Winter Wheat - Brew Morning

It's another Sunday morning brew. This time I'm changing my wheat recipe. Still powered by Chocolate Cheerios.

40% German Pilsner
40% White Wheat
20% Winter (Red) Wheat

1 oz. German Hallertau hops

Re-harvested American Farmhouse Blend yeast plus Jolly Pumpkin Weizen Bam (Wood barrel fermented Farmhouse Weizen) dregs. 

I'm hitting a ferulic acid rest, protein rest, alpha and beta rests and a mash-out. Ferment one week, then split the batch, 2 gallons into the keg, 3 gallons into a glass fermenter which will be secondaried in the fridge for three weeks.
 

 Filling the kettle

 Chocolate Cheerios

 Re-harvested yeast

 Heating strike water

 Ferulic Acid Rest

 Protein Rest

 It's the color of milk!

 A little wake up

 Alpha Rest

 Reading material

 The skins

 Dog

 Same dog

 Pumpkin Creeper and his little friend

 My yeast library

 Jolly Pumpkin Weizen Bam (oak barrel aged, wild yeast and micro fauna fermented)

 Jolly Pumpkin Weizen Bam (in the correct glass)

 My own Farmhouse Wheat (hybrid wheat/pilsner glass)

 Snacks

 "Get off my lawn!"

 Yeast and dregs, hydrometer.

 Siphoning the wort to the fermenter

 Obi-wan practices his violin

Royal Oak Symphony Orchestra Fall Concert

Homegrown Apples, Homemade Pie!

Belgian Dark Strong Ale - Brew Morning

Early morning Belgian Style Dark Strong Ale brew day. The base for the recipe is from Michael Dawson (thebeerengineblog.com and chopandbrew.com). I went with Brambling Cross hops, only a half ounce. Everything went well, but my efficiency suffered a bit, I ended up with 1.070. Powered by Chocolate Cheerios.

A Small Fall Bonfire

American Style Red Ale

This is my second batch of an American Style Red Ale. It is on the far right of the spectrum as Reds go. It is coming from the keg, and there is still a bit of chill haze in it but it is clearing up. I bottled some as well. Tastes good, the recipe: 

Ingredients:

9 lbs. two-row pale

1 lb. carapils

1/2 lb. carastan

1/2 lb. crystal malt, 60L

1/2 lb. crystal malt, 120L

1/4 lb. roasted barley

1/2 oz. Columbus hops

1-1/2 oz. Cascade hops

Re-harvested California Ale yeast

American Farmhouse Pumpkin Pale

This is a pale ale which I used American hops, an American Farmhouse Blend of yeast, some pumpkin in the mash and grains of paradise.

Farmhouse Wheat

This is a wheat ale brewed using an American Farmhouse Blend yeast, I added Jolly Pumpkin Weizen Bam dregs to increase the sour note and also performed a short 109 degree rest to increase the clove presence.

Bohemian Pilsner

This is my second lager, a Bohemian style Pils.

Belgian Dubbel Fermented in a Pumpkin

This is a Belgian Style Pumpkin Dubbel fermented inside a pumpkin sealed with beeswax.