Movember Pale

Brewed on: November 13, 2012
Tasting on: January 26, 2013

Appearance: Fluffy head, Copperish / Mahogany-like

Aroma: Oranges, Citrus, Bits of lemon

Taste: Clean bitterness, small amount of pine, citra hops come through a bit, kinda biscuitty, finishes with Caramel, and resin.

Overall Impression / Improvements: Decent APA, easy drinking. I probably would substitute the hops. I was aiming for a beer that was west coast style but I dont think this hit it. Maybe more late edition hops. Remove the citra. Possibly just use cascade only? I think this APA came out too dark. Probably knock back the C60 and use C30 instead, bring out more caramel and less resin flavour.

Type: All Grain	Date: 12/13/2012
Batch Size (fermenter): 23.00 l	Brewer: Jamie
Boil Size: 30.16 l	Asst Brewer:
Boil Time: 60 min	Equipment: Jamie Cooler (58L pot and 68L cooler)
End of Boil Volume 24.96 l	Brewhouse Efficiency: 70.00 %
Final Bottling Volume: 21.30 l	Est Mash Efficiency 73.0 %
Fermentation: Ale, Single Stage	Taste Rating(out of 50): 30.0
Taste Notes:

4800.00 g	Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM)	Grain	1	84.5 %
400.00 g	Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM)	Grain	2	7.0 %
200.00 g	Munich Malt (Canada Malting) (9.0 SRM)	Grain	3	3.5 %
180.00 g	Caramel/Crystal Malt - 30L (30.0 SRM)	Grain	4	3.2 %
100.00 g	Victory Malt (biscuit) (Briess) (28.0 SRM)	Grain	5	1.8 %
24.00 g	Magnum [11.60 %] - Boil 60.0 min	Hop	6	31.7 IBUs
8.00 g	Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate) (Boil 60.0 mins)	Water Agent	7	-
1.00 Items	Irish Moss (Boil 15.0 mins)	Fining	8	-
14.00 g	Cascade [6.40 %] - Boil 15.0 min	Hop	9	5.1 IBUs
14.00 g	Citra [13.70 %] - Boil 10.0 min	Hop	10	7.2 IBUs
16.00 g	Cascade [6.40 %] - Aroma Steep 5.0 min	Hop	11	0.0 IBUs
16.00 g	Citra [13.70 %] - Aroma Steep 5.0 min	Hop	12	0.0 IBUs
1.0 pkg	Safale American (DCL/Fermentis #US-05) [50.28 ml]	Yeast	13	-

Est Original Gravity: 1.052 SG	Measured Original Gravity: 1.055 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.010 SG	Measured Final Gravity: 1.010 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 5.5 %	Actual Alcohol by Vol: 5.9 %
Bitterness: 43.9 IBUs	Calories: 513.8 kcal/l
Est Color: 9.6 SRM Add 35.13 l of water at 158.2 F Mash @ 151.0 F   75 min

Afternoon American Brown Ale

Brewed this on November 3, 2012. 
Tasting from January 25, 2013

Appearance: Dark with reddish hues when held to the light. Creamy french mocha-vanilla-like head. Slightly lacy in the head.

Aroma: Chocolate, toffee, toasted vanilla almost

Taste: Chocolate, biscuit, bread, slight spice, balanced, bitterness kicks in the finish, slightly grassy in the finish, not heavy. Finish also leaves a very suttle lingering coffee taste in your mouth. Flavours have a pleasant fluffiness to them.

Overall impression: I enjoyed this american brown a lot. It's nicely balanced, the flavours seem to compliment each other well. No one flavour over powers the other.

Improvements: I think next time using magnum for bittering and use chinook at maybe 45 min or 35 min. maybe dry hop next time see what happens.

Est Original Gravity: 1.057 SG	Measured Original Gravity: 1.061 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.012 SG	Measured Final Gravity: 1.015 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 6.0 %	Actual Alcohol by Vol: 6.1 %
Bitterness: 39.9 IBUs	Calories: 579.3 kcal/l
Est Color: 21.6 SRM

4884.30 g	Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM)	Grain	1	81.0 %
482.40 g	Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM)	Grain	2	8.0 %
361.80 g	Fawcett Pale Chocolate (250.0 SRM)	Grain	3	6.0 %
180.90 g	Brown Malt (65.0 SRM)	Grain	4	3.0 %
120.60 g	Victory Malt (25.0 SRM)	Grain	5	2.0 %
24.00 g	Chinook [11.90 %] - Boil 60.0 min	Hop	6	33.9 IBUs
6.00 g	Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate) (Boil 60.0 mins)	Water Agent	7	-
1.00 Items	Irish Moss (Boil 15.0 mins)	Fining	8	-
12.00 g	Amarillo Gold [8.50 %] - Boil 15.0 min	Hop	9	6.0 IBUs
28.00 g	Amarillo Gold [8.50 %] - Aroma Steep 0.0 min	Hop	10	0.0 IBUs
1.0 pkg	Safale American (DCL/Fermentis #US-05) [50.28 ml]	Yeast	11	-

Est Original Gravity: 1.057 SG
Measured Original Gravity: 1.061 SG



Est Final Gravity: 1.012 SG
Measured Final Gravity: 1.015 SG


Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 6.0 %
Actual Alcohol by Vol: 6.1 %


Bitterness: 39.9 IBUs



Calories: 579.3 kcal/l



Est Color: 21.6 SRM





Est Original Gravity: 1.057 SG
Measured Original Gravity: 1.061 SG

Est Final Gravity: 1.012 SG
Measured Final Gravity: 1.015 SG

Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 6.0 %
Actual Alcohol by Vol: 6.1 %

Bitterness: 39.9 IBUs
Calories: 579.3 kcal/l

Est Color: 21.6 SRM

Suckit! Belgian Blonde first taste

My entry for the garrison brewing contest is a Belgian blonde at 7% ABV. First sample from the keg was still young. Crisp clean and good character from the Ardennes yeast. Finish is dry but not too dry. I think it's nicely balanced and would make a good summer smasher. The carbonation isn't as full as normal Belgians, so ill likely have to turn up the CO2 some more.

Thus far I like it and even if it doesn't win I would brew it again.

Btw there is 500ml of starsan in this brew which came from the blow off jar during a hard crash cool. I guess hard crash cooling creates a vacuum and will suck up the blow off jar.

Lemon Pineapple Blonde

Well its been a while since i blogged. i now have an app to publish from my phone so will be much easier. Bought a pineapple from Costco and also had some lemon peel from the last brewnosers group buy, so I decided to brew a lemon pineapple blonde beer. This brew contained 2 row, 5% crystal 15, %2 carapils, citra, and saaz hops.

Mashed for 75 minutes biab and reached 83% mash efficiency and 77% efficiency. OG came out at 1.046 (expected 1.044) and batch size ~23 litres. Overall was a good brew day. Propane tank seemed to quit at 45 min into the boil even though it was refilled the week prior. Also forgot to add Irish moss, dough!

Tasting a sample of the final result. Was very sweet and had a good lemon aroma and some pineapple as well, but very little pineapple taste. Once fermented I may add some more pineapple to the secondary or keg.

Fermenting this at around 18 degrees.