tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56385509906555881322024-03-12T19:34:08.081-07:00SaltCityBrewSupplySaltCityBrewSupplyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11498470673964562035noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5638550990655588132.post-39083955909727233612018-07-06T10:42:00.000-07:002018-07-06T10:42:28.859-07:00Wheat beer, and Wheat in Beer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Wheat beers have a long history and
wheat was quite possibly the original grain used to make the first
grain-based alcohol beverage, but in reading the history of that
matter, there seems to be quite some argument about what came first,
so we won't get into that. In either case, while these days barley
certainly is king when it comes to the base grain used to make beer,
the addition of wheat can make for a very refreshing and palatable
drink that can come in many forms. Hefeweizen is probably the most
obvious, but there are also <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/scbsdunkleweisse.html" target="_blank">Dunkelweizen</a>, Weizenbock, American Wheat,
Belgian Witbier, Berlinerweisse, <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/scbs-gose-recipe-kit.html" target="_blank">Gose</a>, Grätzer, and other styles
where a little wheat is appropriate. In fact wheat can be added to
almost any style to gain some extra body and head retention.
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The June recipe was an American Wheat
with <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/citra-hop-pellets-us.html" target="_blank">Citra</a> hops. This is a really easy beer to brew, and an easy beer
to drink that can be enjoyed by almost all beer drinkers. The trick
with many wheat beer styles is time. Many beers benefit from a few
weeks of aging/conditioning before they are drank. However, the low
alcohol and hazy nature of wheat beers lend themselves to drinking
young. This is opinion of course, when any fermented beverage is
“best” is entirely up to the drinker. But, drinking a wheat based
beer fresh is a different experience than letting that same beer age.
The nuanced flavor of the wheat shines through, with a soft “wheat
flavor” reminiscent of wheat crackers and fresh baked whole wheat
bread. Unfortunately this character tends to fade pretty quickly.
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There are some tips when brewing your
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Use <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/rice-hulls.html" target="_blank">rice hulls</a>. If your grain bill
includes more than 20% huskless grain, such as wheat, rye, or flaked
grain, then you need to add the husk back in. Rice hulls are a great
way to do this. If you do brew-in-a-bag mashing, then I wouldn't
worry about rice hulls until you get into the 80% range.
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Use a blow-off tube. Wheat beers can
ferment pretty aggressively, and if you have a 5 gallon batch in a
6.5 gallon fermenter, you will likely lose beer out the top. Using a
blow-off tube can make this loss less violent.
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Watch those fermentation temps. This is
a good idea with any beer, but especially when using the
weihenstephaner hefe weissbier strain of <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/stefon-imperial-yeast-g01.html" target="_blank">yeast</a>, you can get a
drastically different tasting beer with the temperature you ferment
at. Warmer (69<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">º</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">+)
can give you big banana flavors, while cooler temps (low 60</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">ºs)
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">We
always hear people say, “I don't like wheat beers.”, but after
talking with them, they have really only tried German Hefeweizen
style beers, that probably are not very fresh. Wheat can do so much
more. So, experiment with this versatile grain and maybe try
something you haven't had from the liquor store. If you have been a
wheat naysayer, you might just change your mind. </span>
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Should you add fruit to a beer? Well, fruit in beer isn't just a recent fad, in fact it is probably how most fermented grain beverages started. While there may be a lot of debate to what came first, wine or beer, from the research I have done, it seems like early feremnters put whatever items could ferment together into a fruit/grain mixture that would get them drunk. Fast forward several thousand years, and the German/Belgian/France area of Europe started adding fruit mixes to their (now well defined) beer in the early 1900. These were called Radlermass or just Radler, and then in England changed to Shandy. These were typically 50/50 blends of citrus juices mixed with a light beer style. These big fruity beers can stretch the definition of what most beer lovers call "beer", but they are a nice drink to have in the hot summer months.<br />
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You don't have to go to a 50/50 mix however. Both homebrewers and craft brewers alike, love to add subtle fruit flavors to their base beer styles, and when done correctly, can be pleasing to even the most staunch beer geek. So, how do you do it?<br />
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There are a couple things to consider when adding fruit to beer:<br />Simple is probably better. You don't want to muddy up the waters too much. While you can find complex mixtures that work well, having a simple beer style for the base will let the fruit flavor show up better and brighter in your beer. Also, too many fruits can leave people confused about what they are drinking. You might like Bananas, Strawberries, and Cantaloupe on a fruit plate, but those might not mix well in a beer.<br />
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Pasteurize your fruit. Picking up apples from your backyard, crushing them and throwing them in your fermenter might feel like a throwback to simpler times and more "natural", but there is wild yeast, mold, and bacteria all over the fruit even when washed and throwing them into a sugary environment could create off flavors, or spoil your beer. Mash up your fruit and heat it to 160 degrees for 10 minutes to kill the unwanted microbes. Don't boil it though, this can kill some of the fruit flavor and coagulate proteins that can leave your beer hazy. Using a <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/beer-brewing/adjuncts-spices/fruit/grapefruit-puree-49-oz.html" target="_blank">pre-packaged puree</a> can let you skip the pasteurizing process, since it has already been done for you.<br />
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You can put fruit in your beer at any time during the process. The mash, the boil, the primary fermentation, or secondary. As a rule-of-thumb however, the later on in the brewing process any flavoring is added, the brighter that flavor will be during consumption, so there are some things to consider. If you want to simultaneously make your beer and pasteurize your fruit, you can add your fruit to the end of your boil (flameout, while cooling). If you don't typically do secondary, you can add pasteurized fruit to the end of your primary (it will ferment again for a bit and push out the oxygen that was introduced when adding the fruit). If you want to add it to secondary, you can add the pasteurized fruit to a sanitized bag and add it there too. The bag will help with clarity before you bottle or keg.<br />
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How much fruit to add is a popular question, however this is very subjective. What is a lot to one person may be too subtle for another. I would say that 2-5lb of pureed fruit is most common in a 5 gallon batch of beer, but remember, that the base style of beer matters too. While 2lbs of raspberries might be almost too much for cream ale, it may barely register as a fruit beer in an imperial stout. See the AHA chart for a good jumping off point.<br />
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favors from fermentation are mellowed. Yeast re-absorb some of the ester compounds from fermentation as well as some of the sulfur compounds. Malt tannins coagulate with haze-forming proteins and precipitate out along with some sulfurous compounds. Temperatures should remain very stable during lagering, generally in the range of 33-36 °F. Contact with oxygen at this point is very detrimental to beer favor and
should be avoided at all costs. Lagering time depends on many factors. If a cold secondary fermentation was employed, then the length of the lagering period can generally be decreased. A lagering period of two to eight weeks is typical.The higher the ABV of the beer the longer you may want to lager also. </span></span></span></div>
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We usually like to include a historical reference to what we are writing about, but there doesn't seem to be much historical documentation on this. The Founders brewery seemed to have stumbled upon their Breakfast Stout when a chocolate covered espresso bean was eaten at a bar, then washed down with a stout. The resulting beer has been a popular seasonal ever since. Homebrewers however, have been adding this for decades, from what we have heard stories of, and it makes sense since beer and coffee have a lot in common. We're sure there is a big middle section to the Ven diagram showing the crossover between people that like coffee, and people that like beer. There are even similarities in the detractors of these beverages. Prohibition against beer consumption is well known, but attempts have been made over the history of coffee to outlaw its use as well. Not to mention some religious opinions on the consumption of both coffee and beer.<br />
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The similarities are not just social however. Indeed, when talking about the popularity of IPAs and how some do or don't like the bitterness of them, we liken it to coffee drinkers. More than likely when someone starts drinking coffee they don't love the bitterness, and end up buffering the seemingly acrid taste with milk or cream, or sugar, or chocolate... or all of these, but as coffee drinkers become more used to the taste, they realize it is the bitterness that is drawing them in. Same with bitterness in beers. It is there to balance the sweetness of the drink, but people find themselves pushing that bitterness level to the extreme, because there is an appeal to that sensation when done correctly. So, it makes sense to add coffee flavor to not only stouts, but even light colored beers. Combining the two products is something akin to providence (take that religious groups), it was just going to happen.<br />
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So how do you do it, well we pieced together the following from several sources including our own experience. <br />
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<b>Directions:</b><br />Grind or smash whole beans to a coarse or medium grind then cold brew or hot brew the coffee to add to your beer. Or, you can add the grounds (or whole beans) directly to your secondary fermentation. <br /><br /><b>Hot vs Cold brewing coffee:</b><br />- Hot brewing is just regular old coffee making. It’s an easy way to pasteurize your coffee if you are adding it later in fermentation, and while it does pull flavor out of the beans quickly, it can pull some acids and bitterness out of the beans.<br />- Cold brewing uses cold or room temperature water to get the flavor out of the beans, but without as much bitterness. leave sit for 12-24 hours then strain your grounds from the water. <br /><br /><b>When to add the coffee to your beer:</b><br />- Pre-boil/boil additions can give you better head retention in your final beer, and totally pasteurize your coffee, but can minimize the coffee flavor and kill delicate aromatics of fancy coffee you might be using.<br />- Primary fermentation additions will increase coffee flavors and retain most subtle flavors of beans, but can reduce the head retention of your beer. Coffee bean oils = reduced head.<br />- Post fermentation additions are easy to do, and you can do it to taste before you keg or bottle. Just add till you get the desired coffee flavor amount you like in your beer. Head retention could suffer, and using cold brewed coffee could potentially be harboring infection causing contaminates.<br />
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<b><br />How much coffee to add:</b><br />- 12-20 oz of coffee per 5 gallon batch<br />
- Amounts can very wildly however due to the strength of coffee being brewed, the kind of beer it's being added to, and personal preference of the person drinking it. <br /><br /><b>Dry Beaning (like dry hopping):</b><br />- Add your ground beans to secondary. Use a fine mesh bag, to reduce grounds in your final product. Leave beans whole for less color extraction of the bean, but this will extend the steeping time needed to achieve the desired flavor contribution to your beer.<br />
- Use whole beans if your want less dark color extraction, but you will want to increase your steeping times for the same amount of coffee flavor. <br />
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Cold extraction process =<br />Add .5 lbs of coffee to 24 oz of cold filtered water in a sanitized container. Allow to sit in the fridge for 24 hours. Then run it through a coffee filter. All or part may be added depending on taste.<br />-from "Radical Brewing" By Randy Mosher.<br />
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For subtle coffee notes try a coffee malt like the recipe found on the Montly Brews site.<br />
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Pale Ales and Bitters can be very
similar in flavor, so why the different naming conventions? Well,
there seems to be some debate on why different people, in different
parts of the world name beers the way they do, and indeed even the
source material used to figure things out seem to contradict each
other. But, it seems that generally speaking, Northwestern Europeans,
prior to the 16<sup>th</sup> century called grain based fermented
beverages that were flavored/bittered with a myriad of botanicals
“Ales”, what we might now call “gruit”. After the adoption of
hops for bittering, the newer standardized naming convention was "beer".
