Brain Sparging on Brewing

[...] gallons at 180F Water profile: Yellow malty (Bru'n water) Mash Water 0.784 gallons Gypsum 0.2g Epsom salt 0.2g Calcium chloride 0.4g Sparge Water 0.91 gallons Gypsum 0.2g Epsom salt 0.2g Calcium [...]

[...] Decoct 1.28 qt and boil, return to mash for 156F rest for 30 minutes Mash Water: 8.50 qt 0.1g epsom salt 0.1g chalk 1.1 ml lactic acid Sparge Water: 1.70 gal 0.1g epsom salt 0.1 calcium chloride 0.9 [...]

[...] sparge with 1 gallon of water at 180F. Mash PH: 5.4 Mash water additions: Gypsum: 0.4g Epsom salt: 0.4g Calcium chloride: 0.3g Sparge water additions: Gypsum: 0.5g Epsom salt: 0.4g [...]

[...] : 10.4 Sodium: 15.2 Sulfate: 70.7 Chloride: 54.8 Bicarbonate 31.4 Mash Additions Gypsum 0.2g Epsom salt 0.3g Baking soda 0.2g Calcium chloride 0.3g Chalk 0.1g Lactic acid 0.2ml Sparge Additions [...]

[...] : 63ppm Bicarbonate: 0ppm Mash Additions Gypsum 0.5g Epsom salt 0.4g Canning salt 0.1g Calcium chloride 0.7g Sparge Additions Gypsum 1.4g Epsom salt 1.2g Canning salt 0.2g Calcium chloride 1.9g [...]

[...] : 64 Bicarbonate: 35 Mash Additions Gypsum: 0.2g Epsom salt: 0.2g Canning salt: 0.1g Calcium chloride: 0.3g Chalk: 0.1g Sparge Additions Gypsum: 0.5g Epsom salt: 0.4g Canning salt: 0.2g [...]

[...] : 19 Chloride: 6 Bicarbonate: -128 PH: 5.2 Mash Additions Gypsum 0.1g Epsom salt: 0.1g Calcium chloride: 0.1g Lactic Acid: 0.7ml Sparge Additions Epsom salt: 0.1g Lactic acid: 0.3ml Mash Schedule [...]

[...] profile: Yellow malty (Bru'n water) Mash Water 0.784 gallons Gypsum 0.2g Epsom salt 0.2g Calcium chloride 0.4g Sparge Water 0.91 gallons Gypsum 0.2g Epsom salt 0.2g Calcium chloride 0.5g Lactic acid [...]

[...] up a lot of what Stone brings to my local market. In my head I also associate all of their hoppy beers with the taste of centennial hops which I particularly dislike for their floral nature. I know [...]

[...] had. Good Life Brewing Good Life maintains a lengthy list of beer options that focus around hoppy beers and a smaller set of malty options. The flight we ordered had eleven different beers! Good Life [...]

[...] and their apparent affinity for Asian cuisines. If you doubt my new found appreciation for hoppy beers then let me add--as a point of bragging--that I started writing this post at the tap room at [...]

[...] sours. Half the line up in the taproom is Belgian/sour while the others are a mix of hoppy beers and various American beer styles. I found good stuff to enjoy on both sides of the menu. [...]

[...] love. Gives it a little of a biscotti kind of flavor. It's not bad just too prominent in the flavor profile. The whiskey has integrated a little better and adds a nice caramel note. The biscuit malt [...]

[...] assertive profile with the chardonnay character in the background adding more fruit into the flavor profile. In addition to the delicious beers from The Bruery at Sucreversary, there were a few [...]

[...] this batch so I may have to pick out an expressive but attenuative English strain to keep the flavor profile similar but with better attenuation. I like this beer enough that I am strongly considering [...]

[...] , slight peach and pear notes. Combined the aroma is bold for a saison. Flavor: Complex flavor profile with waves of flavor combinations. The hops strike first with a flavor profile very similar [...]

