2014 Brews to Date

Northern Brewer General
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  1. 1/19 APA 10g
  2. 2/01 double IPA 10g
  3. 2/10 all belma hop pale ale 10g
  4. 3/10 Janet’s brown (bcs) 10g
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  1. Koelsch 1/4
    2A) Octoberfest 2/1
    2B) Munich Dunkel 2/1
    3A) APA 3/9
    3B) Berliner Weiss 3/9
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1a: Session IPA w/ WLP090 San Diego Super Strain - 1/17/14
1b: Session IPA w/ S04 - 1/17/14
2a: Red Rye Ale w/ WLP001 California Ale 1/25/14
2b: Red Rye Ale w/ Nottingham 1/25/14
3: Wee Heavy 2/8/14
4: Wee Heavy Partigyle Porter 2/8/14
5a: Kolsch 2/22/14
5b: German Pils 2/22/14
6a: English Premium Bitter w/ WLP023 Burton Ale Yeast 3/15/14
6b: English Premium Bitter w/ S-04 3/15/14
7: Barley Wine 3/22/14

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[quote=“Mabus”]In January I bottled the Milk Chocolate Raspberry Stout for St. Valentine’s Day and brewed an Oatmeal Stout to share with my fellow Irishmen before & after we march in the St. Patrick’s Day parade. :cheers:

In February I brewed a Belgium Petite Palisade Pale Ale & a Saison

Up next in a week or two will be a Tripel followed by a Mango-Habanero Cream Ale

All 5 gallon batches.[/quote]

Yesterday, I brewed a Tripelsch. Had a Kolsch recipe kit but can’t maintain ferm temps low enough for Kolsch yeast.

2 Lbs Kolsch malt
.5 lbs Caravienne
.5 lbs Caramel Pils
Mashed at 149* for 65 mins, batch sparge to bring volume up to 4 gallons

Brought to a boil and added 1 lb Extra light DME and 1 oz German Tradition for bittering.
.5 oz Spalt @ 30 mins
.5 oz Saaz @ 20 mins
2 whole cloves and 3 “arms” star anise @ 15 mins
.5 oz Spalt, reyhydrated Irish Moss and 5 lbs Extra Pale LME at 10 mins
.5 oz Saaz & 1 lb honey @ 5 mins

Let stand for 20 mins after boiling and chilled using new wort chiller to 60*, aerated and pitched 1 L starter from recovered T-58 yeast (from the Saison).
Gravity at pitching was 1.065

Will add 1 more lb of honey and maybe some white sugar to dry it and bring it up to Tripel specs after fermentation settles down. Tasted really good, but sweet from the gravity sample. This one will probably need a month or two in the bottles before I try it. I’ll probably rack to a secondary carboy in about two weeks to free up the fermenter for the Mango Habanero Cream Ale.

After that, I’ll be experimenting with the two lbs of Cascade hops I just got for some Pale ales and maybe an IPA or two.

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  1. 5 gallons of starter wort - not to drink but still an important batch!
  2. Mosaic APA
  3. Munich Helles
  4. Scottish Heavy 70/-
  5. Celebration Ale
  6. Kolsch (split batch yeast experiment)
  7. Janet’s Brown Ale
  8. The Innkeeper
  9. Vienna/Centennial SMASH
  10. Simcoe APA
  11. Jamil’s American Amber Ale
  12. Denny’s RIPA
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So far this year I have brewed:

  1. Meridian Pale Ale
  2. “Imperial India Saison” - 12% 140 IBU IIPA fermented with wyeast 3711.
  3. Mandarin Bavaria hopped dark saison
  4. Siddhartha of Suburbia(My house saison).
  5. Coconut vanilla blonde ale
  6. Garage Floor pale ale - All Azzacca hopped APA.
  7. “Scottish IPA” that Ill toss in scotch soaked oak once fermentation is done.
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  1. Dry Irish Stout - 1/3
  2. Imperial Black IPA - 1/11
  3. Belgian Wit - 1/25
  4. CAP - 2/9
  5. Wee Heavy
  6. House Pale - 3/1
  7. Vienna Lager - 3/15

This Friday - Southern Hemisphere IPA

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I just started this new hobby in January, but i’m also trying to do the ‘lots of brewing now so i can concentrate on outside projects and drinking in the summer’ thing…i’m also trying to hammer out some of the beers i want to set up awhile, so come fall they will be starting to reach their peak. i’ll be doing the winter warmer next week, and i’m hoping to start in on some partial mash within the next month.

