Recent content by jlauritz

24820 + 3 = 24823

Brewed this about a month ago. Will be bottling it in 2 weeks. I had to move shortly after brewing it and lost my cool basement garage as a heat wave hit. Hopefully it survived it. Black Butte XX 23-A Specialty Beer Size: 5.5 gal Efficiency: 72% Attenuation: 79.5% Calories: 399.3...

I'm planning on tweaking this recipe to use heather tips for some of the hops additions and Gallberry (a holly bush) honey.

I also made an imperial version. mperial 1554 18-E Belgian Dark Strong Ale Author: Lauritz Date: 5/13/10 Size: 5.0 gal Efficiency: 72% Attenuation: 81.6% Calories: 339.35 kcal per 12 fl oz Original Gravity: 1.102 (1.075 - 1.110) Terminal Gravity: 1.019 (1.010 - 1.024) Color...

Ten years ago I thought 1554 was the best beer in America. Here's my all grain version from when I lived in NYC and couldn't get New Belgium Beer, so I never did a side by side comparison. But I liked it enough. I haven't tried it yet since moving back to NB territory. St. Valantine's Black...

It foams at cold temps. I'm letting a few bottles sit in the fridge for a week to see if time will help. I also had the brilliant idea of opening a bottle, letting it foam out, then recapping it. I used a room temp bottle and the idea blew up in face, literally. I didn't know beer could...

I brewed a 5 gal partial mash of this with the recipe below. 5 lbs Rauch malt 1 lbs caramunich 1 lbs Crystal 40 1 lbs American Chocolate 4 lbs Liquid Light Extract 0.5 oz Northern Brewer pellets (60 min) 0.75 oz Willamette pellets (60 min) WLP007 Dry English Ale OG 1.052 FG 1.018...

Make a tea prior to bottling by boiling a quart of the beer with the above spices and priming sugar for about a minute to combine. When you use the quart of beer to make the tea, do you pull a quart from the batch you are about to prime?

I'm wondering what you used for the peppers. In California poblanos are mislabeled as pasillas. A pasilla is the dried version of a chalica pepper. A poblano is a fresh pepper that when dried is an ancho. The simpler form of the question: did you use dried or fresh peppers? And, was two...