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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

A little catch up......

Gee, I've neglected the blog for a while. I guess I better post what's been happening at r@fink brews.
Jan 12 - Racked the ESB
Jan 24 - Brewed a Black Ale (New Belgium 1554 Enlightend Black Ale clone)
Jan 27 - Brewed a Brown ale (Moose Drool Clone)
Jan 29 - Tapped the ESB (Nice taste, amber color)
1554 Clone recipe:
8.00 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US
0.50 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt 60l
0.50 lb Caramunich Malt
0.25 lb Carafa III
0.13 lb Black (Patent) Malt
0.13 lb Chocolate Malt
0.50 oz Styrian Goldings
0.50 oz Goldings, East Kent
1.00 oz Williamette
1 Pkgs SafLager West European Lager
This is my first brew with a lager yeast. My fermentation temps have been running in the 56-58 degree range so we should be just fine on this one.

Moose Drool Clone Recipe:

9.25 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US
1.00 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 20L
0.50 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L
0.25 lb Caramunich Malt
0.25 lb Roasted Barley
0.13 lb Chocolate Malt %
0.06 lb Black (Patent) Malt
1.50 oz Williamette (60 min)
0.50 oz Styrian Goldings (30 min)
This brew started out being a disaster. After crushing my grains I had a glass kettle lid fall and shatter all over the kitchen and in my grist bucket. After fishing out all the glass I could find I thought for a second about whether I could continue brewing with this batch. I couldn't and tossed out over 11 lbs. of prime grist. Wahhhhh!

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