It would take some time, but Ale then became synonymous with beer, and would be used
interchangeably in most parts of the world. Starting in the 19<sup>th</sup>
century, brewers and malting companies started to produce a paler malt product
that could be used to make very light colored beers, to which many
breweries in northwest Europe started referring to as Pale Ales as a general term for light colored beers.
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While we here in the US might think of
the Standard Bitter as being an age old British product for hundreds
of years, it seems the term wasn't really used much, or at all, until
World War II. Then the word Bitter was more of a distinction from
<a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/beer-brewing/extract-kits/ale-extract-kits/scbs-myld-ale-recipe-kit.html" target="_blank">Mild</a> ales to note the more-bitter version of beer that
was being produced, and was not derived from a branch of Pale Ales brewed at the time.
So while a hop forward British Pale Ale of the time may have closely
resembled an English Bitter, they came from different styles of beer
making and (I'm guessing here) were probably separated more by
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Today, the <a href="https://www.bjcp.org/" target="_blank">BJCP</a> does distinguish
between Pales Ales and Bitters. Style 11 - British Beers, splits
Bitters into 3 categories: Ordinary Bitter, Best Bitter, and Strong
Bitter. Style 12 – Pale Commonwealth Beer, uses this vernacular to
describe light colored “...bitter ales from countries within the
former British Empire.” and also refers to 18b. American Pale Ale,
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It seems that for now “Bitter” has
been solidified as purely a naming convention for British beers while
Pale can originate from not only England but from anywhere. Bitters
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So, when brewing a Bitter of any kind, work on that strong malt backbone with traditional English malts, then hop it to a amount very noticeable while still balanced, and you will create your very own Bitter! There is a great recipe available on the <a href="https://monthlybrews.com/collections/november-box" target="_blank">Monthly Brews</a> website for November you can fill it at your Local Homebrew Shop, or right from their website. Note your IBUs and ABV if you plan on entering it in competition so you know in which category to enter. <br />
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<br />SaltCityBrewSupplyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11498470673964562035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5638550990655588132.post-54491362187688081092016-11-15T16:17:00.000-08:002016-11-15T16:17:15.414-08:00Use your Mr.Beer® Fermentor for All-Grain Brewing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You got a Mr.Beer® beer making kit, and have brewed a batch of beer or two, and the beer is turning out OK, but where to go next? You want to make the beer "your own" instead of just mixing a can together with warm water and adding yeast. How do the breweries do it? There is a natural "next step" in the hobby of home brewing, and if you have been enjoying it so far, it's time to start brewing like the breweries, but on a much smaller scale. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beer is made from grain (specifically the sugar from grain), hops, water, and yeast. The grain (barley, wheat, or rye) is malted by large malting companies like <a href="http://www.brewingwithbriess.com/" target="_blank">Briess</a> and sold to breweries and homebrewers. Malting companies will also <i>Extract</i> the grain sugars from the <i>Malt</i> kernels and create a syrup, or spray dry the syrup into a powder. These products are called Liquid Malt Extract (<a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/beer-brewing/malt-extracts/liquid-malt-extract.html" target="_blank">LME</a>) and Dry Malt Extract (<a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/beer-brewing/malt-extracts/dry-malt-extract.html" target="_blank">DME</a>) respectively. LME, and DME are commonly referred to as just "extract" and are used by homebrewers only since they are an easy source of fermentalbles for beer. Some malting companies will go one step further and infuse LME with hop oils to impart the bittering and some flavor from the hops. With hop infused LME all the homebrewer needs to do is add water to dilute the LME and then add yeast and ferment. This is called <b>extract brewing</b>, and it makes beer, but limits the control the brewer has over the beer. In fact, one might call this "beer <i>fermenting"</i> rather than "beer <i>brewing"</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Steeping some specialty grain like a tea, and then adding it to LME or DME and boiling it all together with hops is called <b>grain/extract brewing</b> and while this is still not the same process that breweries use to make beer, it is closer than a pure extract fermentation. The brewer is picking from hundreds of kinds of <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/beer-brewing/grain.html" target="_blank">grains</a>, and hundreds of kinds of <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/beer-brewing/hops.html" target="_blank">hops</a> added at different times during the boil to create almost limitless variations of beer. These kinds of <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/beer-brewing/extract-kits.html" target="_blank">recipe kits</a> are the standard for most "stove top brewers". They are easy and create awesome beer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>All Grain brewing</b> is the process that breweries use to create beer. Instead of paying a malting company to extract the malt sugar into a concentrate, they do it themselves in a process called "mashing", which is just a fancy term for steeping or soaking. When malted grain is held at a certain temperature in water, the natural enzymes in the grain start to convert the starches to fermentable sugar. This is easy to do at home with small batches. You just need a <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/equipment/brewing-kettles-pots/20-quart-stainless-kettle.html" target="_blank">kettle</a> to hold the hot water and a <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/large-straining-bag-coarse.html" target="_blank">straining bag</a> to hold the grain. For example, a 2 gallon batch will require about 4lbs of grain steeping in at least 1.5 gallons of 150 degree water for 60 minutes. This will create the sugars you need. You can then pull out the bag of grain let it drain and rinse it with more hot water. All that sugary water you collect is the same now as when you add the LME or DME to water to dilute it. Now you just need to boil it with hops to create your "<a href="https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=brewers%20wort" target="_blank">wort</a>". Cool the wort, add it to your 2 gallon fermentor and add yeast. This is the exact same process that breweries use to make beer. You are just using equipment that is cheap and easy to use in your kitchen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Luckily if you have a Mr.Beer® kit, you already have a fermentor, and once your beer is fermenting, the process is no different than you are used to. However, you will need to hold a bunch of water and grain, then do a boil, so a kettle (a large stock pot) is a must. A 5 gallon kettle works great. It will give you some room to spare, and is about the biggest you can go for stove top brewing. You will also want a couple of straining bags. One for the grain and one for the hops. That is it. It isn't a complicated process. it is just a couple more steps in the process than you are used to, but you will have the same control over your beer as a professional brewer, and can make any kind of beer you have ever heard of... in your own home. You can put together your own recipe, find a recipe on the internet and scale it to 2 gallons, or get one that is scaled already at <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/beer-brewing/all-grain-beer-recipe-kits/2-gallon-all-grain-kits.html" target="_blank">Salt City Brew Supply</a>.</span></div>
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SaltCityBrewSupplyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11498470673964562035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5638550990655588132.post-35105269606166907942016-11-01T12:47:00.002-07:002016-11-01T13:31:37.983-07:00Grainfather: Review - Justin Field - Salt City Brew Supply <br />
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As a home brewer who likes gadgets I often dreamed of building my own automated system. Then the <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/the-grain-father-all-grain-brewing-system-120v.html" target="_blank">Grainfather</a><span id="goog_400618277"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_400618278"></span> came along and ruined that dream because my dream cost way more money and<br />
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<a href="http://www.grainfather.com/" target="_blank">The Grainfather</a> is an electric PID controlled all grain brewing unit designed and distributed by<br />
Imake Ltd, located in New Zealand. There was a successful kickstarter campaign, yay crowd<br />
funding, and the Grainfather was brought to market. It is advertised as an all-in-one brewing system and is available for $899 which makes it about $800 cheaper than it's closest “equivalent” the <a href="https://www.speidels-braumeister.de/en/" target="_blank">Speidel Braumeister</a>.<br />
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On February 19th, 2016 I received my tax refund and proudly walked into <a href="https://www.saltcitybrew.com/" target="_blank">Salt City Brew Supply</a> to<br />
purchase the Grainfather unit that I spent many a Sunday shift fondling and secretly kissing when<br />
the other employee's had their back turned. One cannot just purchase a Grainfather without an introductory batch of beer and fortunately there was an <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/beer-brewing/beer-of-the-month.html" target="_blank">extra batch</a> sitting in the back of the shop waiting for one of us to take it home. With both items firmly in hand I hurried home to unpack the sexy silver mistress from it's container.<br />
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Upon first glance it is a pretty basic machine. Stainless steel and plastic make up the majority of<br />
the parts with a few silicone pieces here and there. There are machining marks on some pieces,<br />
nothing that concerns me. If it ain't ugly, it ain't pretty. It's light, coming in at only 22 lbs and<br />
takes up less space than my old 3 vessel system. It is made up of an 8 gallon outer tank that is both<br />
the boil kettle and the mash tun. There is an inner vessel with a grated bottom and top with an<br />
inner tube to hold the grain during mash. A 6 watt 1800 rpm pump handles all the movement of<br />
liquid, a counter flow wort chiller takes care of cooling, and of course the digital PID controller<br />
than handles temperature regulation. As I began assembly I noticed that the system is put together<br />
with quite a bit of thought, showing a well engineered piece of brewing furniture that does not cost<br />
much more than a homemade three vessel system. One thing I do need to mention is that even<br />
though it is advertised as “all in one,” it still requires the use of a <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/equipment/brewing-kettles-pots/economy-kettles/20-quart-stainless-kettle.html" target="_blank">hot liquor tank</a> to heat and<br />
distribute the sparge water (for a 5 gallon batch). That was my one point of hesitance when making the decision to purchase the Grainfather, but decided the benefits outweighed the need for an extra pot. Also I make a lot of fancy stocks so I will put an additional 7 gallon pot to good use. Also I already had a brew kettle. Also it comes in handy later in the Grainfather process.<br />
