With apologies to @D.B.Moody for ripping off his title, but not wanting to pollute his thread about "favorite recipes" with "experimental recipes", here goes a new one!
Because I'm a stubborn old fool who can't do 5 gallon batches, I started out making 2 to 3 gallon batches. This is an account of my 2nd batch...
Brew Date: 14-sep-2022
Ingredients:
3 gal RO water
2 oz Briess Chocolate Roast (hammered into a mess), hot-steeped
3 lbs Briess Amber DME
0.4 oz Magnum @ 30 min
0.3 oz Willamette @ 15 min
4 oz brown sugar @ 0 min (added when I realized I didn't boil off enough water)
US-05
Bottled: 28-sep-2022 (+2.5 oz table sugar into bucket), yield: 28 twelve-oz bottles.
Taste: Not bad, but the roasted/coffee from the Chocolate malt is a little too strong. I hope it mellows out a bit with time.
Edit: 10/26 - Just polished off the last bottle from this batch after getting home. Tasted damn good! Tonight I'm going to bottle a second version of this beer, made with just a couple differences:
2.5 gal RO
3 lbs Briess Amber DME
4 oz brown sugar
2 ounce midnight wheat (cold steeped)
0.7 oz Cascades
S-04
OG: 1057, FG: 1014 (it's been at 1014 for 8 days now), IBU: 31
Because I'm a stubborn old fool who can't do 5 gallon batches, I started out making 2 to 3 gallon batches. This is an account of my 2nd batch...
Brew Date: 14-sep-2022
Ingredients:
3 gal RO water
2 oz Briess Chocolate Roast (hammered into a mess), hot-steeped
3 lbs Briess Amber DME
0.4 oz Magnum @ 30 min
0.3 oz Willamette @ 15 min
4 oz brown sugar @ 0 min (added when I realized I didn't boil off enough water)
US-05
Bottled: 28-sep-2022 (+2.5 oz table sugar into bucket), yield: 28 twelve-oz bottles.
Taste: Not bad, but the roasted/coffee from the Chocolate malt is a little too strong. I hope it mellows out a bit with time.
Edit: 10/26 - Just polished off the last bottle from this batch after getting home. Tasted damn good! Tonight I'm going to bottle a second version of this beer, made with just a couple differences:
2.5 gal RO
3 lbs Briess Amber DME
4 oz brown sugar
2 ounce midnight wheat (cold steeped)
0.7 oz Cascades
S-04
OG: 1057, FG: 1014 (it's been at 1014 for 8 days now), IBU: 31
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