#35: Beta Prince Pale Ale 2

Alpha King is my favorite beer available in these here United States. I tried a clone very early (March?) that was tasty, but wasn't near enough to the real thing. Kinda butterscotch-y, if memory serves.

Well, I've learned a lot in the last 11 months, and it's time for another go. I basically took the BYO grain bill and Don Osborn's hop schedule (because it matched more closely to what is in Alpha King).   More complex from a recipe standpoint than the previous incarnation, where I pretty much focused on the hops and with with a base grain bill.


This one came out great.  Almost spot-on.


Beta Prince (take 2)
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Brewer: Swenocha
Style: American Pale Ale
Batch: 2.40 gal Extract with grains

Characteristics
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Recipe Gravity: 1.068 OG
Recipe Bitterness: 67 IBU
Recipe Color: 13° SRM
Estimated FG: 1.017
Alcohol by Volume: 6.5%
Alcohol by Weight: 5.1%

Ingredients
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CaraMunich 0.06 lb, Grain, Steeped
CaraPils 0.06 lb, Grain, Steeped
Crystal 60L 0.06 lb, Grain, Steeped
Light LME 4.00 lb, Extract, Extract
Melanoidin 0.06 lb, Grain, Steeped
Pale Malt (Belgian) 0.50 lb, Grain, Steeped
Special "B" (Belgian) 0.06 lb, Grain, Steeped

Cascade 1.00 oz, Pellet, 60 minutes
Warrior 0.33 oz, Pellet, 30 minutes
Centennial 0.50 oz, Pellet, 5 minutes
Centennial 0.50 oz, Pellet, 0 minutes

S-33 yeast 1.00 unit, Yeast

#34: Black Eye Mock

I took a Shiner Bock clone from BYO and ran it as a 'mock-bock' ale with Nottingham. From what I've read, I should bump the hops a bit higher than I would as a lager but otherwise run the same recipe, so I bumped the IBU from 17 to 21 (not a significant change, but...). 


Black Eye Mock
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Brewer: swenocha
Style: Traditional Bock
Batch: 5.00 galExtract

Characteristics
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Recipe Gravity: 1.045 OG
Recipe Bitterness: 21 IBU
Recipe Color: 12° SRM
Estimated FG: 1.011
Alcohol by Volume: 4.3%
Alcohol by Weight: 3.4%

Ingredients
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Light LME 3.30 lb, Extract, Extract
Corn Syrup 1.90 lb, Sugar, Other
Crystal 60L 0.66 lb, Grain, Steeped
Munich (US) 1.00 lb, Grain, Steeped
Roasted Barley 0.05 lb, Grain, Steeped
Six-row (US) 0.25 lb, Grain, Steeped

Brewers Gold 0.75 oz, Pellet, 60 minutes

Nottingham yeast 1.00 unit, Yeast


Result was unbelievably similar clone of Shiner.  Good reviews all around...

#33: Winterfest Ale

First all-grain attempt.  I had a turkey fryer at my disposal, and wanted to do a spice beer, but wanted it to be very subtle on an English ale base.  I think it came out quite nice.  May be the favorite that I've done.  I submitted this one to the 2011 AHA National Homebrew Competition.  We'll see how it goes...

