Last Thursday the 18th I bottled the Beamish Stout clone I made. So, since some of you have never bottled your own beer, let me walk you through the experience. To bottle properly, you need to: 1) Sanitize all your bottles and your bottling bucket. I like to get my bucket full of sanitizing solution, …
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Dec 13 2008
Holiday Cheer! Batch 18 Bottled
Today I bottled my 18th batch of beer, the Holiday Cheer! Final gravity came out to be 1.012, initial was 1.052, difference of .040. So, alcohol by volume should be around 5.25%, same as the IPA I brewed. Can’t wait till this matures in the bottle. Going to be a good one!
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Dec 12 2008
Beamish Stout Clone- Batch 19
Wednesday evening I brewed a Beamish Stout clone, thanks to the clone recipe we got from a magazine with 150 recipies in it. We used the extract recipe, not the all grain recipe listed below. So, gathered the ingredients, put some water on the kettle, and began mashing the grains. The recipe called …
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Dec 09 2008
Holiday Cheer- Batch 18
Last night I brewed my first seasonal beer using Papazian’s recipe for something he calls “Holiday Cheer.” It uses 7lbs of light malt extract, 1/2lb of crystal malt, 2oz of black malt, 1lb of honey, orange peels, fresh ground ginger root, and cinnamon. It also uses Cascade and Saaz hops, but since I don’t have …
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Dec 04 2008
Batch 17 Bottled- Buckingham Bitter
Bottled the Buckingham Bitter last night, the second time we brewed this. Final gravity came out to be 1.012, with an initial gravity of 1.042, giving us a .030 difference. Multiply that by 105 gives us 3.15, the alcohol percentage by weight. Multiply that by 1.25 gives us 3.94, which is it’s alcohol by volume. …
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Nov 26 2008
Batch 17 Brewed
Today I brewed batch 17, a remake of the Buckingham Bitter. A few slight differences in this one, namely when we went to buy the same British crystal malt, there were now two varieties of different color. A 30-40 lovibond color crystal, and a 50-60 lovibond crystal malt. We got the 50-60 lovibond one, though …
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Nov 24 2008
Batch 16 Bottled, Batch 17 in the Wings
Bottled up batch 16, our Bombay IPA, last Thursday. The final gravity was 1.010, initial gravity was 1.050, giving us a .040 difference. Multiply the .040 by 105 gives us 4.2, which is the percentage by weight. Multiply 4.2 by 1.25 gives us 5.25, which is the percent by volume. Sampling the beer it had …
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Nov 14 2008
Batch 16 – India Pale Ale
Wednesday evening my friend and I brewed batch 16, which is based off of Papazian’s recipe “Laughing Heart IPA.” We did a hops substitution, as we had no Centennial hops but had Chinook, so we used them for the bittering hops. The recipe is a mini-mash, so I started with the grains, doing the stepped …
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Nov 06 2008
Batch 15 Bottled- Buckingham Bitter
Just bottled my 15th batch of beer, the Buckingham Bitter. Had a taste before it being carbonated- I’m definitely in for a treat! Here’s the label I created for it:
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Oct 28 2008
Beer Labels
Here are a few samples of my beer labels, that I now affix to the bottle cap on each beer, thus saving myself a lot of work scraping labels off of beer bottles. Best idea I’ve ever had! Put the label on the bottle cap! Perfect for a guy like me!
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