Brew22: Strong Stout bottling

NOTE: Added 9 cubes of hungarian oak sometime in early July.

http://www.byo.com/stories/techniques/article/indices/14-bottling/1212-on-the-yeast-guide-to-bottle-conditioning
http://www.byo.com/stories/beer-styles/article/indices/11-beer-styles/1941-corking-belgians

Equipment: Starsan, 19L kettle, stirring spoon, racking cane, tubing, bottle filler, hydrometer, corn sugar, boil pot, corks, starsan, 22oz glass water bottle, airlock

1. Measure weight of 1/4 cup DME (~1.4 oz)
2. Boil 1/4 cup DME in ~1.5 cups water
3. Cool in refrigerator
4. Pitch yeast
5. Fermented for about 16 hours
6. Sterilize bottles in oven. Load bottles in oven. Turn to 350F. Once up to 350, bake at 350 for 1 hour. Turn off oven and let sit until cool (overnight)
7. Sanitize 19L kettle, stirring spoon, racking cane, tubing, bottle filler, hydrometer
8. Measure corn sugar according to 9 grams per liter in 2X cups water (3 G beer = ~100 g corn sugar)
9. Boil and cool
10. Make starsan solution for corks
11. Rack beer to kettle
12. Measure amount of beer
1. 3.25 in
13. Measure FG
1. 1.010 in both batches
14. Add bottle of Glenkinchie 12 year scotch whisky 86 proof
15. Add corn sugar and yeast to kettle. Stir with spoon.
16. Attached tubing to racking cane, then to bottle filler. Not easy to keep racking cane in kettle. Ultimately propped by holding tubing. Still not stable. Need better option.
17. Corked at lower level of corker to push cork in by turning lever almost full amount. Then pulled bottle out of corker.

Brew21 Bottling

Equipment: Small boil pot, solid stopper, water cooler, gallon water bottle, 7 lb ice, draft bottle and cap, tasting bottle and cap, racking cane, tubing, hydrometer, starsan, sugar

Steps:

1. Freeze water bottles ahead of time
2. Cold condition beer
1. ~75F, start at 9:15pm
2. ~45F, end at 9:30pm
3. Sanitize all equipment
4. Made sugar mixture of 1.2 oz corn sugar (3 tbsp) and 2x by volume water (6 tbsp)
5. Add sugar mixture to bottles that will be bottle conditioned
6. Siphon from fermenters to bottles
7. Measure FG from smaller bottle, if haven't already
1. 1.006 @ 55F
8. Burp bottle before capping

Beer experiment size

It feels like an ideal batch size for an experiment is about 4 drinks or around 40 oz, or 1/3 of a gallon.

Ferment in glass bottles

To minimize bottling, use 22 oz bottles

Chilling wort

40 lb of ice fills cooler almost to top

Wort chilled fast in half filled 8 qt pot while stirring

Didn't chill as fast using 4 qt asparagus pot while stirring

Seems best is to use a larger bottom pot

9 lb of ice is likely enough

Brew22 Updates

Wed 6/24: Boiled 1 lb dark dried malt extract in 16 oz water for about 25 minutes. Chilled in water bath. Added to batch 1.

  Moved all fermenters to closet in bathroom

Brew21 Updates

Sun 6/21: Added 1 g lightly crushed juniper berries and 1.5 g cardamom seeds
  Sanitized with vodka in CO2 pressurized bottle. Steeped for about 10 hours

Wed 6/24: Airlock removed for a couple of hours

Sat 6/27 9:15pm: Began cooling fermenter

White Labs Yeast Vial measurement

(From WLP004, Irish Ale Yeast)

Yeast weight:
33.3 g (1.17 oz)

Total weight:
85.2 g (3 oz)

Mostly empty weight:
51.9 g (1.83 oz)

Shopping list

3 lb 2-row base

1 lb. bag flaked barley

0.5 lb. black (patent) malt (500L)

2 lb 2-row base

White labs Irish Ale Yeast

#6 Rubber stopper

Airlock

Lost Abbey Saison Blanc Tasting

ABV: 5.4

Appearance: Light. straw color.

Smell: Slight cheddar cheese, soap

Taste: Light malt, slight tang
Mouthfeel: Sparkling, medium carbonation
Finish: dry, slight sweet left on tongue
Duration: medium (seconds)

Overall: 6.5

Brew 21: Oats, peas, beans, and barley grow aka Mum, You Been On My Mind

2 lb Pale Malt

0.25 lb toasted rolled Oats

0.1 lb ground beans

0.25 lb ground peas

Black tea

spearmint

Juniper

Cardamom

Bay leaf

Simmer oats and beans for 20 minutes before adding to malt mash

Mash at 150F,
  Mashed for ~4 hours

Ferment with ale yeast 3-4 days. Add the other ingredients. Infuse for 10 days.
 Strain and allow to clear, then bottle. 

