Date | 2023/05/27 |
| Brew Time | ~3 hrs |
| Keg Date | 2023/06/08 |
| Ready Date | 2023/06/20 |
| Brew Notes | Nothing exciting. |
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| Justin's Name | Dry Apple Cider (Kit) (recipe) |
| ABV | ~4.9 |
| Justin's Name | Steam (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | Tilt says 1.035. I don't beleive it... | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | Tilt says 1.018. I still don't beleive it... | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | I think this is closer to 4.5... | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 02/18/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~4 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 03/01/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 03/14/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 04/01/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Nothing special | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Buttery and hoppy amber. I dig. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Session Saison (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.040 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.012 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | ~3.8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 01/16/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~ 3.5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 01/28/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 02/14/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | West Coast Red (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.055 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 5.5% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 12/26/2022 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~4 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 01/14/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 02/01/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Forgot to use the hop spider to filter the hop particles out after the brew and also had to thaw the hose to chill the wort. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Big bitter, slight butter. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | American Amber Ale (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.041 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 4.1% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | I forgot to log these details... :-( | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Northy 12 Belgian Quad (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.073 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | Target 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | Target 8.0% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 2022/03/25 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | sfack (recipe) |
| SG | Uh... |
| FG | I dunno? |
| ABV | Probably low... |
| Brew Date | 10/08/2022 |
| Brew Time | 20 minutes |
| Rack Date | N/A |
| Bottle Date | 10/23/2022 |
| Ready Date | 11/01/2022 |
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| Justin's Name | The Classic (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.041 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 4.2% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 09/25 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~3.5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 10/08 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 10/24 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | |||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Solid, light, and crisp. love the belgian yeast on this. | ||||||||||||||||||
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**Purchased**
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| Justin's Name | Kveikin' in a Canoe 2022 (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.040 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 4.0% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 2022/06/05 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~4 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 2022/06/21 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 2022/07/14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Fermented in about 1.5 days! Made this again on 2022/09/21 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Hop Breach 2022 (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.062 (15.25 brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 7.0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 2022/05/14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~6 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | Target 2022/06/05 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 2022/06/21 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Used the new hop spider. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Lago Mar Wit (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.042 (10 Brix) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FG | Target 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | Target 4.3% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 2022/05/14 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~6 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | Target 2022/06/05 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 2022/06/21 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Used the new hop spider. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Raspberry Sour (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.044 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 4.5% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 2022/03/25 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 2022/04/10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 2022/05/01 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 2022/05/14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Don't re-use washed philly sour yeast! | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Not sour enough since washed philly sour yeast doesn't do what it's supposed to. Also made a tamarind variant. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Permafrost White IPA (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.046 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 4.7% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 2022/02/12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~4 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 2022/02/14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 2022/03/01 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 2022/03/14 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Oatmeal Stout All Grain Beer Recipe Kit (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.042 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | ~4.6% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 12/18/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~5.5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 01/01/2022 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 01/25/2022 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 02/12/2022 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Concurrent with Secundus Hopulus 2022. Thanks, Mat! | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Plinian Legacy (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.070 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 7.5-ish | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 12/18/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~5.5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Solids Flush Date | 12/20/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 01/18/2022 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 02/01/2022 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Concurrent with Oatmeal Stout. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Looooots of chunk. I don't think the fancy SS fermenter is the right vessel for dry hopping. I lose way too much liquid in the process and I never can quite get all the solids out. This was an exceptionally dry-hopped beer but still... | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | American Amber Ale (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.041 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 4.1% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 11/11/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~5.5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 11/20/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 11/28/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 12/11/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Concurrent with ESB. Fermentation for this beer started over night and was a steady, moderate bubble for about 4 days at 62 deg F, then stopped. Had about 1 gal over what would fit in the keg, so making a variant with 0.5 oz Crystal dry hop. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | This is the best amber ale i've ever had. will be making this again!! | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Extra Special Bitter (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.045 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 4.7% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 11/11/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~5.5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 11/25/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 12/14/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 01/01/2022 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Concurrent with Amber. This beer didn't start fermenting for 5 days. Maybe stale yeast? Either way, it was a nice, slow bubble while at 62 deg F. Also, i tried to purge the solids from the fermenter after 4 days but it was already clogged. looks like purging after 48 hours is the way to do this, i just need to remember to do it. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Lots of sediment. I still haven't figured out exactly when to flush the solids out of the new fermenter... Flavor is just OK. probably won't make this again. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Northy 12 Belgian Quad (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.080 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 9.0% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 2021/04/05 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~4 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 2021/04/20 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 2021/10/17 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 2021/11/01 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Nothing exciting... Planning a long secondary | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | This is fantastic. Nice cherry flavors. Will make this again. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ingredients | B-day present from Mat!! Thanks, Mat!
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| Justin's Name | Hop Breach (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.062 (15.25 brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 7.0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 09/02/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~3.5 hrs (new record with new equipment!) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 09/16/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 09/30/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 10/14/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Nothing exciting... | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Solidly dank IPA. No real belgian/saison flavors. Next year -- will bump up the bitter at 60 minutes just a hair (maybe use 0.5-1 oz Chinook @ 60?) and want to use belgian wit yeast instead of saison. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Apple 4 Teacher (recipe) |
| Brew Date | 09/02/2021 |
| Brew Time | ~20 min |
| Bottle Date | 09/16/2021 |
| Ready Date | 09/30/2021 |
| Brew Notes | |
| Taste Notes | Standard and decently dry. |
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| Justin's Name | Kveikin' in a Canoe (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.040 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 4.0% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 2021/07/26 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~4 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 2021/08/07 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 2021/08/14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 2021/09/08 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Easy brew day. Ended up doing 4.0 and 4.0 gal for the mash and i ended up with about an extra gallon of target wort. Lots of blow off goodies in the fermentation using the new fermenter. Kveik yeast ferments super fast; really cut down on the length of fermentation (plus, had a starter made). | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Super clean, no off flavors, nothing that tastes hot... i'm never using lager yeast again! | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Zweizen (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.052 (11.8 brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 5.3% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 2021/07/16 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~3 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 2021/08/01 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 2021/08/10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 2021/09/01 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Used the new burner (super nice!) and fermenting in the new stainless conical setup. Will flush the yeast instead of actually racking to secondary. UPDATE: The smack-pack must have not worked. I didn't get real fermentation unil 07/24. I think i can still "rack" on 08/01 but that may get delayed... | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Kinda tangy and harsh. not sure i dig this... huge funk on the nose. the smack-pack may have been bad? | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Gerr-Toberfest (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.040 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 4.0% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 05/14/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~6 hrs (2x brew day) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 06/14/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 07/01/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 07/18/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | |||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Over-flow bottled samples taste just OK. Not my best work but not bad for a first lager? | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Sierra Madre (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.048 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 5.1% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 05/14/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~ 6 hrs (2x brew day) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 06/01/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 06/14/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 07/01/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | The Midwest folks forgot to inclue the German Perle hops, so I subbed 0.5 oz Summit and 0.5 oz Styrian Goldings from my stash @ 20 min. I also went ahead and added the full 1 oz of Chinook @ 45. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Decent pale but a little funk that i don't like on the front. aging well, though... | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | S4 IPA | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 12 Brix (1.048) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 5.1% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 04/05/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~3 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 04/19/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 05/14/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 06/01/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Another stale-hop beer brewed with leftover 2020 ingredients. Leaving this in the garage for a year with all the temp ups and downs. we'll see what happens :) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Worst. beer. ever. Throwing it all out. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Socially Distant Lambic (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.062 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 6.9% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 03/22/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~4 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 04/05/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 05/14/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 06/01/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Brewed with leftover 2020 brew ingredients. Leaving this in the garage for a year with all the temp ups and downs. we'll see what happens :) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Turns out, when you put a sour beer in a garage for a year during a pandemic, it tastes like poo. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Raspberry Sour (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.044 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 4.5% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 2021/01/24 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~4 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 2021/02/07 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 2021/03/07 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 2021/03/20 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Will be using Philly Sour yeast. It adds pH during fermentation without the need to kettle sour, do lots of sanitization, etc. This will be an experiment to see if it actually works and is easy enough to execute for sours. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Excellent raspberry sour. Will do this again. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Permafrost White IPA (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.044 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 4.5% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 12/22/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~4 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 01/02/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 01/28/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 02/12/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Had issues with the grain mill again. Didn't get a full crush on the grain, hence the lower-than-targetted SG (1.07ish) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Nicely done session IPA. More body isn't necessarily more better. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Black is Beautiful (Weathered Souls) (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 16.5 Brix, 1.068 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 7.7% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 11/26/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | 5 hours | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 12/14/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 01/14/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 02/01/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Not my favorite brew day. Grain mill got jammed and I had to empty the gain a few times to get the non-drill-driven wheel to start turning again. It took 20 minutes just to mill the grain. The boil never really settled down and I needed to tinker with the heat levels to prevent boil-over the entire boil. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Big beer with nice mouthfeel. Excellent recipe that i will use again! | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Kirby's Pollinated Pale Ale (2021) (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.059 (14.5 Brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 6.5% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 2020/11/15 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~4 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 2020/11/26 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 2020/12/15 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 2021/01/01 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Nothing eventful | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | A little sweeter than years' past, but the hop flavor definitely comes out nicely. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Forgot the Malta (2021) (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.065 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 7.3% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 2020/11/03 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~4 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 2020/11/14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 2020/11/26 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 2020/12/14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Nothing exciting... | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Not a huge fan. May be time to retire FTM... | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Simpel Tripel (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.070 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | ~7.9% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 09/12/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~ 5.5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 09/26/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 11/26/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 12/15/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | I had a tough time with the multi-stage protein rests and mash temps. It took much more water than I anticipated to get the mash up to the appropriate temps. I ended up with *way* too much volume in the boil (maybe 8-9 gal as opposed to the desired 7 gal). That made things take longer, more closely monitored, etc. Not the smoothest brew day... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | COVID Saison (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.059 (14.5 brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 6.6% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 08/16/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~4 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 09/01/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 09/10/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 10/01/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Also aged ~1 gal on ~15 raw figs from my neighbor. I'm calling that variant "Figgin' Saison". | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Mid-Atlantic Pale (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.056 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 6.0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 05/25/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~3.5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 06/08/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 06/15/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 06/28/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | seltzer | |
