My cup runneth over

This is my BrewDay pliny AFTER the cleanup.

Shoulda used a blowoff.

BrewDay 2012

BrewDay 2012 has come and gone.

As Grant shows, above, there's always time to take your eye off your HLT and pour a cold one.


Grant's mashing BIAB Honey Brown lager.  Greg went with Three Hearted Ale, also BIAB.  Jed, a RyePA, all grain batch sparge and I did a kind of a pliny thing, batch sparge.

I demonstrated, conclusively (again!), no matter what you do, 9 ounces of hops in the boil does not go well with a plate chiller.  Hopblocker, whirlpool, whatever....9 ounces of pellets and a plate chiller are not going to get along.

We sampled the Dragon Milk (all three styles), Summer Ale, Bitter Bastards, a Choco-Porter, a breakfast stout, a Golden Nugget, a Pumpkin Ale, 3 different Ciders, a Strawberry wine and a Maple Nut Brown.

The carnivores attending had pulled pork, they seemed to like it and that's probably enough said about that.

Good times.

Cousin Pliny - an American Imperial IPA

A tribute to Russian River's Pliny the Elder.

Not enough capacity in my setup for an all grain version, so this is a partial mash...

partial mash @ 154F overnight mash,

• 4.25 # pale 2 row
• 1.50 # 20L crystal
• 1.00 # wheat malt
• 0.50 # biscuit

sparge and add as follows...

• 1.5 oz chinook - first wort
• 2.0 # light DME - 90 minutes
• 1.0 # cane sugar - 90 minutes
• 0.5 oz chinook - 90 minutes
• 2.0 oz warrior - 90 minutes
• 1.0 oz simcoe - 45 minutes
• 1.0 oz columbus - 30 minutes
• 1.0 oz simcoe - flameout
• 2.25 oz centennial - flameout
• 3.5 # honey - flameout

cool & pitch SafAle S-05

after racking to secondary, dry hop with

• 1.75 oz centennial
• 3.25 oz columbus
• 1.75 oz simcoe

rack to tertiary to clear.

• OG 1.074
• FG 1.009