Your best recent brew??

Looking to do anothre 2-3 brew day this weekend. Going to work on 2 pumpkin ales, but need another filler. what has been great that you brewed lately. All-grain only, please.:rockin::rockin:

Biermuncher's Centennial Blonde would have been an extremely tasty beer if I didn't screw something up somewhere (most likely my lack of fermenation temp.) Now that I have a kegerator/fridge, I hopefully won't have this problem anymore and I'll try to brew the recipe again.

Boulder beer Hazed and Infused clone. It's a fantastic dry hopped ale, not overly hoppy, just nice!


Batch Size: 5.50 gal
Boil Size: 7.16 gal
Estimated OG: 1.054 SG
Estimated Color: 9.9 SRM
Estimated IBU: 44.6 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.00 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
9 lbs 12.0 oz Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 87.68 %
12.0 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM) Grain 6.74 %
8.0 oz Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) Grain 4.50 %
2 oz Roasted Barley (300.0 SRM) Grain 1.08 %
1.00 oz Centennial [10.00 %] (Dry Hop 7 days) Hops -
0.75 oz Chinook [12.10 %] (60 min) (First Wort HoHops 33.6 IBU
1.00 oz Crystal [3.50 %] (Dry Hop 3 days) Hops -
0.75 oz Cascade [6.30 %] (15 min) Hops 7.9 IBU
1.00 oz Williamette [4.60 %] (5 min) Hops 3.1 IBU
1 Pkgs SafAle English Ale (DCL Yeast #S-05) Yeast-Ale


Mash Schedule: Single Infusion, Light Body, Batch Sparge
Total Grain Weight: 11.12 lb
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Single Infusion, Light Body, Batch Sparge
Step Time Name Description Step Temp
75 min Mash In Add 13.90 qt of water at 164.2 F 152.0 F

My Apricot Blond (In my Recipe Section) just won #1 at the Local Home Brew Competition at the County Fair. It's a bit of a hillbilly competition...but I won!

Jamil's Robust Porter is killer- probably the best beer I've made. I don't have the recipe on hand, but you can get it from the podcast or from Brewing Classic Styles. It'd be good for fall/winter.

This stout.



do a search for nosferatu's return.

Yooper's rogue deadguy clone. It's better than the original. I've brewed it 3 times.

Biermuncher's Black Pearl Porter is fantastic as well...

I'm partial to my Old Bog Road Brown Ale in my pulldown too.

Orfy's Hobgobblin clone has never dissapointed me

I also did an "americanized ESB" with 2-row/munich/and willamette instead of MO and Fuggles because, well, thats what I have in stock. After about 8 weeks it turned out pretty damn good (better than I was expecting)

5.5 gal Batch, 60 min Boil
OG - 1.051 FG- 1.012


7lbs 2 row
2.25lbs Munich
.5lbs 20L crystal

Mash 154 for 60min


1.5oz Williamette AA 5.4% @FWH
.5oz " " @ 15min
.5oz " " @ 5min

Nottingham Dry yeast, ferment @68 for 3 weeks, condition for another 5-6 weeks at room temp.

10 lbs German Vienna Malt

1 oz Northern Brewer 8% AA @ 60 minutes
1 oz Northern Brewer 8% AA @ 20 minutes
1 oz Northern Brewer 8% AA @ 5 minutes

nottingham yeast

simplest beer i ever made, best efficiency i ever had, tastiest bottle in the world.

i made this four times now and every time it was spectacular. werd.

+1 on Yoopers deadguy clone! This was my first to keg and it is awsome. Everyone that has tried it loves it. Easy and tasty can't go wrong with that.



SD

AHS's Blue Moon clone is ALWAYS good!!! I've got it under my recipes.

DeathBrewer said:

10 lbs German Vienna Malt

1 oz Northern Brewer 8% AA @ 60 minutes
1 oz Northern Brewer 8% AA @ 20 minutes
1 oz Northern Brewer 8% AA @ 5 minutes

nottingham yeast

simplest beer i ever made, best efficiency i ever had, tastiest bottle in the world.

i made this four times now and every time it was spectacular. werd.

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You know... You mentioned this recipe in a thread I started, and the more I think about it, the more I want to do a Vienna smash. What's your efficiency? I think I'm going to do this when my cellar cools down.


To answer the OP, my best (and my latest) is Bm's Centennial Blonde. I'm making 5 more this weekend, going to drop the late addition hops though.

the first time i did it, i got 84% efficiency and 80% attenuation. i don't know how it happened, but it tasted incredible. mash low on that sucker...152°F MAX...i think i mashed around 149 and it got down to 140 by the end.

the more recent brew got about 75% efficiency, which works our better, as it's more predictable for future brews. i'm going to post this recipe in the database when i keg this amazing creation.

the only downside to this brew is hops are expensive and northern brewer is relatively hard to find. i have about a pound left and i hope to find more before i run out. i also use NB in my steam beer

Ohiobrewtus's EF clone. Even better than the original.

Craig

nothing wakes you up in the morning like a nice tall EF

CBBaron said:

Ohiobrewtus's EF clone. Even better than the original.

Craig

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+10, just put 5.5 gallons in the fermenter. A great fall beer.