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Heritage Estate Charnonnay - Wed. Jan. 15, 2020

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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...

Cavan IPA - Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020

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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...

Stewart Line Lager - Monday, January 20, 2020

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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...