| SG | 1.040 | |
| FG | 1.008 | |
| ABV | 5.0% | |
| Brew Date | 03/22/2020 | |
| Brew Time | ~20 min | |
| Rack Date | -- | |
| Bottle Date | 04/05/2020 | |
| Ready Date | 04/19/2020 | |
| Brew Notes | 1 gallon small test batch. Boiled the sugar and orange peel for 10 min. Cooled it, added the champagne yeast. | |
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| Justin's Name | Goser (2020) (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.053 (13.2 Brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | ~5.5% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 03/14/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~ 4 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 03/24/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 04/05/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 04/28/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Secundus Hopulus (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.071 (17.1 Brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 8.1% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 2020/02/16 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 2020/02/29 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 2020/03/16 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 2020/04/01 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Long, cold 90 minute boil day... | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | YACK (recipe) |
| Brew Date | 02/02/2020 |
| Brew Time | ~20 min |
| Bottle Date | 02/14/2020 |
| Ready Date | 02/29/2020 |
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| Justin's Name | Norfolk Lavender Pale Ale (2020) (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.053 (13.2 Brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 5.7% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 02/02/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~4 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 02/16/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 03/01/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 03/14/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Lago Mar Wit (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.042 (10 Brix) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 4.3% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 12/28/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~6 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 01/11/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 02/01/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 02/14/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Miss Maggie McGeary (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.047 (11.75 brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 5.0% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 12/28/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~6 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 01/11/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 02/01/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 02/14/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Vaso del Lupulo (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.057 (14 Brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 6.3% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 10/12/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~6 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 10/24/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 11/14/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 12/01/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | |||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | A little less bitter than I'd like. Will add more bittering hops up front for the next round. Great hop and malt flavor, though! Big crowd pleaser! | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name |  Competition BIPA (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.071 (17.1 Brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | ~7.9% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 10/12/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~6 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 10/24/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 11/14/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 12/01/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Taste Notes | Fantastic IPA!!! | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Hibiscus Hefeweizen (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.0488 (11.8 brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 5.2% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 2019/06/31 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~4 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 2019/07/10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 2019/07/20 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 2019/08/10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Since Zweizen 2019 ended up getting infected, making this to replace it in keg! Also made a dry-hoped version in bottles. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Fan favorite. Everyone loves this; had a little floral, tart finish on top of the hefe flavor. Will definitely need to make this again. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | 9:00 PM (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.045 (11 Brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | Target 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | Target 4.5% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 03/03/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~4 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | Target 03/14/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | Target 03/28/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | Target 04/07/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Had a run-off accident and lost ~1.5 gal of sparge... added it back in the mash tun and ran and extra bit through. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Creamy and funky with a good hop kick, but probably to style for a corn beer. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Just Another Cider (Kit) |
| SG | 1.042 |
| FG | 1.010 |
| ABV | 5.2% |
| Brew Date | 03/03/2019 |
| Brew Time | ~10 minutes |
| Rack Date | 03/14/2019 |
| Bottle Date | 03/28/2019 |
| Ready Date | 04/07/2019 |
| Brew Notes | Planning to only add a portion of the sweetener to make this on the drier side (similar to the Sly Clyde ciders) Note that I made the same kit using the same procedures, but only kept it in primary for a week before moving to keg. "Brewing" done on 08/24/2019 and kegged on 09/01/2019. I bottled what wouldn't fit in the keg and added blackberry and strawberry flavor to the bottles. |
| Taste Notes | Really excellent cider! Will be doing this again... |
| Ingredients |
| Justin's Name | JB's Suffolk Special (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.075 (18.5 Brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 8.1% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 02/02/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 02/15/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 02/28/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 03/07/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Cold weather and a broken grain scale may have contributed to this being well over the target SG. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Straight Outta Compton SIPA (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.042 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.000 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 4.0% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 02/02/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 02/15/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 02/28/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 03/07/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Test Batch of Cider |
| SG | 13 Brix (1.053) |
| FG | 1.010 |
| ABV | 5.7% |
| Brew Date | 01/05/2019 |
| Brew Time | ~10 minutes |
| Bottle Date | 01/13/2019 |
| Ready Date | 02/01/2019 |
| Brew Notes | Test batch (64 oz) of cider with just store-bought juice and yeast. |
| Taste Notes | The cinnamon and super dry-ness were a bad combo. It tastes like gross, fake cinnamon flavor and a sour fermented apple back. |
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| Justin's Name | Imperial March Saison (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 19 Brix, 1.0785 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 9.1% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 12/20/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~5.5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 01/01/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 02/02/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 02/14/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Zweizen (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.048 (11.8 brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 5.1% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 12/20/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~5.5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 01/01/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 01/14/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 01/28/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Washed yeast from last year's batch didn't ferment. Used Bell's Oberon instead. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Really tart, probably from the mix of yeasts. Hoping this will mellow. Nice banana on the end, though... | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | TrashCan IPA (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.057, 14 Brix | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | Target 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | Target 6.3% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 11/25/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~6 hours | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 12/09/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 01/01/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 01/15/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Concurrent with Leftover Brown | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Leftover Brown (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.052, 13 Brix | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | Target 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | Target 5.6% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 11/25/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~6 hours | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 12/09/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 01/01/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 01/15/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Concurrent with TrashCan IPA | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | White Lot White IPA (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.067 (16.8 brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | Target 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | Target 7.6% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 03/09/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~5.5 hrs (concurrent with Black IPA 2018) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | Target 03/23/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | Target 04/14/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | Target 04/28/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Dry hopped with Ahtanum instead of cascades, and used 1 lb corn sugar instead of Candi sugar. Primary lid popped off some time over the first night's fermentation and had a big krausen spill. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Competition BIPA (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.063 (15.5 brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | Target 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | Target ~7.1% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 03/09/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~5.5 hrs (concurrent with White IPA 2018) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | Target 03/23/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | Target 04/14/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | Target 04/28/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Tafelbier (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.039 (9.9 Brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 4.0% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 01/27/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~5 hours (brewed with JB's 2018) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 02/02/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 02/28/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 03/07/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Yield is a little low, maybe only 4.5 gal | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | JB's Suffolk Special (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.062 (15.1 Brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 6.9% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 01/27/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~5 hours (brewed with Tafelbier) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 02/02/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 02/13/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 02/24/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Kirby's Pollinated Pale Ale (2018) (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.048 (11.9 Brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 5.1% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 01/06/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~4 hours | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 01/20/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 02/02/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 02/14/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Change the cascade dry hop to @flame out to reduce sediment; last few cascade dry hopped beers have been chewy. Exterior pipes still frozen; chilled in a snow bank to 90 deg F and pitched yeast. Fermented in the garage at ~45-55 deg F. Increase hops slightly for next year... | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Golden Strong (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.060 (14.0 brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 6.7% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 12/31/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~3 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 01/20/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 02/02/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 02/14/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | 75 minute boil; pipes frozen so couldn't chill the wort. pitched yeast after wort sat for ~6 hrs and was still at 100 deg F. Yeast never fermented after 5 days, so pitched Ommegang Belgian Ale yeast which began fermenting in about 20 hours. Fermented in the garage at ~45-55 deg F. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | German IPA (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.048 (12 brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 (target) | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 5.1 (target) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 2017/12/02 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~6.5 hrs (concurrent with VA Pale) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 2017/12/10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | Target 2017/12/21 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | Target 2017/12/28 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Changed brew kettles at ~47 minutes to make sure we have enough room to get the VA Pale boiling; had about ~1 gallon of wort that wouldn't fit into the smaller pot. Ended up with about 6.5 gallons of wort when the boil finished. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Neat hop flavor; almost like an intense and caramel pils. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Virginia Pale Ale (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.057 (14 Brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | Target 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | Target ~6.3% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 2017/12/02 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~6.5 hrs (concurrent with Hattie's Bark) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 2017/12/10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 2017/12/21 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 2017/12/28 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | |||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Light hops, caramel malt flavor. Might be overcarbed (4 oz of bottling sugar for ~6 gallons), which I fear means it was under-fermented. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Raspberry Blonde (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.066 (16.3 Brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 7.5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 2017/11/19 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~4 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 2017/12/01 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 2017/12/10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 2018/01/01 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | No yeast starter... 2 lb of raspberries dipped in sanitizer and crushed in a sanitized cheese cloth. Ended up being ~1.5 cups of raspberry juice with minimal pulp/seeds getting into the secondary. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Booby Beer (recipe) | ||||||||||||
| SG | 1.027 (7 brix) | ||||||||||||
| FG | 1.008 | ||||||||||||
