Vin Blanc IPA recipe, stainless steel care and more

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Find Recipes Start your free trial Brew Day Bulletin Dear Homebrewer, Denny's Generic West Coast IPA recipe [Digital Members] produces a clear, refreshing beer with a bracing bitterness and loads of hop flavor and aroma.  Here are some tips to improve your yeast wrangling skills [Digital Members] and take care of stainless steel [Free].  Use a dry white wine like Sauvignon Blanc in this Vin Blanc IPA recipe [Free].  Mr. Wizard troubleshoots the "Reverse Step Mash" [Digital Members] and explains how to handle high OG measurements [Free].  Build a bier wagon [Free] as a DIY Oktoberfest project or a custom beer fridge [Digital Members] to fit the unique needs of your homebrewery.  Cheers! Brad Ring Publisher Read & Brew: Free Content For All Recipe Vin Blanc IPA (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.064  FG = 1.014 IBU = 58  SRM = 5  ABV = 6.4% Ingredients 9 lbs. (4.1 kg) Pure Idaho Pilsner malt 3 lbs. (1.4 kg) white wheat malt 0.5 lb. (0.23 kg) Vienna malt Read more Article Stainless Steel Care: Tips From the Pros Ashton Lewis — Former Master Brewer at Springfield Brewing Company in Springfield, Missouri Stainless steel is a terrific material used for brewing equipment because it is resistant to corrosion, easy to weld, affordable, and malleable. This makes it a good metal to use in cold-forming operations such as tube and tank fabrication. Read more Learn Big Ideas for Small Craft Breweries - And Save $100 Join BYO for NanoCon Online with 30+ live seminars and panels covering the brewing and business strategies you need to be successful in the changing small-scale craft brewing niche. Register by October 11 to save $100. Ask Mr. Wizard High OG Measurements Q I've recently brewed 10 gallons (38 L) of an imperial IPA. I fully expected a high gravity beer, but I didn't know how high. When I went to take my OG, it was out of the readable range (up to 1.080) of my hydrometer. In the future, what would be the best thing for me to use to be able to get my OG? I'm not very familiar with refractometers (and I do not own one) and was wondering if this would be a worthwhile investment A The easy thing to do here is to stick to lower gravity beers and you won't have to address this problem. But if you are like most homebrewers and craft brewers who don't find my humor funny, then my suggestion would be to purchase another hydrometer. Since hydrometers operate on a linear scale, the delineations of the scale are related to the range of the scale, for example 1.000 to 1.080, and the length of the hydrometer. You could have a short hydrometer with a wide range, but it would be difficult to read. Generally, longer hydrometers with smaller ranges are more accurate.   Read More Project Build A Bier Wagon My wife and I throw our annual Strausstoberfest party every year on the last Saturday in September. This occurs during the traditional Oktoberfest celebration. Oktoberfest is synonymous with beer, awesome food and a certain amount of over the top pomp and circumstance. For the last part, I decided that the beer I've spent the last couple of months caring for MUST have a grand entrance. With that in mind, I present you with my design for a bierwagen to roll your keezer around on. 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 Denny's Generic West Coast IPA You want a clear, refreshing beer with a bracing bitterness and loads of hop flavor and aroma. No thick, low bitterness beers that taste like orange juice. (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.069 FG = 1.012 IBU = 72 SRM = 12 ABV = 7.5% Ingredients 13 lbs. (5.9 kg) North American 2-row pale malt 1.5 lbs. (0.68 kg) crystal malt (60 °L) 16.5 AAU Chinook hops (60 min.) (1.25 oz./35 g at 13.2% alpha acids)   Read more Article Yeast Wrangling You become a yeast wrangler the first time you homebrew. It's not really a choice you make. The yeast wrangling life chooses you. We all have different reasons why we got into homebrewing: Whether it was to theoretically save a few bucks, have a hobby that your friends and family can also enjoy, or explore your love of beer in a hands-on way. Read more Ask Mr. Wizard Troubleshooting The "Reverse Step Mash" Q "These two enzymes, though they work in concert, behave differently in response to changes in mash thickness and mash temperature. This is because of the difference in their stability at high temperatures. Alpha-amylase has an optimal range from 149 to 158 °F (65 to 70 °C). The optimal range for beta-amylase is 126 to 144 °F (52 to 62 °C)." I perform Brew-in-A-Bag, and am researching mash thickness, then I came across this information in BYO which got me thinking about the temperatures of mashing. If we need the alpha-amylase for the primary process of breaking down the starch molecule chain, then beta-amylase to clip off maltose. Reading the optimum temperatures for these enzymes, then why wouldn't mash temperature profiles have a stand at "149 to 158 °F (65 to 70 °C)," then back the temperature off to "126 to 144 °F (52 to 62 °C)" to optimize conversion?   A The old alpha and beta amylase temperature conundrum! It does indeed seem that the temperature optima for these two enzymes is reversed for the purpose of mashing. Beta amylase produces maltose by "biting" off maltose molecules from the non-reducing end of starch molecules.    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 *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. 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.