Traditional Tripel #44

Traditional Tripel #44

12# Belgian Pils
0.5# Wheat Malt
1.25# Belgian candi sugar when primary is finishing up

Mash at 147F.

1 oz. US Golding - 90 min
1 oz. US Golding - 30 min
1 oz. US Golding - 5 min

Yeast: Wyeast 3787 Trappist

OG = 1.064
IBU = 34
FG = 1013
ABV = 6.7%

4.5 gals in 5 gal carboy, 1 gal in a 1 gal glass jug. Tried to pitch the appropriate amt of yeast in each.

Update:
Now secondarying in 5 gal carboy.

ABV = 6.7%

Centennium Falcon IPA #43

Used some of my new whole Centennial hops. Gonna be a hoppy one. And whole hops is a bit of a pain to brew wif.

Centennium Falcon IPA #43

11.5# 2-row
1# Crystal 40L

Mash at 153F.

1 oz. Centennial - 60 min
1.25 oz. Centennial - 20 min
1.25 oz. Centennial - 10 min
1 oz. Centennial - 5 min
1.5 oz. Centennial - dry hop

Yeast: US-05

OG = 1.062

Liffey Sludge #42

Last night, whipped up a batch of Liffey Sludge from a Listy kit.
OG = 1042.
Used "Cooper's Brewers Yeast". Will have to look that one up. It cae with ths kit. Was kinda pricey (the kit). No more kits dammit.
Gonna use last year's cacao nibs-n-rum on all 5 gals of this one. Mmmm chocobeer.

IBU = 58
OG = 1042
ABV = 4.5%

More

Bought a 4 pack of J W Lees Harvest Ale. It's a vertical of '99 - '02. N o idea why Dilly Deli had it. But I own it now. Thought about cellaring it for a year, but that just won't happen.
Bought a gallon of Gerber pear juice. And added a White Labs English Cider yeast. Gonna have some perry. I'll prime with more pear juice.
Added a pkg of US-05 to the Office Saison #40. Let's see that gravity drop dammit.
The Boba Fett IPA should be ready to keg soon.
Ommegang Hennepin is awesome.
The Goose Island Harvest Ale is tasty. Def get that again. I bet it's like most harvest ales - hoppyaroma dissipates over time. So get it while it's fresh.
Wife's been a big fan of the Schlitz. "Just the kiss of the hops." Not me.
Picked up a Listy's Irish Stout kit - gonna do a whole batch of cacao nibs stout.
Got a big bunch of hops recently from freshops.com - a pound of Centennial and 4 oz or Amarillo. And some from Midwest Brewing - 3 oz Colombus and 2 oz Mt. Hood. MMMMMMM. Beer. Gonna make an all Cent IPA and a fer rill Rye IPA soon.
Gawd - the beer to-do list grows!

What's Up Dates

Secondarying the Boba Fett IPA with an ounce of Cascade. 'Bout time to keg it.
Gonna make a perry with 4 quarters of Gerber pear juice from the baby section at the grocer. Need to make sure I check the gravity of plain pear juice. And then add sugar up to 1060. Then add cider yeast.
Had to bring the Saison #40 up to the office and put it in a closet with a space heater. I turn it on every so often and check the temp. Wanna check the gravity soon. Hope it's less than 1050.

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.