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 complete...
Brew Sessions
Brew #12 – Spiced Winter Ale (All Grain)
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 ...
Brew #11 – Northern English Brown Ale (AG)
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 sa...
Brew #10 – Cream Ale
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...
Brew #9 – IPA
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....
Brew #8 – Belgian Saison (Brewer’s Best kit)
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 ca...
Beer #7 – AG American Pale Ale
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. Plu...
Brew #6 – IPA
[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 s...
Brew #5 – Big Honkin’ Stout extract kit becomes an Oatmeal Stout(?)
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 c...
Brew 4 – Cincinnati Pale Ale – 5 gallon
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 shou...