4 Dog Brewery

Ingredients 11 lbs. Rahr 4 ozs. Crystal 40 28 g US-05  16.6 g Citra FWH 113 g Citra at 0 min. 113 g Citra dry hop in keg - ( May use more ) Mash and Boil -  5 gallons each Water Profile - 4 Dog Brewery CA - 80 CI - 51 S04 - 201 PH - 5.32 Mash and Boil Salts Gyp - 4.2g CI - 1.5g Eps-  3.7 g O.G. - 1.050 ( 90% )  F.G. -  1.010 % -      5.3 SRM - 4 BU - 27 The last of my Citra hops. I hope they don't fade. The last one seems to be hanging around a little longer than the previous one before that. Load em up with hops!!!                                                                      BREW DAY An uneventful brew day. Actually cooled it too cold and had to turn on the wall heater for an hour or so to get to pitching temp. I just tossed in the dry yeast with no hydration. I was ...

 Using the ingredients I have on hand to throw this together. I bought a sack of 2 row and a brick of yeast, so there is no reason at all to buy extra ingredients for this bitter. It will be fine. I will be mashing at 154 F. I have read that some brewers mash at 158 F, but I am not doing that for now. I did go to 156 F for awhile because I don't want a thin beer. I don't really expect a lot out of this as I used 2 row. But, Brew Dudes did a side by side brew using 2 row and Maris Otter. They said there was not a big difference between the 2 of them. All about the specialty malts and the hops I guess. I will keep buying 2 row as it is the cheapest malt around. This stuff is very expensive. The high prices are definitely stopping me from brewing more styles of beer as the ingredients and shipping are just too high. It can sit on the shelf forever for all I care. I bought my sack and brick of ale yeast and that is what I am using for the rest of 2023. Well, not quite. I bought som...

This is basically the same recipe as the last one. Down to finishing off the 7 lbs. of hops I bought from the GTA Brews on Sept. 2020. They are 2019 hops though. After this batch you have enough hops for another batch and that is it. You will have around 75 g of Citra hop. After this batch you will have 33 lbs. of 2 row left.  11 lbs. Rahr 4 ozs. Crystal 40 28 g US-05 ( Rehydrated ) 10.70 g Citra - FWH 13 g Citra at 20 min. 11 g Citra at 5 min. 55 g Citra at 0 min. Add all of the remaining hops in the little jar to a santized muslum bag and add to the keg. There is 134 g.  O.G. - 1.044 F.G. -  1.010 % -     4.5 SRM - 4 BU - 27 PH - 5.32 Yellow Balanced from Bru'n Water CA - 50 CI - 60 S04 - 75 Mash Water - 5 gallons Sparge Water - 5 gallons Mash and Sparge  Gyp - 1.4 g CI - 1.7 g Eps - 1.6 g Lactic Acid in mash - 2 ml Lactic Acid in sparge - .2 ml                               ...