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Fort George Brewery: Suicide Squeeze IPA clone recipe, cleaning beer glasses, heated mash tun project, and more

Find Recipes Start your free trial Brew Day Bulletin Dear Homebrewer, If you've been looking for an excuse to brew your first sour beer, wanting a tart fruit-bomb in the emerging "Florida Weisse" style, or trying to find a way to make a 14% ABV sour stout, kettle souring might be the answer [Free]. Fort George Brewery: Suicide Squeeze IPA clone recipe [Free] is packed with Mosaic® and Citra® hops. In this Smoked Wee Heavy recipe [Digital Members] hop levels are deliberately low; this beer is all about malt. Don't miss our guide to advanced draft designs for homebrewers [Digital Members], plus project plans for a heated mash tun [Free] and a custom beer fridge [Digital Members]. Mr. Wizard explains the do's and don'ts of cleaning beer glasses [Free] and when and how to filter homebrew [Digital Members]. Cheers! Brad Ring Publisher Read & Brew: Free Content For All Recipe Fort George Brewery: Suicide Squeeze IPA clone 5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.044   FG = 1.008 IBU = 48   SRM = 6   ABV = 4.7% Ingredients 8.4 lbs. (3.8 kg) 2-row pale malt 0.25 lb. (113 g) crystal malt (40 °L) 0.5 lb. (0.23 kg) flaked oats 2.8 AAU Mosaic™ hop pellets (60 min.) (0.25 oz./7 g at 11% alpha acids) Read more Join BYO for in-depth, four-hour online workshops taught by trusted experts Don't miss six upcoming live and interactive online workshops on All-Grain Brewing, Yeast Lab Skills, Brewing Water, Recipe Formulations, Brewery Financials, and Homebrew Experiments. Article Overnight Acidification While sour beers aren't the "next IPA," at a minimum it's the next Bourbon-barrel imperial stout. As a humble man, I can only give my book American Sour Beers (Brewers Publications, 2014) 80-85% of the credit for this recent spike in popularity! Now it seems that aging time and cross-contamination concerns are the prime reasons many homebrewers buy rather than brew sours. From brew-day-to-glass a traditional mixed-fermentation spans an excruciating 4 to 24 months. Read more Ask Mr Wizard Cleaning beer glasses? Q Can you explain the do's and don'ts of cleaning beer glasses? A With beer glasses, the don'ts are much more critical than the do's. The biggest no-no is leaving any type of soap or fat on the glass surface. These compounds will ruin beer foam before it ever has a chance. Just last night I had a delicious hefe-weizen served in a traditional 0.5 liter weizen glass. When the beer came out it had a thin, pathetic crown of foam sitting sadly on top of the beer. I swirled the beer in hopes of creating some more foam and had no success. What little foam that was present didn't even cling to the glass I as swirled in vain. The problem was the glass – some compound was interfering with my beer foam! The real tragedy was that this happened at the same brewery where I work.   Read More Project Build A Heated Mash Tun Mashing is one of the most defining steps of the brewing process. This step will define the fermentability of your wort and affect mouthfeel, flavor and even head retention of your beers. This was the reason why I started looking for precise and accurate mashing equipment. 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 Smoked Wee Heavy (5 gallons/19 L, partial mash) OG = 1.070  FG = 1.022 IBU = 18  SRM = 15  ABV = 6.7% Ingredients 2 lbs. (0.91 kg) pale malt 1 lb. (0.45 kg) medium crystal malt (50 °L) 0.5 lb. (0.23 kg) flaked oats   Read more Article Moving Beer: Advanced draft designs Keeping a draft system running can be complex enough that it's some people's full-time job. The goal of any draft system is to dispense beer without changing the carbonation level designed into the product, at the correct serving temperature, with proper head, and very low beer loss. This becomes complex when you have different beers at different carbonation levels on the same tower. The largest system I have had responsibility for was 90 faucets. Read more Ask Mr. Wizard Filtering Homebrew Q I am wondering what information there is on doing a double filtration of my homebrew. I have to perform a secondary and thought I could filter at 5 microns. Then when the secondary was done, I could filter at 1 micron to filter out the yeast. Is that a reasonable way to filter homebrew for kegging? I'd like to know if there are better ways to filter as well. A The first question that really should be answered is why do brewers filter beer? Some brewers filter beer to make it clear and pretty, some filter beer so that they don't have to wait weeks for yeast to settle out and want the yeast out for flavor reasons, others use sterile filtration to guard against beer spoilers that may be in their beer and other brewers filter because most beer is filtered and they are simply going with the flow. All of these reasons, except for the last, are good reasons to filter as long as these reasons are aligned with your needs. But if you want to filter just for the sake of filtering, you really should reconsider your reasoning.   Read more Project Build a Custom Beer Fridge After years of homebrewing, we had dialed in a few recipes that we really liked. However, with each batch we brewed, there was always some variation in the final product. After doing a bit of research and speaking with other homebrewers, it became glaringly obvious that fermentation temperature played a much larger role in the outcome of the beer than we had given it credit for. And so the idea for our fermentation fridge was born. 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. You were subscribed to the newsletter from Brew Your Own Our mailing address is: Brew Your Own 5515 Main St Manchester Center, VT 05255 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.