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6.3 L from The Wine Shoppe O.G. - 1.090 Racking Gravity - .0998 - Thought it would be lower. Added stuff on Jan. 29. F.G. -.995 %  -   12.8 Since I am not allowed to buy Costco Wine kits, ( which are cheaper than this one ) I bought this. Instructions are different but I will follow them since they made the kit. I am way behind of wine kits. I should of been making wine months ago. I will continue to make this for the time being.                                                              NOTES Day 1 - Put it all together. Day 2 - Going good by the smell in the bathroom. 74 F. Turned heat down a bit. Day 3 - 70 F. Turned heat up a bit. -20 C outside. Day 4 - S...

5.5 gallons. For the first time I am going with a true IPA water profile. May as well, my water profile is not working out so well. Ingredients 11 lbs. UCM 1 lb. Breiss Crystal 40 1 ozs. Weyermann de-bittered black malt - 500 L 14 g Simcoe at 60 min. 28.35 g Simcoe at 10 min. 28.35 g Simcoe at 5 min. 28.35 g Simcoe at 1 min. 70 g Simcoe at 0 min. ( hop stand ) Escarpment Cal Ale Water Profile - ( the electric brewery - IPA ) PH - 5.40 O.G. - 1.050 F.G. - % - SRM -8.4 BU - 45 Using all 6 ozs. of Simcoe since I am thinking on buying 5 lbs. of Chinook from UCM if they have it. Price is right - $59.00 for 5 lbs. = $11.80 a lb. Very good price. They closed down, should of bought it last fall.                                                             Brew Day Notes Forgot to secure the sparge arm. Lost...

5.5 Gallons Same water profile, but may change up the hops a little bit, depending on what I have in stock. UCM has closed down for good and I wish I had ordered those 5 lbs. of Chinook hops. Ingredients 11 lbs. UCM 8 ozs.. Munich I 12 ozs. Carapils 17 g Magnum at 60 min. 28.35 g Hallertauer Hersbrucker at 60 min. 63 g Tettnanger at 30 min. 55 g Tettnanger at 10 min. 28.35 g at 0 min. ( 5 min. after cooling starts ) Escarpment Labs Biergarten ( from over build ) Water Profile - BoPils ( all salts added to the mash ) PH. 5.30 Made a 1 L starter to a 3 L starter which will give me lots of lager yeast but way, way below what the pros use. Good, I am not a pro brewer... O.G. - 1.054 - 90% Efficiency F.G. - % - SRM - 3.5 BU - 43.3 I have around 5 - 6 days after kegging the previous lager to decide on what level of hops I want to go with for this brew. I can taste it and decide if I want to keep this water profile, or go with Jever boiled which is higher i...