Homebrewing For The Uninitiated And Brave
No matter how many recipes I try, I always come back to the one I make best, my bitter amber. It’s in the secondary now, and if everything goes right, I’ll drink the first one by the end of the month. As always, here’s the qbrew files:
http://quantifier.org/qbrew/bitter.qbrew
http://quantifier.org/qbrew/bitter.html
http://quantifier.org/qbrew/bitter.pdf
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.
Austin Homebrew Supply offers several recipes for existing beers available at the market. I am brewing their Abita Turbodog right this moment. I added the yeast fuel and the alcohol booster that are add-ons available before checkout.
I prefer AHS for my brewing supplies because their shipping charges are affordable and their wide selection of ingredients [...]
Today we're bottling an IPA and then getting started on the larger project for the afternoon: starting the first batch of Merlot. Hopefully this first time goes easily. We're skimming all ingredients by 20% to meet our storage capacities. Perhaps I'll add some photos of our progress.
Or just start drinking beer instead.
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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 [...]
Today I’m brewing an Abita TurboDog clone & using liquid yeast. I’m reading up on that here: John Palmer’s HOW TO BREW
I’ll update this post with the recipe and any tips/tricks (a/k/a fuck-ups) I discover.
I’m using White Labs Pitchable Liquid Yeast–more specifically the California V Ale Yeast (WLP051).
ATL Homeless Ale