| ABV | 2.5% | ||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 2017-10-22 | ||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~5 hrs | ||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 11/2/2017 | ||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 11/14/2017 | ||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 12/01/2017 | ||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | (Concurrent with Zweizen). BIAB. | ||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Zweizen (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.048 (11.8 brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | Target 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | Target 5.1% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 2017-10-22 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | Target 11/02/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | Target 11/14/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | Target 12/01/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | (Concurrent with Booby Beer 2018) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Light body, lots of banana from the yeast. Really refreshing beer. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Competition IRA (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.045 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | Target 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | Target 4.0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 03/12/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 03/26/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 04/16/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 05/01/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Concurrent with Norfolk Lavender | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Norfolk Lavender Pale Ale (2017) (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.052 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | Target 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | Target 5.5% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 03/12/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 03/26/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 04/16/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 05/01/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Concurrent with Competition IRA | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Sour Puss (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.070 (17 Brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | ~8.0% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 01/29/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~3.5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 02/18/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 04/01/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 04/15/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | |||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Good malty, clean, crisp sour tripel. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ingredients | Targetting a sour monkey clone
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| Justin's Name | Straight Outta Compton SIPA (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.042 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.000 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 4.0% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 01/21/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~4.5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 01/29/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 02/18/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 03/01/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | |||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Good flavor, hops are a bit stale... | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | JB's Suffolk Special (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.059 (14.5 Brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 6.5% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 02/11/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~6 hrs (concurrent with Goser 2017) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 02/26/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 03/04/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 03/12/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Goser (2016) (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.053 (13.2 Brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | ~5.5% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 02/11/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~6 hrs (concurrent with JB's 2017) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 02/18/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 03/04/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 03/15/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Volume was a little low... | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Way too sour. Need to use less lactic. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Competition BIPA (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.060 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | ~6.2% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 12/30/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~4 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 01/08/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 01/22/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 02/04/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Forgot the corn sugar -- boiled on the stovetop and added to primary. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | So good. Gold medalist. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | White Lot White IPA (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.068 (16.6 brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.012 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 7.5% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 12/10/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~6 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 12/30/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 01/11/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 02/01/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Early morning brew with IRA 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Miss Maggie McGeary (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.053 (13.2 brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 5.5% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 12/10/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~6 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 12/30/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 01/11/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 01/25/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Early morning brew with Whitelot 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Suffolk Strong Ale (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.070 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 8.0% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 2016/04/23 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~6 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 2016/05/07 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | Target 2017/02/01 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | Target 2017/03/01 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Messed up the rests. Ended up having to tinker with the volumes and temps for the sparge... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Competition Brown (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.069 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | Target 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | Target 6.4% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 09/18/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~4 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 10/02/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 10/29/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 11/14/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Nothing eventful. Avoided hot aeration | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | June's Salted Caramel Brown (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.047 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 5.0% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 09/16/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 10/02/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 11/01/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 11/14/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Lady brewday. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Royal Shriner Oyster (Bowl) Stout (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.055 (13.5 brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | Target 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | Target 6% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 08/14/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~4.5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 08/28/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 09/20/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | Target 10/01/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | 2016 Football Tailgate beer 110 degree brew day. No fresh, in shell oysters in stores, so used two oysters from a jar @ 15 minutes. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Victory for Old Dominion (2016) (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.052 (12.9 brix)Target 1.042 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 5.6% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 07/04/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | 3.5 hrs (new record!) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 07/18/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 08/13/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 09/01/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | ODU Football Tailgate Beer (2016 Season) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Not much smoke, but a decently balanced beer. Rauchmaltz give this one a robust flavor, but not necessarily smokey. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Wharton's Name | iDo (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.044 (11 Brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 4.7% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 06/24/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~6 hrs with JB's 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 07/10/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 08/11/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 08/18/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Wort chiller busted a tube. May have some hose water in the wort... | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Lots of fermentation funk. Smells terrible, but otherwise a decent beer. German floral hoppy aftertaste. Update -- Aging well, and decent with apple flavor. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | JB's Suffolk Special (2016) (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.061 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.011 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 6.7% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 06/24/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~6 hrs with iDone | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 07/10/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 08/01/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 08/12/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Nothing interesting... | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Really excellent flavor with massive lingering bitterness. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Kirby's Pollinated Pale Ale (2016) (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.053 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | ~5.7% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 2016/04/23 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~6 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 2016/05/03 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 2016/05/22 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 2016/06/07 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Using Hull Melon hops instead of strawberry flavor in this iteration. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Strawberry nose, UK hop bite on the finish. Slightly sweet. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Sawyer's Attack (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 18.9 brix, 1.078 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 9.0% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 04/02/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 04/14/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 04/23/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 05/07/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | |||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | One of the best beers I've made. Candy-like IPA. Very well balanced, with malt being noticeable and grassy, lemony hops being barely bitter and very floral. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Competition KrystalWeizen (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.051 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 5.1% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 03/06/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~4.5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 03/20/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 04/23/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 05/07/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Solo brew day. Used Andy's shredding mill and milled the flaked wheat along with everything else. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Slightly tart and fruity with a hint of banana and nearly no clove. Peppercorns provide a lemony finish without a pepper bite. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Booby Beer (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.030 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.008 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 2.9% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 01/22/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~6.5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 02/06/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 02/20/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 03/06/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Dual brew with the Norfolk Lavender Pale. Fermented in cold garage -- stayed around 50 deg. F. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Watery, roasty, and very decent considering the super light ABV. June digs. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Norfolk Lavender Pale Ale (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.052 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 5.5% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 01/22/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~6.5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 02/06/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 03/06/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 03/20/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Double solo brew day with the Booby Beer. Lavender honey and dried lavender were boiled and added to secondary on 02/10/2016. Secondround of dry spicing with lavendar took place on 02/26/2016. Fermented in cold garage -- stayed around 50 deg. F. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Delightful. One of my best beers. The lavender is just fragerent enough to come through and has a light taste. Not soapy at all. I really walked the soap - lavender line with this. Perfect balance. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Double Dooty (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.083 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 9.7% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 01/10/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~5.5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 01/24/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 02/14/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 03/01/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | W&C didn't have more an 1 oz of amarillos, so combined 1 oz of amarillos, 1 oz of sarachi ace, and 1 oz of centennials into a hop cocktail that was added at 30, 15, and 10. This as opposed to the planned addition of 1 oz of amarillos at each of 30, 15, and 10. Still Krausening before racking (slow fermentation in the cold garage), but needed both primaries for new beers... | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | No hop aroma from lack of dry hopping. Deep amber color with burnt orange and a pine lingering bitter. Smooth. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ingredients |
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| Justin's Name | Red Rye IPA (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.074 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | ~6.8% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 2015/12/12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | 5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 2015/12/20 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 2015/01/02 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 2015/01/15 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Also tossed in my home-grown centennials at 5 min. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | slightly sweet, pretty hoppy, rye bite. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ingredients |
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| Justin's Name | Angelito Weisse (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.042 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | ~4.0% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 11/11/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 11/22/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 12/20/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 01/01/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Nothing interesting... Boiled 2 lb of tamarinds and added to secondary. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Very sour with a funky, dry finish. Smells like fermented tamarinds. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ingredients |
Tamarind Berliner Weisse Beer
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| Justin's Name | ComPORTition Porter (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.073 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.012 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 7.4% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 10/25/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~5.5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 11/08/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 12/14/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 01/01/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Nothing exciting. Finger surgery brewday. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Vanilla is a bit boozy, and the aftertaste is raspberry-y. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ingredients |
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| Justin's Name | IRA: I can Red IPA (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.052 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 5.2% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 09/07/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 09/16/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 09/28/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 10/10/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | |||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Decently hoppy session IPA. Good malt balance. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ingredients |
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| Justin's Name | Brown Noser Nut Brown Ale (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.042 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | ~4.5% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 09/07/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 09/16/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 09/24/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | nothing eventful | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | very very light, smooth brown. session. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ingredients |
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| Justin's Name | Happy Beer Day (2015) (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.065 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 6.8% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 05/31/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~4.5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 06/14/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 09/07/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 11/14/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Strong winds kept my boil temps down, resulting in a higher yield but lower gravity. Also thought I had more 2-row, and ended up about 2 lb short. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | little hot, little young, but tastes like a belgian. UPDATE: Aging well. Tastes like Karmeleit. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ingredients |
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| Justin's Name | JB's Suffolk Special (2015) (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.067 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.012 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 6.7% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 08/15/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | 5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 08/29/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 09/07/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 09/21/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Double batch -- doubled all ingredients. Brewed with Dirty Birds Brewing. Ended up being 8 gallons of water for first mash, and 8 gallons for second mash; sparged the last 1 gallon of the second mash since the water wouldn't fit into the tun. Borrowed Gigapot from MKelly Brewing. Also noticed that 3 Floyds uses a nearly identical recipe to original JB's for Zombie Dust. Kegged 1 batch, bottled the other. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Super hoppy, loads of mango. very very good. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ingredients | Below ingredients for a single batch. Double all ingredients for the double batch.