I am one to rush putting things together without reading the instructions fully. 5 years of working<br />
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for Ikea makes me almost an expert at figuring out convoluted systems. I became frustrated when<br />
putting together the Grainfather, but it was my own fault for thinking it was a complex device.<br />
Relax, have a home brew, read the instructions, watch a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbCshzP3kcrc2Skf0GTy0ug" target="_blank">YouTube video</a>, and if you still can't get<br />
things together a little grain dust or water helps lubricate the seals that are prone to popping off<br />
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with <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/pbw-1-lb.html" target="_blank">PBW</a> and a rinse and she was ready to get the first batch going! The Grainfather uses special math to calculate mash volumes that's a little different than the well known 1.25 quarts per pound of grain most home brewers use as a starting point. With the help of some 'maths' provided in the manual I determined that my 11.68 pound batch needed 4.8 gallons of mash water, coming to approximately 1.68 quarts per pound. I was curious so I played with some<br />
theoretical batch sizes to see if that was consistent for the purposes of programming Beersmith and determined that no, it was not consistent. I saw a variance of 1.65 to 1.78 quarts per pound dependent upon the total weight of the grain. There is a handy calculator on the <a href="http://www.grainfather.com/brewing-calculators" target="_blank">Grainfather</a><br />
<a href="http://www.grainfather.com/brewing-calculators" target="_blank">website</a> and it doesn't look too difficult to create an excel sheet to determine these numbers. I filled the outer container, decided on a strike temp of 152*F, assembled the grain vessel as described, lowered it into the unit, set the PID controller to the desired temperature, and flicked the appropriate switches. I put the recirculating arm on and turned the pump on as well. The instructions did not specify this but my brain seemed to convince me I would get a more consistent temperature throughout the vessel if I did this. The mash water was at strike temperature within 10 minutes! How exciting!<br />
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At first it appeared there wasn't going to be enough water in the grain vessel to successfully dough in the grain. I put my faith in the Grainfather and went ahead with it anyway. While stirring out the dry pockets it seemed a little thicker than I'm used to but everything looked and smelled like it<br />
should. I assumed by recirculating the mash, the grain would stay plenty hydrated during the process. I placed the lid and the recirculation arm on, turned on the pump, and set my timer for 60 minutes. At first the mash was cloudy, but it quickly cleared up as it was filtered through the grain. It was easily the clearest wort I've ever produced. I made one mistake during this step and did not realize that the ball valve under the recirculation arm can be used to control the flow of the wort. The liquid was flowing so fast it was ending up dropping down the overflow tube in the middle of the mash, rather than running through the grain. I'm sure enough of it made it through the grain, but in the future I plan to dial the speed back slightly to encourage more filtering. One thing to get out of the way now, is that the PID controller is not entirely automatic. You must manually change the temperature if you plan to step mas<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyBN7_vb53F-3HjU65474-K8JT7ap5d1tl2dh8Ok7UU7Nzf2tylRm4Lumgt0FtmujPfdge4HdtzVvBAq2f-r0qZzTJC3MsKEiItMXiFkDRWY6x3sMXBgOD1JlvjtEPMEG-R_oCAsjNVfs/s1600/Assembly.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyBN7_vb53F-3HjU65474-K8JT7ap5d1tl2dh8Ok7UU7Nzf2tylRm4Lumgt0FtmujPfdge4HdtzVvBAq2f-r0qZzTJC3MsKEiItMXiFkDRWY6x3sMXBgOD1JlvjtEPMEG-R_oCAsjNVfs/s1600/Assembly.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>h. It's pretty simple and took no more than 10 seconds of my time to set the mash out temperature. Ten minutes later I was successfully mashed out and ready to sparge.<br />
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My initial hesitance with purchasing the Grainfather was the fact I needed an additional vessel to<br />
heat and hold sparge water. You can't really claim the title of an “all in one” brewing system if<br />
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footprint in my one bedroom apartment has far exceeded expectations and the additional pot isn't<br />
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To sparge with the grain father one turns off the pump, turns off the heating element, removes the lid and recirculation arm, and lifts the inner vessel slowly out. They include a handy handle that latches to holes on the vessel to aid in lifting. It's a bit of weight on 12lbs of grain so I recommend going slowly. The unit may not be appropriate for folks that cannot lift a lot of weight. As you lift and the wort drains and it gets easier, so just take it slowly. Once you lift the inner vessel to the top, you just turn it 90 degrees and the welded feet rest comfortably on the inner rim to allow the remaining wort to drain. Sparge water is calculated using a formula based on your original volumes so be sure to write those down! I needed 3.5 gallons to sparge this batch. You'll need to use the formula because it's impossible to see inside of the kettle with the grain vessel sitting on top. A fair complaint, but I had hope these guys knew what they were doing. I was too excited to start brewing that I didn't take into account building a rest to keep the sparge kettle above the<br />
Grainfather so I just poured in the water by hand. Sparging went very quick, a byproduct of hand pouring and the huge surface area of the false bottom. After the last of the wort drained, I placed the sparge pot on the floor and put the inner vessel inside of it to catch drips as I began the next step.<br />
Exactly 6.5 gallons of wort in the kettle! That sparge volume formula really worked! I took a gravity reading on my refractometer and I missed my gravity by a mile. Efficiency was calculated at only 53.2%. I damn neared cried. “Why Grainfather?! Why?!” Good thing I take notes! After reading through them I noticed that the loss of efficiency was less about the Grainfather and more about me 1.) Running the mash circulation too quickly, 2.) Sparging WAY too quickly, and 3.) Sparging at too low of a temperature. My sparge thermometer was off by about 10*F. Always make sure your equipment is calibrated!<br />
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To boil one only needs to flick the switch to boil. This bypasses the PID and fires the coil at full<br />
power. From 154*F to 204*F(boiling temperature in Salt Lake City) it only took 45 minutes, a<br />
little less time than my stove. I expected it to take a lot longer so I walked away to start typing this<br />
review and came back to a near boil over. It was epically exciting! I used brew on an electric<br />
stove and the strength of the boil was far more than I was used to so I was happy with that. I set<br />
my time and did my hop additions as I had planned them. It was a pretty uneventful, in a good<br />
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After the boil comes the cooling stage. The Grainfather comes with a lovely counter flow chiller. It's easy to setup and they include every possible fitting you might need to attach it to a water<br />
source. You place the lid on the unit, the chiller rests on top of that, you feed the outflow tube<br />
back into the Grainfather, and attach the inflow to the pump. Make sure the outflow tube is<br />
partially submerged in the wort, otherwise you risk oxidation of hot wort. Run the hot wort<br />
through the chiller for 5 minutes or so to <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/star-san-8-oz.html" target="_blank">sanitize</a> it. After five minutes start your cold water flow.<br />
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Do not allow the outflow tube to sit on the <br />
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The chiller cools the wort and pumps the cold wort back into the vessel cooling the whole thing down, in a closed system, in about 10 minutes. The controller conveniently displays the temperature and you can watch it drop for fun! It cools so well that when I came back 15 minutes later, I was reading 58*F, way too cold for my yeast. I had to turn the hot water on and recirculate a little longer to bring it back up to temp. When you are ready to transfer, just turn the pump off, move the outflow tube to your fermentation bucket, turn the pump back on, and in 5 minutes later the wort is ready to be pitched. Go Grainfather! After I made sure the beer was safely tucked away, it was time to clean this beast. Cleaning up after brewing is one thing I really dislike and on my old setup, I would clean at every step ensuring that I was working the entire 4-5 hour brew day. I was amazed at how easy the Grainfather<br />
cleaned up! I dumped the trub out of the unit, removed, rinsed, replaced the pump filter, filled the unit with 3 gallons of water, 1 oz of PBW, and replaced the lid and counter flow chiller. Set the temp to 132*F, turned the pump on and walked away for 5 minutes. I didn't really walk away, I dumped grain out of the inner vessel(easy) and washed it in the sink, took 2 minutes at most. After five minutes I removed the chiller and ran some water through it to remove the cleaner, quickly scrubbed the inside of the unit with a sponge, dumped the water, filled with 3 gallons cold water, and ran the pump through the recirculation arm for 10 minutes, and then dumped it out. Viola! It was clean.<br />
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Overall it was an absolute pleasure brewing on the Grainfather! So much so I'm planning to brew again tomorrow. This time I will take my time sparing and make sure my flow settings are proper to see if I can work out some of the efficiency issues. It is easy and intuitive to use, the documentation is detailed and informative, cleaning is simple, engineering and workmanship are apparent, and most importantly it makes beer entirely in the footprint of a 10 gallon Rubbermaid mash tun.<br />
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In conclusion The Grainfather is not a Speidel Braumeister, it is not a <a href="https://www.picobrew.com/" target="_blank">PicoBrew</a>, it is not a fully<br />
automated all in one brewing system. It is a very affordable, very functional, and very exceptional<br />
BIAB based system that is fun and easy to brew on. It does the job it advertises and it does it for<br />
50% less than it's nearest competitor. I am happy with my purchase and plan to brew often on my<br />
Grainfather system. If you lack brewing space and want to improve the consistency of your beer<br />
then the Grainfather is for you.SaltCityBrewSupplyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11498470673964562035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5638550990655588132.post-58163923276596533762016-04-01T18:03:00.002-07:002016-07-06T15:36:19.886-07:00Common Homebrewing Myths<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There are common misconceptions with homebrewing that persists with many people that have "heard" about the hobby, or "has a friend that does it", and these perceptions keep people away from a fulfilling and fun craft that produces amazing products. <br />
Here are a few myths we at <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/" target="_blank">Salt City Brew Supply</a> and <a href="http://www.ogdencitybrewsupply.com/" target="_blank">Ogden City Brew Supply</a> here quite often, <br />
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<b>Accuracy</b> - Somewhat True<br />
