4 Dog Brewery

A Robobrew. Changed the recipe a bit. Re-using the previous Marzen yeast if it smells and tastes okay. Sick of try to clean my carboys. I guess I need to clean and get my Conical back into action. I have to do a double brewday to fill it, but may just do 6 gallons in it. Not now, but later... Ingredients 8.50 lbs. UCM 1.5 lbs. Munich I 1 lb. Barke Pils 1 lb. Vienna 12 ozs. CaraMunich I 2 ozs. UK Choc 15 g Magnum - 60 min. 26 g Hallertauer - 30 min. 28.35 g Hallertauer - 1 min. Omega 114 Bayern Lager slurry Water Profile - Amber Balanced PH - 5.39 - ( Added .04 ml Lactic Acid to mash by mistake ) Should be 5.43, should be okay. O.G. - 1.046 - 73% - Why the drop in efficiency? F.G. - % - SRM - 9.3 BU - 30 Since the previous beer seems okay, this one is a go. Slurry is in the flask. No, I am not going to make a starter, just go with what I got. I didn't get a whole lot, around 500 ml, but looks like 400 ml now. Use it and RDWHAHB. My keezer is not coo...

5.5 Gallons Using Omega Bayern 114 Lager yeast for the first time. OBK sent me this 134 day old yeast and charged me full price too, nice of them. $11.50. Not buying ingredients from them again because I am sick of their old, stale ingredients. Equipment? Yes, but that is it. Ingredients 7 lbs. Barke Pilsner 3 lbs. Munich I 2 lbs. Vienna 1 lb. CaraMunich III 1 oz. UK Choc 400 L 15 g Magnum - 60 min. 28.35 g Hallertauer - 30 min. 28.35 g Hallertauer - 0 min. Omega Bayern 114 Lager Yeast ( 141 day old yeast. 1 L to a 3.5 L starter ) Water Profile - Amber Balanced O.G. - 1.052 F.G. - % - SRM - 10 BU - 28 Brewed, cleaned up, and waiting for the wort to cool down. Pitched the yeast the next morning at 10 C. Temp - 52 F. Activity the next morning. 12 hour lag time, beats 72 hrs with WLP833. Day 1 - Nice head of krausen on top. I am losing some beer through the blow off hose, but that is because I stupidly forgot to leave room for the liquid yeast. Al...