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| Justin's Name | Bitter Niner (recipe) | ||||||||||||
| SG | 11.3 Brix (1.045) | ||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||
| ABV | 4.7% | ||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 07/19/2015 | ||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~5 hours | ||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 08/03/2015 | ||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 08/16/2015 | ||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 09/01/2015 | ||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Brewed as part of the Trifecta Tailgate Beer Series for the ODU Football game against evil the Charlotte 49ers. Full, 5 gallon BIAB brew. BIAB was no fun. Never doing it again. | ||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Nice, crisp, clean beer with a slight malt and earth hop finish. Great ESB | ||||||||||||
| Ingredients |
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| Justin's Name | Cross Town Blonde (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.040 (10 Brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 4% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 07/19/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | 5.6-6 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 08/03/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 08/16/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 09/01/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Brewed as part of the Trifecta Tailgate Beer Series for the ODU Football game against the Norfolk State Spartans. This beer was brewed as a triple-batch (with all three using the same wort). This 5-gallon slice of the batch uses spices and belgian yeast to create a belgian blond ale. Note that I also did a steam-stype of this beer in a 1-gallon overflow batch with TRF666. 4 bottles from this exist. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Not much orange flavor but enough to make it spicey. Not a great exemplar of the blond style, but still a great, light, could-drink-a-6er-of-it tailgate beer. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ingredients |
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| Justin's Name | Non-Ephermeral Hefeweizen (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.045 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 5.0% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 2015/06/28 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 07/19/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 08/03/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 08/17/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | 75 minute mash, brewed a 6.5 gallon batch to do some dry hopping in a 1 gallon test batch. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Justin's Name | Kompetition Kolsch (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.048 (12 brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | Target 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | Target 4.8% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 05/25/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~4.5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 06/07/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 06/21/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 07/04/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Nothing exciting. Cold crashing in the keg fridge for a week before bottle time. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Slight hop bite, which ends up being like a Sierra Nevada kolsch rather than the german style I was shooting for. Still a decent beer with a pear front and noble hop back. Another "Best in Show" winner for our homebrewer competition. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ingredients | Ingredients held secret until July 11th competition.
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| Justin's Name | Straight Outta Compton SIPA (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.040 (9.75 brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.000 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 4.0% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 05/17/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~4.5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 05/25/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 06/14/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 07/01/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Going to try the hop bursting technique with this beer. It should work well in a session since it is meant to use a very small IBU level for bittering hops and getting the hop flavor from a heavy dose of aroma hops (hence the whopping 3.5 oz of hops at the 10 minute mark of the boil). This makes a more delicate -- but still intensely bitter -- beer, exactly what the doctor ordered for a SIPA that is designed for a post-lawn mow refreshment. Also fermenting in a swamp cooler. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Easy start with a massive graphefruit hop flavor rush at the end of the beer. Exactly what I wanted it to be. Very much a decent beer. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ingredients |
Accounting for BrewTarget's underestimation of SG (or our weirdly increased efficiency) by having its estimate sit at 1.033 when I'm actually shooting for 1.042.
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| Justin's Name | Big Blue Brew (2015) (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.056 (14 brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 5.6% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 05/03/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~4.5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 05/10/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 05/17/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 05/31/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Nothing interesting. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Fermented too warm. Has a homebrew flavor and very diacetyl nose (which -- when cold -- luckily doesn't come through on the flavor). Otherwise a decent lawnmower beer. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ingredients | Targetted as test batch for the Competition Kolsch, so ingredients held secret until July 11th competition.
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| Justin's Name | Kirby's Pollinated Pale Ale (2015) (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.057 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | ~5.5% (after water added) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 04/04/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | 4.5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 04/18/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 05/10/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 05/24/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Trifecta w/ pipeline. Nothing abnormal. Brewtarget likely overshot the anticipated SG. Going to add a gallon or so of boiled/sterilized water at keg time to increase volume and decrease ABV. Will add strawberry flavor to the last ~2 gallons. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Nicely hopped, great english pale flavor. Strawberry has very cough-syrup flavor, but good thing the regular Kirby's came out excellent. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ingredients |
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| Justin's Name | (recipe) |
| SG | 1.044 (11 Brix) |
| FG | 1.011 |
| ABV | 4.5% |
| Brew Date | 03/29/2015 |
| Brew Time | ~3 hr |
| Rack Date | N/A |
| Bottle Date | 04/18/2015 |
| Ready Date | 05/02/2015 |
| Brew Notes | ~1.5-2 gallon batch of BIAB on stove top. |
| Taste Notes | Slight licorice finish but all licorice nose. More like a red than a stout. |
| Ingredients |
Mash: Brewed in a bag. |
| Justin's Name | White Lot White IPA (2015) (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.068 (17 Brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | Target 1.017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | Target 6.8% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 03/14/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~4.5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 04/01/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 04/19/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 04/23/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Brewed in pipeline w/ Wharton using MKelly's Burner. Went pretty well. Also did not add the belgian candi sugar because we hit the target ABV and the goal is to not blow everyone out of the water with a boozy spring beer. Also, the yeast starter was very active, and we had action on the airlock within about 2 hours of pitching the yeast. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Big bitter flavor up front and all IPA on the nose. Has a belgian funk to it (as intended) and finishes with some complexity. One of the best beers I've done. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ingredients |
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| Justin's Name | Miss Maggie McGeary (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 12 brix, 1.047 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | Target 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | Target 4.4% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 02/28/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~5 hrs (longer due to cold brew conditions) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | Target 03/15/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 03/29/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 04/12/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Snowy brew day @ MKelly Brewery, really fast chilling to get wort to temp, nothing went horribly wrong. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Good clean IRA with a bit of a roasted bite on the end. No real hops to speak of on the taste. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ingredients |
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| Wharton's Name |  iDo (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.044 (11 Brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.008 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 4.7% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 02/01/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~4.5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 02/15/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 03/15/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | Wedding Date: 04/21/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Fermented in garage for 2 weeks (~45 deg F). Racked and put into the house (~67 deg F). Will be kegging this beer with apple flavoring. This beer was infected. Will bottle the infected pilsner to see if we can salvage it, but also brewed a replacement batch of this beer on 02/22/2015 to make sure we have a good kegged batch. I think the infection came from a loose seal in the 8 gallon primary. Will be using the 6.5 for batch #2 and debugging the 8 gallon. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Going into the keg, the new batch tastes very good. Nice and creamy pilsner and the apple flavor is apparent but not overwhelming. The contaminated old version has a funky nose to it (plastic-y) but tastes ok. Strawberry version is pretty good. Would be fun to do a few different fruity pilsners like this #forScience! Keg now sitting in the fridge hooked up to CO2. Was a huge hit at the wedding. Keg kicked right after the reception started. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ingredients |
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| Justin's Name | Goser the Destructor (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.0298 (7.5 Brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | Target 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | Target 3.0 % | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 01/17/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~4 hours | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 01/24/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keg Date | 02/15/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 03/01/2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | NOTE: Acidulated malt is added after the initial sparge, and only used for the second sparge. ALso keeping the primary in the garage to ferment at lower temperatures. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Very salty, but not very sour. Will do this again with a much more generous helping of acid malt. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ingredients |
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| Justin's Name |  Competition Stout (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 1.085 (20.5 Brix) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.014 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 9.4% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 12/21/2014 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~4.5 hrs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 01/09/2014 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 02/01/2014 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 02/21/2014 (Competition Date) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Slight boil over because Mat said "No Scraping" but really, scraping is the best method to avoid boil overs. Volume out of the mash was a little low, so added 0.75 gal of tap water to boil, which put the final volume right at 5 gallons. Secret ingredient added to the end of the boil. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Deep roasted flavor, light coffee taste as a result. Oak chips came through, and finishes slightly hot from the high octane. Won Best in Show at the Stout Competition, beating out the control (O.D.I.S.) by 2 votes 6-4. I didn't really get the vanilla notes that I wanted out of this, but that might be because of the extra roasted flavor and the light use of the oak chips at flame-out. Either way, quite a good, robust stout that should age very well. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ingredients |
To be announced after the Stout Competition (02/21/2015).