<b>Truth</b> -<a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/Images/Beginner/BrewingGuide.pdf" target="_blank"> Brewing beer</a> takes a few hours to steep/mash grain, boil and add hops, cool down and add yeast. After your brew day, it takes a few weeks to ferment, and clear, followed by an hour or two to bottle your finished beer, and another week or so to carbonate. All in all, you will spend 4-8 hours of labor to get your beer ready to drink and 4-6 weeks of waiting.<br />
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Making wine from a <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/winemaking/wine-ingredient-kits.html" target="_blank">kit</a> takes only a total of 2-4 hours of labor to get your wine finished an in bottles, but it takes higher alcohol beverages, such as wine, more time to mature. Depending on the wine you could be waiting 8 weeks to a year for proper aging.<br />
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It is certainly quicker to grab a 12 pack of beer or a bottle of wine from the store, but really, you just have to wait for that first batch. Keep a steady rotation fermenting, and you'll find you don't even have to drive to the store, it will already be at your house waiting for you!<br />
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<b>Myth - Making your own beer and wine at home can make you sick </b><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV6HWD-XNi80Gb5KluwMDZ03JNUcIJtQtvPqQEMBgT9c-V5XtGna37l1j0CsUA5r5rqGQ8YYQOVV6pHJ2OLk32l9bk_fitm9U2Rcj3AakeU710GKklkCYCKIZ7oHjiRQw3nbxia4i56fM/s1600/Toilet.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV6HWD-XNi80Gb5KluwMDZ03JNUcIJtQtvPqQEMBgT9c-V5XtGna37l1j0CsUA5r5rqGQ8YYQOVV6pHJ2OLk32l9bk_fitm9U2Rcj3AakeU710GKklkCYCKIZ7oHjiRQw3nbxia4i56fM/s320/Toilet.png" width="320" /></a><b>Accuracy</b> - False<br />
<b>Truth</b> - Homebrewing beer and wine is safe and easy to do without spoiling you product. Beer and wine are both food products and if not handled properly they can go "bad", but nothing that grows in fermenting beer or wine can hurt you. The worst that can happen is you make something that doesn't taste very good, or you get an infection of acetobacter which will eventually turn your drink to vinegar... but even that can be good... maybe not what you were shooting for... but good none the less.<br />
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The fact is, if you keep your equipment clean and sanitized you never have to have a "bad" batch of beer or wine, and there are products available today to make this process as simple as clean, rinse, sanitize! There are no-rinse sanitizers like <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/star-san-no-rinse-sanitizer-for-homebrewing-from-five-star.html" target="_blank">StarSan</a>, that are harmless to the touch, and break down into yeast food that actually helps your beer and wine ferment. Now getting sick from drinking too much of your delicious beer or wine, is something we just can't help you with. Hangovers, sometimes, are inevitable<br />
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<b>Myth - Too Much Homebrew Will Make Me Gain Weight </b><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXAb2Yq69qQp_qgCsJU-mt26kmKlMBdzhCaYi8102F7sY04AI-y-5JwsiOoxpAcZNsCBVCrZppHtyYGDFPfBChjuTStPdJ90JnWXnyASf3168p3PpadRjLgilKVWUvKeCty7u3arJMUIY/s1600/Scale.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXAb2Yq69qQp_qgCsJU-mt26kmKlMBdzhCaYi8102F7sY04AI-y-5JwsiOoxpAcZNsCBVCrZppHtyYGDFPfBChjuTStPdJ90JnWXnyASf3168p3PpadRjLgilKVWUvKeCty7u3arJMUIY/s320/Scale.png" width="320" /></a><b>Accuracy</b> - Oversimplification, but True<br />
<b>Truth</b> - Drinking alcoholic beverages in excess can lead to weight gain. Alcohol = Calories. When the calories consumed are greater than the calories burned, unfortunately we gain weight. Since drinking calories doesn't seem as bad as eating them, it can make it easy to over indulge. This is just a universal truth however, and doesn't have any more bearing on Homebrewed beer or wine than imbibing the same drink from a commercial provider. So if you typically drink a pint of beer or a glass of wine for dinner, then drinking the home brewed version won't have any different affect on your waistline.<br />
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<b>Myth - Making Alcohol in Utah is Against the Law </b><br />
<b>Accuracy</b> - False<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUlHGAoYJTxLL-IiasDHpxPm5sP6ufEUvonoFlZUnbohGds0OvLbbn-UAZcASZkWxrsdSSxT7tQ8SWnRHjMalIyciWbJHTUXBZl8oIlBHN5s2ul5X2u6811X7Iq8d5oelQrEzfYCRwbHY/s1600/Handcuffs.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUlHGAoYJTxLL-IiasDHpxPm5sP6ufEUvonoFlZUnbohGds0OvLbbn-UAZcASZkWxrsdSSxT7tQ8SWnRHjMalIyciWbJHTUXBZl8oIlBHN5s2ul5X2u6811X7Iq8d5oelQrEzfYCRwbHY/s320/Handcuffs.png" width="320" /></a><b>Truth</b> - According to House Bill 51 passed in 2009 it is legal to homebrew "<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16.3296px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><u style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16.3296px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><i>(A) 100 gallons in a calendar year, if there is one individual that is 21 years of age or </i></u><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16.3296px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span></span><u style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16.3296px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><i>older residing in the household; or </i></u><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16.3296px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><u style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16.3296px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><i>(B) 200 gallons in a calendar year, if there are two or more individuals who are 21 </i></u><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16.3296px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span></span><u style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16.3296px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><i>years of age or older residing in the household;</i></u>" This means you can brew your favorite beer, wine or cider without any license. Just don't sell it. And distilling it (heating your alcohol to collect the vapor, then recondensing it for a higher percentage) is Federally illegal, so stick to fermenting, and you will stay well withing the law. The only hard decision now is what kind of<a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/" target="_blank"> beer or wine</a> to make!<br />
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<br />SaltCityBrewSupplyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11498470673964562035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5638550990655588132.post-66272945879194507312015-01-01T19:45:00.000-08:002015-01-03T18:53:31.115-08:00Top 12 Mistakes New Homebrewers Make - Again<b id="docs-internal-guid-6e3c446d-444b-712a-1696-4d3e778a57df" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">11. Relying on Airlock / Not waiting long enough</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Getting excited about your first few batches of beer is common, but moving them along too quickly in the process can be a mistake. Getting anxious to bottle your beer before it has fully fermented can result in blown bottles down the road. Relying on just the airlock as an indicator that your beer is done and ready to be bottled is a common mistake. Even after your airlock has stopped is it a good idea to let you beer age for a while. The extra time won’t hurt it. The only way to truly tell that your beer has stopped fermenting is by taking a <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/hydrometer-beer-and-wine.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">hydrometer reading</a> a couple days apart to make sure the specific gravity is not changing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Riesling, with its pronounced acidity and ability to mask sweetness, is a grape that is happy in a cooler climate. Its notable flavors of lemon, fresh apple and limestone will encapsulate you with its tangy acidic kick and the soft, gentle sweetness on the finish to tie it all together. This wine loves food, and many sommeliers often reach for Riesling as their wild card. This German example would pair beautifully with schnitzel, white fish, or simply a good book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">WINE: <strong><a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/winemaking/wine-ingredients/limited-edition-2014/le2014-shiraz-viognier-pre-order.html" target="_blank">Shiraz Viognier</a></strong><br />This Northern Rhône-inspired blend takes the spicy, strong and tannic red grape Shiraz and softens its edge with the voluptuous white grape Viognier. These wines are a beautiful marriage of black cherry, smoky plum, black pepper from the Shiraz and hints of exotic jasmine flower, ripe apricot and juicy peach from the Viognier. Enjoy this full-bodied wine with grilled lamb stuffed with an apricot-mint stuffing or barbecued ribs coated with a sticky sauce. If meat is not on the horizon, then try dishes such as grilled vegetable kebabs or portobello mushroom burgers.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">FOOD PAIRING:<br />Beef & Mushroom Cottage Pies</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">STYLE:<br />Sweetness: Dry<br />Body: Medium-Full<br />Alcohol: 14%</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">TOTAL PRICE:<br /><strong><span style="font-size: small;">$139.95</span></strong> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #660000;">SCHEDULED TO SHIP:<br />January, 2015</span></span><br />
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Corn gets a bad rap these days with the constant onslaught of anti-high fructose corn syrup rhetoric, so as a native Iowan I find myself constantly compelled to defend this amazing plant. Not just because of corn's contribution to beer (which we will get to in a bit), but because it is wholly American and deserves some recognition. <br />
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While wheat and barley certainly are at the roots of beer and even civilization itself, corn was the dominant grain crop for the Western hemisphere for thousands of year before Columbus. Much different than today's corn on the cob, Maize was cultivated in the Americas long before America was even "discovered", and while it's transition to a European staple was slow, it eventually became a dominant crop in Europe and the rest of much of the world. <br />
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Fruit, Vegetable or Grain? Yep! Since the reproductive parts of the plant reside in the corn kernel, it is a fruit. Since the kernel can be dried and stored, as well as planted, it is a grain. And, since it is part of the vegetation of the plant (before maturity) and we eat it, it is also a vegetable. "Field corn that is harvested when the seeds are dry would thus be considered a grain. Sweet corn when harvested before maturity is usually considered a vegetable. It is however, actually classified by botanists as a fruit."<br />
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Why do I feel obligated to defend corn as a native from Iowa? Well, child hood memories of the dangers of walking into a cornfield and getting lost aside, Iowa is the largest producer of corn in the U.S. (sorry Nebraska and Illinois), and the U.S. produces 40% of the worlds corn which feeds not only the U.S. but people all over the world. Indeed, I once heard that Iowa produces more corn than any other single country in the world! At a high water mark, Iowa production was 14.4 million acres, or roughly the size of Vermont and New Hampshire combined (or just larger than the size of Belgium) While corn likely had it's modest, but important beginnings in what is now Mexico, the Midwest of the U.S.A has everything needed for this crop to shine. <br />
