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I brewed an all grain Maibock yesterday with mostly German Pils malt. I read online that a 90 minute boil (never did one before) is a good idea to drive off DMS from the pils, so I decided to do it. One problem: I forgot to change my boil length time on the recipe software so I ended up using...

interesting. Doubt my LHBS would have it though.

Lots of good replies, guys. Probably will back off a bit on the caramel20 next time I brew this since I don't believe true viennas should have THAT much c20 in the bill. Maybe back down to 1 pound of it and throw a pound of light munich in. It is definitely hard to hit the BJCP color requirement...

So, I'm currently enjoying a Vienna lager that I kegged a week ago. I made 3 gallons, all grain. I just started experimenting with caramel malts. I'm not sure why I forgot about the guidelines for how much of the grain bill should consist of caramel malts, because I've definitely read it...

Brewed a fest bier 10 days ago. Fermenter was set at 50 and bumped to 52 the other day. Used 34/70 dry yeast. Usually, my lagers clear up and floc out pretty well on top. This batch has a pretty solid layer of gooey yeast on top still and bubbling has just about ceased. I did notice this ferment...

They were but they would probably be pretty well guarded.

That's a pretty cool event. Amazing that so little information exists. There had to be tons of log books from brewmasters of the time.

Their flagship brew was a 9 months long aged lager called TruAge. They had an extensive (for a small regional brewery) stock house. I think it was. 200,000 bbl stockhouse. They also brewed a porter and seasonal beers like an Easter bock and "Christmas beer", which was probably a pretty dark bock...

Oh, I would bet they absolutely wrote the recipes down. I wouldn't doubt that some of the writings were bogus during prohibition times since the breweries were only allowed to legally produce near beer (0.5%) which involved the de-alcoholization after fermentation was complete (if they...

It's the standard Brewing co in Scranton, Pa. I actually have loads of info on it, even down to the brewmaster's name. Closed in 1954. Lots of cool prohibition bootlegging stories for that brewery too. I figured a recipe would be a total long shot and probably involved corn and watering down the...

Great info, thanks. I've done loads of research on one particular local brewery just by reading old newspaper websites like newspapers.com. Simply amazing how these old breweries were able to pump out 200,000 bbls a year before so much automation and easy transport. I do wonder how they would...

Absolutely, I wouldn't think the recipes or forumulations for modern products would be available. But I figured there would be a loss of rights to something that was made 100 years ago, especially when the owners of the recipe went under 60 or so years ago.

Hmm, I certainly did a bit of assuming there...I just figured that the brewers would have had to provide their recipe details considering the restrictions on ABV and even some ingredient restrictions during wartime. I thought I had heard that somewhere. Maybe I just completely imagined it!

I'm a homebrew nut (obviously) and also a bit of a history nerd. I've gotten pretty interested in the local brewery history of my town, which had quite a few breweries in the early 20th century. One thing I've never been able to find is recipe info from any of these breweries. No historical...

All great advice. It might be a better idea to just join to local home brew club and have other brewers test out your stuff. Although they may not be honest face to face!

Ha, it's interesting...I went to the LHBS intending to brew a marzen with totally different ingredients. But my LHBS is incredibly hit or miss with availability to the point that my entire grain bill and hop schedule had to be changed. They were even out of 34/70 dry yeast. But this was the...

I wasn't able to attend the awards ceremony, and I'm not sure if they announced them there either, but the winning scores were never posted on the competition website.

Good info. Unfortunately for my area, there may only be 3 competitions a year MAX, unless of course I mail them out to regional comps. To be honest, it's a bit disappointing that both competitions I entered had nearly 200 entries and neither seemed to have ranked judges. At least not for the...

Yeah, that's what I figured. I don't live in a big metro area and the competitions around here always struggle to find enough judges. I guess it was a "just for fun" event and I shouldn't expect too much. But it would be nice to get feedback from some legit judges. Otherwise, I might as well...

One was ranked an "experienced judge" and a bjcp apprentice. The other was also ranked an "experienced judge" but did not put down a bjcp rank or status.