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| Justin's Name |  C5 DIPA (recipe) | ||||||||||||||||||
| SG | 17 Brix, 1.078 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FG | 1.010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 9.1% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Date | 11/15/2014 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Time | ~5 hours | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rack Date | 11/28/2014 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bottle Date | 01/24/2014 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ready Date | 02/08/2014 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brew Notes | Nothing interesting. Brix showed an ABV of 8.5 when I finished, but the hydrometer shows an expected ABV of only 7.8. After about 2 days of fermentation, I boiled the rest of the candi sugar (15 minutes) and added to the primary for fermentation after it had a chance to cool in a sanitized growler. This brings the SG up, and provides an expected ABV of 9.1, much closer to the target. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Notes | Super bitter, very hoppy. Very Enjoy By esque. Not hot, but packs a punch. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ingredients |
Mash:
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| Justin's Name |  Grapefruit Wheat (recipe) |
| SG | 9 Brix, 1.0359 |
| FG | 1.010 |
| ABV | ~4.7% |
| Brew Date | 10/12/2014 |
| Brew Time | ~4.5 hrs |
| Rack Date | 10/26/2014 |
| Keg Date | 11/24/2014 |
| Ready Date | 12/07/2014 |
| Brew Notes | Nothing interesting in the brew. All according to plan. When I racked, I had ~6.5 gallons of wort which I racked almost evenly into two carboys. Here is a run-down of how the grapefruit was added. I zested 2 tablespoons of grapefruit peel, and added that to about 3/4 of a gallon of water. I peeled and shucked the fruit out of 2 grapefruits and added the fruit flesh to the water, then boiled it for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, I added the grapefruit "tea" to the 1 gallon jug to cool. Once it was at ~60 degrees F, I poured the entire jug (fruit flesh, juice, everything) into the Better Bottle carboy. When the un-grapefruited wheat is done fermenting (absolutely 0 action on the airlock and 0 bubbles in the wort), I will bottle both individually to have two versions of the beer: a "grapefruit" american pale wheat, as well as a grapefruit wheat fruit beer. |
| Taste Notes | The grapefruit beer has lots of floaties from not filtering or at least straining the beer during kegging. It is pretty bland with not a whole lot of grapefruit flavor. Next time, will add grapefruit juice to the keg during kegging. The non-fruit version is nice and toasty with a crisp what flavor. Not too yeasty, but a little tart from the Ommegang re-cultured yeast. I like this beer, and want to do another version that is a bit more bold. |
| Ingredients |
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| June's Name |  June's Winter Pecan Porter (recipe) |
| SG | 1.067 (17 Brix) |
| FG | Target 1.010 |
| ABV | Target 7.7% |
| Brew Date | 11/23/2014 |
| Brew Time | ~5 hrs |
| Rack Date | 12/07/2014 |
| Bottle Date | 01/24/2014 |
| Ready Date | 02/08/2014 |
| Brew Notes | |
| Taste Notes | Good pecan flavor on after-taste. Good thick porter and a sweet finish. |
| Ingredients |
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| Justin's Name |  BP D.I.S. (recipe) |
| SG | 1.045 (11 Brix) |
| FG | 1.010 |
| ABV | 4.3% |
| Brew Date | 09/01/2014 |
| Brew Time | ~4.5 hrs |
| Rack Date | 09/13/2014 |
| Bottle Date | 10/08/2014 |
| Ready Date | 10/18/2014 |
| Brew Notes | Conversion: 3.5 gal @ 163 deg F (60 min) Final Batch: 6 gal @ 174 deg F (15 min). @ MKelly Brewery w/ Bryan. No starter used. I also used the 11 Brix near the 30 minute mark of the boil as the SG for this one -- I forgot to take a reading at the end of the boil. |
| Taste Notes | Big roasty flavor, dark as sin, but finishes light. Not massively bitter, just a lot of roasted bitterness and grain flavor. Will age very well. Also went light on the bottling sugar since stouts aren't supposed to be very carbonated, which may lead to the bottles being undercarbbed. |
| Ingredients |
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| Justin's Name |  Oktoberfest (recipe) |
| SG | 1.038 (9 brix) |
| FG | Target 1.010 |
| ABV | Target 4.7% |
| Brew Date | 07/20/2014 |
| Brew Time | ~6 hrs |
| Rack Date | 07/28/2014 |
| Bottle Date | Target 08/24/2014 |
| Ready Date | Target 09/08/2014 |
| Brew Notes | 10 gallon batch (numbers here represent 5 gallons). Split the grain, separately mashed but lautered into same large pot. JFB's strike water was about 180°F and mashed at 169°F. Mine was 165°F strike and mash at 155°F. Temp on tun dropped to 152°F over 60 minutes. No stuck sparge despite the fairly fine milled grain. WLP830 - German Lager Yeast from Wine and Cake expired in March, we saw after having bought it. Tried to create a 2 liter starter from it to now avail. Added washed WLP840 - American Lager Yeast from Formel and Else Clause. Nice head of krausen before brewing. Pre-boil SG was 13 Brix. Post boil, 9.5 (1.038) and enough volume to sufficiently fill two primaries. |
| Taste Notes | Excellent beer. Nice maltiness, but a drier finish than other Oktoberfests. The marzen malty flavor comes through nicely. |
| Ingredients |
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| Justin's Name |  Pale Blonde (recipe) |
| SG | 1.0454 (11.3 Brix) |
| FG | Target 1.010 |
| ABV | Target 6.0% |
| Brew Date | 07/20/2014 |
| Brew Time | ~3 hrs |
| Rack Date | 07/28/2014 |
| Bottle Date | Target 09/13/2014 |
| Ready Date | Target 09/30/2014 |
| Brew Notes | Brewed in parallel with the Oktoberfest Collaboration with MKelly. No issues, nothing abnormal. |
| Taste Notes | In keg, it's a little chloriney, but that is from the bad keg, I think. Overall, there is a slight fruity bitterness on the end, but it's very light. Decent beer, nice and sessionable with a good belgian yeasty tang to it. |
| Ingredients |
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| Name |  Cream Hampton (recipe) |
| SG | 1.042 |
| FG | 1.002 |
| ABV | 5.6% |
| Brew Date | 07/04/2014 |
| Brew Time | ~5 hrs |
| Rack Date | 07/28/2014 |
| Bottle Date | 08/17/2014 |
| Ready Date | 08/29/2014 |
| Brew Notes | Joint with Brunelle Brewery with JFB brewing. Strike water 3.375 gallons at 164°F. Mash water 5.5 gallons at 176°F with a 75 minute mash due to Bulia/Sawyer. US-05 yeast. JFB made a starter for the US-05. |
| Taste Notes | Rave reviews from the tailgaters, even though we likely jinxed the team. Lightly cloudy from the flaked corn, light flavor, like a super flavorful adjunct. Mission Accomplished. Great beer that I would consider doing again for summer. |
| Ingredients |
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| Justin's Name | Crazy Train Steam Beer (recipe) |
| SG | 1.042 (10.5 Brix) |
| FG | Target 1.010 |
| ABV | Target 5.3% |
| Brew Date | 06/29/2014 |
| Brew Time | ~3 hrs |
| Rack Date | 07/11/2014 |
| Bottle Date | Target 09/13/2014 |
| Ready Date | Target 09/30/2014 |
| Brew Notes | Will be fermented with American Lager Yeast at Ale Temps consistent with steam beer style. BrewTarget says this will be too light for the style, and on the upper end of the spectrum for IBUs at 42.7. Ended up with a bit larger volume than anticipated (maybe 6.5-7.0 gal?). Also, bottling this guy may end up getting delayed due to wedding things. |
| Taste Notes | The first batch on tap tasted sour. This may be because of the lines being dirty or filled with old beer. With the rest of the 5 gal still in secondary, I will keg about 2/3 and bottle the other 1/3. |