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So why does corn sugar get a bad rap? Well, because people like a scapegoat, and many nutritionists (some without any health credentials to speak of) latched on to the ominous sounding High Fructose Corn Syrup a decade or so ago, and didn't let go, blaming it for everything from obesity to cancer. And while there seems to be a general overuse of sugar (of any kind) in the pre-packaged food we eat today, the fact of different sugars is this: Glucose is the sugar in blood, and dextrose is the name given to glucose produced from corn. Biochemically they are identical. Fructose is the principal sugar in fruit, and since corn is technically a fruit, when ripened, corn starch produces fructose as well as dextrose. In comparison, sucrose is table sugar. It is a double sugar, containing one part each of glucose and fructose, chemically bound together. The human intestine quickly and efficiently split sucrose into glucose and fructose, which are absorbed into the body as single sugars. HFCS is made from corn starch. It contains roughly equivalent amounts of glucose (45 to 58%) and fructose (42 to 55%). There is no difference to your body (except that there is no need for your body to split the sugars as it is already separate in HFCS). Indeed, the American Medical Association, and The Center for Science in the Public Interest seem to agree there is no scientific evidence to suggest that HFCS have any different effect on the body than other types of sugar, but that Americans consume to much sugar in general. <br />
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And this all brings us to the beer and wine makers. We would rather turn sugar into alcohol, and there<br />
is no better way to do this than with corn sugar (dextrose specifically). Since Dextrose is a monosaccharaide (simple sugar) it is easy for yeast to eat and is the first to ferment, making an almost 100% conversion into alcohol. For this reason, dextrose is used in many beer styles to add alcohol while keeping the body light and clean (meaning not much flavor). The homebrewer also uses dextrose to bottle condition their beers in the form of "priming sugar" since dextrose doesn't leave residual sweetness or flavor behind. While the use of corn or dextrose does go against the Reinheitsgebot (German beer purity law), it has become common use in Belgian and American beer styles. Whole or Flaked corn is used in some European pale recipes such as bitters and ESBs, but exist in many American versions of Pilsners, Light Lagers, Blondes, Cream Ales and Pale Ales.<br />
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From making a light bodied beer to creating a dry wine or cider (or a cheap base for a distillate), <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/flaked-corn.html" target="_blank">corn</a> and <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/corn-sugar-dextrose.html" target="_blank">corn sugar</a> will always be an important tool in the hombrewers list of ingredients, and one that has its roots in the Western hemisphere, not in the pretentious "cradle of civilization" like that of wheat, barley and grapes. So use corn, make booze, and be proud!<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Kentucky Common</span></strong> <br />
(Yep, its a <a href="http://www.bjcp.org/docs/NHC2014-kycommon-handout.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">style</a> - Dark Cream Ale)<br />
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<strong>5 Gallon Recipe: 1.049 SG, 1.010 FG, 27 IBU, 5% ABV</strong><br />
3.25# Corn Grits (or Flaked Corn)<br />
5.5# 6-Row Malt<br />
.25# Cara 60<br />
.25# Black Malt<br />
.5 oz Cluster @ 60min<br />
.5 oz Cluster @ 35min<br />
.5 oz Hallertau @ 20min<br />
.5 oz Hallertau @ 0min<br />
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Yeast is Unknown, but is probably a variant of a lager strain that ferments warm:<br />
<strong>Wyeast 2112</strong><br />
It is also speculated that this beer was sour and most likely Used Lactobacillus Brevis:<br />
<strong>Wyeast 5335</strong><br />
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<em> "I spy, with my little eye, something that starts with C."</em><br />
<em>~ Children of the Corn</em><br />
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<br />SaltCityBrewSupplyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11498470673964562035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5638550990655588132.post-44364027265770886052014-06-26T08:15:00.000-07:002014-06-26T08:15:12.461-07:00Cherry’s are here. It’s time to make booze!<b id="docs-internal-guid-c547941e-d190-4a36-6070-bd269f5049b2" style="font-weight: normal;"></b><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: small;">If</span> you are a beer brewer and don’t like wine, beer is the obvious option, but if you haven’t added fruit to a beer before, you might be hesitant. Don’t worry, adding fruit to a beer is easy, and can produce great results. The big question is, what kind of beer goes well with cherries? Well, if you like beer, and you like the taste of cherries, the options are pretty much limitless. Most people think of light colored and light bodied beers like a Hefe or a Blonde, but the tart flavor goes well with sour beers like berliner weisse or lambics. But, sometimes the overlooked beers for fruit are the dark beers, and sweet or tart cherries work well in porters and stouts. Try adding 5 pounds of tart cherries to your fermenting dry Irish stout, and get an easy drinking cherry stout:</span></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Flaked Barley </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">- </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1 lb</span></strong></div>
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It is getting hot out there, but there is a delicious way to help stay cool. Our <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/scbs-saison.html" target="_blank">Saison kit</a> is back on the shelf, and saisons can be a great beer to brew during the summer time, as it likes warmer fermentation temperatures. If you have never had a saison, or maybe you have, but wanted to know more about this delicious beer, here is some interesting information for your beer nerd brain. <br />
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Saison is an old world style of beer that has recently received a revival amongst craft brewers and home brewers throughout the world. A group of beers more than a exact style, saisons meaning “season” originated in Wallonia, the southern and predominantly French speaking region of Belgium, as a refreshing and nourishing drink for farmhands and seasonal harvest workers (les saisonneirs) to drink in the summer. Much like an unwanted house guest, farm workers would consume upwards of five liters of this beer per day since the other available water sources were of questionable quality. Given the volume of consumption, alcohol was only 2-2.5% or less making the beer refreshing and also preventing the hired help from getting too plastered on the job. The mechanical revolution took all of the farm jobs and put them into factories, and as a result most all of the rustic farmhouse breweries disappeared, taking with them hundreds of years of saison brewing knowledge and tradition. </div>
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What most saisons have in common is a light golden/orange color, very dry finish, and either a crisp sourness or bitterness (or sometimes both). The farmhouse breweries would use their own grains, and due to the higher tax rates on malted barley versus other grains, would have certainly used a mixture of barley, oats, rye, wheat, and spelt. Each brewery had their own unique strain of yeast that was a blend of common brewing yeasts, wild yeast, and other bacteria. These wild yeasts and bacteria, combined with limited knowledge of sanitation, gave the saison a distinct dryness and sour flavor reminiscent of other styles of the era such as bier de garde and lambic/gueze. Hops, known to help preserve beers, were used fairly generously in making saisons and were typically split between early bittering and late aroma additions. Other spices such as ginger, coriander, peppercorns, and orange peel were commonly used as well. The beer was then aged in oak barrels for four months or as long as several years to give the sourness from the yeast time to blend and balance with the bitterness from the hops. While the versions given to the farmhands were lower in alcohol, export and specialty versions could have alcohol content from 4-9%.</div>
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Because of the wide array of acceptable grain, hops, and adjuncts in this style, saisons can very widely in flavor, but here is the profile from the BJCP guidelines:</div>
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<em>Combination of fruity and spicy flavors supported by a soft malt character, a low to moderate alcohol presence and tart sourness. Extremely high attenuation gives a characteristic dry finish. The fruitiness is frequently citrusy (orange- or lemon-like). The addition of one of more spices serve to add complexity, but shouldn’t dominate in the balance. Low peppery yeast-derived phenols may be present instead of or in addition to spice additions; phenols tend to be lower than in many other Belgian beers, and complement the bitterness. Hop flavor is low to moderate, and is generally spicy or earthy in character. Hop bitterness may be moderate to high, but should not overwhelm fruity esters, spices, and malt. Malt character is light but provides a sufficient background for the other flavors. A low to moderate tart sourness may be present, but should not overwhelm other flavors. Spices, hop bitterness and flavor, and sourness commonly increase with the strength of the beer while sweetness decreases. No hot alcohol or solventy character. High carbonation, moderately sulfate water, and high attenuation give a very dry finish with a long, bitter, sometimes spicy aftertaste. The perceived bitterness is often higher than the IBU level would suggest. No diacetyl.</em></div>
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Vital Statistics:</div>
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OG: 1.048 – 1.065</div>
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IBUs: 20 – 35</div>
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FG: 1.002 – 1.012</div>
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SRM: 5 – 14</div>
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ABV: 5 – 7% </div>
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Brewing this beer has a lot to do with the yeast strain and the temperature in which it is fermented, which can very the flavor and body of this beer as well. From mild Belgian character, to very dry and sour, saison beers can be exactly what you want them to be. Lucky for you Salt City Brew Supply has the largest selection of saison yeast in Utah. <br />
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<strong>WYEAST</strong><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/french-saison.html" target="_blank">French Saison - Wyeast 3711</a></strong>: highly aromatic (estery), peppery, spicy and citrusy. This strain enhances the use of spices and aroma hops, and is extremely attenuative but leaves an unexpected silky and rich mouthfeel.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/belgian-saison.html" target="_blank">Belgian Saison - Wyeast 3724</a></strong>: crisp, mildly acidic finish that will benefit from elevated fermentation temperatures. This strain is notorious for a rapid and vigorous start to fermentation, only to stick around 1.035 S.G. Fermentation will finish, given time and warm temperatures.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi58P60bZO4kPXJNRj9a-TUvgE16AnTo-T4wF9sYPPfVUaCwWa_U3_fR0imPDvhI1wShELmN4V5ISLDocF6hSTs4v6f2poYyxOzdSq2QlTqkiqbWW6gKsjXRkzYr7oruGBfqwRFuANB9Ro/s1600/giga_4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi58P60bZO4kPXJNRj9a-TUvgE16AnTo-T4wF9sYPPfVUaCwWa_U3_fR0imPDvhI1wShELmN4V5ISLDocF6hSTs4v6f2poYyxOzdSq2QlTqkiqbWW6gKsjXRkzYr7oruGBfqwRFuANB9Ro/s1600/giga_4.jpg" height="200" width="200" /></a><strong>Saison #1 Yeast - <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/saison-1-yeast-gigayeast-gy018.html" target="_blank">Gigayeast GY018</a></strong>: Traditional Saison yeast from a French craft brewery. Produces fragrant beer with pepper and fruit notes. Warmer fermentations create more intense flavors. Perfect for accentuating citrus and fruit flavors.<br />