Pitched yeast cake from brew 20 into 89F wort
Fermenter chilled to 74F (outside) over night (7 hours)

OG: 1.040 @60F

Red Barn Ale tasting

ABV: 6.7

Appearance: Light. Slight tan color.

Smell: Spicy, peppery, hay, orange

Taste: Orange flavor, cream ale-y
Mouthfeel: Sparkling, high carbonation
Finish: dry (carbonation) then sweet
Duration: medium (seconds)

Overall: 7

Decent wine/champagne alternative

Brew20 Tasting

First taste from fermenter

Yeasty, bready smell
Green apple, slightly soapy taste
Quite dry finish
Green apple lingers

Overall: 6 of 10

Drinkable. Maybe a little green.

Brew20 Bottling

Equipment: Small boil pot, solid stopper, 20 qt pot, water bottles with ice, draft bottle and cap, tasting bottle and cap, racking cane, tubing, hydrometer, starsan, sugar

Steps:

1. Freeze water bottles ahead of time
2. Cold condition beer
1. Put ice water in 20 qt pot
2. Boil stopper for 20 minutes
3. Replace airlock with stopper
4. Put fermenter in 20 qt pot and measure temp and time
1. 69F, start at 11:55am
2. 56F, end at 10:00pm
3. Sanitize all equipment
4. Made sugar mixture of 1.2 oz corn sugar and 2x by volume water
5. Add sugar mixture to bottles that will be bottle conditioned
6. Siphon from fermenters to bottles
7. Measure FG from smaller bottle, if haven't already
1. 1.008
8. Burp bottle before capping
1. Seems a little low on the amount of liquid

Broke bottle cap Poured yeast cake into bottle

Brew22: Strong Stout

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f68/ode-arthur-irish-stout-guinness-clone-28239/

Single Infusion Mash (152, 60+ mins)

Equipment: Mash tun (20 quart pot, nylon bag), Lauter tun (6 quart sparge pot, 20 qt pot and splatter/strainer, 8 quart pot), Boil pot (8qt pot), Fermenter (2 2 gallon buckets), Airlocks, Hydrometer, Starsan, Thermometer, wort chiller (salted ice bath from frozen 16oz water bottles), strainer, ruler, stirring spoon, scale, measuring cup

2.5 gallons water

Target: 1.75 gallons wort, OG: 1.091
Max OG: 1.114
Target Brew Eff: 80%

3 lb 2-row base (63.8%) (Max PPG: 76)

1.2 lb. flaked barley (25.5%) (MP: 26)

0.5 lb. black malt (500L) (10.6%) (MP: 12)

Total grain bill: 9.4 lbs

1.75 gallons boil

Target: 1.5 gallons

0.25 oz Goldings/NorthernBrewer at 60 mins
0.25 oz Goldings/NorthernBrewer at 60 mins

0.25 oz Goldings/NorthernBrewer at 30 mins

1 gram Calcium Carbonate total (only 1 batch)

0.375 ounces Hungarian medium toast oak

Yeast: Safale trub from Brew20

Steps:

Mash:

1. Prepare ice ahead of time
2. Heat Mash tun
1. Heat over to 170
3. Prepare strike water. Using 5 qts water to 165  F (5/4.7 ratio mash thickness)
4. Temper in grains with strike water
5. With thermometer, maintain mash temp
6. Stir mash every so often
7. Prepare sparge water: ~175 F at .5qt/lb water loss to grain, 2.35 qts loss, 3.5 qts water
8. At end of mash, scoop wort over grains into boil pot.
9. Measure wort amount to find sparge wort amount.
10. Measure gravity.
11. While measuring gravity and wort volume, sparge into secondary pot until reaching sparge wort amount or 1.75 gals wort in boil
12. Measure gravity

Boil:

1. Add hops according to schedule
2. Rehydrate yeast if needed (boil 1/2 cup water per 7g packet, cover put in freezer or water bath until 95-105 F reached ~30 mins) (or boil 1/2 cup wort and put in freezer or water bath to get a starter going)
1. Poured chilled wort over yeast sludge to help break it up
3. Bring wort to rolling boil
4. With a 10-15 minutes left in boil, sanitize fermenter, airlock, blowoff tube, wort chiller, strainer, funnel, ladle [need to scoop some wort for hydrometer]
5. Near end, add extra water to reach target brew amount if needed
6. Finish boil at 60 mins
7. Scoop half wort into secondary pot
8. Chill wort
9. Measure OG
1. 1.063 @ 76F (Batch 1)
10. Pour and strain wort into fermenters
11. Pitch yeast
12. Cap with airlock/blowoff tubes

Wort chiller

http://www.education.com/science-fair/article/fastest-way-to-cool-a-soda/

Salted-ice bath is the key to chilling wort without the use of a specialized wort chiller.

http://www.pfaltzgraff.com/stainless-steel-asparagus-steamer/5040235.html?utm_source=googleshopping&utm_medium=cse&utm_campaign=googleshopping&tmcampid=23&tmad=c&tmplaceref=GGL&tmclickref=5040235&CAGPSPN=pla&CAWELAID=1421054239&catargetid=530007880000022248&cadevice=c#productdetails
16.99

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Coleman-5-gal-Beverage-Cooler-Orange-3000000733/203321696?cm_mmc=Shopping%7CBase&gclid=CMT_iYOJwsUCFQwLaQod_ikA8Q&gclsrc=aw.ds#specifications
19.99

Brew20: Blonde ale

Not sure if this is brew 20. It fits as Brew 2.0, though.

Max og : 1.064

Target og: 1.051

Target brewhouse eff: 80%

Actual og: 1.045

Actual brewhouse eff: 70% (might be closer to 75% as my actual batch size might be closer to 1.6G)

Target size:1.5G

Grain (max pts/target)

Grain
2lb California Select 2-row (50.6)
0.2lb Crystal 10L (4.6)
0.2lb Goldpils Vienna (4.6)
0.2lb Carapils (4.3)

Hops
0.125 oz Willamette (4.5%) fwh
0.125 oz Willamette (4.5%) 30 min

Yeast
Safale US-05

Water
2 G Arrowhead spring water

Prepare ice bath in cooler.

Mash:
  Mash targets: 140 through 158 to produce drier beer
  Initial strike 1.25qt/lb == 3.25 qts, target 140 == 151F

  -- Initial mash: 144F
  -- 5 mins later: 142F
    Fiddled with switching between Warm and Low settings to raise temp
  -- 60 mins later: 148F
  -- 105 mins later: 154F
    Stopped cooker at this point

  Lauter rest of grain. (5 qts sparge 175F)

  Sparge temp: ~180F

  Combine mash, sparge, and steep water. Measure with hydrometer. Boil.

Boil:
  Begin rehydrating yeast and boil wort for 60-75 minutes


Chill in ice bath

• Chilled to ~90F after 30+ mins. Ice bath was no longer cold. Moved to kitchen sink where tap water temp was around ~65F.

At desired brew temperature 68-70F, remove boil pot from bath. Reset temperature of cooler water to desired brew temperature.
Strain wort into fermenter. Pitch yeast.

Shopping List

Colonna corker
Plastic fermenter

More Belgian corks

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Mini auto siphon
3 ft 5/16" tubing
Bottle filler
Belgian corks
Belgian hoods
Bottle caps
375ml Belgian style bottles

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Vodka

Shopping list

Large nylon bag
Hydrometer
Airlock
Small auto siphon
Tubing
Corn sugar
2 lb pale
0.2 carapils
0.14 crystal 10
0.14 Vienna
Centennial or cascade
Da star Nottingham yeast or similar

Interesting links

Pea in beer: https://zythophile.wordpress.com/2012/10/16/pea-beer/

Bass No 1, Majority Ale: https://zythophile.wordpress.com/2011/03/18/bottle-ageing-beers-the-donts-and-dos/

High gravity brewing: http://byo.com/hops/item/237-blending-for-volume-techniques

New Equipment List

Cooler -- Wort chiller
Crockpot -- Mash tun
5 qt pressure cooker -- sparge water pot
4 qt pot and steamer insert -- lauter tun
8 qt stockpot -- brew kettle
Large nylon bag -- grain transfer
Ladle -- sparge water transfer
Hydrometer
Thermometer with probe
Strainer
Funnel
2 gallon bucket -- fermenter
Airlock
Small auto siphon
3ft tubing
Coors keg
Stirring spoon for mash tun and brew kettle
Digital scale
Regular stopper for crash cooling
Small pot for boiling priming sugar


Consumables
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Starsan
Bleach
Vodka for airlock