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Johns Amber brew

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just gonna post the recipe for the Waldo Lake Amber we made saturday. John and I brewed a 10 gallon batch and split it. we just doubled the original recipe, except for the carared. he bought his in Minnesota, but I could not get it here so i substituted in crystal 20 instead for my half of the grain. And the last hops john used his own grown cascades, i used the centennials here ’tis

7.75 lbs 2 row
4 lbs munich
2 lbs carared (or 20L)
.5 lbs melanoidin
1 oz cascade @ first wort
.75 oz magnum @ 60
1 oz centennial @ 0

we mashed at 153 for 60. I used US-05 yeast which is doing nicely right now, and he used a yeast cake from a different beer. (dont know what kind)

Dec 2010 wheat tasting

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– 12-4 10
Ok I dont know what happened to the spacing up there but..
Tapped a pint of the American wheat today, well right now actually. And I guess from my first impressions, i am fairly dissapointed.
Hop water is my best discription. No tastes, thin, kinda dry. But I guess I was worried about that when I brewed with no crystal in it.
Its only been forced primed for about 4 days so its a bit undercarbed, but I do not see this getting much better.
The other wheats I have done did not have crystal in either but, they all were spiced with corriander and black pepper so It covered for the crystal.
Might have to add a bit of that.
The thinness though, I dunno. I see I under shot the mash but raised it. I know I wasnt ready with the boiling water so the long low mash might have something to do with that.

One other thing I think I may move more of the hops to the taste/smell side as it seems a bit bitter, but no real aroma and low taste. that is all

12-17-10
Busted out a few of the American Wheats. been a month now. Are better than i had thought before. But more bitter than i want.
* will try to move more of the hop schedule to the end. . right now its bitter but need more hop taste and smell.

Brew today at a rackers house. When over to Johns and we made a double batch of Waldo lake Amber. fairly big beer. (I left the instructions in my jacket. will post them later)
His grain bill was great. mine how ever was ground a bit fine and we had one hell of a stuck mash. luckily we had gotten quite abit out before we plugged and could add out hot sparge water and a half a bag of rice hulls. and finished it off.
I took 5 gallons of it home and hit er with the yeast. US 05. john racked off another beer right before we cooled and then put the new batch right on the yeast cake from the other.

the beer looks good, smells hoppier than shit. cant wait to try it.

12-31-10
what the %$&k! my co2 runs out on new years eve! good thing I have lots bottled.

Nov 2010 stout, Wheat brew

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11-4-10
Cracked a bottle of the American stout. Holy mother of Zeus, is this good. Best beer by far I have ever made. Its only been bottled like 2 weeks, so its real young with this many hops and low carbed but lord is it good.
I do not see any reason at all to change anything with this recipie. needs a name though.
Dead Horse Stout? Dead Horse Ale? Abyss?
have to think about it.

11-13-10
Kefgged the Crop circles. Seems pretty good

11-15-10
Brew day
American wheat 11-15-10
4 lbs wheat malt
5 lbs pale two row

1/3 oz amarillo hops 60
1/3 oz cascade 60

1/3 amarillo 15
1/3 cascade 15

1/3 amarillo 1
1/3 cascade 1

US-05 yeast

40 degrees outside
heating 3.5 gal water to 162 (only have 9 lbs grain this time) 1/2 campden tab

way under shot temp got 143 boiling that last .5 gall to raise
ok that raised the temp to 151 and I’m gonna say good. Mashing for 60

heat 3.5 gall sparge water. the other half of tablet. (start at the 1/2 hr mark so its ready)
first runnings-3 gallons
second-3 gallons

pretty cloudy.
6 gallon start, 60 min boil left 4.5 gallons. more evap than usual. did not top up.

OG .044
FG .006
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noticed that I will need to start warming the mashtun for winter. Temps were way off
The dryer winter air is really makeing the evaporation more. lost 1.5 gallons when normally only 1