Journal of Brewing

Gravity Reading: 1.019
Attenuation: 72%
ABV: 6.43
I’ll let it sit in the carboy for a week before I bottle. I’ll take my next reading then.
Sunday Feb 12, 2006 Update: Loads of flocculation on bottom of carboy. Woo!

HOP SOUP BATMAN!!
9.3 lbs Gold Malt Syrup
1lb Simpsons Caramalt
1oz Nugget Hops (60 min)
1oz Fuggle Hops (30 min)
1oz Kent Goldings Hops (10 min)
1oz Fuggle Hops (1 min)
2L starter made with Wyeast XL pack #1275
Steeped grains at 150 for 20 minutes. Removed grains. Brought to boil. Added malt extract and nugget hops. After [...]

Made the starter today with a volume of 2L. Pretty standard really. See here for the recipe. Pitched the yeast when it was below 90F. Off and runnin…..

My latest kit from Northern Brewer is on its way to my home. I’ll be attempting their India Pale Ale. Why an IPA, well I say to you, why not?
I really enjoy this style of beer for a variety of reasons. First, as a hophead, I love to be pelted in the [...]

All ratings are performed on a 0(awful) to 5(great) scale

Color - 4
Nose - 2
Body - 4
Flavor - 4

Tasting Notes: Definitely a beer for the warmer weather. The head tends to stick around longer than I thought it would. The color reminds me of an english [...]

Kegging of the Flagship Ale (Friday Jan 29, 2006 7:00pm) as i’m now calling it was rather uneventful. I sanitized all the necessary equipment and siphoned it over. The color is a dark red and it’s final gravity was 1.010. It has a very thin mouthfeel (at kegging time) and mild malty [...]

Looking inside the fermenter (or spackle bucket as Pete likes to call it) there was the typical layer of gunk around the top. All foaming had settled but there was quite a good amount of flocculation on the bottom that I observed after siphoning. I took a gravity reading and it stood at [...]

Recipe Source: Northern Brewer
As the winter finally began to show signs of relenting I decided that the darker beers could take a back seat. It was time to bring in those lighter color beers that remind me of spring and summer. With that in mind I decided to try out the Irish Draught [...]

Recipe Source: Keystone Homebrew
This entry was written many months after the actual brewing and consumption of the Oatmeal Stout. As such, it will not be very detailed and will mostly be what I remembered. This was my first in home brewing experience.
So after reading, studying and watching the Good Eats episode entited Amber [...]

The first thing I noticed about this recipe from others was that it used a lot less malt extract syrup than I had used before. They also picked a nice selection of specialty grains that I steeped in the water first. In place of another 3.3lbs of malt extract syrup, there was 1lb [...]