Homebrewing For The Uninitiated And Brave
Today, instead of working, I'm building a Hoegaarden rip off. It's an experiment with using the Golding hop, which weighs in at a subtle 4.2% alpha acid, for bittering, as well as a light wheat malt extract. The latter has almost always resulted in failure.
Anway, the usual qbrew files are always here: http://quantifier.org/qbrew/
http://quantifier.org/qbrew/hoe.qbrew
http://quantifier.org/qbrew/hoe.html
http://quantifier.org/qbrew/hoe.pdf
Comments welcome.
Another week, another brew. I tried http://www.homebrewden.com & had them ship me their Dog & Crown Pale Ale kit. It shipped with White Labs pitchable liquid yeast. I substituted Glacier hops for the Kent Golding aroma hops also. Here’s the qbrew file and here’s the html page.
I’ve been reading about Simcoe Hops, and decided to put them to work in a Pale Ale recipe. They’re particularly popular with Amarillo, if you’re trying to hit a high IBU/btu for an IPA. But I’m going a bit more subtle, as in Dog Fish Head’s 60 minute IPA. So I’m mixing them with Glacier [...]
I found this on a forum somewhere and adjusted it very slightly.
Abita TurboDog
(5 gallons/19 L, extract w/ grains)
OG=1.054 FG=1.014, IBU=32-34
Ingredients
5 lbs Muntons unhopped light dry malt extract
1.25 lbs crystal malt (Schreier crsytal 100 or Muntons crystal dark)
0.5 lbs chocolate malt
7 aau’s Chinook Hops (0.6 oz of 12% aa)
5 aau’s Willamette Hops (1.25 oz of [...]