| Ingredients |
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| Name |  Virginia Crude (recipe) |
| SG | 1.063 |
| FG | 1.011 |
| ABV | 6.8% |
| Brew Date | 05/26/2014 |
| Brew Time | ~5 hrs |
| Rack Date | 06/09/2014 |
| Bottle Date | 06/29/2014 |
| Ready Date | 07/11/2014 |
| Brew Notes | Second all-grain batch with same caveat as Formel with the stuck sparge. Transferred wort to a secondary vessel, reduced size of hose connecting false bottom with spigot, poured back in and all was well. At sparge time, stuck again. Opened ball valve and poked at it and flow began. Made about 7 gallons pre-boil, which reduced to 4 gallons (!). Topped up and used liquid California Ale Yeast that was re-cultured with a starter via dextrose. Bubbling within 8 hours (probably less). JFB believes this will hit greater than 6.5% ABV, I do not. Winner gets bestowed a $3 or less beer from Bon Vivant. Strike water was about 4.5 Gallons at 155°F prior to getting stuck. Sparge water was about 4-5 Gallons (hooray, no-measure) with temperature at 160°F. Next brew I ought to get the volumes down beforehand instead of relying on software at runtime. Rack to Glass Carboy on June 9th, gravity reading at racking was 1.011. Bottled the reading content with a carb tablet because why not. Washed the yeast from the primary to a vessel for future re-use. |
| Taste Notes | Lots of coffee and chocolate bitterness. Very good beer. Pours like motor oil. |
| Ingredients |
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| Justin's Name | JB's Suffolk Special (2014) (recipe) |
| SG | 1.059 (14 brix) |
| FG | Target 1.010 |
| ABV | Target 6.5% |
| Brew Date | 05/26/2014 |
| Brew Time | 5.5 hours |
| Rack Date | 06/07/2014 |
| Bottle Date | Target 07/11/2014 |
| Ready Date | Target 07/25/2014 |
| Brew Notes | 8 gallons of yield. 7 gallons of initial infusion mash (173 deg.) and 4.4 gallons of final sparge (191 deg.). Took about 2 more to hit the final total. Also took the extra run-off to use as a yeast starter. Looks like we have gotten this all-grain thing down well enough to not need LME as a backup. |
| Taste Notes | Much cleaner on the bittering hops up front, but still has all that wonderful citra taste. Massively clear -- I can read the newspaper through it. I think this recipe is here to stay! |
| Ingredients |
Changing the ingredients to All-Grain and adding columbus hops to the bittering
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| Name |  1st TRye |
| SG | 1.022 |
| FG | 1.002 |
| ABV | ~4% |
| Brew Date | 05/04/2014 |
| Brew Time | ~5.5 hrs |
| Rack Date | 05/18/2014 |
| Bottle Date | 06/15/2014 |
| Ready Date | 07/01/2014 |
| Brew Notes | Our first All-Grain brew (60 minute mash), joint with Brunelle Brewery. Mashed at 154°F but was down to 149°F at about half way through. Vorlaufed about a gallon before clearing but realized further clarity meant we should have waited and vorlaufed more. Process went pretty smoothly until the gravity reading, which was way too low. JFB added about a pound of Pilsner LME out of frustation. |
| Taste Notes | Very clean, crisp, hint of rye. Decent beer considering the challenges we had. |
| Ingredients |
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| Justin's Name | Kirby's Pollinated Pale Ale 2014 (recipe) |
| OG | Not accurately measured |
| FG | Not accurately measured |
| ABV | Target 5.0% |
| Brew Date | 04/19/2014 |
| Brew Time | ~3 hrs |
| Rack Date | 05/04/2014 |
| Bottle Date | 05/18/2014 |
| Ready Date | 06/01/2014 |
| Brew Notes | Nothing special. Tried to use my refractometer to measure the SG, but I don't have it callibrated, yet. |
| Taste Notes | Very close to an english style pale (which is the base recipe) but that means a drier hop flavor and a less interesting beer. |
| Ingredients |
Changing the recipe slightly. 1 oz goldings at flame off and 1 oz cascades dry hopped instead of 2 oz dry hopped cascades.
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| Justin's Name | Big Blue Brew (2014) (recipe) |
| OG | Not measured |
| FG | Not measured |
| ABV | Target: 4.6% |
| Brew Date | 04/06/2014 |
| Brew Time | ~3 hrs |
| Rack Date | 04/19/2014 |
| Bottle Date | 05/09/2014 |
| Ready Date | 05/23/2014 |
| Brew Notes | Nothing exciting. |
| Taste Notes | A little worty, slightly sweet, with the vienna malt making the beer kinda dark. Not as impressed this year as I was last year. Will revert to the previous recipe going forward. |
| Ingredients |
Recipe generated with BrewTarget. Meets all criteria.
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| Justin's Name |  Bourbon Barrel Porter (1 Gal) (recipe) |
| OG | Not Measured |
| FG | Not Measured |
| ABV | Not Measured |
| Brew Date | 03/16/2014 |
| Brew Time | ~2 hrs |
| Bottle Date | 04/05/2014 |
| Ready Date | 04/19/2014 |
| Brew Notes | Overshot the volume -- ended up with 2 gallons instead of 1... |
| Taste Notes | Very smooth, clean, and light. The bourbon version adds fomr boozy sweetness even without the extra booze. |
| Ingredients |
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| Kit Name | Hop Scare IPA |
| Justin's Name | Forgot the Malta
(recipe) |
| OG | 1.057 |
| FG | 1.007 |
| ABV | 6.3% |
| Brew Date | 02/15/2014 |
| Brew Time | ~3.5 hrs (7.5 gal boil) |
| Rack Date | 03/01/2014 |
| Bottle Date | 04/12/2014 |
| Ready Date | 04/26/2014 |
| Brew Notes | Will do a late-malt addition of the DME, just like the name suggests. Also will dry hop during transfer to secondary. Did a full 7.5 gallon boil, which ended up yielding 5.5 gallons of wort. |
| Taste Notes | Still a sweet beer. The grain makes it sweet but there is much more hop flavor and a much cleaner finishing beer this year. |
| Ingredients |
Ingredients purchased piecemeal.
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| Justin's Name |  Chocolate Milk Stout (recipe) |
| OG | Target: 1.050-1.060 (didn't measure test batch) |
| FG | Target: ~1.020 (didn't measure test batch) |
| ABV | Target ~4% (didn't measure test batch) |
| Brew Date | 01/11/2014 |
| Brew Time | ~2 hrs |
| Rack Date | N/A |
| Bottle Date | 01/25/2014 |
| Ready Date | 02/08/2014 |
| Brew Notes | Pours like motor oil. Looks like it, too. |
| Taste Notes | Malty, thick, smooth, and sweet. Everything it should be. Slightly yeasty from primary-only. Very tastey. |
| Ingredients |
Starting with a 1 gallon small batch test.
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| Justin's Name |  Alpha and Omega (recipe) |
| OG | 1.073 |
| FG | 1.010 |
| ABV | 8.6% |
| Brew Date | 01/04/2014 |
| Brew Time | 3.5 hours |
| Rack Date | 01/17/2014 |
| Bottle Date | 02/08/2014 |
| Ready Date | 02/22/2014 |
| Brew Notes | Treated water with Campden tablets. Did a hot break to remove nastiness from the water, and did a 90 minute boil to get the best hop utilization. Dry hopping in primary on 01/04 and in secondary on 01/17. Bottled early since the FG was hit, clarity was good, and the yeast had stopped fermenting -- wanted to make sure the yeast was active enough to carb the bottles. Also washed the yeast (S-04) for my second jar of S-04 yeast in the fridge. |
| Taste Notes | Best beer I've made so far. Rave reviews from everyone. Might have to start this one again to make sure I keep it in stock. Very hoppy -- mix of resin up from with a slight citrus middle. Massive hoppy aroma filled w/ resin and flowers. |
| Ingredients | Will be an Imperial/Double IPA with a 90 minute boil. Will likely do a late-malt addition to maximize hop utilization. 5 lbs up front, 7 at 45 minutes into the boil.
Adapted from a Pliny the Elder clone.
