Updates

Holy crump. Took a gravity reading from the Saison d'Accouplement #37. It went from an OG of 1094 to an FG of 1004. That's 12% folks. Gonna have to bottle this and hide a bunch. Thing is, it's still really tasty!
The Bogwater Irish Red Ale #36 is a lil thin, but a great sessiony beer. Glad I used my homegrowns on this one.
The Boba Fett IPA #39 needed a blow off tube somethin' fierce. Krausen was comin' all the way down the BO tube and into the water bucket. Tazy. I guess that's what a cake of US-05 will do tho.
I think there's plans for another Fingernail Ginger Ale soon and I wannado another stout with the cacao nibs from last year. The nibs are still on the 151 rum and there's no sign of infection, so I'm gonna consider em still good.

Saison #40

Saison #40

Started out as a Vertical Epic 040404 clone, but I couldn't get the right yeast.
So it's just a Saison.

14.5# pale malt 2-row
0.75# flaked wheat

Mashed at 149F.

1.50 oz Saaz - 60 min
1.00 oz Strisselspalt 10 min

Wyeast 3724 Belgian Saison

OG = 1080
IBU = 40
ABV = 9%

Boba Fett IPA #39

Boba Fett IPA #39

Wanted to have an all Cascade IPA.

12# Maris Otter
1# Crstyal 40L

Mashed at 152F.

0.75 oz Yakima Magnum - 60 min
0.25 oz Cascade - 30
0.25 oz Cascade - 25
0.25 oz Cascade - 20
0.25 oz Cascade - 15
0.25 oz Cascade - 10
0.25 oz Cascade - 5
0.50 oz Cascade - 0
1.00 oz Cascade - Dry Hop

US-05 Yeast Cake from Clone Ale #38

OG = 1074

Clone Ale #38

Clone Ale #38

6# Light LME
1# L Crystal Malt

0.5 oz yakima magnum - 60 min
0.5 oz perle - 30 min
1.0 oz cascade - 10 min
2.0 oz cascade - 0 min

us-05

Saison d'Accouplement #37

Yowsa. That's a lot of Belgian Pilsner malt.
Especially for my lil 5 gallon mash tun.
Had a lil stuck mash, pulled about 2 qts out,sparged a bit, then dumped it back in. Created a mess when it over flowed the tun!
Not a big deal, but yay, more to clean.

Saison d'Accouplement #37

16# Pilsner

Mash @ 149F for 2.75 hrs!

1.5 oz Saaz 60 min
0.75 oz Willamette 30 min
1# cane sugar 30 min
1.0 oz Strisselspalt 10 min
0.5 oz Cascade dry hop, maybe

OG = 1094
IBU = 45
ABV = 12%

Wyeast 3711 French Saison, cake from last Saison #34.

Bogwater Irish Red Ale #36

Promised myself to make an Irish after we got back from Ireland. While I didn't have this style, I really didn't want anymore Guinness!
I was alsohopig to bring back some real Irish Moss from Ireland, but it didn't happen.

Bogwater Irish Red Ale #36

7.5# Pale 2-row
0.75# Carapils
0.25# Special Roast Malt
0.13# Biscuit Malt
0.13# Chocolate Malt

Mashed at 152F for 60 min

1.0 oz Glacier 60 min
0.5 Homegrown Cascade 30 min
0.5 Homegrown Cascade 15 min

OG = 1047

Wyeast American Ale II 1272