| Learn about wheatwine [Free], barleywine's quirky craft cousin. | | | This Grodziskie recipe [Free] makes a good base for other flavor and includes a "New England Grodziskie" variation that's got a lot more of that hoppy, herbal, spicy flavor. | | | Firestone Walker Brewing Company: Union Jack clone [Digital Members] is an aggressively hopped West Coast IPA that finds its balance in hone-like pale malt sweetness. | | | Go beyond just reading about experiments to actually experimenting with your homebrew. Start here: Testing your Hypothesis: Experiments you should do [Digital Members]. | | | Here's how to turn a chest freezer to a kegerator [Digital Members] and build a burner igniter [Free]. | | | Mr. Wizard answers reader questions on silicone hosing lifespan [Digital Members] and how long beer stays fresh in a keg [Free]. | | Cheers!
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Grodziskie 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)
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Wheatwine Most homebrewers are quite familiar with barleywine, a very strong ale with English roots and modern American craft interpretations. However, many have not heard of wheatwine, its quirky craft cousin. As with many wheat beers, a grist of at least half wheat malt is typical, but a wheatwine is not just a barleywine with a higher percentage of wheat. It's quite a bit more sophisticated than that. Many examples play up the "wine" angle and seek strong aromatics and a lean body rather than being a malt bomb, but interpretations vary widely.
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How long will my beer stay fresh in a keg? Q I am thinking of kicking the bottle habit and kegging my beer instead. My biggest concern is storage temperature and how long my beer will stay good in a keg. I've seen some articles that say the beer will only stay "fresh" for 45 days. Depending upon my brewing and travel schedules, I've had some beers in bottles more than 45 days and they stayed good. Do I have to dedicate a refrigerator to maintaining a constant beer temperature and drink it all in less than 45 days?
A The topic of beer shelf-life and freshness after packaging does not have any hard and fast rules because beers differ in their ability to stay "fresh" after packaging. In general, beer flavor changes much more slowly over time when stored cold. "Freshness" is affected by numerous variables, but the key factors for unfiltered beers are microbiological contamination, oxidation and yeast autolysis.
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Build a Burner Igniter For the last two weekends, I've been fortunate enough to return to my back porch "brew house." One consequence of outdoor brewing is having the flame of my propane burner blown out by the wind. This always seems to happen when I have put the long-nosed butane match away downstairs. So I thought, why not make igniting the burner as easy as pushing a button? What brewer wouldn't want that?
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Firestone Walker Brewing Company: Union Jack clone According to Firestone Walker's Brewing Co.'s website "This aggressively hopped West Coast IPA showcases stunning pineapple, citrus and piney aromas along with exceptional dry hop flavors of grapefruit and tangerine. This intense brew finds its balance in hone-like pale malt sweetness. The name Union Jack is a nod to the colonial origins of the IPA style, and to the British expatriate who co‐founded our brewery."
(5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)
OG = 1.070 FG = 1.015
IBU = 70 SRM = 7 ABV = 7.5%
Ingredients
12 lbs. 5 oz. (5.6 kg) Rahr Standard 2-row malt
1 lb. 6 oz. (0.6 kg) Great Western Munich malt (10 °L)
11 oz. (310 g) Carapils® malt
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Testing Your Hypothesis: Experiments you should do In the always-ongoing quest to improve the beer they produce, homebrewers have become enamored with experimentation. Experiments about hops, experiments about malts, experiments about water, maybe even experiments about experiments! But there's a hole in the boat . . . homebrewers are reading about experiments, but not many are actually doing experiments. Why let someone else tell you how to brew your beer?
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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. At first glance, a commercial-quality brewery hose looks like a completely different beast than the typical homebrew hose.
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Chest Freezer to Kegerator (Keezer Collar Build) When I returned to homebrewing in 2008 after a several year-long hiatus, I quickly tired of bottling beer on the kitchen floor. Wha t was once no big deal had became a pain in my backside, literally, and I quickly began looking for kegging solutions. Finding several successful freezer conversion projects on the web convinced me that the method does indeed work — e.g. running a freezer at refrigerator temperatures.
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