[...] . Although the line up was admittedly dated, I am not one to disparage a brewery for putting out good beer in simple styles. They have put together a solid lineup and given the amount of business they [...]

[...] straightforward robust porter with, unsurprisingly, pecans. It's their best seller and a really good beer. The target FG is 1.019 on this beer. That's pretty high for a 6.5% beer. You would expect the [...]

[...] American or NZ/AUS tropical hops that are more assertive. That balancing effect makes Aurora a good beer for lager styles where the brewer wants some of that citrus character without the hops bowling [...]

[...] the citrusy tequila added a nice fruity element that really woke the saison up and made a very good beer excellent. The oak was more subtle in this version and although I thought the tequila was well [...]

[...] acid 0.4ml Sparge Water Additions Epsom salt 0.1g Lactic acid 0.9ml Boil Additions 90 minute boil 0.20oz. Belma [12.10%] at 90 minutes 0.15oz. Celeia [4.5%] at 60 minutes 0.15oz. Celeia [ [...]

[...] 0.91 gallons Gypsum 0.2g Epsom salt 0.2g Calcium chloride 0.5g Lactic acid 0.5ml The Boil 60 minute boil 0.03oz. Belma [12.10% AAU] first wort hop (6.8 IBU) 0.10oz. Belma [12.10% AAU] at 60 minutes ( [...]

[...] Water: 1.70 gal 0.1g epsom salt 0.1 calcium chloride 0.9 ml lactic acid The Boil 90 minute boil 0.15 oz. Spalt [4.5%] first wort hop 20 minutes (3.8 IBU) 0.40 oz. Belma [12.10%] at 90 [...]

[...] malt (2 SRM) 4.3% 2 oz. Unmalted wheat (1.6 SRM) 4.3% 2 oz. Munich malt (9 SRM) The Boil 90 minute boil 0.17 oz. Belma [12.10%] at 90 minutes (35.4 IBU) 0.10 oz. Celeia [4.5%] at 10 minutes (2.6 IBU) [...]

It's been two and a half months since I've updated this project. Sour beers don't progress visibly like clean beers so I didn't want to show pictures [...]

It's been a couple weeks since my last update on this project but I've observed a changed condition in the beer and that seemed like a good reason to [...]

Not much is new about this beer. Surprisingly it is still not showing any sign of pellicle although the floating islands of whatever have been on the [...]

It's been a month since I last posted about this project and something new has happened so it's time for a new post. I'm not sure what is going on but [...]

[...] hop with 0.10 oz. Celeia and 0.15 oz. Aurora. Bottle to 3.0 volumes CO2. Brewday & Fermentation Notes Brewed 7/22/14 First runnings: 1.082 Pre-boil gravity: 1.045 Pre-boil volume: 1.8 gallons Mash [...]

[...] for diacetyl rest. Hold until gravity is stable. Lager 2-3 weeks. Bottle. Brewday & Fermentation Notes Brewed 10/30/14. First runnings gravity: 1.074 Pre-boil gravity: 1.047 Pre-boil volume: 1.4g [...]

[...] 2.3vol of carbonation with 21 day conditioning. Lager bottles for 21 days. Brewday & Fermentation Notes Brewed 11/15/14 First runnings gravity: 1.063 Pre-boil gravity: 1.046 Pre-boil volume: 2.5g [...]

[...] lambic plus pitch half of a wyeast 1214 smack pack. Age until Year Six. Brewday & Fermentation Notes Brewed 12/20/14. I always forget how much of a PITA the turbid mash is, especially because my [...]

[...] range of styles (hefe, porter, stout, pale ale, etc.) along with some IPAs and a handful of Belgian beers. What's probably most interesting about their line up is that their IPAs are east meets west. [...]

[...] with the usual mix of American light and dark beers. There are rotating taps that include some Belgian beers as well. Although the line up was admittedly dated, I am not one to disparage a brewery for [...]