<strong>Saison Yeast #2 - <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/saison-yeast-2-gigayeast-gy027.html" target="_blank">Gigayeast GY027</a></strong>: From a traditional farmhouse Saison. Creates the fruity/spicy aroma traditional to the style. Warmer fermentation temps result in more intense flavor. Produces a tartness not found in most of our yeast <br />
<strong>Saison Sour - <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/saison-sour-gigayeast-gb124.html" target="_blank">Gigayeast GB124</a></strong>: New Strain<br />
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<strong>WHITE LABS</strong><br />
<strong>Belgian Saison Ale - <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/belle-saison-ale-yeast.html" target="_blank">White Labs WLP565</a></strong>: crisp, mildly acidic finish that will benefit from elevated fermentation temperatures. This strain is notorious for a rapid and vigorous start to fermentation, only to stick around 1.035 S.G. Fermentation will finish, given time and warm temperatures.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibNsuCP2ZKtU_tFuykAjp28GTlSs0561frj0cxmIeG3HmDmb7rMoVpNbCUjQnL86dzmgwohrvp75RojGY-aFs1WnU-9snRiklHoIMqPwZ0j_MqmqpmoZSxXSYtDu4ouINzwiznQpuRL7o/s1600/WhiteLabs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibNsuCP2ZKtU_tFuykAjp28GTlSs0561frj0cxmIeG3HmDmb7rMoVpNbCUjQnL86dzmgwohrvp75RojGY-aFs1WnU-9snRiklHoIMqPwZ0j_MqmqpmoZSxXSYtDu4ouINzwiznQpuRL7o/s1600/WhiteLabs.jpg" height="200" width="200" /></a><strong>Belgian Saison Blend - <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/belgian-style-saison-blend-wl.html" target="_blank">White Labs WLP568</a></strong>: This blend melds Belgian style ale and saison strains. The strains work in harmony to create complex, fruity aromas and flavors. The blend of yeast strains encourages complete fermentation in a timely manner. Phenolic, spicy, earthy, and clove like flavors are also created.<br />
<strong>Belgian Saison III - <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/belgian-saison-iii.html" target="_blank">White Labs WLP585</a> (seasonal)</strong>: produces beer with a high fruit ester characteristic, as well as some slight tartness. Finishes slightly malty, which balances out the esters. Also produces low levels of clovey phenolics. Great yeast choice for a summer Saison that is light and easy-drinking<br />
<strong>Belgian Saison II Ale - <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/belgian-saison-ii-ale-wl.html" target="_blank">White Labs WLP566</a></strong>: saison strain with more fruity ester production than with WLP565. Moderately phenolic, with a clove-like characteristic in finished beer flavor and aroma.<br />
<strong>American Farmhouse Blend - <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/american-farmhouse-blend.html" target="_blank">White Labs WLP670</a></strong>: complex flavor profile with a moderate level of sourness. It consists of a traditional farmhouse yeast strain and Brettanomyces.<br />
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<strong>LALLEMAND</strong><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/belle-saison-ale-yeast.html" target="_blank">Belle Saison Ale Yeast</a> (Dry Yeast)</strong>: Belle Saison is an ale yeast of Belgian origin selected for its ability to produce great Saison-style beer. This is a relatively new yeast, but seems to have a flavor profile somewhere in between the French Saison and Belgian Saison strains from Wyeast. SaltCityBrewSupplyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11498470673964562035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5638550990655588132.post-77222393305081310912014-04-19T11:15:00.000-07:002014-04-19T14:03:30.820-07:00Try Some Cool New Hops!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><b>MORE NEW HOPS TO TRY! </b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Come get 'em, while supplies last:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/german-manderina-bavaria-hop-pellets-1-oz.html" target="_blank">GERMAN MANDARINA BAVARIA</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/german-polaris-hop-pellets-1-oz.html" target="_blank">GERMAN POLARIS</a></span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><br /><a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/german-hull-melon-hop-pellets-1-oz.html" target="_blank">GERMAN HULL MELON</a><br /><a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/german-hallertau-blanc-hop-pellets-1-oz.html" target="_blank">GERMAN HALLERTAU BLANC</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/el-dorado-hop-pellets-us-1-oz-15-7-aa.html" target="_blank">EL DORADO</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/calypso-hop-pellets-us-1-oz-15-3-aa.html" target="_blank">CALYPSO</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/dana-hop-pellets-aa-12-3-1-oz.html" target="_blank">DANA</a><br /><a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/apollo-hop-pellets-usa-aa-18-1-oz.html" target="_blank">APOLLO</a><br /><a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/summer-hop-pellets-au-1oz.html" target="_blank">AUSTRALIAN SUMMER</a></span></span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/chinook-hops-simply-grown-2-oz.html" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">ORGANIC CHINOOK</a><br /><br />---<b>GERMAN MANDARINA BAVARIA</b>---<br /><b>Pedigree:</b> Daughter of Cascade<br /><b>Brewing Usage:</b> Aroma<br /><b>Aroma:</b> Distinct tangerine and citrus flavors<br />Additional Information: Bred at the Hop Research Institute in Hull and released in 2012<br /><b>Alpha Acids</b><br />7.6<br /><b>Beta Acids</b><br />5.0 - 6.5%<br /><br />---<b>GERMAN POLARIS</b>---<br /><b>Pedigree:</b> Hull breeding line<br /><b>Brewing Usage:</b> Aroma<br /><b>Aroma:</b> Intense floral and pleasant mint tones<br /><b>Additional Information: </b>Bred at the Hop Research Institute in Hull and released in 2012<br /><b>Alpha Acids</b><br />18.1%<br /><b>Beta Acids</b><br />4.5 - 6.0%<br /><br />---<b>GERMAN HULL MELON</b>---<br /><b>Pedigree:</b> Daughter of Cascade<br /><b>Brewing Usage:</b> Aroma<br /><b>Aroma:</b> Distinct fruit characteristics including honeydew melon and strawberry flavors<br /><b>Additional Information:</b> Bred at the Hop Research Institute in Hull and released in 2012<br /><b>Alpha Acids</b><br />6.3%<br /><b>Beta Acids</b><br />7.3 - 7.9%<br /><br />---<b>GERMAN HALLERTAU BLANC</b>---<br /><b>Pedigree:</b> Daughter of Cascade<br /><b>Brewing Usage:</b> Aroma<br /><b>Aroma:</b> Floral and fruity with passion fruit, grapefruit, pineapple, grape and lemongrass overtones<br /><b>Typical Beer Styles:</b> American-style Ale<br /><b>Additional Information:</b> Released in 2012<br /><b>Alpha Acids</b><br />7.6%<br /><b>Beta Acids</b><br />4.5 - 5.5%</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">---EL DORADO---</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><b>Brewing Usage:</b> Dual Use</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><b>Aroma:</b> El Dorado hops consistently elicit responses of fruity notes, specifically tropical fruit flavors. Other fruit notes offered have been pear, watermelon candy and stone fruit.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><b>Typical Beer Styles:</b> American-style Ale</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><b>Alpha Acids</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">15.7%</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><b>Beta Acids</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">7.0 - 8.0%</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">---<b>CALYPSO</b>---</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><b>Brewing Usage:</b> Dual Use</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><b>Aroma:</b> pleasantly complex fruity, citrusy aroma, hints of pear, apple, sweet lemon lime brilliance, as well as notes of earthy tea, hints of unique tropical fruit aroma.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><b>Typical Beer Styles:</b> American-style Ale, Stout, and Barley Wine</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><b>Alpha Acids</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">15.3%</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">---<b>DANA</b>---</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><b>Brewing Usage:</b> Dual Use</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><b>Aroma:</b> hop with a lemony, pine, and floral aroma</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><b>Typical Beer Styles:</b> American-style Ale, Euro-style Ale</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><b>Alpha Acids</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">12.3%</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">---<b>APOLLO</b>---</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><b>Brewing Usage:</b> Bittering</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><b>Aroma:</b> hop with an intense, pleasant citrusy, orange, resiney and spicy aroma.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><b>Typical Beer Styles: </b>All beers with a big hop profile.</span></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhORJWYpw_U5XalSBuHGd2AsLkVZftHp35z1rgLVhwzD-qJd9YBl6EvZtqs_oQtNreXr1X-i6uRvphFFR0eRw3fkD9JBjazoa6eaCxUf7yrxqs_5NlFLdznCZcbpeWVUVP6i_cgho4y8Sc/s1600/SimplyGrown.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhORJWYpw_U5XalSBuHGd2AsLkVZftHp35z1rgLVhwzD-qJd9YBl6EvZtqs_oQtNreXr1X-i6uRvphFFR0eRw3fkD9JBjazoa6eaCxUf7yrxqs_5NlFLdznCZcbpeWVUVP6i_cgho4y8Sc/s1600/SimplyGrown.jpg" height="640" width="331" /></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><b>Alpha Acids</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">18.0%</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">---<b>AUSTRALIAN SUMMER</b>---</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><b>Pedigree: </b>Open pollination of a tetraploid Czech Saaz</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><b>Brewing Usage:</b> Dual Purpose</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><b>Aroma:</b> Balanced citrus, melon and light apricot tones</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><b>Typical Beer Styles:</b> Ale or Lager</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><b>Additional Information:</b> Bred by Hop Products Australia at Tasmanian Bushy Park Breeding Garden in 1997</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><b>Alpha Acids</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">5.5%</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><b>Beta Acids</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">4.5%</span></span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><b>2oz Organic</b> Chinook hops from a small, independently owned hop farm in Palisade Colorado.</span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><b>Brewing Usage:</b> Dual Use<br /><b>Aroma:</b> Slightly spicy and very piny with some grapefruit<br /><b>Typical Beer Styles:</b> US-style Pale Ale, IPA, Stout, Porter, Lager</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><b>Alpha Acids</b></span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">10.2</span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><b>Beta Acids</b></span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">3.0-4.0</span><br />
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SaltCityBrewSupplyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11498470673964562035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5638550990655588132.post-48834719402596239522014-03-16T22:13:00.003-07:002014-03-16T22:13:56.556-07:00A Stout History
1759 - <a href="http://www.guinness.com/en-us/thestory.html" target="_blank">Arthur Guinness</a> signs a
9,000-year lease on an unused brewery at St. James’s Gate, Dublin.
