4.21.2012

Pale Ale

We brewed up a pale ale this afternoon, somehow we ended up a gallon short and with an OG of 1.064 instead of 1.053. We ran the mash runoffs into the kettle, boiled and returned it to the mash tun, also pitched on Merril's 1272 yeast cake that's been through a number of hoppy beers. Racked the graham cracker (aka cookie stank) porter to secondary and were attempting to wash the 1056 cake it left behind. I also managed to cut my thumb open on a growler shard.

-bake
4.07.2012

Cracker Berrill

We brewed up 10 gallons of a graham cracker porter this afternoon. Put 4 lbs of graham crackers in the mash and hit our goal temp of 153. OG 1.061. We also racked over Hella Malt Lung to kegs and planted 2 cascade rhizomes in buckets.

Cracker Berrill Recipe:
16 lbs. 2-row
2 lbs. brown malt
1.5 lbs. chocolate malt
2 lbs. crystal 40
1 lb. rice hulls
4 lbs. honey graham crackers
2oz.willammette @ 60 (fhp)
2oz. willammette @ 30
1056 wyeast
Mashed @ 153

don't fear the foam
4.06.2012

parti-berrill at merrill's

had an extra day off work today, so i thought i'd try out my new equipment...even though it was 38 degrees and snowing. i made a parti-gyle batch- 5 gal barley wine with the first mash runnings (1st gyle), and a pale ale with the second runnings (2nd gyle). used the recipe from the parti-gyle episode of brewing tv.

snowing in my mash
my new mug from norther brewer

ended up with an og1.101 on the barleywine (calling it 11lb. hammer), and og1.041 on the pale ale (calling it 11oz. mallet). I pitched that big-ass cake of wy1272 that I've been propagating into them, so there's plenty of little yeasts to do work on them. This will be rounds 4 and 5 for that same culture.
bake and i are also making a graham cracker porter tomorrow, got the wy1056 starter going.

-kris


baker's tap

  • NZ pale ale (?.?%abv)
  • kimosabe red (5.5%abv)
  • [primary] bunch of mead and cider
  • [secondary] bunch more mead and cider

merrill's tap

  • fender tremelo (7.1%abv)
  • gibson rickenbacker (6.49%abv)
  • IPA (6.7% abv)
  • {nitro} McFricker Stout (5.5%abv)
  • [secondary] merrill's hard cider
  • [gettin' sour] derBrynnerweisse

in the ferminator

  • nothingmaker :( (og0.000)

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