Category: Brew Sessions

This is Northern Brewer’s Block Party Amber Ale 5 gallon extract kit. Planning to basically just follow the directions and have an easy brew day. Brew Day (11/5/22) Followed kit instructions. Used ice bath instead of wort chiller – easier! Less volume means it cools quicker and since it will be mixed with cold water,…

Brew Day 1/16/2022 This is Northern Brewer’s Nightfall Black Saison All-grain kit. Mash Ingredients 10 lbs German Pilsner Malt 2 lbs Weyermann Dark Wheat 0.75 lb Weyermann Carafa Special III 0.25 lb Briess Caramel 60L Hops 1 oz Perle (60 min) 1 oz Hallertau (5 min) Yeast Fermentis Safale BE-134 Brew Day (1/16/2022) Notes: 5…

Brew Day – 2020-09-21 This is the Dry Irish Stout AG kit from Northern Brewer. I might add coffee to secondary…. Maybe cold brew. Have to research that. According to this, a coffee with rich cocoa notes might work better than a fruitier coffee. It is being brewed with Munton’s yeast, one I’ve never used…

Well, almost 4 years later and I decided to try that beer #6 again. I always knew I would. It was my first 5 gallon AG brew and it tasted great once it matured a bit, so I’m gonna see if I can do it again. Made a couple of slight tweaks though: 1oz cascade…

This is Northern Brewer’s Extra Pale Ale all grain kit. Ingredients Mash: 7.5 lbs Rahr 2-row Pale 1 lb. Belgian Cara 8 0.5 lbs. Briess Caramel 20 Hops: 2 oz Cascade @ 60 min 1 oz Cascade @ 1 min Yeast: 1 packet Safale US-05 Misc: .5 tsp Irish moss @ 15 min Brew Day (2/23/19) Started…

This is Northern Brewer’s Private Rye Rye Brown Ale extract kit. Ingredients Specialty Grains: .25 lb Wyermann Chocolate Rye .25 lb Briess Speial Roast .125 lb English Medium Crystal .125 lb English Black Malt Fermentables: 1 lb Gold DME 6 lb Rye Malt Syrup Hops: .5 oz Columbus (60 mins) 1 oz UK Kent Goldings (10…

This is the Northern Brewer AG kit. DUNE-KEL-VITE-ZEN! Ingredients My well water 1 tbsp PH 5.2 stabilizer 5 lbs. Weyermann Dark Wheat malt 3.5 lbs. German Pilsner malt 1 lbs. German Dark Munich malt 0.5 lbs. Weyermann Caramunich II 0.25 lbs. Briess Caramel 120 1 oz German Tettnang (60 min) 1 tsp Irish moss Safbrew WB-06…

Brew Day (8/20/17) Did not use ph 5.2 stabilizer hit 150-151 F on mash in @ exactly 12 noon mashout water was around 203F instead of the 206F Beersmith calculated. At the end of the 10-min mashout, the mash was 163F, so this is lower than instructions said. Wort cooled to 69F and pitched dry…

I got a lot more hops than I did on year 1: 8.8 oz Cascade .65 oz Centennial Although the Centennial is still not much. I decided to do a wet-hop brew using entirely my homegrown hops. They were harvested only a couple hours before using. The portion that will be used for dry hopping is…

I yielded only .3 oz of homegrown hops (it was the first year) and I’m finally going to use them. They are Cascade. They’ve been in the freezer a few months. This will be my first time using whole leaf hops, and of course ones I grew! For this beer I decided to do all Centennial and…