(Old post ressurected from Jan 2008)<\/p>\n
My fourth batch of home brew. I went to\u00a0Fermentation Frenzy<\/a>\u00a0with a taste in mind, ran into Tim who’d brought some of his home-brewed Celebration Ale and it was a perfect match. I got the grains and extracts but due to the hops shortage I had to forage for the Chinook hops. Nevertheless, I was so impressed with the beer I picked up 2 kits and sent one as a gift.<\/p>\n Well, I called around for the Chinook hops but didn’t find them until I called a random place in Florida – Despite only needing 2 oz, I figured I might as well max out the order size at 5 oz. Now I’ve sent one ounce of Chinook hops to Chicago but since it hasn’t arrived yet, I’m going to send another batch out via trackable carrier.<\/p>\n I finally got around to brewing it up today and seems like it’s going to turn out great! I realized that this is the first brew I’ve brewed entirely solo. It should have taken 2-2.5 hours but wound up taking me almost 5. But I made no colossal errors!!! That’s definitely a first.<\/p>\n Here’s the recipe:<\/p>\n Steep grains at 156 for 45 min In reality it worked out a little differently. I wound up steeping the grains at a starting temp of 130 and keeping 156 for a full 30 min (total of 45). I wound up adding a little extra Chinook hops, 1 oz at 90 min and .7oz at 60 min. Other than that I was pretty good about sticking with the temperatures and timings. Transferred to carboy at 68ish deg, with O.G. 1.065.<\/p>\n This will also be my first use of a secondary fermenter. So next weekend, I’m going to transfer this brew over to the new carboy, add the dry hops and then brew a batch of\u00a0Pliney the Elder<\/em>\u00a0(from More Beer). Can’t wait!<\/p>\n Should be ready to bring for our trip to Tahoe!\u00a0Primary fermentation in 6.5 gallon carboy<\/a><\/p>\n UPDATE [1\/21\/08]: Racked it to a brand new\u00a05 gallon carboy<\/a>\u00a0last night. The airlock was bubbling about once every 7 seconds so it seemed like the right time. I’d spent a little while chatting with the owner of\u00a0Fermentation Solutions<\/a>\u00a0about when to transfer to the secondary, great guy and great place (added benefit is it’s a lot closer to my house). I dry hopped the remaining .5 oz Amarillo and full 1 oz of Centennial per the recipe. Everything seemed to go well. I took a little sample of the beer and the taste & smell seem perfect! The specific gravity was 1.034 at 62 degrees and the remaining yeast seem to be working hard. Now the hard part. Gotta wait about 3 weeks before bottling and then another 2ish until they’re ready to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Old post ressurected from Jan 2008) My fourth batch of home brew. I went to\u00a0Fermentation Frenzy\u00a0with a taste in mind, ran into Tim who’d brought some of his home-brewed Celebration Ale and it was a perfect match. I got the grains and extracts but due to the hops shortage I had to forage for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":39,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-117","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneswiftpint.org\/brew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneswiftpint.org\/brew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneswiftpint.org\/brew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneswiftpint.org\/brew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneswiftpint.org\/brew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oneswiftpint.org\/brew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/oneswiftpint.org\/brew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117\/revisions\/175"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneswiftpint.org\/brew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneswiftpint.org\/brew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale<\/h4>\n
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\nBoil wort 90 min
\nFerment at 66\u00ba
\nDry hop in secondary for 5 days at 60\u00ba<\/p>\n
![Primary fermentation in 6.5 gallon carboy<\/a><\/p>\nUPDATE [1\/21\/08]: Racked it to a brand new\u00a05 gallon carboy<\/a>\u00a0last night. The airlock was bubbling about once every 7 seconds so it seemed like the right time. I’d spent a little while chatting with the owner of\u00a0Fermentation Solutions<\/a>\u00a0about when to transfer to the secondary, great guy and great place (added benefit is it’s a lot closer to my house). I dry hopped the remaining .5 oz Amarillo and full 1 oz of Centennial per the recipe. Everything seemed to go well. I took a little sample of the beer and the taste & smell seem perfect! The specific gravity was 1.034 at 62 degrees and the remaining yeast seem to be working hard. Now the hard part. Gotta wait about 3 weeks before bottling and then another 2ish until they’re ready to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Old post ressurected from Jan 2008) My fourth batch of home brew. I went to\u00a0Fermentation Frenzy\u00a0with a taste in mind, ran into Tim who’d brought some of his home-brewed Celebration Ale and it was a perfect match. I got the grains and extracts but due to the hops shortage I had to forage for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":39,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-117","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneswiftpint.org\/brew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneswiftpint.org\/brew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneswiftpint.org\/brew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneswiftpint.org\/brew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneswiftpint.org\/brew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oneswiftpint.org\/brew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/oneswiftpint.org\/brew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117\/revisions\/175"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneswiftpint.org\/brew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneswiftpint.org\/brew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/redmud.com\/mudd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/img-39891.jpg\"){kind=link}
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