Adventures in Brewing

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Pepperalia

Ingredients-

Grain:
10 lbs 2 Row Pale Malt
2 lb Honey Malt
1 lb Vienna Malt
1 lb ESB Malt
1 lb Crystal 60L

Hops:
9 oz First Wort
9 oz Mystery Hops @ 30
8 oz Mystery Hops @ 15
10 oz Mystery Hops @ 5

Yeast:
WLP 005 British Ale

OG: 1.059

Extras:
6 Large Whole Pepperoncini's and One broken in half (Randy's doing) in with first wort

15OCT2011- Efficiency was low on this one, don't know why.

24OCT2011- Down to 1.018, transferred to secondary

31OCT2011- Down to 1.012, transferred to tertiary ABV at 5.4%

Lager Dogger

Ingredients-

Grain:
12 lbs 2 Row Pale Malt
1 lb Briess Red Wheat

Hops: (mystery hops are really wet so high weight does not exactly equate)
7 oz Mystery Hops @ 60
15 oz Mystery Hops @ 5

Yeast:
Urquell Lager

OG: 1.061

15OCT2011- Again went really well. Excited to have another lager on tap.

Hop in the Dark Clone

Randy got this recipe off Hopville, but we had to change a couple of things based on availability of hops.

Ingredients-

Grain:
20 lbs 2 Row Pale Malt
4 lbs Munich Malt
2 lbs 8 oz Flaked Oats
12 oz Crystal 120L
8 oz Chocolate Malt
8 oz Chocolate Wheat
4 oz Black Barley
10 oz Dark Belgian Candy

Hops: (all whole hops unless otherwise noted)
4 oz Nugget @ 60 (pellet)
2 oz Northern Brewer @ 60
2 oz Centennial @ 30
2 oz Cascade @ 15
2 oz Simcoe @ 1

Yeast:
1056 American Ale (in my half)
Safale 04 (in randy's half)

OG: 1.065

15OCT2011- Brewing went great, i love having someone over to brew with. Efficiency is up. I think because of the temperature stuff, and the re-circulation with the pump probably helped.

17OCT2011- Should have used a blow off tube, the krausen clogged the airlock and I almost blew the lid off the bucket, good thing I went and checked on it in time.

24OCT2011- Down to 1.020, Transferred to Secondary

31OCT2011- Down to 1.010, Transferred to keg. Final ABV is 7.2%