| Date | Brew:
12/5/2016 |
Rack:
12/13/2016 |
Bottle:
12/20/2016 |
| Days | 0 | 8 | 15 |
The infamous “I eat Danger for Breakfast” from Jasper’s Homebrew
Make a cozy coconut beer to curl up by the fire with this winter. In the style of oskar blues’s recent coconut porter.
Found a very simple and straightforward recipe on brewtoad.com:
https://www.brewtoad.com/recipes/avec
We have not had a lot of luck with Belgian styles in the past. A very early attempt at a saison (batch #1?!) was not great, and our Allagash White clone tasted like vinyl. (Note: I have successfully brewed the Allagash clone from Extreme Brewing several times in the past, but only since the collaboration began with Ross and his anti-Belgian agenda have we had poor results. Coincidence? Because beer.)
So, this was a stab at a Belgian style that BJCP says was “Originally developed at the Trappist monastery at Westmalle.” My favorite example is Unibroue’s La Fin du Monde, even though it’s not brewed in Belgium.
| Date | Brew:12/15/2014 | Rack:1/1/2015 | Bottle:1/4/2015 |
| Days | 0 | 17 | 20 |
This is the same recipe as the BYO Citra SMaSH, but I swapped out Chinook for Citra. I love the Citra recipe, so it may make for a fun exploratory hop line.
Play around with hops a bit and see how one change affects the beer.
| Date | Brew:12/04/2014 | Rack:0/00/0000 | Bottle:0/00/0000 |
| Days | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Here is EdWort’s recipe. It’s also mentioned here in popular mechanics?!
I don’t know much about how this recipe tastes, but I know that the forums seem to be going insane over it. The only way to find out is to brew some! It’s a pretty cheap and super easy recipe, so here goes nothing!
Put something in the fermenter on a day that we were doing a double-batch bottle and some other housekeeping.
This is a mysterious brew. Very little is known about its origins. It appears to have been brewed at Chris’s home sometime in November. It is now in bottles with yellow caps. It contains wheat.
As far as we can remember, it was an extract kit Ross got online in some kind of sweet deal and contained about two ingredients. I think we brewed it after a minor hiatus as an easy one to get back into the swing of things.
Finally bottled it in early January and gave it a taste. Wasn’t bad! Funny that sometimes the brews for which you don’t plan, worry, strategize, or expect great things can be the ones that turn out OK. Of course, we know the inverse can also be true.
We’ll have to see how this matures a bit, but this could be a good one to sit on until spring arrives.
| Date | Brew:10/27/2014 | Rack:7/24/2014 | Bottle:12/2/2014 |
| Days | – | 22 | 36 |
Nut Brown Ale extract kit from Northern Brewer promo, with oaked bourbon added.
Jack up a simple extract kit with some booze and oak.
| Date | Brew:10/16/2014 | Rack:none | Bottle:12/1/2014 |
| Days | 0 | 0 | 47 |
Extract kit from strange brew. We waffled on adding the pumpkin, but ultimately decided to go for it. The people at strange brew are super nice and they have an interesting stock of new and used kegging gear. I only wish they were closer to my house.
After both of our houses flooded, we hadn’t brewed in a few months. We decided to start back up with a simple extract kit. This was also our first test of Ross’ Electric kettle.
| Date | Brew:8/12/2014 | Rack:NEVER | Bottle:NEVER |
| Days | 0 | 0 | 0 |
We got this recipe from BYO oct 2001.
Chris really likes Pilsner Urquell, so we wanted to try to clone that.
Continue reading Batch #24 – Bohemian Pilsner / Sour Experiment
| Date | Brew:7/26/2014 | Rack:0/00/0000 | Bottle:0/00/0000 |
| Days | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Brewing Classic Styles, Hop Hammer. We previously brewed this in batch #15. This is our first re-brew of this recipe, but this time we are doing it as all-grain. I didn’t end up putting this recipe into beersmith because I was lazy.
Recreate the big DIPA that we knew and loved last time around (, but with more complicated ingredients this time!)
| Date | Brew:7/22/2014 | Rack:7/24/2014 | ttle:7/25/2014 |
| Days | 0 | 22 | 23 |
If you don’t have a subscription to BYO, you should. They have great articles that apply to homebrew, and they don’t get overly bogged down in commercial beer stuff. I really look forward to every new issue.
Work on a simple SMaSH IPA and better understand the flavor that the hop and malt provide.
