Category: Beers
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#33 Dark Matter
This is my second lager, a Schwarzbier, and it came out really well. Though if I were to do it again I might pull back the blackprinz just a bit and add a touch of pale chocolate malt. For fun I entered this into the Brew Hut Annual Homebrew Competition. This was well received and…
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My First Sour Beers (30a-d)
I’m diving in to sour beers headfirst. Since I don’t have a clue how any method will turn out I figure I might as well try 4 methods on the first attempt. I mean why not? Upfront is the plan for the beers (30a, b, c, and d). Below that are various questions or bits…
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2016 Beers
I’m finding that I don’t have the time to write about each beer. So I think I’ll just start doing an annual post of the beers that year. If anyone reads this besides me let me know what you think of the format. In 2016 I made 933 12 ounce beers though most of it…
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#25 – Kolm Knights
Beer Name: Kolm Knights – Dusk (first barrel), Twilight (second barrel), Dawn (no barrel) Style: Imperal Baltic Porter (Pohjala OO Clone) Brew Day: 4/21/2104 Alcohol: 9.7% (not including barrel changes) Color: 81 This beer was a struggle. Chris from Pohjala Brewing set me up with an amazing recipe. Since this beer was so big I…
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#13 – Change Kolsch (16G)
Beer Name: Change Kolsch Style: Kosch Brew Day: 10/10/2015 Alcohol: 5.5% Color: 4 My idea of a Kolsch. My Brew Notes Execution Notes Second time doing this, but instead of 5G this is scaled up to 15G (10G for me, 5G for my brother Mark). My 10G came out crystal clear and tasting great. Mark’s 5G…
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#21 – Persuasion Saison
Beer Name: Persuasion Saison Style: Single Hop Saison (Funkwerks Nelson Sauvin Clone) Brew Day: 8/6/2016 Alcohol: 8.2% Color: 4 Super good beer. Kind of a mix of a sauvin blanc and a saison beer. My Brew Notes Execution Notes I had a lot of fun making this and filling in the blanks. I ended up using a…
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#11 – The Student (a Pliny the Elder clone) – Review
Beer Name: The Student Style: Pliny the Elder Clone (Double IPA) Brew Day: 12/24/2014 Alcohol: 8.28% Color: 5 I am super happy with how this beer came out as it is one of the best beers I’ve made, but it isn’t exactly like Pliny the Elder. I had some process issues that probably altered the beer…
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#10 – Irish Red
Beer Name: Fighting Irish Red Style: Irish Red Alcohol: 6.87% Color: 28 My second successful all-grain beer! I decided to make a few adjustments to the original recipe. I upped the grain bill instead of adding honey to keep the same ABV and replaced the 2 row pale ale with Maris Otter Pale to allow for a…
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#9 – Kolsch
Beer Name: Change Style: Kolsch Alcohol: 4.5% Color: 4 This is the second all grain beer that I’ve made. After the last one blew up in my face, literally, my goal for this beer was to pick a simple recipe and really work on producing the clearest beer that I could. During our summer trip to Denver…
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#11 – The Student (a Pliny the Elder clone) – Planning
Inspiration For beer number #11 I decided that I wanted to see who well I can make a beer. My last couple of beers have come out good to me, but I have no idea if they came out like they were supposed to. So for beer #11 I’ve decided I’m going to do a…