Category: extract

Mini red roadie

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With two of the TMNT beers in the books, we now move to the one that I was looking foreward to. 

Looking foreward to an extract beer? Yep. 
Raphael is an American Red (amber if you must). And is one of the very first beers that I was making back during the extract days. And one that I made quite a few times.
 I’m quite curious as to how different this tastes now compared to when ingredients were not as fresh as what they are now.  
Couple of things with this batch.  It’s a mini 3 gallon, and it’s a road brew. Over at Capelle’s place during the Packer game.
The road trip is also an experiment to see if I could possible brew while camping. So I packed my own water supply. More on this later. 
Raphael the Red mini extract 
1 can amber LME (this time it was rye)
12 oz two row
8 oz 80L
1 oz midnight wheat
1 oz willamette @ 60
1 oz willamette @ 1
05 yeast 
Took 2 gallons and heated to 158 and steeped the grains for 30 min in a grain bag. 
Added water to the 4.5 gallon mark and started to boil. Hop charges as usually. 
Cooled, racked, pitched. Boom done. 
But here is the experiment part. I said I was bringing my own water. So I used the jug that I use for picking up the Titletown wort. I used it here to not only transport the water and wort, but to ferment in.
The cool thing is that the cap has a valve that’s used to dispense the water with. But if you leave it on the inside and just open the valve, the air lock fits perfectly in the hole. 
Plus it’s 7 gallons so could use for regular batches as well.  

Barley wine

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Decided that I wanted to brew again. But Also remembered I smashed my other carboy last fall.
But I did have a 5 gallon bucket doing nothing, and I also had a can of LME laying around. So lets do a 3 gallon batch.
Had to get a few things other things and dig out my smaller 2 gallon mash tun. Couldn’t find all the parts, so gotta do it the old fashion way. Strainer.
No idea how this will end up. I just sorta thew stuff together.
Any hoo. here ’tis

The extract Barley wine
2 cans of light LME
1 lb 2row
1lb 60L
1/8 lb 120L
1/2 lb flaked barley
1 oz chinook at 60
1 oz fuggles at 15
Windsor yeast

pretty strait forward full boil extract recipe. (maybe call it a mini mash)

-heated just under a gallon of water to 163. added to my small mash tun. So not sure how this may settle at.

-Gonna start 4 gallons of water to boil.
-temp bit a bit low at 152, so adding about half coffee can of the 180 water from kettle. And we now settled at 157.
-got extract in and starting to restart boil. been mashing 45 min. i think its done. cant find my Iodine so gonna sparge it out.

-dont seem to be losing as much boil off from this pot I’m using.
– sure like that I can run the fire at almost nothing and keep a rolling boil.
-Done. Cools damn fast these days.
-OG is mere 1.080. somehow thought it would be higher.
– the color change from pre boil to boil was a lot I would guess 12ish to start and 23ish at end of boil.

I kinda like doing these smaller extract batches.