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10/06: Splitting a Festbrew kit with Duinker, not much going on other than that - Equipment is scattered around Ontario. Am itching to do a batch when I get home though.

Beer Recipes

Brew #12 (Imperial Porter/Baltic Porter) - Extract with Grains
aka. Abaddon #2
December 8, 2004
Helpers: Space and assistance by Paul Bazinet
Ingredients:
3 kg Dark liquid malt extract (UCMalting)
1 kg Dark dry malt extract
500g Crystal
500g Chocolate Malt
84g Northern Brewer 7.5% alpha (45 mins)
30g Northern Brewer 7.5% alpha(15 mins)
30g Williamette, 4.5% alpha (aroma)
California Ale (WLP001) yeast from brewery.
8L Boil, 14.5L Total Batch Size
OG 1.090
FG 1.030 at racking
7.88% abv at racking
Racked to secondary December 19.

Brew #11 (Cinnamon Chocolate Imperial Stout) - Extract with Grains
aka. Silent Night
November 23, 2004
Helpers: Me. This was a Jeff McCauley Brewery beer.
"Sleep in Heavenly Peace"
4.5kg unhopped Dark Liquid Malt Extract
500g Dark Dry Malt Extract
100g Northern Brewer hops (60 minutes)
100g Cascade hops (35 minutes)
25g Cascade hops (10 minutes)
110g black patent (1/4 lbs)
220g crystal malt (135-165)
110g roasted barley
220g choc. Malt
5 ounces unsweetened baker's chocolate (20 minutes)
2.5 ounces cinnamon (10 minutes) (Mistake - should have been teaspoons!)
Dry British Ale Yeast
OG 1.064
@ racking 1.026
FG TBD
Alcohol: TBD%
7L water for boil, 20L total batch volume. Steeped grains for 25 minutes while water brought to a boil, removed.

Brew #10 (Apple Cider) - Cider
aka. Something Snappy TBD
November 23, 2004
3 gallons Wellesey Apple Juice
1 cup dextrose
3 tsp acid blend
3 tsp. potassium sorbate stabilizer
Lalvin EC-1118 Yeast
OG 1.054 (just juice)
OG 1.062 (w/ dextrose)
FG 1.00
Alcohol: 8.2% pre-mix
Alcohol: TBD post-mix
Boiled a saucepan with the dextrose and added it to juice, and 3 tsp of acid blend.
Plan is to cut it with unfermented juice when it is finished. If it ferments to 8%, adding the juice will bring it down to 6%. Gravity on Dec 8 was 1.010 so I left it longer. Racked Dec 17, 1.000, added 1.5 tsp of sorbate.

Brew #9 (Strong Ale) - Extract with Grains
aka. Firestarter
October 5, 2004
Helpers: Jeff and Geoff
200g British crystal 50-60L
Boil: 75 minutes 12 liters
6.7kg liquid Amber malt extract
125g Northern Brewer (7.5% AA, 75 min.)
28g Northern Brewer (7.5% AA, 15 min.)
28g Northern Brewer (aroma)
Whitelabs WLP001 yeast from brewery.
OG 1.074
FG 1.032
Alcohol: 5.5% abv (predicted)

Buggered this up nicely. It started out as a barley wine, but we had a boil over (and a small ring of fire!) so we lost some malt that way, and then I misread the hydrometer and added a couple of liters more to the bucket thinking I needed to reduce the OG. D'oh!
Got home the next night and the yeast had climbed out the airlock! Cleaned and sanitized it and replaced it. Apparently it was a fairly active fermentation!
Oct 11 - Racked to secondary. 1.054. Hmmm... Oct 17 - Checked gravity. 1.036, 1.032 at bottling. Too much effort to change the label %.

Brew #8 (Pumpkin Ale) - Extract with Grains
aka. Jack Skellington Pumpkin King Ale
October 3, 2004
Helpers: I was Graphic Designer and Wooden Spoon Engineer on jeff's (tupalev) recipe
Ingredients:
2.2lbs Amber Dried Malt Extract
3.4lbs Light Dried Malt Extract
1oz Goldings (60 mins)
1oz Goldings (10 mins)
13.5oz Crystal Malt
35oz E.D. Smith Pure Canned Pumpkin (baked on a pan for 40 minutes @ 275F)
1oz Pumpkin Spice
1oz Nutmeg
1oz Ginger Root (chopped)
1oz All Spice
3 Cinnamon Sticks
OG 1.050
FG 1.012
* Steeped Crystal Malt from until boil (approx 20 minutes)
* At start of boil added extract, 1oz Goldings, pumpkin, and 1/2 of the spices.
* At 50 minutes: rest of the spices, hops, and cinnamon sticks
Cooled wort, pitched yeast 72 degrees.

