Category: Brew Sessions

This is supposed to be a clone of Samuel Smith Taddy Porter, from the book Clone Brews. I don’t think I’ve ever had the Taddy Porter, but I love their oatmeal stout. I decided to do this one partially because the description made it sound completely amazing (from Clone Brews: “it enters with a malt and…

This is the kit from Northern Brewer. Ingredients 9 lbs. British Golden Promise 1 lb. English Medium Crystal 0.75 oz US Goldings (60 min.) 0.5 oz Mulling Spices (0 min.) Safale S-04 Brew Day (10/22/2016) Heated about 3.1 gallons water to 174F. Added 1 tbsp PH 5.2 stabilizer, let the tun preheat for 2-3 mins,…

This is a clone of Newcastle Brown Ale from the book Clone Brews. This is my first-ever 90 min mash and 90 min boil. Notes East Kent Goldings hops out of stock on NB. Substituted with UK Progress hops. Progress hop added at 6 min instead of 15 min (as book says), to keep IBUs within…

Brew Day (7/16/16) Ingredients Ingredients Amt Name Type # %/IBU 1.00 tbsp PH 5.2 Stabilizer (Mash 60.0 mins) Water Agent 1 – 7 lbs Pale Malt, 2-Row (Rahr) (1.8 SRM) Grain 2 87.5 % 12.0 oz Honey Malt (25.0 SRM) Grain 3 9.4 % 4.0 oz Biscuit Malt (23.0 SRM) Grain 4 3.1 % 1.00…

Ingredients Ingredients Amt Name Type # %/IBU 8 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 1 66.7 % 3 lbs Dingemans Munich Malt (5.0 SRM) Grain 2 25.0 % 1 lbs Caramel/Crystal Malt – 40L (40.0 SRM) Grain 3 8.3 % 1.00 oz Centennial [10.00 %] – Boil 30.0 min Hop 4 28.0…

I decided to do a kit this time. I had a few things in the works in BeerSmith, including a recipe for Heffeweizen I found in the BS “cloud”. I had also been thinking of doing a Maibock in time for May Day (just because). But this Belgian Saison called to me from the shelf, along…

Vorlaufing in action! As I could’ve predicted, this being my 7th brew now, it’s getting a bit routine (yawnnn) and I didn’t take nearly as many pictures of the process on brew day as I have in the past. The vorlauf photo is the only one. Plus, I just wanted to brew and not fiddle around…

[For those who may not know, that picture above is krausen – not the final product!] This is an attempt to copy one of my favorite beers, Saranac’s Legacy IPA  (I won’t say clone since there’s definitley unknown ingredients). Their site lists malts used, some of the hops, IBUs and ABV. I used the ingredients that they…

I got a Northern Brewer Big Honkin’ Stout extract/specialty grains kit as a holiday gift and I decided to tweak it to a (hopefully) Oatmeal Stout. The idea to start tweaking came when I saw that, according to Beersmith, 1 packet of yeast wouldn’t cut it for the estimated OG of 1.068 (and that’s all…

This is based on the recipe for newbies from John Palmer’s How to Brew book. I really do want to keep with the all-grain brewing that I did for my first three 1 gallon brews, but I don’t yet have the mash tun that I’m getting soon. I should probably do at least one with extract for the experience…