Belgian Blond recipe, bottle conditioning guide and more

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Find Recipes Start your free trial Brew Day Bulletin Dear Homebrewer, Brew up an authentic Belgian-styled blonde ale with Jamil's Belgian Blond recipe [Free]. Don't miss our guide to bottle conditioning [Free], an essential for many Belgian styles. Drew Beechum and Denny Conn share quick tips to make sure that you are maximizing your brew day experience [Digital Members]. Dortmunder (German Export) [Digital Members] is pale lager named after the city it originated in. Are welding oxygen canisters safe to use for wort aeration? Mr. Wizard answers [Free] and offers tips for stepping up your starter [Digital Members]. Get our detailed plans for a Brutus Ten build [Digital Members]. Looking for a smaller project? Try one of these 4 tap handle designs [Free]  Cheers! Brad Ring Publisher Read & Brew: Free Content For All Recipe Jamil's Belgian Blond Jamil Zainasheff provides readers with a recipe to brew up an authentic Belgian-styled blonde ale. (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.065 (15.8 °P)  FG = 1.012 (3.0 °P) IBU = 25  SRM = 5  ABV: = 7% Ingredients 9.9 lb. (4.5 kg) Best Malz Pilsen (or similar continental Pilsner) malt (2 °L) 1.2 lbs. (560 g) cane or beet sugar (0 °L) 7 oz. (200 g) Franco-Belges aromatic malt (20 °L) Read more Article On the Yeast: Guide to Bottle Conditioning So you have finished your latest batch of Belgian ale! You brewed it and fermented it. It looks great in the secondary. Now it is time to bottle … and to bottle condition. But you wonder: Are there any tricks to emulating the great Belgian breweries and achieving the authentic Belgian ale taste? In a word, the answer is yes. Think of it like any other beer style, with a twist. Read more Miss In-Person Homebrew Events This Past Year? We Did Too! Join BYO in Denver, Colorado this November 4-6, 2021 for small-class, hands-on, in-person homebrewing workshops. Choose from over one dozen full-day classes taught by homebrewing's top experts. Ask Mr. Wizard Are welding oxygen canisters safe to use for wort aeration? Q A few batches ago I switched from using my aquarium pump aeration method to pure oxygen. Thirty seconds with pure oxygen versus 30 minutes with the aquarium pump has been a welcome time saver. I am using a stainless steel wand with an air stone connected to a red 1.4 oz. metal canister of welding oxygen I purchased at a hardware store. In my research before going to this pure oxygen system, I found very little information about the safety of using these welding oxygen canisters. I found one posting on the Web saying that using this, "non food grade," oxygen is safe because concentrated oxygen kills any possible contamination. Could you tell me if these welding oxygen canisters are safe to use for wort aeration and/or is there a better alternative for pure oxygen? A The short answer to your question is that welding grade oxygen is probably OK for homebrewing. I know that the only difference between medical grade and welding grade oxygen at my local industrial gas supply is the container the gas goes in.   Read More Project Build These 4 Tap Handle Designs Homebrewers are notorious for demonstrating that if there is an ingredient that can be ingested, it can be used in brewing beer. Well, a different take on that line of thinking is if there is an object that is the right size, you can make a tap handle out of it. Whether it's an old trophy from Little League baseball, a piece of driftwood that washed up on the beach, or emptied yeast vials — as long as you can attach a threaded insert to it and it fits, it can be displayed on top of your kegerator to help dispense homebrew. 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 Dortmunder (German Export) A pale lager named after the city it originated in. (5 gallons/19 L), extract with grain) OG = 1.052  FG = 1.012 IBU = 24  SRM = 6  ABV = 5.2% Ingredients 6.6 lbs. (3 kg) Pilsen light liquid malt extract 0.5 lb. (0.23 kg) carapils or dextrin malt 0.5 lb. (0.23 kg) crystal malt (20° Lovibond)   Read more Article More Quick Tips: Making brew day and beyond efficient To catch you up as to what's going on. Over the past five years of producing our podcast we've been offering a "Quick Tip" at the end of the program. Inspired by our own brewing practices, listener suggestions, ideas we've seen discussed by others — these tips capture the, "oh hey, yeah, this is how I do things." Oftentimes, in those throwaway comments you can find practical nuggets of beer-y gold. Read more Ask Mr. Wizard Stepping Up Your Starter Q I have been all-grain brewing for about six years. I usually did 10-gallon batches but started deliberately making 11-gallon batches and canning the extra gallon of wort in one-quart mason jars. I use the unfermented wort to make liquid yeast starters. This way I can honestly say that my entire brewing process is all-grain. Because the object of making starters is to grow more yeast, how big an increase in starter volume is required to grow more yeast? It seems that too small an increase in starter volume will only feed the yeast cells already there with no increase in cell population. The cells that are there will just eat the new wort and that will be that. I usually use a factor of 10. If the initial package contains 50 milliliters of starter, I pitch it to a 500 milliliter starter. If I step it up again it will be to 5,000 milliliters of starter. Is this the best way? A The approach you use is the conventional method used to grow yeast in commercial breweries of all sizes. The notion that feeding a yeast slurry with a small volume of wort does not lead to an increase in cell population is indeed correct. In fact most cell suspensions grown under laboratory conditions have a maximum cell density related to the environment in which the culture is grown.   Read more Project Brutus Ten Build See my cool brewery? I call it Brutus Ten. If you'd like one just like it, I have just one thing to say — build your own! Heck, I'll even show you how. Brutus Ten is a 10-gallon (38-L), single-tier brewery situated on a stainless steel frame. The temperature of the hot liquor tank and mash tun are maintained automatically by two temperature controllers. Other aspects of the brewery, such as turning the pumps on and off are done manually. If you know how to weld and have some basic electrical skills, you can make your Brutus Ten for under $2,500. Read more *Free Trial Terms and Conditions: For new members and subscribers only. Limit one per customer. Additional auto-renewal terms apply. See product checkout page for details.  Copyright © 2021 Brew Your Own, All rights reserved. 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