It costs him an initial £100 (about $147 US dollars) with an annual
rent of £45 (about $66 US dollars) - this includes crucial water
rights. The brewery covers four acres and consists of a copper, a
kieve, a mill, two malthouses, stabling for 12 horses and a loft to
hold 200 tons of hay. Arthur begins brewing porter and ale.<br />
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In honor of the St. Patrick's Day
holiday we thought we would cover that classic beer style; the Stout.
Although there are many stout styles outlined by the BJCP, there is
one that is more prolific than the others, and we can thank the Irish
for it.
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American Stout<br />
<span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">OG:
1.050 – 1.075, IBUs: 35 – 75, FG: 1.010 – 1.022, SRM: 30 –
40, ABV: 5 – 7%</span></span><br />
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Foreign Extra Stout<br />
<span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">OG:
1.056 – 1.075, IBUs: 30 – 70, FG: 1.010 – 1.018 SRM: 30 –
40, ABV: 5.5 – 8%</span></span><br />
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Sweet Stout<br />
<span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">OG:
1.044 – 1.060, IBUs: 20 – 40, FG: 1.012 – 1.024, SRM: 30 –
40, ABV: 4 – 6%</span></span><br />
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Oatmeal Stout<br />
<span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">OG:
1.048 – 1.065, IBUs: 25 – 40, FG: 1.010 – 1.018, SRM: 22 –
40, ABV: 4.2 – 5.9%</span></span><br />
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Russian Imperial Stout<br />
<span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">OG:
1.075 – 1.115, IBUs: 50 – 90m FG: 1.018 – 1.030, SRM: 30 –
40, ABV: 8 – 12%</span></span><br />
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Dry Irish Stout<br />
<span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">OG:
1.036 – 1.050, IBUs: 30 – 45, FG: 1.007 – 1.011, SRM: 25 –
40, ABV: 4 – 5%</span></span><br />
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Of Course the Dry Irish Stout has been
popularized by that iconic Irish brewery, Guinness. So how did the
Irish (dry) stout come to be so popular? Well, stout is actually a
relatively new type of ale for the Irish. Some kind of red ale is
mentioned in am 8<sup>th</sup> century poem about Irish ale, among
other beers from the around the Emerald Isle, but sadly the poem
makes no mention of a Stout or other dark roasted barley beer. But
the Irish have a long history of beer. Old Irish laws required
farmers to have brewing equipment and room for malting beer, just so
they would have beer on hand in case they had to entertain nobles.
Laws also required brewers to adhere to specific malting practices.
Seems like the Irish were even more strict about their country's beer
production than the German's Reinheitsgebot.
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While there are mention of red and
brown ales in the UK before 1772 it seems like dark toasted malt
wasn't used in excess until the invention of the malt roaster in 1817
made a smooth black malt available. The history of the stout starts a
bit earlier though and in fact were not stouts at all, but porters.
It is generally accepted that porters date back to 1722 and a London
Brewer Ralph Harwood who made what was called an “Entire” which
was a blend of different beers. Many believe this blend became
popular with the dock workers and quickly became known as “Porter”.
This already strong beer eventually broke into different variants of
color and alcohol content; “export”, “stout, and “extra
stout”. These British porters quickly made their way across the
water to Ireland (and other parts of Europe), and large breweries
put their own spin on it using their <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/irish-ale.html" target="_blank">own yeast</a> strains and local
water. The Irish generally used mostly pale malt with just enough
roasted malt to darken the beer, and with the porter's popularity
growing, Guinness doubled down on the porter by excluding all other
styles by 1799.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/scbs-dry-irish-stout.html" target="_blank">Irish Stout</a> was further defined by
Ireland's tariffs on barley which lead to a lower gravity porter. The
use of black malt lead to a darker smoother beer, and the Guinness
version of the Irish Stout was born, and through shipping, marketing,
and production volume (the Guinness brewery was the largest in the
world for a time), their version of the Dry Stout became synonymous
with the style itself like Budweiser is to the Standard American
Lager.
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So even though St. Patty's day may seem a bit
trite, go ahead and drink an Irish stout and know that there is some
very real history in your mouth.<br />
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Sláinte mhaith!<br />
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Want to know more about the Guinness Brewery:<br />
<a href="http://www.guinness.com/en-us/thestory.html">http://www.guinness.com/en-us/thestory.html</a><br />
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Planting, harvesting and using your own hops can be a fun and rewarding hobby. They smell good, and can look nice growing up the side of a fence, trellis or patio, especially if you don't mind the company of s few bees. <br />
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You can pre order your <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/beerbrewing/hops/hop-rhizomes.html" target="_blank">Rhizomes</a> now for planting in March, and while they don't typically produce much there first year, you could be experimenting with "wet" hop additions next summer. <br />
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Not sure what a Rhisome is, or what to do with them. Here is a bit of info to get you acquainted:<br />
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Hop rhizomes are a cut from the root of an established hop plant. They must not be allowed to dry out before planting, need well drained “workable” soil, lots of sunlight and need approximately 4 months of frost free growing for fully developed flowers. Well established plants may require a couple of growing seasons, but can produce around 2 pounds of hops per vine under the right conditions.<br />
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<strong>Planting</strong> – you can plant your rhizomes horizontally or vertically 1-2 inches below the surface in fertilized soil. If the rhizome has started to bud, orient the plant facing the bud towards the surface. Hops like the sun and grow quickly, so a Southern exposure works best and separate multiple plants 3-5 feet apart to avoid tangling. Do not let the soil get overly dried out. Frequent short watering is recommended.<br />
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etc.) mature healthy plants can grow 20+ feet under the right conditions, but for the home grower 10+ feet of support will work just fine. The hop plant is durable and can survive harsh winters. The plant will die back to just the bottom stock in the fall and grow back in the spring. Pruning back to the stock is recommended at this time during the first growth.<br />
Picking/Harvesting – Once the hops are most fragrant and before the first frost it is time to pick the cones from the vines. The cone's “petals” will be papery and fragrant when crushed. Sticky yellow powder should be evident, as this is the lupulin produced by the cone and what is responsible for the bitterness used in brewing. A little bit of browning is normal for mature cones. Pick from the top of the plant first and work your way to the bottom. Dry the hops while avoiding direct sunlight before storing. The hops are dry when the inner part of the cone is brittle. Hops degrade when exposed to oxygen, heat, and light, so store your dried hops in a cold dark place with little exposure to oxygen. Packing tightly in a ziplock back and storing in a freezer works great, but vacuum packing in oxygen barrier plastic is ideal.<br />
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<strong>Usage</strong> – When growing your own hops, your Alpha and Beta Acids will not be known, but should fall within the range specified for that specific plant type. You will need to get a feel for the bitterness through some testing. Undried "Wet" hops require a 6:1 ratio by weight as compared to hop pellets. Dried hop cones have a 1:1 ratio in weight to hop pellets, but of course the voume of Wet or Dry hops will be much more than pellets.SaltCityBrewSupplyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11498470673964562035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5638550990655588132.post-76955829228055921022014-01-30T13:38:00.002-08:002014-01-30T13:38:12.571-08:00Pitch Rate and New YeastWhile most of this information has been covered in previous posts, we have a new product on the shelf that we wanted to highlight, and it is always good to go over things that are important. There is a new player in the liquid yeast scene.<a href="http://www.gigayeast.com/" target="_blank"> GigaYeast, Inc</a>. "laboratory was opened in July 2011 to create perfect.... And by perfect we mean the right yeast, the right pitch rate and no detectable contamination.”<br />
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We have picked up <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/beerbrewing/yeast/gigayeast.html" target="_blank">GigaYeast </a>as a product for a couple of reasons; One, they offer some yeast strands that are not available from both Wyeast and White Labs, and Two, they provide a real pitchable yeast for the consumer without the need for a starter, for most 5 gallon batches of ale. <br />
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Putting the correct amount of yeast in your beer can be one of the easiest ways to eliminate off-flavors. However, it is probably one of the most common oversights by the home brewer. Most people like the variety available in liquid yeast, and feel like it is a better product than the dry counterpart, but the fact is, the large <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/beerbrewing/yeast/wyeast.html" target="_blank">Wyeast</a> pack and the standard <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/beerbrewing/yeast/white-labs.html" target="_blank">Whitelabs</a> vial, contain about half the necessary yeast for clean start to fermentation for a 5%, 5 gallon batch of ale. Doing a <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/yeastinfo.html" target="_blank">yeast starter</a> is a great way to use liquid yeast correctly, but many beginners are intimidated by them. Giga Yeast has twice as many yeast cells at the time of packaging as their liquid yeast counterparts, which is ideal for many beers. <br />
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We of course recommend figuring out what your correct pitch rate should be for any beer before adding your yeast. While pitching yeast is a fairly straight forward process, there is a bit of mathematical magic happening in the background that has to do with keeping your yeast cells happy and healthy. But, since math is hard and magic doesn't exist, let's make this as easy as possible, first we need to find how many degrees Plato your beer wort will be. Like specific gravity, Plato is just a measure of density, and approximating Plato can be done by taking the numbers after the decimal of your Original Gravity (O.G.) and dividing them by 4. So, an O.G. of 1.048 would be 12 degrees Plato (1.080 would be 20 degrees Plato). Once you know how <br />
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to find Plato you can easily find your pitch rate using one of the below:<br />
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Find Plato, double that number, add a zero after it, and then say billion after that... it's easy. “My recipe is going to have a 1.048 O.G, so 48 divided by 4 is 12, double that is 24, or 240... Billion”. Subtract 25% for ales, or add 25% for lagers.<br />
