Monday, December 7, 2009

Ella Loves the Homebrew Shop

Paul's Pride ESB

2009 Batch #10 - Paul's Pride ESB
(brewed 12/06)



11 lbs. Maris Otter Pale info
.5 lbs. Crystal Malt 60°L info
.25 lbs. Crystal Malt 120°L info
1.5 oz. East Kent Goldings (Pellets, 5.00 %AA) boiled 60 min. info
.5 oz. East Kent Goldings (Pellets, 5.00 %AA) boiled 20 min. info
1 oz. Fuggle (Pellets, 4.75 %AA) boiled 1 min. info
Yeast : Fermentis S-04 Safale S-04 info
Mash Schedule
* 153° F for 45 minutes
* 170° F for 10 minutes

Other Notes:
  • Brewed at Ryan's
  • Used his new Automill - it is nice
  • Hops schedule was based on what I already had at home
  • I just wanted to mess around with 120° on this one
  • OG came in high again (1.060 vs 1.058), I even adjusted my mash efficiency from 65% to 69% when calculating the recipe
  • Good times

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

UPDATE: Poochie Porter

2009 Batch #9 - Poochie Porter
Brewed: 11/8 OG: 1.060
Bottled: 12/2 FG: 1.014
ABV: 6.0%
Bottle yield: 26 12oz, 11 22oz, 3 750ml, 1 650ml
Primed @ ~2.0 CO2 volumes with ~2.9 oz cane sugar
Gold caps marked with a "P"