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Introductions, Course Outline, Review
Beer Tastings We should be able to have one or two tasting events.
Because of the University of Delaware’s rules for serving alcohol, we will have to hold this offsite.
Alcohol must be served by UD supplied bartenders.
The alcohol must be obtained by UD from their vendors. (This is the provision that locks us out.)
How Do You Brew is willing to host our tastings at their store.
This is actually a paraphrasing of a longer comment Franklin made concerning wine.
Beer is … Dictionary definition: Beer is an alcoholic beverage usually made from malted cereal grain (such as barley), flavored with hops, and brewed by slow fermentation.
Introductions Please introduce yourself
Share some of your brewing experience
Extract kits
Extract Recipes from books and online sources
All grain kits
All grain recipes
Designed or modified a recipe
Equipment
Advanced Course Objectives Share brewing experiences and knowledge with each
other.
Move beyond kit and extract brewing
Become more familiar with the art of homebrewing
Become comfortable with Brewing from recipes
All grain brewing
Modifying recipes to your taste
Designing your own recipes
Have some fun exploring different aspects of brewing.
Course Topics All-Grain Brewing
Equipment, Malts, Mashing and Water Profiles
Brewing efficiency – how to improve
Formulas (e.g. S.G., Bitterness, Efficiency, ABV)
Hops Review Properties, Varieties and Hopping Techniques
Yeast and Fermentation Review Qualities, Selecting, Pitch Rates and Starters
Wild Beers, Wood Aging and Sour Beers
Other Fermentables (fruits, etc.)
Designing and Modifying Recipes Beer Styles and Recipe Calculations
Topics from Zymurgy magazine
Course References
Zymurgy (zai·mr·jee) Published by the American Homebrewers Association www.homebrewersassociation.org
How To Brew 4th Edition By John Palmer Paperback $18.69 Kindle $10.76
Homebrew Beyond the Basics By Mike Karnowski Paperback $13.56 Kindle $9.99
Designing Great Beers By Ray Daniels Paperback $16.16 Kindle $13.79
• Beer Styles
• Ingredients
Traditional Beer Ingredients Reinheitsgebot (German Beer Purity Law)
Grain (mostly malted barley but also wheat and others).
Hops (for bitterness, flavor, and aroma; also acts as a preservative)
Yeast Water
Looking Glass Falls
Review of Basic Steps Start with a recipe or a beer ingredients kit. It can be all-
grain or extract based.
Make the wort by either Mixing extracts with water and steeping specialty grains
Mashing, Lautering and Sparging base malt(s) and specialty grains
Follow a boil schedule, adding hops and other ingredients to the wort
Cool and transfer to the fermenter
Ferment
Bottle or keg
Drink and enjoy
Advancing To The Next Level Rather than brewing from a recipe kit, experiment with
some recipes. There is almost no difference.
Palmer’s book has many great recipes with both extract and all-grain versions. You can find many online.
The recipes have complete ingredient lists that are easy to find online or at our local homebrew store (HDYB).
If you can’t find a specific ingredient, don’t be afraid to substitute (the brew stores are happy to help)
Rather than using the partial-boil method, switch to the traditional full-boil method. For 5 gallon batches, you need at least a 32-quart (8 gal.) pot. A 40-quart (10 gal.) pot is recommended. A full-boil is required for all-grain.
Advancing To The Next Level Try all-grain brewing.
Mashing equipment is not required – you can use the Brew-In-A-Bag method.
For the BIAB method, all you need is a large enough brew pot (8 to 10 gal. for 5 gal. batches).
Northern Brewers offers all-grain ingredient kits. Some that are specifically for BIAB that make 3 gal. batches so you can use a smaller pot.
Advance to the next level of all-grain brewing with a mash process that includes lautering and sparging. You can setup a simple mash tun or acquire one of the electric all-in-one mash-and-boil systems.
Advancing To The Next Level Try modifying a recipe. It is easy to do.
Start with something you like. It may have been a kit.
Make it darker by adding some dark roasted malt.
Make it stronger by increasing the base malt
Make it heavier by adding a non-fermentable sugar (e.g. maltodextrin or increase mash temperature to extract more dextrins.)
Was there some hops you particularly liked in a recipe? Why not try them in a different recipe?
If you feel creative, make something up from scratch.
A Recipe Modification Example I like the 90 Minute IPA and the 120 Minute IPA from
Dogfish Head and have made clones of each.
The 90 Minute clone is not to difficult to make. The 120 Minute clone is very difficult and expensive.
I thought I would try to come up with something in between the two.
Their names come from the length of their boil, where hops are added continuously through the boil.
The 90 Minute has 9% ABV and 90 IBUs. The 120 Minute clocks in with 15%-20% ABV and 120 IBUs.
MY IPA-100 So why not target 10% ABV and 100 IBU? Once you reach
100+ IBU, the degree of bitterness you experience does not increase.
It turns out, an OG around 1.100 and the typical 70% to 80% attenuation results in an ABV between 10% and 11%.
It seemed like the perfect combination of numbers: 100 minute boil 100 gravity points 100 IBU 100 parts per thousand alcohol
Since I like hop flavors, I included an aggressive dry hop schedule that adds flavor and aroma but not bitterness.
The recipe is fairly close to the 90 Minute IPA, just more of each ingredient.
IPA-100 Beer Name IPA 100 Date 04/24/2016
Beer Type Big IPA Brewer Charley
Batch Volume 5.50 gallons Yeast WLP007 + WLP099 (White Labs)
Boil Volume 7.00 gallons Attenuation 80 % Desired Carbonation:
Vol. to Bottle 5.00 gallons Vols CO2 2.8
Amt (lbs) Malt Type Color (° L)
Extract (ppg)
Ext. Eff. (%)
Gravity (GP)
Color (MCU)
% of Grain
21.00 American 2-Row Malt 1.8 37 65.00 91.83 6.873 91.3
2.00 British Amber Malt 30.0 32 65.00 7.56 10.909 8.7
Expected Profile
Grain Wgt 23.00 lbs Start Gravity 1.099 SG Color 10.744 SRM
Total Wgt 23.00 lbs Final Gravity 1.020 SG Hops 7.00 oz
Grain SG 1.099 Boil Gravity 1.078 SG IBU 104.44
Gravity Factor 0.8179 ABV 10.4 %
IPA-100 Premeasure Hops 20 additions (one every 5 minutes) during boil plus one at time zero.
Each addition contains: Target Alpha Wgt Total t0 Alpha t0 Hops Hops
AAU Acid % (oz) (oz) Acid % (oz) (oz)
AAU of Amarillo Hops 1.300 8.20 0.159 3.171 8.20 0.829 4.000
AAU of Simcoe Hops 0.600 11.60 0.052 1.034 11.60 0.966 2.000
AAU of Warrior hops 0.600 15.80 0.038 0.759 15.80 0.241 1.000
Total 2.500 10.07 0.248 4.965 10.71 2.035 7.000
• Wow! That’s a lot of grain! • 21.0 lbs. American 2-row ($32) • 2.0 lbs. British Amber ($4)
• Yes, but when converted to DME! • 12.0 lbs Pilsen DME ($56) • 1.0 lbs. Amber DME ($7)
