Archive for November, 2014

Oppigårds Brewery – great article

Posted: November 13, 2014 in Article, BREWERY

Oppigårds

In this Swedish article you get a good insight in a very nice small Swedish Brewery. Please use Google Translate to get the article right in your local language.

http://jordskog.com/2014/11/mikrobryggeriet-som-blev-byns-storsta-arbetsgivare/

Please also read more at http://www.oppigards.com

Xmas Brown Ale 2014

Posted: November 8, 2014 in Brewing, Home Brewed, Recipe

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Today we decided to brew the HumleDumle Xmas Brown Ale 2014.

Challenge to get the recipe right. We decided to try for this Xmas a new Wyeast 1217 West Coast IPA Direct pitch Activator. Also during the planning we totally mixed up our inventory. So for now we improvised totally in the grain mix. Instead of using Pale Ale malt as a main we decided to go for Pilsener Malt instead. Also som of the Muncher malts was less in stock than expected.

Anyway we are confident that the new mix will generate a very tasty beer.  Hops we haven’t yet checked. Imagine how exciting these sessions get. In work very structured brewing beer you go along and just do. The process always creates a great beer to taste.

For this Xmas we decided to go double volume. Please enjoy our two different recipes. This one today in this blog post. They will be posted in the Recipies section  for you to try out.

Xmas feeling is coming closer!

Merry November brewing feeling to you all//

 

HD Xmas Brown Ale 2014 (Cascade)

Style: American Brown Ale
Type: All Grain Calories: 193.48
Rating: 0.0 Boil Size: 25.93 L
IBU’s: 39.19 Batch Size: 20.00 L
Color:   23.3 SRM   Boil Time: 60 minutes
Preboil OG: 1.052

Estimated Actual
Brew Date: 08/11/2014
OG: 1.059
FG: 1.018
ABV: 5.38 %
Efficiency: 70.00 % 0.00 %
Serve Date: 20/12/2014
Grains & Adjuncts
Amount Percentage Name Time Gravity
448.00 g 7.38 % Weyermann Pale Malt 60 mins 1.038
95.00 g 1.57 % Weyermann Munich I 60 mins 1.038
5.00 kg 82.40 % Weyermann Pilsner 60 mins 1.038
300.00 g 4.94 % Weyermann Caramunich III 60 mins 1.037
200.00 g 3.30 % Weyermann Chocolate Wheat 60 mins 1.035
25.00 g 0.41 % Fawcett Black Malt 60 mins 1.034
Hops
Amount IBU’s Name Time AA %
18.00 g 21.43 Chinook 60 mins 13.10
15.00 g 6.82 Goldings, East Kent 60 mins 5.00
12.00 g 4.19 Goldings, East Kent 30 mins 5.00
15.00 g 5.76 Cascade 30 mins 5.50
10.00 g 1.00 Cascade 5 mins 5.50
Yeasts
Amount Name Laboratory / ID
1 vials Wyeast West Coast IPA Wyeast Labs 1217
Additions
Amount Name Time Stage
1.00 ml Irish Moss 60 mins Boil
Mash Profile
Profile Name: All Grain Profile 1
Grain Temp: 70.00 °C Mash Tun Vol Loss: 0.75 L
Grain Absorption: 0.13 L/kg Tun Temp Loss: 4.50 °C
Cooling Shrinkage: 4.00 % Kettle Trub Loss: 0.75 L
Hourly Boiloff: 9.00 %
     Mash Steps:
Infusion 120 min@65.0°C
  Add 15.81 L water @ 74.5°C
Batch Sparge
  Sparge 19.54 L water @ 76.67 °C
Water Profile
(none)

Fermentation Steps
Name Days / Temp Estimated Actual
Primary 14 days @ 21.0°C 08/11/2014 08/11/2014
Secondary 14 days @ 22.0°C 22/11/2014
Bottle/Keg 14 days @ 23.3°C 06/12/2014
Carbonation
Bottle Carbonation
Desired Vol of CO2: 2.00 Vols
Beer Temperature: 73.40 °C
Residual CO2 in Beer: 0.79
Table Sugar Required: 129.42 g
Notes
Humldumlekola

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