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| Justin's Name |  Fruit Punch IPA (recipe) |
| OG | Not measured |
| FG | Not measured |
| ABV | Not measured |
| Brew Date | 12/22/2013 |
| Brew Time | 1.5 hrs |
| Bottle Date | 01/04/2014 |
| Ready Date | 01/18/2014 |
| Brew Notes | Starting with a one-gallon test batch, and a growler-full with strawberry flavoring. No racking planned. |
| Taste Notes | Good aroma, good flavor, probably a little too bitter. This is JB's Suffolk Special in steroids. I think just 2 oz of bittering citras instead of 2.5 would do the trick... Sweet hopes, pretty bitter, but not overwhelming. Matukas and Nelsons give a great, grapey hop flavor. IBUs sneak up on you a bit over time and complemented with more hop sweetness. Like a more intense Suffolk Special. Not a lot of homebrew flavor. I attribute this to the hot break brew method (used here, but no campden tablets). Will await review my Mat, Andy, Larry, and June before committing to a full 5 gal batch. |
| Other | Recipe:
Washed and stored the yeast in a jar in my fridge. Got some hops in it, so may have to use them in an IPA to prevent over hoppiness. |
| Kit Name | Adapted from Lawnmower de Saison |
| Justin's Name |  De El Saison (recipe) |
| OG | 1.060 |
| FG | 1.006 |
| ABV | 7.3% |
| Brew Date | 12/22/2013 |
| Brew Time | ~3 hrs |
| Rack Date | 2014-01-08 |
| Bottle Date | 2014-03-02 |
| Ready Date | 2014-03-15 |
| Brew Notes | Brewed at Pat's. He treated the water with camden tablets and other minerals. Brewed at max capacity (~5 gal). Also did a heat break in which we heated the wort to a boil, scraped the protein foam off the top, and allow the wort to boil without a boil-over. Used the chiller to bring it down to 75 degrees. Use a spectrometer to estimate the OG. Also learned the art of all-grain boil and force-carbing beer. Learned a bit about yeast, too. |
| Taste Notes | OMG CLOVES. Really good, really smooth, finishes clean, but holy cloves did I over do the cloves on this one. Really should have only done half of an ounce. |
| Other |
Ingredients:
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| Kit Name | Modeled after a Belgian Tripel |
| Justin's Name | Happy Beer-day (recipe) |
| OG | 1.078 |
| FG | 1.002 |
| ABV | 9.6% |
| Brew Date | 11/24/2013 |
| Brew Time | 2.5 hours |
| Rack Date | 12/08/2013 |
| Bottle Date | 06/07/2014 |
| Ready Date | 07/14/2014 |
| Brew Notes | Spices added at 5-minute mark in the boil. Did close to a full 5-gallon boil. |
| Taste Notes | |
| Other |
Planning a 3 month secondary time.
Custom Ingredients List:
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| Kit Name | Happy Holiday Ale |
| Justin's Name |  Defrosted Winter Warmer (recipe) |
| OG | 1.055 @ 90 deg |
| FG | 1.010 |
| ABV | 6.5% |
| Brew Date | 11/11/2013 |
| Brew Time | 2 hrs |
| Bottle Date | 01/11/2014 |
| Ready Date | 01/25/2014 |
| Brew Notes | Racked on 11/22/2014. Spices went into the boil with 5 minutes left (this is likely a pattern I'll repeat). Ice added to wort to chill it. |
| Taste Notes | Malty, and holy ginger! Lots of spices, a bit of cardboard flavor on the aftertaste -- this was before the new brew technique was implemented. |
| Other |
| Kit Name | Big River Brown Ale |
| Justin's Name |  Legend-waitforit-ary Imperial Brown Ale (recipe) |
| OG | 1.061 |
| FG | 1.010 |
| ABV | 6.9% |
| Brew Date | 10/13/2013 |
| Brew Time | 2 hrs |
| Bottle Date | 11/24/2013 |
| Ready Date | 12/01/2013 |
| Brew Notes | Racked 10/27/2013 |
| Taste Notes | Malty, not very boozy, and very smooth. Nothing offensive, but nothing to write home about, either. The dads liked it. |
| Other | Brewing this for my dad & Gerry -- they like the browns more than IPAs. Bumped up the ABV with another 3.3 of LME since this one runs cheap and light. |
| Kit Name | Custom Rauchbier Kit |
| June's Name |  Victory for Old Dominion (recipe) |
| OG | 1.038@90 |
| FG | Target 1.010 |
| ABV | Target 4.3% |
| Brew Date | 10/06/2013 |
| Brew Time | 2 hrs |
| Bottle Date | Target 11/06/2013 |
| Ready Date | 11/16/2013 |
| Brew Notes | This will be June's brewing rodeo. We used the Perle hops as bittering and the Spalt hops as flavor with 25 minutes left in the boil. Everything else seemed to go according to recipe. Racked to secondary on 10/13. |
| Taste Notes | Has a much smokier taste than we anticipated (tasted when racked to secondary). Looks dark like a brown but is really light in taste and has a nice hickory-smoked taste (not like bacon). Carbonated version is much more mellow and less smokey. |
| Other |
Ingredients:
I'm thinking full-blown German approach. 50% Smoked grain (they say 20% mix gives slight smokey flavor, and 80% will be like eating fire) and 50% German and a mild, spicy german hop profile. I may not dry-hop, depending on how we want to approach the flavor. I may also swap the perle and spalt hops and use spalt as bittering, but that also depends on what approach we want. The real star of this beer is the smoked grain, and I want to bring that out. |
| Kit Name | Custom |
| Justin's Name |  Ginger Beer |
| OG | Unknown |
| FG | Unknown |
| ABV | Unknown |
| Brew Date | 09/17/2013 |
| Brew Time | 1.5 hrs |
| Bottle Date | 09/25/2013 |
| Ready Date | 10/04/2013 |
| Brew Notes | Grated the ginger root, and boiled it for about 25 minutes. Then added the 4 lbs of sugar and kept boiling for another 30 minutes. I poured it all through a strainer into the primary with champagne yeast. I added some of this wort to 16 oz flip-top bottles with a little yeast for a non-alcoholic version. The rest of the wort had about another gallon of water added to it and 2/3 of a box of artificial sweetener to keep it sweet after the sugar ferments. Will bottle the alcoholic versions later. |
| Taste Notes | Tastes great, but is over carbonated because of the champagne yeast. It mixes all the yeast and sediment up when the bottle is opened. It would be much better if it was brewed with ale yeast... |
| Other | Recipe:
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| Kit Name | Copper Ale |
| Justin's Name |  Seal Walker (recipe) |
| OG | 1.044 @ 90 degrees |
| FG | 1.010 |
| ABV | 5.0% |
| Brew Date | 09/08/2013 |
| Brew Time | 2.75 hours |
| Bottle Date | 10/17/2013 |
| Ready Date | 11/01/2013 |
| Brew Notes | Recipe called from 0.5 oz of bittering hops. I added the other 0.5 at the 30 minute mark for flavor. Everything else done by the book. Did a 4.5-gallon boil, added 4 lbs of ice and used the wort chiller to do the rest. It performs nicely until about 100-90 degrees, which takes forever. SOP should be to use the wort chiller to take the wort down to 95 degrees and bring the temp down the rest of the way with ice. |
| Taste Notes | Looks like there may have been an infection in the beer. There was a single fuzzy bubble at the top of the carboy when I bottled. The flavor is a bit overhopped for a copper up front, but the taste is fine until the ending. There is a good bit of penicillin aftertaste coming through on this one. |
| Other | Transfer to carboy on 09/19/2013 (longer-than-usual primary time to ensure fermenting is done). |
| Kit Name | Custom Ingredients |
| Justin's Name | JB's Suffolk Special (recipe) |
| OG | 1.048@85 degrees |
| FG | 1.010@70 degrees |
| ABV | 5.3% |
| Brew Date | 08/17/2013 |
| Brew Time | 3 hrs |
| Bottle Date | 09/25/2013 |
| Ready Date | 10/09/2013 |
| Brew Notes | 2 oz of Citras added at the beginning of the boil (60 minutes). 1.5 added at 30 minutes, 1 added at 10 minutes left. 1 left for dry hopping, likely a week before bottling (09/18/2013). |
| Taste Notes | |
| Other | Brewed a set of custom ingredients:
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| Kit Name | Cologne Kolsch |
| Justin's Name | Big Blue Brew (recipe) |
| OG | 1.040 @ 87 degrees F |
| FG | 1.008 |
| ABV | 4.5% |
| Brew Date | 07/09/2013 |
| Brew Time | 3 hrs |
| Bottle Date | 08/15/2013 |
| Ready Date | 08/29/2013 |
| Brew Notes | I didn't use an ice bucket for this. I added about 15 lbs of ice (to bring up the yield) and that got the wort from ~200 degrees F to 95 degrees F. I think when the wort chiller is ready, I will still add about 15 lbs of ice and then bring down the temp of the wort the rest of the way with the chiller. Also, I used Irish moss for this brew since I'd like it to be as light in color as possible. |
| Taste Notes | I really like this beer. It's super light with a tangy, citra scent from the dry hopping. This will be a great tailgate session beer. Clarity is decent (looks really clear for unfiltered) and the head could be better but is still thick enough. |
| Other | I'm thinking of doing the toothpick with blue food coloring for this -- it's super light in color and will lend itself well to this. Planning to rack to the carboy on the 07/19/2013, and dry hopping with a half ounce of citras with about 5 days left in the conditioning (purely for aroma). |
| Kit Name | Gold Dust IPA |
| Justin's Name |  TD17 IPA (recipe) |
| OG | 1.052 @ 82 degrees |
| FG | 1.002 |
| ABV | 7.0% |
| Brew Date | 06/23/2013 |
| Brew Time | 2 hrs |
| Bottle Date | 08/25/2013 |
| Ready Date | 09/08/2013 |
| Brew Notes | Used Irish Moss as a clarifying agent, and 3.3 lbs of the Gold LME was added with 15 minutes left in the boil. Otherwise, brewing done by the books. |
| Taste Notes | I'm disappointed with this beer. It is very cloudy (but has a nice sturdy head). It tastes a bit malty, like Forgot the Malta did, but is probably the most bitter beer I've made. It's got a nice hop profile. For the next IPA, I may use El Dorados as the bittering hop again and try to get a cleaner taste out of it. This is a decent beer but less impressive than Sawyer's Bite or the White Lot. |
| Other | Moved to the carboy on 07/01/2013. Dry hopped 07/19/2013 with 2 oz of El Dorados. As of 08/07/2013, it's still very cloudy. Will be leaving in the carboy for another 2-3 weeks to get it nice and clear. |
| Kit Name | Simply Apple |
| Justin's Name |  Just for Kicks Cider |
| OG | 1.051 |
| FG | 1.003 |
| ABV | 6.5% |
| Brew Date | 06/15/2013 |
| Brew Time | 20 min. |
| Bottle Date | 06/26/2013 |
| Ready Date | 07/10/2013 |
| Brew Notes | Bought 4 x 1.75L bottles of Simply Apple Juice. I heated it all up to ~100 degrees F, chopped up and added 3 granny smith apples, and added 1 cup of light brown sugar. Poured all of it into the primary.