Brew #7 (Imperial Porter/Baltic Porter) - Extract with Grains
aka. Abaddon
Helpers: Geoff and Matt
Ingredients:
First brew in a couple of years now, using slightly more advanced equipment.
600g Cara 60L
600g Chocolate Malt
5.5kg Dark liquid malt extract *
56g Northern Brewer 7.5% alpha (60 mins)
28g Northern Brewer 7.5% alpha (45 mins)
14g Northern Brewer 7.5% alpha(15 mins)
28g Williamette, 4.5% alpha (15 mins)
California Ale (WLP001) yeast from brewery.
OG 1.098
FG 1.032
8.6% abv
* = I had a spill in the car and lost about 50-100g of malt extract, plus the bits stuck to the insides of containers. Ground the grains using a manual grinder. Steeped grains in 20L of ROH2O between 150 and 160 degrees for 30 minutes. Added malt extract and brought to a boil. This took forever so in actual fact the brew was at a near boil for a good half hour or more before it "boiled". Brew stayed at just shy of boiling for the whole time so we got a very high rate of evaporaton. Between that and a premature stopping of our siphoning process we probably only netted about 14-15L or wort. Hopefully this turns out well. If nothing else it gets us back in the brewing game.

Turned out rather nicely, didn't ferment out as low as anticipated which left a lot of unfermented sugars (and thus a lot of sweetness). Also screwed up the carbonation process so it is quite still. I think to repeat it I will scale it back to the 6-7% range and get it to carbonate next time!

Tasting notes by Jeremy, January 2006
Black body with a thin oily chocolate coloured head. (3/5) Sweet malty aroma is a touch muted with a slight note of acidity. (6-7/10) Flavour is heavy on the tongue. Quick chocolate up front with sweet dark malt that gives way to lightly acidic roast. (7-8/10) Full bodied oily palate (4-5/5) Underlying hints at complexity are tantalizing, but it is fairly simplistic on the surface.

Review by Tupalev, 2004
Loved the colour, black with an almost purple haze to it. Flat, as you said it would be, although a few rogue bubbles tried to make it to the surface. A very sweet aroma greets the nose. The mouthfeel is a syrupy one, but it quickly thins out, just about as soon as you start trying to identify the many flavours. Again, it is here that I thought it could have used some carbonation. A sour bite at the start, with tons of chocolate flavours gives way to a wonderful slightly sweet finish, with just a hint of hops. My wife commented as well how much she liked the finish on this beer. I found it to be very enjoyable and quite drinkable, although it was heavy on the stomach - I probably couldn't have had another one after dinner. With some minor tweaking - more carbonation and perhaps a little less malt extract/choc. malt, this could be an even better beer.

Brew #6 (Pale Ale) - Extract with Grains
aka. Moose Drool #2
Ingredients:
6 lbs Dark Liquid Malt extract
350g Carastan malt
1 oz Cascade hops (60 mins)
1 oz Cascade hops (30 mins)
1 oz Cascade hops (15 mins)
10g dried ale yeast
OG 1.054
FG 1.016
5.25% Alcohol

January 20 - Steeped Carastan in 8L until boiling. Added malt extract (may have scorched it a bit, I'm not sure.) Added Hops. Cooled. Added to 5.5L cold H20 in the bucket. Pitched rehydrated yeast.
January 25 - Racked to secondary. There was a TON of yeast and gunk at the bottom of the bucket!
February 1 - Bottled. Primed with 250g of dextrose, realised that that is way too much.. not sure what I am going to do about that.

Tasting: More bitter than planned... A bit overcarbonated even after I "burped" them. :) Maybe try it with pale extract and different hop levels?

October 28 - Steeped Carastan in water until it boiled, added extract and Northern Brewer hops. Added Cascade with five minutes left in boil. Cooled in sink and added to 10.5L of cool water in the bucket. Pitched rehydrated yeast.
October 29 - Airlock bubbling nicely.
November 9 - Racked to carboy. Gravity was 1.016. Tasted the hydrometer sample and it was quite bitter! Wow...
November 23 - Bottled. FG 1.016 Taste has mellowed a lot. Still bitter but yummy bitter...
December 10 - Taste has improved a lot, but still more bitter than planned. Not enough malt to balance it...?

