Amber Ale (10 gallon batch)

I did this batch on my old brewing system with the guy who bought it from me. It was a 10 gallon batch but we split it 1/2 and 1/2. It was his recipe and looks like it will be pretty good.

Ingredients-

Grain:
18 lbs 2 Row
3 lbs 8 oz Crystal 60L

Hops:
1.5 oz Cascade @ 60
2 oz Cascade @ 30
2 oz Cascade @ 5

Yeast: Safale-05

OG- 1.052

31DEC2011- Brewing went really well and the system performed as it should before selling it. I had just gotten the sight glass installed before brewing and passing it off to its new owner and it worked great.

12JAN2012- Down to 1.016, should be ready to keg. Maybe sometime this weekend I'll clean out an empty keg and start carbing this.

New System

In my quest to build a new system I've started work converting more kegs while I am trying to sell my old system to fund the new one. This is actually an extra keg I came across and converted and am also trying to sell. But it is an example of what I will be doing for all three kegs/kettles in my system.

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Molasses Cider

Ingredients:

5 Gallons of Apple Juice
24 oz of Molasses

Yeast: Red Star Pasteur Champagne

OG 1.068

28NOV2011: I didn't want this to get too dry as can happen quite easily with this yeast. I've been checking for the past two days and I hit 1.020 today so I moved it to the keg and stuck it in the freezer where it is currently carbing. Hopefully this stops fermentation. Tastes really good, even while warm and flat. ABV at 6.4%

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.