Journal of Brewing

Final Gravity: 1.019 Attenuation: 70% ABV: 6.16 Bottling was quite uneventful. Primed with 5oz priming sugar boiled in 1 pint of water. Aging is certainly required to tame down the oats astringency.

Final Gravity: 1.017 Attenuation: 75% ABV: 6.69 Bottling was quite uneventful. Primed with 5oz priming sugar boiled in 1 pint of water. I’ll let it age until April

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!

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 nose by [...]

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 flavor. The hops [...]

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 1.010. Taking [...]

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 of dry [...]