*Not sure what temp was when I took OG so it may be higher... The recipe calculator at hbd.org says it should be around 1.050 OG and 4.4%. Either way it's not what we were aiming for!*

October 23rd - Warmed honey in some juice, and added it to the juice already in the bucket. Shook the bucket up a little. Probably should have added honey first. Im not sure how well the honey was mixed in when I took the hydrometer reading... A day or so later the airlock was bubbling so furiously I could hear it in the other room! Wow!
November 1 - Racked to secondary, added 2 handfuls of Raisins.
November 9 - Racked off to another carboy to remove raisins. It's clearing nicely I think.

August 11
Pitched yeast into cider. Airlock bubbling nicely within 24 hours or so.
August 21
Racked to secondary
September 3
Add PS to prevent renewed fermentation and add dextrose (600g) to sweeten it.

Comments: Pretty dry at bottling time, even at only 5%, but dextrose sweetened it up nicely.
Drinkable, but not very fruity. Probably try the Wyeast cider or mead yeasts next time for sweeter,
more fruity drink. We shall see if it mellows any with age.

Brew #1 (Pale Ale) - The First Cralizia Ale
aka. Ten Nights In A Barroom
Ingredients:
1 Can Bru Mix Pale
1 kg pale Malt Extract
.5 oz Cascade Hops
Danstar Windsor Yeast
3/4 cup corn sugar (To prime - carbonates it)

Procedure:
January 20, 1999
1:30PM - Boiled about 8L of water, sanitized equipment.
1:50 - Bru Mix added when H20 was boiling.
2:00 - ME added
2:35 - Hops added
2:50 - Turned off heat, began cooling. Cooling took about 15-20 minutes, prepped yeast in bowl.
Pitched yeast and took it downstairs, put airlock in place. 1:15AM - Checked it before bed and airlock was bubbling nicely!
Jan 24 5:40 - Racked to carboy, and added 30g of brown sugar to try and get more fermentation going.
Feb ? - Bottled on a thursday, after 2 weeks in carboy.
Feb 25 - I tried my first one. It's quite yummy. Geoff is already halfway through his supply! Slightly more carbonated than necessary.

Hypothetical Beer Names
Some prospective names I was thinking of using for future batches.

Seraphim, Abbadon, Gabriel, Aslan, Star of Abaddon Anise porter
Azrael, Bartleby, Stygian Triple
Angry Bear, Polar Bear Pale, Fishing Bear Brown
Calvin & Hobbes: Transmogrifier (w/ a cardboard box tap handle), Killer Snowmen,Calvin & Hops
Get Fuzzy: Bucky Kat Kolsch, Satchel, Old Tunabreath, Minions of Stan Imperial Stout, Ductwork Exorcist, Siamese Chicken Fight, Rhesus Pieces, Beaver Invasion
Harry Potter: Phoenix Tears, Wonky Wand Wheat, Hogwart's Hooch, Krum Kolsch, Severus
Simpsons: Apu's IPA, Wiggum's Wheat, Homer's Hefeweizen, Lisa Lager, Bouvier Bock, Hellfish Helles,Fudd, Scotchtoberfest, "Eat my Schwarzbier", Isotopes Eisbock, Old Dr. Nick, Krusty Kolsch, Duffman Dark, Stonecutter Imperial Stout, Bent Wookie Weisse, It Tastes Like Burning, Bleeding Gums Red, Lemon Tree Witte, Dolphin King
Winnie The Pooh: Piglets Honey Wheat, Rabbits Red, Roos Brew, Kanga Kolsh, Gophers Golden, Eeyores Eisbock,Poohs Orchard Cider
Hoptimus Prime
Broken Heart Bitter
Abduction Ale
Cralizia Ale, The Golden Duke,Jacob Daniel Anniversary Stout
My Mommy Said Im Extra Special ESB
Yeti Barleywine
Abominable Snowflake (Strong Weiss)
Falcons Breath, Wallaby Wheat
PC:Memories Of Burton on Trent
Ledbetter Lager
Albino Wit
50 Mission Cap, Springtime In Vienna, Barilko Bock
Islander Ale, Prince Edward IPA
Not You... The Rabbit, Abnormally Small Ale
Yeast Poop
Sang Froid
Friar Tuck's Abbey Ale, St. Augustine Ale
Aristotle Ale, Freudian Schlitz
Litigation Lager
King Jeremy's Wicked Brew
Rouge Chapeau
Ishmael
Boondock Bock, Webslinger Wheat

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