Winterfest Ale

Christmas/Winter Specialty Spice Beer

Type: All Grain	Date: 10/11/2010
Batch Size: 6.00 gal	Brewer: Swenocha
Boil Size: 7.58 gal	Asst Brewer:
Boil Time: 60 min	Equipment: Brew Pot (10 gal)
Ingredients
Amount Item Type % or IBU 11.50 lb Malteurop 2-Row (2.0 SRM) Grain 75.02 % 3.00 lb Carastan (34.0 SRM) Grain 19.57 % 0.50 lb Wheat Malt, Ger (2.0 SRM) Grain 3.26 % 0.33 lb Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM) Grain 2.15 % 1.70 oz Northern Brewer [6.50 %] (60 min) Hops 29.4 IBU 2.00 oz Cascade [5.50 %] (5 min) Hops 5.8 IBU 0.25 tsp Nutmeg (Boil 5.0 min) Misc 1.00 items Cinnamon Stick (Boil 5.0 min) Misc 1.00 items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 min) Misc 1 Pkgs Irish Ale (White Labs #WLP004) Yeast-Ale
Beer Profile
Est Original Gravity: 1.068 SG	Measured Original Gravity: 1.068 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.018 SG	Measured Final Gravity: 1.016 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 6.48 %	Actual Alcohol by Vol: 6.79 %
Bitterness: 35.3 IBU	Calories: 308 cal/pint
Est Color: 18.8 SRM

#28: Chirp! Red Ale

It's football time! My (and David Letterman's) beloved Fighting Football Fighting Cardinals, they of the perfect regular season and BCS run two years ago, and the disastrous fall from grace (and embarrassing 2-10 record) last year (after darn near everyone of importance graduated, got injured, bolted for the NFL, or bolted for bigger conferences in the case of the coaching staff) are ready to take the field on Thursday. Thus, I'm about a week or two behind on my tailgate beer. I'll be making my appearance at the 'Scheu in mid September, so this beer may be a touch young, but I think it'll be OK.

Why Chirp!? Of course because the 3rd down defensive stand chant of the Nest is the intimidating Chirp!

What better to make to drink when celebrating the red and black? Why... a red ale, of course... Note that this is loosely based on a Killian's clone recipe I found, so it's not a traditional Irish red but closer to the thinner Americanized version. A partial mash with the corn and grains, but otherwise pretty standard.

This'll be bottled exclusively into plastic 16oz bottles. Gotta observe the proper tailgate rules... 

Chrip! Red Ale
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Style: Generic Ale
Batch: 2.40 galExtract

Characteristics
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Recipe Gravity: 1.056 OG
Recipe Bitterness: 20 IBU
Recipe Color: 17° SRM
Estimated FG: 1.014
Alcohol by Volume: 5.6 %
Alcohol by Weight: 4.5 %

Ingredients
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Briess DME - Golden Light 0.50 lb, Extract, Extract
Briess LME - Pilsen Light 3.30 lb, Extract, Extract
CaraMunich 0.50 lb, Grain, Mashed
Crystal 120L 0.50 lb, Grain, Mashed
Flaked Corn 0.50 lb, Adjunct, Mashed

Kent Goldings (U.K.) 0.50 oz, Pellet, 60 minutes
Kent Goldings (U.K.) 0.25 oz, Pellet, 15 minutes

s-04 dry yeast 1.00 unit, Other,
Whirfloc 0.50 unit, Fining, 15 min

NOTE:  This beer ended up being a very tasty unintentional sour.  Not sure what happened, but I got the right kind of bugs into it.  Wish I could recreate it....

#27: Amarillo Wheat Ale

Used up a final can of Mr. B extract in this wheat beer.  Took BYO's Gumballhead recipe and modded it to account for the HME.  Came out quite good, though I underdid the wheat.  I plan to do this one again...

Amarillo Wheat Ale

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Brewer: swenocha

Style: Weizen/Weissbier

Batch: 2.40 galExtract

Characteristics

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Recipe Gravity: 1.050 OG

Recipe Bitterness: 27 IBU

Recipe Color: 10° SRM

Estimated FG: 1.012

Alcohol by Volume: 4.8%

Alcohol by Weight: 3.8%

Ingredients

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CaraVienne 0.50 lb, Grain, Steeped

