Batch No. 66 - Such is the Promise

Such is the Promise

Brewed - April 6, 2013

Style - Dark Mild Ale

Ingredients:

• 7.5 lbs.Golden Promise
• 2.0 lbs.American 2-Row
• 1.0 lbs. Pale Chocolate
• 1.0 lbs.Crystal 60L
• 0.9 lbs. Crystal 120L
• 0.50 lbs. Flaked Barley

• 0.75 oz. Northern Brewer (60)

• Wyeast 1968 London ESB (1 pack)
• Safale S-04 English Ale Yeast (dry / 1 pack)

OG – 1.038

Wyeast 1968:
Primary – ?? days
Secondary - ?? days

Kegged - ??

FG - 1.010 (estimated)
Attenuation - 73.7% (estimated)
ABV - 3.67% (estimated)

Saflager S-04:
Primary – ?? days
Secondary - ?? days

Kegged - ??

FG - 1.010 (estimated)
Attenuation - 73.7% (estimated)
ABV - 3.67% (estimated)

Notes:

• First time brewing a Dark Mild
• Brewing this for the "New Wave of Seattle Real Ale" Cask Festival that we're hosting at the SODO Lab on April 20th
• Mash at 154° and 70 min boil

Batch #48 - Littly Jimmy Session IPA

Little Jimmy Session IPA

Brewed - March 10, 2012

Style - Mild Ale / Low-Alcohol / IPA

Ingredients:

• 2nd Runnings of the American Barleywine
• 1.0 lbs. Acidulated Malt 

• 0.60 oz. Centennial (60)
• 0.10 oz. Centennial (10)
• 0.15 oz. Centennial (0)
• 1.00 oz. Centennial (Dry for 3 days)

• Wyeast #1056 American Ale (slurry from Schooner)

OG - 1.030
Primary – 9 days
Secondary - 0 days

Kegged -March 19, 2012

FG - 1.005
Attenuation - 83%
ABV - 3.3%


Notes:

• Session IPA hopped with Centennial
• Part 2 of a Parti-Gyle batch; not quite the traditional method where I designed one overall beer and mash to get two beers (one strong and one weak), but this was more about designing the barleywine that I wanted and then using the 2nd runnings to make a low-ABV Session IPA
• First time trying the whole 2nd runnings process and while a little hectic (long sparging time, keeping hot water temp up, boiling two beers simultaneously, scrambling to cool, etc.), it was a learning process in terms of efficiencies, calculating evaporation, runoffs, ending gravities, etc....I hope to do more of these in the future    
• Only brewed a 5-gallon batch specifically to be my first cask-conditioned beer for the upcoming Yard City Cask Festival in Bermerton (more on that later) 
• Original Mash of the Barleywine was at 149° for 90 minutes; after the long 1st sparge, some acidulated malt was added to the top of the mash tun to help with the PH
• Runoff for the IPA was 7.5 gallons
• 60 min boil
• Estimated IBU's ~ 30
• Ferment in the low 70's for hopefully 1 weeks, then a brief dry hop before transferring into the keg and prepping for the cask fest
• Dry hopped for 3 days
• Transferred into the the keg after 9 days; added 2.1 oz. of corn sugar to build ~ 1.8 volumes of CO2 of natural carbonation; condition for 3 days and then cold crash before the festival to get the CO2 in solution