Monthly Archives: March 2015

Keezer

Keezer Spine

I had to pull my gas lines out to find a leak.  Funny enough the leak was actually in the connection of one of the factory attached gauges not one of the many added connections.  The gauge must have been bumped or twisted while changing kegs recently since it had not leaked previously.   It was a quick fix and gave me a chance to photograph the whole gas line setup.  See more details on the keezer pages.

keezer_spine

Update:

I have switched to a actual beer gas setup. I forgot a few times to set the gas back to low pressure after finishing serving. It would work but user error (me) was the issue.

Brewing Log, Recipes

Growing Hops

My wife’s cousin is interested in growing hops this year.  In upstate NY one of that hops that should grow well is cascade.  He has yet to dive into the craft beer scene, so I wanted to brew something that was mild and used hops he might grow.  I liked the look of the following recipe on HBT.  It’s a pale ale with a maris otter base, cascade, orange zest, and coriander spices.  Tweaking it for my system in BeerSmith resulted in the following.

85% Efficiency  11 Gallon Recipe:
(12g in the kettle, 11g in the fermenter, 10g in the keg)
1.059 – OG Estimated
1.017 – FG Estimated
29 – IBU Estimated
5.5% – ABV Estimated

16.5# Maris Otter Malt
2# Vienna Malt
2# Crystal 10L Malt
2oz Cascade FWH
4oz Sweet Orange Zest 10min
4oz Coriander 10min
2oz Cascade 10min
2oz Cascade 5min
2oz Cascade 1min
4oz Cascade Dry Hop 5 days
Safale S-04

Mash at 155 for 60 minutes
Boil for 60 minutes

Brewed 3/8: OG 1.057
Gravity Sample 3/12: 1.015
Dry Hopped 3/13: 1.015
Cold Crashed 3/20: FG 1.013, ABV 5.8%

Finished product.  It is good and easy drinking.  I would dial back the coriander to 3oz and put more hops in it but that was not the point of this brew.
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