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!

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 [...]

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: 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 [...]

They say you’re the most knowledgeable when you know the least. It was only a matter of time before I would try new techniques to develop consistency and repeatable results. Before brew day I worked on a new technique that I had been reading about: a yeast starter. I had noticed in [...]