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 Mr. Robobrew Brewing a lager which I really didn't want to brew at this time. No over build this time, as I am concentrating on Kolsch beers. I did buy 2 sachets of 34/70 I will use at a later date. For now. Wyeast Pils 2007 is just about ready to use.  Ingredients 11 lbs. GTA Pils Malt 8 ozs. Wheat Malt 4 ozs. Acid Malt 28 g Saaz at 60 min. 5 g Magnum at 60 min. 56 g Hallertauer Mittelfruh at 10 min. Wyeast Pils 2007 Water Profile - 75/25 RO/Spring 3.75 gallons RO in mash and sparge 1.25 gallons spring in mash and sparge O.G. - 1.052 F.G. -  1.014 % -      5 SRM - 3.4 BU - 22 I will do a fast ferment on this batch. I hope that using an aromatic malt ( which Weyermann described ) I can still get a good Pils malt taste. If not, it will be a good clean lager. These beers using this new malt are tasting just like those Polish lagers I buy at the LCBO. I would like to use the Polish hops they use if I can find them. I found them but maybe next spring or early ...

 Robobrew Another shot at a blonde ale. This time with new malt and a new water profile. If it sucks, well, this style will be my last. Yes, it sucks. I have no idea why everytime I brew this style of beer, it is just bad. Never again. Ingredients 11 lbs. GTA Pils Malt 8 ozs. Munich II 8 ozs. Vienna 4 ozs. Acid Malt Czech Saaz - 30 g at 60 min. German Magnum - 10 g at 60 min. Hallertauer - 56.70 g at 10 min. US-05 Water Profile - 75/25/RO/Spring O.G. - 1.048 - 79% F.G. -  1.010 % -      5 SRM - 3.7 BU - 30                                                                     Brew Notes A normal brew day. Nothing went wrong, but of course, clean up during the winter sucks. Do what you have to do though. I got like 1 - 2 gallons of murky trub in the carboy. This wort would just not totally clear. I ...

 Conical I completely dissembled the Conical to give all of the parts a good clean. The dump elbow had a layer of calcium inside it which looked like it was put in there on purpose. Oxiclean overnight took it all away, which surprised me since it was there for what? 15 years? This will be cleaned on a regular basis. Blickmann suggests that after every 5-6 brews, you should not brew for 2 weeks to let it passivate, so I should do this again at that time. This is where I always wanted to ride through. Arizona, USA Ingredients 22 lbs. GTA Pils Malt 1 lb. Wheat 8 ozs. Acid Malt - ( 2.1% ) 20.5 g German Magnum at 60 min. 56.70 g Hallertauer at 60 min. 113 g Hallertauer at 10 Imperial G03 Dieter ( 4 L starter with over build in a 500 ml jar ) * yeast pitched at 8 am Nov 22 ) * Water Profile - 75/25 RO/Spring 6.75 gallons RO in mash 2.25 gallons spring in mash 7.50 gallons RO in sparge 2.50 gallons Spring in sparge O.G. - 1.054 - ( 85% mash efficiency ) F.G. -  1.012  % -  ...

 Robobrew Made this last year with little thought put into it. One of my best beers from last year. Hope to repeat it. Ingredients 9 lbs. Pils Malt - ( all I have ) 6 ozs. Brown Malt 6 ozs. Choc UK 3 ozs. Crystal 120 Thomas Faucett UK 2 ozs. Carafa Special III 28.35 g EKG US-05 O.G. - 1.032 - 66% F.G. -  1.009 % - 3 SRM - 18.2 BU - 16.4 Water Profile - Brown Balanced CA - 51  MG - 5 S04 = 70 CI - 56 PH - 5.50                                                                BREW NOTES I didn't get a good efficiency on this beer today. The abv will be around 2.7%. No matter because this is what I want, but yea, kind of low. Will mill my grains on notch 4 for now on.  Day 1 - Not much activity. Day 2 - Not much more, if anything. Kind of cool though, like 64 F. Looks like it will be going by       ...