Hey Wayne, I have made various Blue Moon clones over the past few years. I followed your recipe this time. I trust it will turn out well. Final gravity was 1.052.
Ron,
Sorry for not responding right away. I spent the last two days brewing 1000 gallons of Cream Ale
For such a very small batch, I do not see any reason to boil for 90 min. On larger scales I always boil for 90 min to get the evaporation amounts I want. This will serve to condense the brew and drive off any volatiles.
In the 15 bbl system, I run between 6-8% evaporation. So roughly, I boil off 31 gallons over the course of 90 min. On my homebrew system I run around 10% boil off. I will suggest you boil a couple of gallons of water for 60 min to find out your evaporation rate and use that to calculate the amount of water you need to start with.
You will also have losses in transfers from kettle to fermenter and from fermenter to bottles. Add those numbers into your calculations to determine what volume to start with to end up with 1 gallon of beer.
Good luck,
Wayne
Sorry for not responding right away. I spent the last two days brewing 1000 gallons of Cream Ale
I'm looking to brew 5 gallons of as close to blue moons I can make at home. I've got two 5 gallon glass carboys, a 5 gallon standard home brew kit plastic fermenting bucket and a 5 gallon bucket with spigot, siphon, 7 gallon stainless steel pot, propane burner, airlock etc. I make wine at home, but I'm new to beer and I drink beer more than I do wine; mostly because making beer at home is awesome and I want to learn!
I brewed this a few weeks ago and had it in the keg about 4 days now. I have a very strong coriander flavor. I used 1 Oz. Crushed for 10 minutes. Will this tame down any?
I brewed this a few weeks ago and had it in the keg about 4 days now. I have a very strong coriander flavor. I used 1 Oz. Crushed for 10 minutes. Will this tame down any?
I am (finally) brewing this tonight or tomorrow, depending on how things go. As stated before, this will be a 1-gallon batch, scaled according to Wayne's original recipe. I'm calling it Blauer Mond, a nod to my German roots.
Several have mentioned that it is good to use rice hulls in order to help with the sparge, so I will be trying this. I have never used rice hills before, but I can't see any down-side.
When I have time, I'll start a new thread as a sort of "brew diary" of the experience. I'll post a link to it here, for anyone who might be interested.
@TasunkaWitko Well how did it go?
@tzaccario - Hey, thanks for reminding me. I was going to post a cross-link, for reference, but I forgot to do so. Here is the link to my experience with this, so far:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=596935
The brew went well, from everything that I can see. I am going to put it in the refrigerator in order to cold crash tonight, and plan to bottle it on Monday - or perhaps a day or so after that.
I am (finally) brewing this tonight or tomorrow, depending on how things go. As stated before, this will be a 1-gallon batch, scaled according to Wayne's original recipe. I'm calling it Blauer Mond, a nod to my German roots.
Several have mentioned that it is good to use rice hulls in order to help with the sparge, so I will be trying this. I have never used rice hills before, but I can't see any down-side.
When I have time, I'll start a new thread as a sort of "brew diary" of the experience. I'll post a link to it here, for anyone who might be interested.
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