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 Conical - ( Brewed 29 batches of beer this year and maybe half were drinkable ) Plan on doing much better in 2021. I will be brewing Kolsch beers for 2021. I like them, easy to brew and I want to carry only one yeast slurry in the fridge at a time. Robobrew for the rest of the winter and Mr. Conical when spring comes. Ingredients 22 lbs. GTA Pils Malt 1 lb. White Wheat Malt 8 ozs. Acid Malt 125 g Hallertauer Mittelfruh at 60 min. Imperial G03 Dieter Kolsch yeast Water Profile - 75% RO                          25% Well ( I think I can get away with 25%, we will see. ) I am not going to do a late addition of hops and the bigger system seems to amplify it too much compared to my Robobrew which needs a little at the 10 min. mark. I am not doing a 10 min addition now. O.G. - 1.052 - ( 90% ) F.G. - 1.010 % -     5.5 SRM - 3.3 BU - 20                     ...

 I have an empty ferm chamber and 2 sachets of 34/70. May as well make a Helles and be done with it for 2020. Ingredients 10 lbs. GTA Pils 8 ozs. wheat 4 ozs. acid malt 62 g Saaz at 60 min. 2 sachets of 34/70 Water Profile - 75% RO and 25% Spring Since this is a lager, I am going to aerate this wort, but just toss in the 2 sachets of 34/70. I can't remember using it before. O.G. - 1.042 ( 79% efficiency ) Back to a normal reading. F.G. -  1.010 % -      4.2 SRM - 3 BU - 20 I really need to buy a big accurate pitcher for adding RO and spring water to my mash. I seem to be getting not enough water and sometimes end up with too much water. Dollar store may have something. Wort tasted great. I pitched the yeast at around 10 pm on brew day. The temp the next morning said 8.5 C. Set it for 10.5 C so am wondering about the 2 C difference. Set it for 11.5 C.                                 ...

 Just tossing this together and decided to use US-05 instead of a liquid yeast that definitely needs stepping up. Besides, I need to use this yeast as much as I can, bought it, use it. Ingredients 5 lbs. Marris Otter 5 lbs. Canada 2 row 1 lb. Simpsons Crystal 40 6 ozs. Thomas Faucett 120 28 g Challenger at 60 min 36 g EKG at 10 min. 20 g EKG at 0 min. US-05 Water Profile - Amber Balanced No spring water with this as I am going with brewing salts and RO water.  O.G. - 1.046 F.G. - % - SRM - 9.4 BU - 27                                                          BREW NOTES The 2 qts. water/lb. of grain seemed to work well. However, I am not sure how the beer will turn out with a high ratio like this. It didn't seem to be overly thin when I mashed in. Will know around Xmas, but will be painting so it may sit longer than usual. Wort is clear...