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5.5 Gallons I have put together many Mild recipes, but have never followed through with one. I may brew more if this turns out okay. I am using a neutral dry yeast for this brew because I have only one sachet left and am sick of AIPA'S. I do like the 3 - 3.5% part. Ingredients 8 lbs. UCM 6 ozs. Brown - 90 L 5.5 ozs. Crystal 120 L 3 ozs. UK Choc 400 L 3 ozs. Roast Barley - 575 L 12 g Magnum US-05 Water Profile - Brown Balanced PH - 5.50 O.G. - 1.042 - ( 95% ) What? Not sure what happened here. F.G. -  1.010 % -      4.2 SRM - 17.6 BU - 17.6                                                                            NOTES Had a ton of foam while the mash was going on. I used 1.76 qts/water per lb. of grain and it still was too thick. 95% mash efficiency? Nev...

5.5 Gallons Continuing my Amber AIPA brews to finish using these hops. Ingredients 11 lbs. UCM CaraMunich I - 8 ozs. Honey Malt - 8 ozs. Crystal 120 - 4 ozs. UK Choc Malt - ( 300 L ) - 2 ozs. 20 g Columbus 56.70 g Cascade - Hop Stand at 180 F US-05 PH - 5.42 Water Profile - Amber Balanced O.G. - 1.052 F.G. - % - SRM - 10 BU - 40 Double mill the grains on the default setting of your 16 year old Valley Mill. It may help your efficiency from 70% to the normal 81%. Using notch 4 vastly decreases the mash recirculating so much that I can't walk away because it keeps rising. I looked at it and decided it didn't need a double mill. Some were milled too much and some were not. 16 years old now, so just keep using it.                                                                  BREW DAY NOTES No disas...

5.5 Gallons Since my Conical needs work, I am using carboys most likely until next summer. A slight change of the recipe since the last one just for the hell of it. Scrubbed it with BKF, but it still needs an acid wash with PBW sometime this fall when I put it away for the winter. Get it out as early as possible next spring as I want to brew a lot of beer and not have to brew in the humid conditions of summer. Makes a lousy brew day, just hate it. Hopefully I can brew lots of beer next spring so I don't have to brew a lot in the summer. I will however, brew with Mr. Robobrew all summer long, but not have to. I just like to brew beer.   Ingredients 10.9 lbs. UCM - ( supposed to be 11, but close enough ) 8 ozs. Honey Malt 8 ozs. CaraMunich I 4 ozs. Crystal 120 2 ozs. UK Choc Malt - 300 L US -05 -                                       Pitched @ 1 pm. 20 g Columbus - 17.3% AA...