brewing
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Grains 21.5lbs 2 Row 1lb Crystal 60L 1lb Chocolate 1lb Special B .5lb Black Patent Hops 2.5oz Centennial (10.0%AA) @60min 1oz Willamette (5.4%AA) @15min 1oz Willamette (5.4%AA) @5min Yeast Wyeast London Ale (1028) Additions 1tsp Whirlfloc @15min 3.89oz Priming Sugar SG: 1.052 1wk: Bucket – 1.020; Carboy – 1.015 FG(2wk): Bucket – 1.013; Carboy –…
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Sahti 1 Grains 20 lbs Pilsner 4 Lbs Rye 3 Lbs Munich Hops 2 oz Hallertau (3.8%AA) during sparge Additions 2oz Juniper Berries (in Mash) Yeast Wyeast Weihenstephen Wheat (3068) Adjuncts Poor mash efficiency (Original SG: 1.040). Added 3.5cup water & 50 oz sugar into primary (for both) 1 day into initial fermentation (couldn’t check…
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Honey Lemon Wheat is a beer for the people. So unoffensive and crowd pleasing that it attracts even most hesitant of beer drinkers. With the right combination of ingredient descriptors in the title create an image in your mind far away from a normal beer. This one has honey. And lemon. And is a wheat…
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This beer solidified my transition from hoppy beers to the rest of the beers. It reinforced that beers can be so amazingly diverse, even between similar styles. As I was typing out this recipe, while looking at my Belgium Trippel recipe, I noticed how similar the amount and type of ingredients were. Similar to Trippels,…
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I brewed this beer on 4/20/2012. Yeah I know, 4/20, blaze it. Not that I made this beer with marijuana or anything (although that has been idea I’ve wanted to try) but I distinctly remember myself thinking how ironic it was, with me being a bit of a stoner in the past, that I in…
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These early stages of my brewing history are incredibly exciting from my initial immersion in the culture to buying equipment that would look at home in a chemistry department and very much nurturing the beginning of an aspect of my identity. I was so entranced in having a new, culinary-esque avenue to express creativity that…
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This beer was my second step down the wonderful path of addiction. I brewed this beer on 2/26/2012, around a week after my first brew. At this point, I still didn’t have a brew kit apart from two carboys and enough tools to rack and bottle beer (which originally came in the Midwest kit). I…
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I named this beer the Chaos IPA because it was my first beer and nearly everything went wrong. It is a clone of Odell’s IPA (from Szamatulski’s Clone Brews) without two of the hop additions that I brewed February 26, 2012. I really like the maltier character of the beer and it ended up tasting…
