20151216 - Apple Ale

3 gallons of fresh pressed apples from Bellewood Acres.

English Ale Wyeast #1028

OG - 1.060

20151128 - 2015/1848 Winter Stout

Based off 1848 Barclay Perkins IBSt - From "The Home Brewer's Guide to Vintage Beer"  ISBN: 978-1-59253-882-9

OG 1.073

36 hours prior to pitching I made a starter with 1/2 gallon water, 2x packets of  Wyeast 1098, 1 cup Dry Malt Extract (DME), and 1 tsp yeast nutrients.

All grain in a 10 gallon cooler.

4.5 gallons @ ~188 F added to mash. After sparging 2 gals @ 180F, I still didn't have enough wort for the boil so I ran another 2 gallons through the wort.

21 lbs pale malt 2-row
2.75 lbs amber malt
.75 lbs black malt
1 lbs DME (added this to up the OG, and since I had the remainder from the starter)

7.5 oz US Golding @ 90 mins
7 oz US Golding @ 60 mins
1.5 oz US Golding @ 30 mins (original recipe called for 7 oz here, but with the volume of hops already in the boil this seemed like overkill)

To make this a winter warmer at 10 mins I added 1 oz cinnamon sticks, 1 Tbsp all spice, 1 Tbsp vanilla, and 1 lbs brown sugar.

Transfered ~4 gallons to carboy and added yeast starter 20151129 AM.

Gravity reading 20151206, 6 days in: 1.014 ~7.8% ABV.

Primed bottles with 1/2 cup brown sugar.

Bottled 20151214 with FG 1.020 ~7% ABV.

20130701 First brewing

First time brewing. Got supplies from north corner brewing with Sam and Brandon to brew IPA #2 and Cascade Pale Ale. IPA original gravity 1.060. Bottled July 8th 2013. IPA FG 1.016. Cascade pale FG 1.011.

20130929 Big Porter & Black Ale

Big Porter
Modified hopping:

• 60min - 1oz Cascade and 1/2oz Magnum 
• 1 min - 1/2oz Magnum 

OG 1.062
Wyeast 1056 American Ale yeast



Black Ale
Modified hopping:

• 60min - 2oz Cascade
• 10min - 1oz Fuggle
• 1min - 1oz N. Brewer

OG 1.050
Wyeast 1728 Scottish Ale yeast

Black Ale boiling

Both beers have a syrupy sweet burned taste to them.

20130930 - ~24 hours in

The Big Porter is overflowing

The Black Ale bubbles every 60 seconds

20131009 - Bottled the Big Porter with a F.G. 1.022 for an ABV of a little over 5%.

20131011 - Bottle the Black Ale with a FG of 1.022 for an ABV of just under 4%

20130811 Yellow plum wine

Yellow plum wine OG -1.090. Used a grain bag to put plums in. Boiled to get rid of bacteria and yeast. Added petic enzyme. Racked into 6.5 gallon car boy and Dry hopped in end of August SG - 0.990. 20130927 racked into 3.5 gallon bucket.

20130915 Red plum wine

OG - 1.090. Racked in to 3 gal car boy on 20130927. SG - 1.000