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Here's the last few recipes I've been playing around with - 3711 French Saison FTW!

Unseasonal Saison #17

16-C Saison

Size: 36.0 L

Efficiency: 75.0%

Attenuation: 92.4%

Original Gravity: 1.053 (1.048 - 1.065)

Terminal Gravity: 1.004 (1.002 - 1.012)

Color: 5.05 (5.0 - 14.0)

Alcohol: 6.37% (5.0% - 7.0%)

Bitterness: 21.7 (20.0 - 35.0)

Ingredients:

8 kg (89.9%) Pilsner Malt - added during mash

0.5 kg (5.6%) Vienna…

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Nice to be back brewing again after a long break. Upped the ante by not only doing a double batch, but attempting to fly sparge. I've also been splitting the batches and using different yeasts - 1056 and S05. 1056 made me immediately convert to blow off tubes. Next plan is to figure out what I'm going to do with all this Munich II I have (obviously a dunked, but wondering how far I can push the ratio of Munich II to other grains...)

First of the Year #14

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Most of my inspiration comes from sitting on the crapper, reading through a stash of BYO magazines. The latest issue has an article about Cloning beers, giving an example of Rogue Dead Guy Ale. This is nothing like it. The original called for 4kg Pale, 1.8kg Munich and 500g Carastan malt. Decided to break down the Munich and Carastan into Munich II, Vienna, Crystal and Melanoidin and a bit of Roast. 20 mins into the mash and god knows how it will turn out.



Rough Wise Guy Ale… Continue

Already thinking about how I'm going to re-use my 1084 yeast cake from the stout I brewed last, after a little washing. The fermentation did in the end take off, slow and steady all the way. A little worried by floaties on the surface, but seems like the yeast hasn't yet dropped and a taste out of the carboy yields a pretty terrific brew- a couple of days in the fridge will cure that.



I'm a… Continue

Finally decided to start up a brewing blog. I have a work blog which gets a lot of geeky stuff, and given it's syndicated on a bunch of technical planets, figured realbeernz was the place to host it. I'll mostly talk about the brewing gear that I buy, magazine articles I'm reading, and the beer that I'm brewing (and will likely learn from the comments or pass on the knowledge that I've been privileged to… Continue