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Or, an even shorter version; calculate Plato, then times that number by 15. That is it for ales. Double that number for Lagers. <br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A question we get a lot in the store is why to use a no rinse sanitizer, and whether or not the One Step or PBW is a sanitizer at all. So, I thought I would cover those very common questions. </span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlike other posts, I will be slanting this towards the products we sell in the store and giving my opinion based on what I have use, seen, and read about. It seems there are neverending threads on forums on whether or not Bicarbonate cleansers such as PBW, One-Step, and B-Brite work as a sanitizer, but for the purposes of this post, I will just say they are NOT sanitizers. Yes, it used to be. Yes, it kills microbes. Yes, people use it as a sanitizer successfully. But it is not classified as a sanitizer any longer because it doesn’t kill enough microbes. They also leave a film and granules behind that I wouldn’t really want in my beer or wine, which means you need to rinse it… and if you are rinsing you are reintroducing microbes. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So, we recommend treating your equipment like a commercial kitchen treats their dishing and cookware. Clean (with cleanser), Rinse (with water), Sanitize (no rinse sanitizer).</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/one-step-8-oz.html" target="_blank">One-Step</a>, <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/pbw-1-lb.html" target="_blank">PBW</a>, and B-Brite are virtually the same thing and are all really good at removing organic material, you could go with whatever one you would like with similar results, but there are a couple popular no rinse sanitizers that are fairly different, so here is an over vew of Both:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is an <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/io-star-iodophor-4-oz.html" target="_blank">iodine based</a> sanitizer that is great for home brewers. There is no real Iodine smell, and if diluted properly, should not affect the taste of your beer either, but if you have a severe iodine allergy, I would probably stay away from it. The main benefit of this product is price. It is a bit cheaper than Star-Stan. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dilution: 1oz to 5 gallons</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Contact Time: 1 minute</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dry Time: None</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Min Cost/Oz: $.66</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Built specifically for the home brewer, this product is <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/star-san-8-oz.html" target="_blank">acid-based</a> and uses a low PH to kill microbes. The diluted solution will quickly degrade in the presence of beer (wort) and break down into yeast nutrient. It is a bit more expensive, but you can keep the diluted solution around for several weeks (as long as the PH says below a 3) and reuse it, which makes up for the added cost. This product also produces a lot of foam, which turns some people off, but in my experience has never caused any off flavors or issues with fermentation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dilution: 1oz to 5 gallons</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Contact Time: 30 Seconds</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dry Time: None</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Min Cost/Oz: $.70</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We suggest trying both products to see which one works best for you, but because of the longevity we give the edge to Star-San.</span><br />
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In full disclosure there are other products, such as Caustic soda, sodium hydroxide and lye which are a VERY effective cleaners for organic solids but rather dangerous to use without protection and not very friendly to the environment. </span><br />
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SaltCityBrewSupplyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11498470673964562035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5638550990655588132.post-71839194551514337832013-11-20T21:41:00.000-08:002013-11-20T21:41:53.127-08:00Time To Parti-Gyle
Have you ever brewed a large beer, say
an Imperial Stout, or Imperial IPA, or maybe even a Barley Wine, and
felt a little guilty throwing out that large grain bill when you
finished making your beer? Some people compost, some people feed
their chickens, some people put it in bread, and while these ideas
are all fine and good, I personally make more beer with it.
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You may have heard the term
“parti-gyle” before, but wasn't sure what it was, or it sounded
like some new-fangled process to make all grain brewing more
complicated. Well, in fact, it is a very old and traditional way to
brew, dating back hundreds of years, and with some math and some
practice it is a great way for you to walk away from your brew day
with not one, but two beers in the fermenter(s).
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Historically brewers would mash and
lauter the same grain bill several times producing a batch of wort
and subsequent beer with each individual mash. Most likely this is
where the Belgians got their terminology for their Trapist ales;
Trippel (highest alcohol first runnings), Dubbel (high alcohol second
runnings), and Pater or Table Beer (low alcohol third runnings). And,
in early American colonies beer was made for sale at taverns, but
“small” beer was made from the second runnings which was consumed
by workers and even children as to avoid drinking the water which was
often considered unfit to drink. Since the total potential of the
original grain bill was known as a “gyle”, the process of
splitting or partitioning the runnings became known as “parti-gyling”
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Today, the homebrewer typically just
sparges the grain after the initial mash and combines the first
runnings (mash) with the second runnings (sparge) producing a full
gyle. So why do it differently? Well, because two beers are better
than one, and if you don't think so, you are probably reading the
wrong blog... And since you bought all that grain with your hard
earned money, why don't you get the most out of it.</div>
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Practically speaking, there are a few
different ways to use a parti-gyle brew day. </div>
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One: you can just keep sparging your
grain until your runnings hit a gravity of 1.010 rather than to a
specific volume size. Depending on the grain you are using you can
maybe pull out double the volume of beer you would have got
otherwise. But remember that if your grain bill was built for a 5
gallon batch of 1.060 beer, that will be the gravity of the first 5
gallons. If you run out another 5 gallons at say 1.020, then your
combined 10 gallon gyle will yield a 1.040 beer. As you can see, there are lots of gravity readings required. This is impractical for a hydrometer. Get yourself a <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/brewfractometer.html" target="_blank">refractometer</a>.
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Two: Make a grain bill for your
Imperial Stout/Porter/IPA etc, then continue to sparge until your
runnings hit a gravity of 1.010 but make it a true pari-gyle and keep
them separate. How you split it will be entirely up to you. Maybe
split it in thirds for three similar beers but with varying alcohol,
or maybe keep one an imperial, and the other a small session beer.</div>
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Three: After one of the partitions add
some adjuncts or specialty grain to your mash for a different beer
from your second (or third) runnings. Just add some roasted barley
and flaked oats to your grain to turn what was an Imperial IPA first
runnings into a small stout second runnings.
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Pretty awesome right? Are you asking
yourself, “why haven't I been doing this since I started brewing?”
Well there are a couple of reasons it can be a hassle, and it isn't
for everyone. Sorry extract brewers, I don't think your way is
inferior, but you just can't play here. The next biggest hurdle is
your ability to brew and ferment two beers (or three) at once? Two burners, two kettles, two <a href="http://www.saltcitybrewsupply.com/store/6-5-gallon-fermenting-bucket.html" target="_blank">fermenters</a>. Otherwise you are
looking at a tremendously long brew day. Fortunately for me I have my
old extract equipment so I usually brew a 3 gallon Imperial on the
stove top and my 5 gallons session beer on my regular equipment. The
other downside is the math. It isn't rocket science, but once you
figure out what you are doing it will still take some practice to get
the process down to something you are comfortable with. I will
provide some more detail in a subsequent post on the mathematics of a
parti-gyle, but don't wait for me. Jump in with both feet and make a
couple of beers during your next brew day. Don't worry, it will make
beer. We are happy to help you with this in the store also.
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Willamette Valley, Oregon </div>
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Stretching from the Columbia River in the north to Eugene in the south, the Willamette Valley is nestled between the Oregon Coast Range in the West to the Cascade Mountains along the Pacific Coast. The climate is mild with cool, wet winters and warm, dry summers, allowing delicate, aromatic grapes to flourish.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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Deep ruby with garnet highlights Oregon Pinot Noir as a poet rather than a linebacker, and its character is defined almost as much in the elisions between its delicate scents and ethereal aromas as it is from its rich fruit and finesse. Aromas of red cherry, bright raspberry and strawberry give way to the delicate scent of violets, and the tannins are lustrously smooth and full on the palate.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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The delicacy of this wine allows it to pair with subtle dishes, from the classic Boeuf Bourgignon to game, roast turkey, pan-seared salmon and rich fish such as cod.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #f1c232;">FOOD PAIRING</span></strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> </div>
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Sweetness: Dry </div>
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Body: Medium </div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Alcohol: 13%</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><strong>Order by November 29th for January 2014</strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="color: #959200;"><strong>REGION</strong></span> </span></div>
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Paarl, South Africa </div>
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Blessed by the same combination of hot sunshine and moderating ocean breezes that favor Worcester, the Paarl is encompassed by huge granite outcroppings that provide rain shadows to the vineyards and produce the sandy, mineral-laden soils. Low yields in these soils (less than 2 tons per acre) allow the vines to concentrate all of their growth on pristine, intense fruit. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #959200;"><strong>WINE</strong></span> </div>
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The three grapes make a unique wine of elegance, power and delicacy: crisp, but honeyed, with aromas of apricot, orange blossoms, herbal tea and melons give way to a medium body and a long rich finish of floral notes. The depth and complexity of this white wine make it an excellent partner with richly flavored foods: curries, Satay, and South-Asian dishes, along with creamy or buttery sauces and soups.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #959200;"><strong>FOOD PAIRING</strong></span> </div>
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<a href="https://plus.google.com/113590200945686374260/posts/f2BMCUguP7Z" target="_blank">Spiced Roasted Butternut Squash Soup</a><br />
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Sweetness: Dry </div>
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Body: Medium </div>
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Alcohol: 13%</div>
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