4 Dog Brewery

I like this style of beer better than stout. Always creamy, ( even without oats, flaked barley ). I use my stout faucet without nitro as it is just too bloody expensive. An overnight hit of C02 brings out just enough C02 to give it a somewhat creamy head with the stout faucet. I guess this is a poor man's version, yup, that is me. Ingredients CMC - 8 lbs. Crystal 120 - 5.5 ozs. Choc Malt - 3 ozs. Roast Barley - 3 ozs. Special III - 1.8 ozs. 35.4 g EKG at 60 min. 11.5 g US-05 - ( spare sachet ) Mash Water - 4 gallons - ( Mashed at 154 F ) Sparge Water - 5.25 gallons Water Profile - Brown Balanced CA - 50 MG - 6 SODIUM - 15 S04 - 70 CI - 56 PH - 5.50 O.G. - 1.032 - ( 75% ) F.G. -  1.008 % -     3 SRM - 17.6 BU - 17.6                                                          BREW DAY I forgot to calibrate Mr. Robobrew when I mas...

I made my final decision of what style of beer I am mostly going to brew. Kolsch. Brewers Pantry for now is selling Pils Malt for $76 a sack. That is reasonable, since everything else is stupid expensive. NEW PAC OF WLP029. OVER BUILD NUMBER 1. Ingredients 11 lbs. CMC 6 ozs. Munich II - 9 L  8 ozs. Wheat 5 ozs. Acid Malt 30 g Tettnanger at 60 min. 26.9 g Hallertauer at 60 min. WLP029 - After transferring 1 L of starter to the mason jar, I was short 500 ml. Corrected it                   for the next brew. O.G. - 1.049 - ( 86% ) F.G. -  1.010 % -       5 SRM - 3.4 BU - 19.4 Water Profile - David Heath ( You Tube ) CA - 37   MG - 7 S04 - 70 CI - 35 PH - 5.35 MASH - 6 Gal SPARGE - 5 Gal I am switching the amount of water in my mash and sparge. I will use less mash water so I can use my top plate more easily. I will make it up in the sparge and also not worrying about going to the 8 gallon mark in Mr. Robob...

I didn't take a gravity reading, I forgot and really don't care. I will though check the gravity along the way to make sure everything is fine. Now it gets warm in the day and quite cool during the night. Since I am going away for a few days, I have no control over the fermentation temp. I assume the OG is around 1.090 to 1.092 which I get 99% of the time.  O.G. - 1.092 10 day gravity - Friday, November 12 - .0094 F,G, - Didn't take one.  % - Bottled On -  Dec. 5 or later. Not as good as the last one, but this is bottling day as it may be kind of early to judge it. I used a course filter on my wine and it does leave some shit behind in the bottle. Next time, filter using the course and polishing filter. I bet I will still end up with the same amount of wine due to the 2 stages of filtering absorbing wine.