Dreadlock Tea - Pale Ale (All Homegrown Hops)

Dreadlock Tea - Pale Ale 5 gallons (3 Gallons)  5.7% ABB

8.5 (6.5) lbs 2 row
6 (4) oz  Biscuit
1 lb  (10 oz) flaked oats
8 oz (5) crystal 40
6 oz (4) Munich
6 oz (4) Victory
4 oz carapils

all homegrown hops
0.5 oz Zeus (Columbus) (60 min)
0.5 oz Zeus (Columbus) (10 min)
0.5 tsp gypsum (10 min)
0.25 tsp chloride
1 oz Zeus (0 min) after cool to 180 deg.
2 oz Cascade (0 min)
Primary fermentation in carboy for 1 week
Secondary fermentation in bucket due to size of cone hops
1 oz Cascade (dryhop 6 days)
0.3 oz Centennial (dryhop 6 days)
1 oz Zeus (dryhop 6 days)

Safale 04 yeast


Mash at 155 if doing a long mash (split brewing day)
Ferment at lowest temp possible

Mash was about 2.5 hrs, but mash temp was rather high at 155-158 deg.
Mash got stuck so had to dump it to a bowl and then back into mash tun to clear blockage.

Fermentation temp is about 69 deg.  higher than I like.  Fermentation started quick

Racked into secondary (plastic bucket) after 1 week.  Dryhopped in nylon bag with marbles for weight.  Weight is not enough to submerge entire bags.  Only had one oz of cascade. (should have harvested more since the year old hops smelled grassy)  Beer tastes a bit thin,  might be due to it being watered down by about a half gallon.

Alternative Facts (Citra-Mosaic-Amarillo IPA)

5 (3) gallons (7% using brewing calculator)

10 lbs (6.3 lbs) 2 Row
16 oz (10 oz) White Wheat
1 lb Flaked Oats
0.5 lb Flaked wheat
6 oz (4 oz) corn dextrose
6 oz (4 oz) crystal 40 (C40 to get more orange color and a bit more sweetness)
Mash at 150-152

0.50 oz (0.3 oz) Citra 60 min
0.75 oz (0.5 oz) Citra 10 min
2 oz (1.2 oz) Amarillo 0 min (hopstand at 180 deg for 25 min)
1.25 oz (0.75 oz) Citra 0 min (hopstand at 180 deg for 25 min)

Dry Hop (may want to dryhop after about 7 days when active fermentation is still ocurring)
2 oz (1.2 oz) Amarillo Dryhop - 5 days
1.5 oz (0.9 oz) Citra Dryhop - 5 days
4 oz (2.4 oz) Mosaic Dryhop - 5 days

1 tsp (0.75 tsp) gypsum
1 tsp calcium chloride  (2:1 Chloride to Sulfate Ratio)  100 ppm of each? more chloride than sulfate
(bottled water has 29 mg/l chloride and 6 mg/l sulfate)
Safale  05 yeast



Total Hops for 5 gallons (12 oz)
4 oz citra
4 oz amarillo
4 oz mosaic

Could use Columbus or Apollo instead of citra.

Results:
Brewed on March 5, 2017.  Mashed at 149-150 deg. for 90 min (because sparge water was not ready in 60 min). That's OK.  Used a total of 10 gallons of water for mash and sparge.  Seemed to have plenty of sparge water and dumped out one of those gallons.  Still ended up with 8 gallons pre-boil.
Ended up with 5.5 gallons post boil.  This will change alcohol to about 6.3%.  Used 1 tsp calcium chloride and 0.5 tsp gypsum.

Dryhopped on day 7 while some slow fermentation still occurring.  Was really hard to get dryhop sacks into carboy due to amount of hop pellets. Purged headspace with CO2.  It is questionable weather all hops made contact with beer throughout dryhopping.  They seemed to float more than usual.  HAve to split them up into 4 bags and weigh them down.

Kegged after dryhopping for 6.5 days.  5.5 gal turned into 4.75 gal due to residual in bottom and absorption into hops.

Bad Hombre
Build a Wall
Renovation IPA
Alternative Facts

Tasting Notes:
Incredible aroma!  Very nice.

I'm wondering if I added too much calcium chloride, slight salt profile.  Maybe should be 1/2 or 1/4 tsp instead of 1.  Would like the dry hops to make more contact text time.  Will use marble weights.  More creamy than Galaxy.  Maybe will get better with more carbonation.  Couldn't hurt to use more crystal for body and sweetness.  Maybe also sub something for Amarillo.  Try a new hop.

Overall, very good with many good compliments.

The hop kick started to fade at about 3 weeks.

Galaxy-Citra IPA (recipe in progress)

5 (3) gallons

9.5 lbs (6 lbs) 2 Row
16 oz (10 oz) White Wheat
8 oz (5 oz) Dextrine or Carapils
8 oz (5 oz) corn, turbinado, regular sugar or dextrose
6 oz (4 oz) crystal 20

0.25 oz (0.2 oz) Citra 60 min
0.75 oz (0.5 oz) Citra 10 min
3 oz (1.8 oz) Citra 0 min

Dry Hop
6 oz (3 oz) Galaxy Dryhop - 5 days
1.5 oz (0.8 oz) Citra Dryhop - 5 days

1 tsp (0.5 tsp) gypsum
Safale  05

Grab Bag O Hops - Session IPA

3 gallons (6.5% abv)  (wanted 5 or 5.5%)  April 2016

5 lbs 2 row
8 oz white wheat
5 oz carapils
4 oz dextrose (10 min)
4 oz crystal 20

0.5 oz Magnum (60 min)
0.5 oz Goldings (10 min)
0.5 tsp gypsum (10 min)
0.3 oz Columbus (0 min)
2.5 oz Cascade leaf (0 min)


0.5 oz Galaxy (dryhop)
1 oz Simcoe (dryhop)
Safale 05 yeast

Heating wort water in a 5 gallon pot instead of the keggle would make things a lot easier.  Sparge watershould be heated in keggle.

Wort was just over 4 gallons at boil and not 4.5 as anticipated.  Only yielded 2.5 gallons.  Next time heat an extra half gallon sparge water.

Thermometer broke and I had to improvise with a less accurate one.

Dry hopped primary after 10 days.  Tried to dryhop with cascade leaf hops, but they seemed to just float on top of beer.  Opening in fermentor was too small to but them in a bag.

Kegged after 15 days.  Has some kegging issues. The poppet was installed incorrectly.
Flowing great after I reinstalled poppet.

This is a very good beer.  A bit on the dry side and needs some more pronounced grain profile.  Nice nose.  Not my favorite dry hop (simcoe), but this turned out pretty good.  Cleared after 4 weeks and hops faded a bit.

Krispy Kolsch

Krispy Kolsch

8 (5.5) lbs Pilsner 2 row malt (can substitute american 2 row)
8 (5) oz Munich (vienna)
8 (5) oz white wheat
4 (2.5) oz flaked wheat
5 (3) oz carapils
1 (1) oz   Hallertau Mittelfruh hops 60 min
0.5 (0.5) oz Hallertau Mittelfruh hops 15 min
WY2565 (ferment at 59) or the WLP029 


Ferment at 65 deg for one week, then cold condition at 40 deg for 4 weeks

Maybe use some cascade cones in whirlpool?

Dryhopped 1 gallon with 0.3 oz galaxy and 0.4 oz hallertau mittlefruh for 7 days

5.2% ABV


This came out very good.  Slightly sweet, fruity and the grains shine over the hops.  Nice smooth finish. Poundable

I would not dry hop this again.  Not good for kolsch style