Angry Dwarf Ale (A little red) - Recipe in progress

I'm cooling this down now.

Try
10lbs - 2 Row
4lbs - 2 row Vienna Malt
2lbs - Crystal 10L
1lb - Cara Amber
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16lbs - total

Minimum water should be 16 gallons (Should have used more - wanted a lower SG)

Nottingham's dry yeast.

Mash 7 gal at 160 deg F

Sparge 1 6 gal at 160 deg F "modified fly" w/dwell at 10 minutes.

Sparge 2 3 gal at 160 deg F "modified fly" to drain.

13 gallons Pre-boil SG 1.050 - Thought it would be lower, am I wasting fermentables?

Had a hard time keeping the temp up where I wanted it.
Had to drain, reheat part of mash, and add back in.

Hops

60 min. - 1-1/2 oz Cascade pellet
15 min. - 1 oz Cascade pellet
5 min. - 2 oz Cascade whole leaf hop.

Took a sample and cooled for SG. 1.058 after slow rolling boil.

Tastes hoppy with a twang - too early to tell - it will probably change a lot
over the next few weeks.

Cool wort and Start yeast in 1 cup room temperature water for a few
minuets till you see activity. Pitch yeast and cover pot.

I have enough supplies to do one more double of Ed Worts Haus Ale - That will be next on deck.

Seems like a rather cool sparge.

I feel the need to correct you. There are some people who may take offense to your beer. Please consider changing the name of your brew to "Angry Little Person Ale". Little People of America thanks you.

Ever heard of a guy named Gary Newman?


...or just think Disney. Grumpy - self titled - ;-)

I bottled it the other night. My final gravity was 1.010. It smelled great. The color was a little daker than I expected. It seemed to have a nice hop aroma, and a nice cararmel odor. I hope it stays well after the bottle conditioning.

I have a difficult time waiting to try the results.

Well, This batch was very satisfying personally. A couple of my friends enjoyed it too. People seemed to like the wheat I made concurrently better.

It's almost all gone.

I'm making something similar. I'm using the same grain ratios with different hops boiling and yeast. I'm doing an "Edmund Fitzgerald Porter clone" knock off. I bought a copy of The Best of Brew - 250 Classic Clone Recipes.

I don't have the specialty chocolate malt or roast barley. It will be lighter and have a lower OG. I finally got as much wort as a recipe called for. I used extra sparge water to hit my total wort.

I'm pretty sure I'll do "Angry Dwarf" Again sometime.

Dynachrome said:

I'm pretty sure I'll do "Angry Dwarf" Again sometime.

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It's time. I may cut back on the specialty grains. I have CaraHell and some Crystal 15L

I am aiming a 'tidge higher for mash temp - 164 deg F.

10 lb Maris Otter
3lbs CaraHell
2lbs Crysatl 15L
4oz Midnight Wheat Malt #6459

16 gallons total mash/sparge water with about 3 lost to grain absorption.

60 min - 1oz El Dorado Hop 16% AA
15 min - 1oz Cascade 6.3% AA
1 min - 1oz Cascade 6.3% AA


Cool on a winter porch inn Northern Wisconsin.

I guessed at temps - I went to 188 deg F for the mash water - the grain had been in the freezer and warmed in the house to ~ 40 deg F

I mashed in - it went to 168 and dropped down to right where I wanted it. I've run this setup for a while though. - so - get to know your system.

That little bit of chocolate wheat really darkened it - more brown than red....

#$%^^$ - I didn't take an O.G.

I logged in to see how much time it's dwelled in the fermentors. Two weeks - time to bottle.

OK, geusstimated:

Close enough for horseshoes, hand grenades and nuclear warfare....

It tastes good. It has a nice red twang.

Finished washing bottles - checking on how much priming sugar before filling the bottles....

No one said anything about the first post having 17, not 16, pounds of grain as the OP listed?

Second carboy had big head-space and a loose burp valve.

The second is drinkable, but not up-to-par.

I will hoard it and destroy the evidence myself one bottle at a time.

slym2none said:

No one said anything about the first post having 17, not 16, pounds of grain as the OP listed?

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The second recipe diverged from the first a whole bunch if that's what you mean, or did I mess up on my O.G. calc?

[The first post from years back, that was a zombie revival...]

Yeah, that's what I meant - the very first post had 6 years for someone to say something.



Just funnin' ya, man!

slym2none said:

Yeah, that's what I meant - the very first post had 6 years for someone to say something.



Just funnin' ya, man!

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I understood - and thanks for the ribbing.

Here's the stack getting ready for bottle conditioning.

Is there a "cover" for cardboard? squeeze some lime in to freshen it up?

Dynachrome said:

Is there a "cover" for cardboard?

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A larger cardboard box?

The last bottles - I wrote "AD XXX" - the XX's mean roughly unknown/toxic (just more yeast/wild carbonation). My 25 yo son just cracked one open and I got the nod of approval. This is special, because he kinda tells you if he doesn't like something.

slym2none - How far are you from Sarasota FL? I'm coming down for a motorcycle track day...

Dynachrome said:

The last bottles - I wrote "AD XXX" - the XX's mean roughly unknown/toxic (just more yeast/wild carbonation). My 25 yo son just cracked one open and I got the nod of approval. This is special, because he kinda tells you if he doesn't like something.

slym2none - How far are you from Sarasota FL? I'm coming down for a motorcycle track day...

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Quit e a ways... at least 12 hours.

There's still a few bottles left. I had one after supper then cleaned some bottles a friend gave me - fou cases.

It was really good with a lot of head retention.

....trying this one again today if I get to it. It would be the third batch. I may just try to get the first two done.

11-1/4 lbs Rahr 2 row malt
8 oz Weyermann CaraHell 20-30 EBC / 6.1~11.8 Lovibond
10 oz Patagonia Malt C170
1 lb Weyermann CaraBohemian EBC 190-210 / Lovibond 72~79
1 lb Weyermann Crystal/Caramel malt 30-40 EBC / 11.7~15.5 Lovibond

@60 min - 1 0z BSG Chinook Bittering hop AA 14.2%
@15 min - 1-1/4 0z BSG Chinook AA 12.5%
@ 7 min - 1 oz Tenacious Badger Centennial AA8.3%
@ 1 min - 3/4 0z 0z BSG Chinook AA 12.5%