• The color is way off more of a brown ale. I was worried about this as there is no black patent
• very very sweet. Too sweet I think. Again with 05 yeast this should not be.
• No distinct roast flavors,smells at all. Again will need black patent.
• Ended up with 27 bombers.

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03-13-10 Cream of three crops
just started heating my mash water for c3c
I have 8 lbs of grain so I gonna use about 2.5 gall @170.
I didnt preheat my mashtun this time just to see how far I would miss by, and surprisingly it was only about 3 degrees off. Topped up with about 170 degree water to make up those 3. didnt take very much. But now I wonder if I will start losing temp. This is a 90 min mash so I will need to check on it.
Ok everything looks good so far. Took 7 gallons because of the 90 min boil.

Oh yea heres the recipe

• 5.5 lbs 2 row
• 2 lbs flaked corn
• 1.5 lbs flaked rice
• .5 rice hulls (need these)
• 1 oz halletaur hops at 60 min

mash at 152 for 90 min(dont know why 90 min)
boil 6 gallons 90 min
us-05 yeast

68 degrees
OG-1.052

Fermentation went good. Kept in the box. Temps were steady 68.
Today (3-20-10) took fermenter out of box and moved to bottling area. Will leave here for a week. Temps here are 60-62. Am going to keg this batch.

3-20-10
Bottle up the graff today. Whoa this stuff tastes awesome. Used ¾ cup. Got 12 22oz and 24 12oz
going to get ready for tomorrows brew. A summer wheat. Never did a wheat so I cant wait to see how these go.
I have been having problems with my drain tube in the tun. And I think that I have too small of slits cut And going to try and open them up. Just went to SS braid, so there shouldnt be a problem

Summer wheat tonite
got recipe off of the Beer Recipator.

3 ½ lbs 2 row
4 lbs wheat malt
½ lb dextrine malt

1 ¼ oz saaz (60 min)
½ oz saaz (5 min)
½ oz crushed coriander
orange zest ( I used 4 oranges.)

made sure to get rice hulls for this one
mash stable at 150
wow new braid with no insert is the way to go. Can batch sparge 3 gallons in about 5 minutes.
I snuck in 10 black pepper corns ground up with the coriander.
Og 1.042

12 hrs later fermentation is just starting to take off. Looks good. Churning well.
Decided to put a blow off tube on. Really frothing hard and moving up to top of carboy (6 gall)

• I think 4 oranges might be waaayyy to much zest can even smell the zest upstairs after a whole day in fermenter.
• 3-26-10 action has all but stopped. Gonna pull it out of chamber this weekend and let it sit.

03-26-10-
kegged the Cream of three last night. Stuff is really good. Have it sitting @ 20 psi. Should be ready any time.
Was fairly cloudy. Even the SG sample was clouded. Will need to settle out for a while, Which is ok ’cause I dont plan on putting this out for a month or two so it should clear by then.
But wow is really good. Gonna have to get the next round of this going, because I dont think its gonna last to long. I also Bottled a 6 er of it. If it turns out as good as it looks like I’m gonna enter it in the Title town open. Am going to put in the last of my Chipmunk brown in also. As an American brown.

Am also starting to drink the failed oatmeal stout/porter Its carbed up pretty good for a weeks time. I know It need to age ( I doubt it will though) but the first bottle was great. Nearly what I thought it was going to be. But,, the next few bottles are watery like. The taste is sorta there in the background, but its thin. Sounds to me like just a beer that needs time.

The one thing I noticed in common with my last batch of brews is that they are all low hopped.
I had to open a bottle of 2010 Bigfoot to get some hops
So in order to counter that I ordered up some Summit hops for a nice IPA.
I’m thinkin maybe a Summit/Amarillo merger. Get some grapefruit tangerine action.

Needed to order a new pressure relief for the cornie.