2014 so far:

nut brown
st paul porter
cream ale
bourbon barrel porter
scottish 80/-
honey kolsh
caribou slobber
american smash
smoked peat porter

you can probably tell I like porters… :cheers:

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Now that the weather is finally starting to warm up I’m willing to stand outside the better part of a day to brew. Since 3 of my 4 kegs and most of my bottles are empty I guess I need to get on it. The schedule so far is:

  1. JAO mead (1 gal)
  2. Pear mead (1 gal)
  3. all-Chinook ale
  4. house pale ale
  5. Belgian strong or tripel of some kind (Duvel, Piraat, Westmalle, other)
  6. Something else…maybe a wit, maybe a fest…haven’t decided
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That’s funny. I just finished brewing for the season now that its getting too warm. Maybe I’ll squeeze one more session in before summer, but I could also be done untill September.

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Jan.1 till now, 1)Vienna Lager 2)Irish Red 3) American Amber 4) Red Rye 5) Blond 6) Dark Ale 7) Old Ale 8) Patersbier 9) Hefewiezen, This weekend ESB…B.C.

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5 gal Munich Helles (lagering)
5 gal Kolsch (fermenting)

Planned

5 gal Sierra Nevada IPA Clone

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Petite Saison 15 gallons
Amber Ale 15 gallons
Dry Irish Stout 5 gallons
Caribou Slobber 5 gallons

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That’s funny. I just finished brewing for the season now that its getting too warm. Maybe I’ll squeeze one more session in before summer, but I could also be done untill September.[/quote]

That is too crazy. I’ve not brewed at ALL in 2014 because of (1) baby #2, and (2) -20F temperatures for most of winter. I’m finally taking a vacation day on Monday to brew… something. I may even try to be crazy enough to brew two batches in the same day, though I don’t have adequate temp control available for both.

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10 gal vanilla bourbon porter
6 Gal RIS nicknamed “Souleater”
5 gal IPA
5 gal Arrogant Bastard
10 gal Citra Dog IIPA (9.2% - oops)

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  1. “New Year’s Day” IIPA
  2. Cali Common “SMaSH” (Vienna and Northern Brewer)
  3. West Coast Imperial Stout
  4. Denny’s Sierra Vienna (Slightly modified hop schedule)
  5. ESB

The first two have been consumed. The IIPA was okay, and the SMaSH was fantastic. The WCIS is starting to drink nicely. Its been in the keg about 7 weeks, and the roasted malts are well balanced with the Cascades. Sierra Vienna is kegged, and should be ready in about a week. ESB is in primary; brewed last Sunday.

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[quote=“MullerBrau”]22 gal Helles Lager
22 gal Founder’s Breakfast Stout
22 gal Vienna Lager
44 gal Two Hearted ale[/quote]Just finished another 22 gallons of a pale ale which puts me at 132 gallons ytd

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Been a busy 2014 so far!
Munich helles
bohemian pils
german pils
bohemian dunkel
munich dunkel
october/weizen
victory clone
and got three different saison going now.

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1a: Session IPA w/ WLP090 San Diego Super Strain - 1/17/14
1b: Session IPA w/ S04 - 1/17/14
2a: Red Rye Ale w/ WLP001 California Ale 1/25/14
2b: Red Rye Ale w/ Nottingham 1/25/14
3: Wee Heavy 2/8/14
4: Wee Heavy Partigyle Porter 2/8/14
5a: Kolsch 2/22/14
5b: German Pils 2/22/14
6a: English Premium Bitter w/ WLP023 Burton Ale Yeast 3/15/14
6b: English Premium Bitter w/ S-04 3/15/14
7: Barley Wine 3/22/14
8a: El Dorado Pale Ale w/ WLP090 San Diego Super Strain 4/19/14
8b: El Dorado Pale w/ WLP007 Dry English Ale 4/19/14

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1/11/14 Chinook IPA
1/18/14 Pirate’s Plunder India Dark Ale
2/2/14 Bourbon Barrel Porter
3/2/14 The Plinian Legacy
3/23/14 Caribou Slobber
4/26/14 Jamil’s Evil Twin
5/10/14 Lakefront Fixed Gear

Still keeping ahead of goal for 12 brews for 2014, empty kegs obviously means I need to brew again. :stuck_out_tongue:

:cheers:
Rad