Current AHA member, brewer since early '90s. I have posted recipes from past few years, am also brewing some gluten-free beers currently, including Mead with honey from my local beekeeper friend and ciders..., we have apple and plum trees in Eureka, CA.
My brewbuddy & I grow our own Cluster hops, and my best friend has a Cascade plant in Eureka that won't quit - I get 2-3 lbs. every year from that hop plant.
| Date Added | Name | Style | ABV | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/20/2024 |  HappyHalloweenDarkIPA |
Baltic Porter | 5.3 % | 5 Gallon(s) | |
| 2/22/2024 |  Rained Out Winter Pale Ale |
American Pale Ale | 5.8 % | 5 Gallon(s) | |
| 2/8/2023 |  BLACK HOLIDAY in the Sun IPA |
Munich Dunkel | 4.9 % | 5.5 Gallon(s) | |
| 6/11/2022 |  Humboldt Crabs Red Pumpkin Ale |
American Pale Ale | 5.4 % | 5 Gallon(s) | |
| 3/1/2022 | Hazy Crazy Daisy IPA |
Unknown Style | 6.2 % | 5.5 Gallon(s) | |
| 1/28/2022 | Wit-less-Bier |
Witbier | 5.0 % | 6 Gallon(s) | |
| 9/13/2021 |  Red Eye IPA |
Specialty IPA - Red IPA | 6.0 % | 5.5 Gallon(s) | |
| 9/13/2021 | Angels West Coast Pale Ale |
American Pale Ale | 4.8 % | 5 Gallon(s) | |
| 5/22/2021 |  Hazy Honey Basil Ale |
British Golden Ale | 4.8 % | 7.5 Gallon(s) | |
| 5/22/2020 |  Go Crazy IPA |
American IPA | 5.5 % | 7 Gallon(s) | |
| Date Added | Name | Style | ABV | Amount |
LeeCase99
5 months ago
LeeCase99
about a year ago
LeeCase99
2 years ago
retro brew session, recalling what I did last month in June...on bottling day in mid-July! hahaNO transfer, left beer on the lees in the primary.
LeeCase99
3 years ago
Brewed on a Sunday, so it must have been the twelfth. We'll bottle this mid-July?
LeeCase99
3 years ago
I pulled 1 QT 1 PT for bottling.
LeeCase99
4 years ago
Process worked well. Only thing we forgot was to take OG reading before pitching, so we pulled ~8 0z. which is reserved for bottling stage. Most interesting was the partial mash approach worked; we had ~1.5 gal. H2O in the fermentor and ~3.5 gal in the kettle, and still hit the target OG.
LeeCase99
4 years ago
hazy, lemony, light. I had to bottle the 6 gallon amount separately from the 2.5 gallon amount. 6 gallons had 4.75 oz. of honey, the 2.5 gallon batch had 1.9 oz. Also I added 4 bags of Bengal spice tea 4 ground cardamon pods to the 2.5 gallon batch, so it has some lively spice notes like a Belgian ale.
LeeCase99
5 years ago
See tasting notes on recipe.
LeeCase99
5 years ago
Tasty, spices were not too overwhelming for a black ale, holiday style Seasonal IPA.
LeeCase99
6 years ago
Batch #2 for VDX Steam Beer
LeeCase99
6 years ago
Stout, Jolly Roger, Dan's choice.
LeeCase99
6 years ago
Started mash: 10ish. Done 1ish PM.
LeeCase99
6 years ago
This one is a failure. 1.042 from the start, stuck MASH due to amaranth and not enough rice hulls. Ugh! Ugly, tastes fine though, is fermenting, so we will see. I was able to re-pitch the yeast I harvested.
LeeCase99
6 years ago
Wort size = 5.0 gal; yeast starter was 3 qts, so final in fermentor was 5.75 Gal. Starter was made with DME, honey, brown . rice syrup, so FG may be higher. OG was actually hovering from 1.078 to 1.080, so this may be an 8.2% ABV. Will it taste smoky? Hmmmm.
LeeCase99
6 years ago
OG=1.070, so the FG calculator won't work here. Target guess is 1.012. Maybe lower. This will come in at about 7.6% ABV. See: https://www.brewersfriend.com/abv-calculator/
LeeCase99
6 years ago
BASE Malt for the Zymurgy article - split the batch into three 2 -gallon fermentors:#1: No Additions#2: Dry Pineapple Sage additions#3 FRESH Pineapple Sage additions
LeeCase99
7 years ago
nice wheat beer for fall!
LeeCase99
7 years ago
from plummy to citric with grapefruit juice notes, like a good pinot or syrah Rose' wine.
LeeCase99
7 years ago
LeeCase99
8 years ago
I have 7.5 gal. in two fermentors. OG was 1.062.
LeeCase99
8 years ago
LeeCase99
9 years ago
Upon secondary ferm, I racked this onto frozen eureka plums blueberries to feed the yeast and add some color excitement...racked on 9/12.
LeeCase99
9 years ago
Sweet, hoppy, thick and creamy - definitely an Imperial IPA...!
LeeCase99
9 years ago
LeeCase99
9 years ago
Had to stop boil, set aside in oven till next morning (6 hrs later); oven well insulated so starches had converted by morning, left hop bag dangling above wort but not in it. Boiled sugar, orange mixture, added it, then cooled wort down. We'll have to see how it turns out.
LeeCase99
9 years ago
Note: triple decoction in effect thus the higher final temp reading.
LeeCase99
9 years ago
Tasted smooth. More yield than I expected (more than 3 gallons) even though we hit OG - happy to use this one for Oak Barrel World Cup, as it tastes like a good robust porter. Fermentation started < 24 hours, vigorous when Fermentor is agitated/aerated.
LeeCase99
9 years ago
Threw in cinnamon stick, 8 oz. Belgian chocolate that was laced with coffee-like the Cocoa Spice tea, weird tasting alone, but could be good as a porter. Mash stuck in MT again, but this time nothing clogged up the line (that I could see)...ended up with @ 6.0 gallon wort in 7 gallon ferm and 2 1 gallon mini-ferms. NOTE: the 2 one gallon ferms are using the Vermont IPA yeast 3rd generation from gigayeast instead of the Engliah Ale yeast, so they are more "American". One day one all ferms were ...
LeeCase99
9 years ago
Smelled grapefruity...am I too cheap to buy grapefruit sculpin? Yes and no. Likely yes.
LeeCase99
9 years ago
Yeast used is Safale S-04: used mini starter, 4 oz. wort 28 oz. H2O, 2 T. sugar. Sugars likely not necessary-yeast very high attenuation. Used tubing into H2O for blowoff, very active fermentation.
LeeCase99
10 years ago
Beautiful golden hazy hefe-esque color and thickness - exactly what I wanted!!!!!
