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Just getting started. Doing a Porter with cinnamon and sweet orange peel. Cheers! ImageUploadedByHome Brew1414250427.480479.jpg


Sent from my van, down by the river.
 
In the middle of a double brew day! Boiling the RIS and mashing the American stout.ImageUploadedByHome Brew1414261146.448526.jpgImageUploadedByHome Brew1414261171.499600.jpg

And a shoutout to my friend JP, owner of the local LHBS and who's equipment I'm using...ImageUploadedByHome Brew1414261313.416173.jpg


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had a great time at the DIY Brewhouse in Columbia, SC with Catdaddy brewing his RIS.

I bought my own ingredients for an All American Imperial Red Honey Ale that i crafted for my 2nd AG batch. Big grain bill but i want a big beer! Gonna brew next weekend with Catdaddy's help. Cheers... and Go Cocks!!

https://www.brewtoad.com/recipes/ass-kickin-american-imperial-red-honey
 
Whew! Just finished cleaning up and finally sat my tired rump down after a partigyle brew session. It was a bit hotter than I hoped for outdoors so I'm a bit more drained than my mash tun. I have high hopes for both these beers, RIS and American stout. I will pitch later tonight after the Gamecocks take on Auburn... Maybe I'll need a big stout by the end of the game. Lol


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I brewed last night but wasn`t sure I was going to be able to right up until the last minute.

Cooper`s OS Stout Kit
5 lbs CDN 2 Row
.75 lbs Chocolate Malt
.25 lbs Crystal 120L
8 oz Hershey`s Unsweetened Cocoa powder
14 oz lactose
14gr Cooper`s Ale yeast rehydrated
0.75 chocolate extract (bottling)

One hour mash for all the grains. One hour boil adding the cocoa powder and lactose at 15 minutes left. The stout kit was added at flameout. No hop additions on this one. Bitterness will come from the stout kit (and cocoa powder maybe). I topped the fermenter up to 23.5 litre (over shot a little) and the OG came in at 1.062. It`s sitting in my fermentation chamber at 18C and the krausen is just now starting to form (about 14 hours since pitching the yeast). I intend to add about 0.75oz of chocolate extract at bottling.

I`m going to call this one my Cooper`s Triple Chocolate Milk Stout.
 
I guess Oxy Clean is as easy to get as anything else. That said, I was thinking....what if I scrubbed everything out "clean" and then sanitized by swishing around and/or wiping all the potentially contaminated items with Vodka or Everclear several times (in order to increase exposure time). Alcohol is a pretty effective sanitizer and it is not a chemical that we are avoiding ingesting. it is expensive I suppose but I am not advocating total immersion in vodka...just liberally and thoroughly wiping everything with it.

Any thoughts on this out there?


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Well, didn't squeeze it in over the weekend, but I'm doing a little 3 gallon experiment with some Cascade hops I picked on two occaisons from a friend's garden. It's going to be an American Amber, partial mash/extract. 1/2 oz fresh hops that were vac sealed and frozen in a jar added at the beginning of a 30 minute boil, and 1 oz that was picked later when the cones were browning on the bines and I finished drying and vac sealed in bags...at 15 minutes. Another dried ounce for dry hop. The hops weren't handled as they should have been, but I want to see how a small batch turns out. Pitching White Labs East Coast Ale yeast...and crossing my fingers!

Edit: I'm putting the two hop additions to the boil in nylon bags to easily remove them before pitching the yeast. The frozen ones will not be thawed before adding them to the boil.
 
Saturday I am brewing up 10 gallons of HI nelson saison... My modified version. Also brewing up 5 gallons of my house ipa for a guy in the brew club as a trade for 3 tap handles he turned for me.
 
Today brewed an oatmeal stout with chocolate and coffee additions so it essentially turned into a lower abv breakfast stout. Tasted and smelled amazing.
 
Going to try the Flying Monkeys Smashbomb recipe in the 2014 Ontario Craft Brewery calendar.
 
I need to brew my Christmas beer this weekend so it's ready in time. Last year we put our Christmas card on a beer label and gave out three cases. Same plan this year. Using the NB Red Brickwarmer recipe again. It was a winner. I might just spike up the Orange zest a little though this year.
 
My holiday ale has been bottled, came out at 12.08%. Working on a peanut butter milk stout. Air lock has been bubbling for 11 days now. Moving to a secondary this weekend and adding the PB2 and cocoa nibs.
 
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