Improve your cloning skills and more

Plus, Imperial Brown Ale clone recipe, shortening the brew day, multiple bottle filler project and more

Find Recipes Start your free trial Brew Day Bulletin Dear Homebrewer, Read our recommendations to improve your cloning skills [Free], including how to make your own clone. Then brew this week's clone recipes: Nøgne Ø - Det Kompromissløse Bryggeri A/S: Imperial Brown Ale clone [Free] and Oskar Blues Brewery's IPA clone [Digital Members]. The craft community has long accepted adjuncts like wheat and oats while others like corn and rice continue to draw disdainful looks. We want to change that perception [Digital Members]. Mr. Wizard shares some ideas on how to shorten your brew day [Free], and this DIY multiple bottle filler [Free] will also help you save time.  Learn when to replace silicone hosing [Digital Members] and how to build your own mixing valve [Digital Members] to achieve a precise temperature for mashing in or lautering, without the need for electronic temperature control.  Reminder: our next live chat [Digital Members] takes place on June 18 with Michael Tonsmeire (aka The Mad Fermentationist, Sapwood Cellars Co-Owner/Brewer, and author of "American Sour Beers").  Cheers! Brad Ring Publisher Read & Brew: Free Content For All Recipe Nøgne Ø - Det Kompromissløse Bryggeri A/S: Imperial Brown Ale clone "A dark brown English ale in which classic English malts meet the spicy hoppiness of the New World." (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.079 FG = 1.021 IBU = 40 SRM = 17 ABV = 7.5% Ingredients 11 lbs. (5 kg) Thomas Fawcett Maris Otter pale malt 1 lb. 11 oz. (0.77 kg) wheat malt 1 lb. 11 oz. (0.77 kg) Munich malt 1 lb. (0.45 kg) caramalt malt Read more Join us for two full days of in-depth learning about both the business and brewing sides of running – or starting up – a small-scale craft brewery. BYO NanoCon will take place November 6 & 7, 2020 in San Diego, California at the Crowne Plaza Mission Valley. Article Improving Cloning Skills Cloning — brewing a near-exact replica of a commercial beer — has a time-honored place among homebrewers. For one thing, it's a great risk-aversion technique: If you're brewing something new and you're worried about getting a dog of a recipe, a simple way of increasing your odds of getting a decent recipe is to turn to a clone recipe. Someone must think it's OK, right? People pay to drink that beer!  Read more Ask Mr Wizard Shortening the Brew Day: Mr. Wizard Q I am an all-grain brewer and I was thinking of ways to lessen the wrath from my wife over how long it takes to brew. One idea I came up with was to mash and sparge (which takes about two hours) the night before, collect the runoff and store it. Then the next day start my boil and be done with that in two hours. Will I run into any contamination or other problems? A Whenever I am thinking about alternate approaches to brewing methods I usually ask myself if my idea or something akin has been done previously. To me there is comfort in precedence, especially in a craft as old as brewing. Your question does have precedence and an example of splitting wort production into two phases can be seen with malt extracts. But instead of prolonged storage of un-hopped wort you want to just briefly store it before resuming the brew day some eight to 12 hours later. Read More Project Build a Multiple Bottle Filler: Projects Bottling just takes too long. Wouldn't you like to have a multi-head bottling machine, like the pros? Unfortun-ately the models at the commercial breweries can cost upwards of $20,000. We believe you can build a multi-head bottling machine for under $50! Read More For Digital Members Only Members get access to thousands of recipes, all new BYO issues and more. Try membership risk free for 14 days.* Brew Better. Try Membership, Free!* Recipe Oskar Blues Brewery's IPA clone Pleasant and drying bitterness brings citrus, melon, pepper, and wine grape aromas and flavors alive in this exclusively Australian-hopped, West Coast style IPA. (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.059 FG = 1.010 IBU = 70 SRM = 6 ABV = 6.4% Ingredients 11.4 lbs. (5.2 kg) North American 2-row pale malt (1.8 °L) 1.32 lbs. (600 g) pale wheat malt (2 °L) 0.33 lb. (152 g) Simpsons Premium English Caramalt (25 °L)   Read more Live Chat Michael Tonsmeire, June 18 Article Unmalted Adjuncts: It's okay to flake out sometimes When we first got involved in homebrewing there was one thing almost every homebrewer could agree on — we weren't going to brew like those big, flavorless breweries out there. No sir, we were going to make real beer the real way without any dodgy ingredients — true brews for true beer aficionados. Read more Ask Mr. Wizard Silicone hosing lifespan Q How many times can you reasonably use flexible silicone hose, the kind most homebrewers use for siphoning? I tend to start with a new hose, use it to rack cooled wort or green beer five to ten times, then convert the hose to fermentation blow-off tubes. After one use as a blow-off tube, the sucker is pretty well stained and I throw it away. Am I overusing my hoses? If not, how can I squeeze more use from them? Would high temperatures (from hot wort) running through the hose impart any off-flavors? Also, what effects does alcohol have on stainless steel? I always wipe down my equipment before and after I brew to ensure sterility. I was wondering if this practice is potentially harmful to my equipment. Thanks for the help. A The hoses used in homebrewing are similar to the hoses used in beverage and food-processing plants, except the industrial-grade hoses are reinforced to increase their pressure rating and usually covered by a durable protective outer covering to increase ruggedness in a plant environment.   Read more Project Mixing Valve: Projects Every time I travel I try to visit the local breweries and, if I can, do a brewery tour of each of the establishments. After touring a few breweries I found that every one does things a little bit differently in their proce-dures, but when it comes to the equipment there are definitely some standard tools of the trade. One of those tools that I have frequently seen used in microbreweries is the mixing valve. Read more *For new members and subscribers only. Limit one per customer. Additional auto-renewal terms apply. See product checkout page for details.  Copyright © 2020 Brew Your Own, All rights reserved. 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