I then primed a packet of champagne yeast in 2 tbsp of honey and 100 degree water and added that. I also added 2L of warm water to increase the yield. |
| Taste Notes | Tasted the Hydrometer reading today. Very boozy and just tastes like sour apples with an aftertaste of "I just took a shot." Hopefully that mellows out. Update: This is basically apple champagne. It is super bubbly when bottled with the juice, and not very carbonated when only the honey was used. It's got a great flavor with juice, but the honey leaves the cider really tart and even sour. I think I'd use some lactose next time to give it some sweetness. |
| Other | I chose Simply Apple because it is made without preservatives. This allows the yeast to activate and begin the fermentation. After 12 hours of sitting in the primary, the yeast is active. There is no krausen, but there are a lot of bubbles coming up from the "wort." I was given the good idea to add some frozen concentrate to the cider at bottle time to keep it sweet and not too sour. I'll probably do this instead of bottling sugar for about half of the bottles and see how it differs from the ones bottled with honey. So, I'll do 50% of the bottles with 1 cup of honey dissolved in 1 cup of water, and 1 cup of frozen apple juice concentrate dissolved in 1 cup of water. I'm going to make this again with some modifications. |
| Kit Name | Oatmeal Stout |
| Justin's Name |  Vanilla Soy Latte |
| OG | 1.039 @ 75 degrees |
| FG | 1.010 |
| ABV | 3.8% |
| Brew Date | 06/02/2013 |
| Brew Time | 2 hrs |
| Bottle Date | 06/19/2013 |
| Ready Date | 06/30/2013 |
| Brew Notes | Will be brewing this with vanilla beans and adding cold brewed French Vanilla coffee to the primary after the wort cooled, as I've read online. |
| Taste Notes | Hydrometer testing just tastes like stale coffee (it's Folgers, so it's also bad coffee). I'm hoping the carbonation takes that tangy edge off. Update: The taste has mellowed out considerably. However, there is still a slight tangy smell to the beer. If you smell the beer while drinking, it makes it taste sour. The beer tastes fine if you don't inhale deeply. Update: I think next time I would rack to a secondary for a lengthy mellowing process and use less coffee. Maybe coffee malt instead of actual coffee. There is still a lot of tang in the taste, but it's mellowing out in the bottles, which is why I think it would benefit from a longer conditioning period in the secondary. Mat also mentioned Bad Wagg had a similar iron taste, and the coffee I added really brings out this offensive taste. |
| Other | I would definitely add the coffee later in the brew process and also rack to secondary during the next effort. However, I don't think we'll be doing this one again. |
| Kit Name | Belgian IPA |
| Justin's Name | White Lot White IPA (recipe) |
| OG | 1.058 |
| FG | 1.010 |
| ABV | 7.4% |
| Brew Date | 05/19/2013 |
| Brew Time | 2.5 hours |
| Bottle Date | 07/20/2013 |
| Ready Date | 08/04/2013 |
| Brew Notes | Nothing abnormal (done by the books), aside from the Trifecta. Moved to the carboy 05/24/2013. |
| Taste Notes | This is a great beer. It's a little sweet, has a nice belgian spiciness, and great hop flavor. If you get the yeast sediment into the glass, the belgian spice does a bit to overpower the hops. If it's left in the bottle, you get a much better IPA flavor. |
| Other | On 05/31/2013, the airlock has
completely stopped bubbling. Took a hydrometer reading and it bottomed
out near 1.014. The taste is great, but still a little sweet. Update: 07/01/2013 -- the clarity has improved greatly since the last time I checked on the carboy. |
| Kit Name | Island Hopper IPA |
| Justin's Name | Sawyer's Bite (recipe) |
| OG | 1.026 @ 90 degrees (sounds fishy) |
| FG | 1.010 |
| ABV | 7% (taking this from the kit since the OG was off) |
| Brew Date | 05/11/2013 |
| Brew Time | 2.5 hours |
| Bottle Date | 06/18/2013 |
| Ready Date | 07/02/2013 |
| Brew Notes | Recipe calls for 2 oz of hops for dry hopping during the last week of secondary fermintation. I will only use 1 oz for dry hopping -- I used the the other ounce in the brew (0.5 oz at 15 and 30 minutes) to increase bitterness and hop flavor. |
| Taste Notes | Bottled a bit early (2 days) due to calendar issues. I don't think it detracted from the flavor in the least bit. Had a taste of the beer before it went into bottles. It's very bitter and has a GREAT hop flavor and aroma. The taste is fantastic. The pacific jade hops are awesome, but I think for a custom brew I'd use a different bittering hop and hop the rest with the jades -- the jades are a bit crassier, so when they are used as bittering they give off a weird flavor. |
| Other |
Moved to the Better Bottle on 05/17/2013. Had a massive blow-out in the primary from the house being too hot. It's extremely cloudy, as well. Hopefully the yeast will clean it up. |
| Kit Name | Big Ben Pale Ale |
| Justin's Name | Kirby's Pollinated Pale Ale (recipe) |
| OG | 1.046 |
| FG | 1.010 |
| ABV | 5.0% |
| Brew Date | 04/20/2013 |
| Brew Time | 3 hours |
| Bottle Date | 05/08/2013 |
| Ready Date | 05/18/2013 |
| Brew Notes |
My first solo brew process. Brewed in the garage with Kirby
helping me monitor the wort, and June gardening, and pollen everywhere.
Brewed with the new pot on gas burner (boiled water in the pot for ~1
hour before brewing). Also used solo-cups of ice to help speed up the
cooling process. Both of these shortened the total brew time. Wort is darker in color than I expected. Moved to the carboy on Friday, 04/26/2013. |
| Taste Notes | Very good beer.
It has a clean, hoppy back with some slight malty sweetness up front.
Very clean finishing, clarity is good, and has a great balance of hops.
The hoppy aroma is fantastic. The strawberry version also turned out great. It has a bit more sweetness up front, but it's all from strawberry flavoring. The beer still finishes with a mouth full of hops. This is a delightful beer that we will definitely be making again. |
| Other |
No blow-out in the primary this time. I dry-hopped with 2 oz. of cascades after moving to the carboy. I purchased strawberry extract and will be bottling ~36 beers without the extract and the remaining ~20 beers with strawberry flavor. The strawberry beers were ready quicker than the non-strawberry beers (I suspect due to the additional sugars); the non-strawberry ones could use a few more days to get more bottled. |
| Kit Name | Hop Scare IPA |
| Justin's Name | Forgot the Malta
(recipe) |
| OG | 1.048 |
| FG | 1.014 |
| ABV | 5% |
| Brew Date | 03/23/2013 |
| Brew Time | 5 hours |
| Bottle Date | 04/13/2013 |
| Ready Date | Expected 05/01/2013 |
| Brew Notes | We forgot to add the dry malt to the wort until the very end. There was also some overflow from the krausen through the air lock. I added 0.25 oz. of Yakima hops and 1 oz of Cascade hops on 3/29. No carboy was used. |
| Taste Notes | Very sweet. The bottling produced little sludge and solids. Taste was malty with a hoppy back. No offensive taste aside from sweetness. Very hoppy aroma from the dry hopping. |
| Other | Update: I let the beer sit in the bottles for another week (until 5/1). The beer is mildly bitter on the finish, and malty up front. The dry-hopped cascades give it a bit of an iron-scent. There is also a LOT of sediment in the bottles. This is likely due to the use of only the primary and the blow-out. However, if you pour carefully, the beer has exceptional clarity. The beer is no longer sweet. June isn't a huge fan. The pale should be much cleaner due to the use of the secondary. |
