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I decided my next brew should be a California Common. This is what I call Californication:
Pale Malt- 2 row US 10.3 lbsCrystal Malt – 40L 1.5lbs
.5oz Northern Brewer- 60min.75oz Centennial – 30min.5oz Norther Brewer 10min
1/2 tbs Irish Moss
Wyeast California Larger
OG- 1.050FG- 1.010
**Racked it 6 days after I brewed it
I just brewed this today so here [...]
Today was my day to bottle the ESB and take the final gravity. Now I say bottle because I picked up some growlers from my Brother-in-law at his eBay store:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220065864894
I wound up getting 18 of them because I wanted to start having some brew to take with me places. These worked out well with this [...]
This one is for the other bloggers and tech folks out there. I have set up an email for the new domain that I have, this email is travis@cnybrew.com so anyone who is so inclined is welcome to email me.
I used the new Windows Live Custom Domain that is part of the Windows [...]
In my continuing quest to find a financial shortcut to everything, this week I installed a thermometer on my brew kettle. I searched around and found that there are 2 or 3 companies that make these specifically for brewing and to install onto a brew kettle. Let me start by saying that these thermometers have [...]
I racked yesterday which seemed a little soon, but the bubbling had stopped a day or so before. When it was going, it was aggressive. I took a gravity reading and it was at 1.012 (from 1.060) so I have to say it’s right on the money.
One thing I have to say though is my [...]
These are just some notes from my brew day today. One quick thing, I appreciate the comments from Bad Ben with recommendations on the ESP recipe, however I did not follow them. Not because I am an ingrate know it all, but because I brewed before I checked my blog (NEVER AGAIN!!!). I think it [...]
This is the beer I am going to brew this weekend. I got the inspiration after reading the blogs of some folks that have left comments, (Bad Ben and Ted I am looking in your direction) I couldn’t help myself but to jump on the ESB Express. I was initially going to brew my Belgium [...]
So tonight I moved my Schlitz from the garage to the keg and into my stomach. This is my first Lager and next winter I am going to try and get more into these lagers because they are a nice break from the complex flavors of a lot of the Ales that I make. [...]
So after the initial issues I had with cutting the top of the keg off, things actually came together very well in the end. Here is what I did:
After I drilled the hole in the side that was big enough for the 1/2 brass connector piece to fit through, I used the Teflon tape (yea [...]
Okay, this is for everyone that ever did anything with the thought “this is going to go great because I am going to do it right!” and after a few beers and a little impatience looked at what he created and said “it’ll work.”
This is my first few steps on creating my brew kettle, if [...]