Briess DME - Golden Light 0.70 lb, Extract, Extract

Briess LME - Bavarian Wheat 1.00 lb, Extract, Extract

MrB. Whispering Wheat Weizenbier1.21 lb, Extract, Extract

Amarillo 0.12 oz, Pellet, 30 minutes

Amarillo 0.12 oz, Pellet, 15 minutes

Amarillo 0.25 oz, Pellet, 5 minutes

MrB. Whispering Wheat Weizenbier1.00 oz, Pellet, 5 minutes

Amarillo 0.50 oz, Pellet, 1 minutes

Amarillo 1.00 oz, Pellet, 0 minutes

#24: IPA6

Wanted to get something in the last fermenter today, and after some debate, I decided to find out if I properly harvested the Torpedo IPA yeast from my last IPA. I've been on an English Ale kick of late, so this may be the last IPA for a while, as I have several English ales spec'd out and am anxious to get going on them.

I had some chinook, which is a hop that I haven't used yet but was really interested in using. It is described as "medium, spicy, piney, distinctive grapefruit." Sounds right up my alley. Everything else is a scrap of leftover items from previous brews, including an extra can of ADIPA and a bag o' Booster.

No grains on hand today, so straight to the DME/hop boil, making it a pretty quick brew evening.

Here's the recipe:

IPA6
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Style: American IPA
Batch: 2.40 galExtract

Characteristics
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Recipe Gravity: 1.056 OG
Recipe Bitterness: 71 IBU
Recipe Color: 10° SRM
Estimated FG: 1.014
Alcohol by Volume: 5.4%
Alcohol by Weight: 4.3%

Ingredients
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Briess LME - Golden Light 1.50 lb, Extract, Extract
MrB. American Devil IPA 1.21 lb, Extract, Extract
MrB. Booster 0.81 lb, Sugar, Other

Chinook 0.33 oz, Pellet, 30 minutes
Simcoe 0.10 oz, Pellet, 30 minutes
Chinook 0.33 oz, Pellet, 20 minutes
Simcoe 0.15 oz, Pellet, 20 minutes
Chinook 0.33 oz, Pellet, 10 minutes
MrB. American Devil IPA 1.00 oz, Pellet, 5 minutes

Torpedo IPA yeast 1.00 unit, Yeast

#21: Next IPA

I had a wonderful IPA yeast on hand from one of our board mates, and conveniently the IPA pipeline is almost dried up, so here's the result of the itch to get something in the fermenter: in-progress name of next IPA.

Got some hops I haven't played with before (Pacific Jade and Simcoe), so I did some modifications on the CloneBrew Green Flash West Coast IPA recipe, changing it up to use some leftover DME from previous brews (which will make mine more amber than the original recipe), and subbing in the Pacific Jade for Columbus (which I didn't have on hand).

Next IPA
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\Style: Imperial IPA
Batch: 2.40 galPartial Mash

Characteristics
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Recipe Gravity: 1.072 OG
Recipe Bitterness: 94 IBU
Recipe Color: 12° SRM
Estimated FG: 1.018
Alcohol by Volume: 7.0%
Alcohol by Weight: 5.5%

Ingredients
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Biscuit (Belgian) 0.25 lb, Grain, Steeped
CaraPils 0.25 lb, Grain, Steeped
Crystal 20L 0.25 lb, Grain, Steeped

Amber DME 2.00 lb, Extract, Extract
Muntons DME - Light 1.50 lb, Extract, Extract

Pacific Jade 0.33 oz, Pellet, 60 minutes
Simcoe 0.50 oz, Pellet, 60 minutes
Centennial 0.25 oz, Pellet, 15 minutes
Simcoe 0.25 oz, Pellet, 15 minutes
Cascade 0.25 oz, Pellet, 1 minutes
Centennial 0.25 oz, Pellet, 1 minutes
Cascade 0.25 oz, Pellet, dryhop
Centennial 0.25 oz, Pellet, dryhop

Irish Moss 1.00 unit, Fining, 
Maltodextrin 1.00 unit, Other, 
Sierra Nevada Torpedo IPA 1.00 unit, Yeast,

Notes
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Recipe Notes:
steep grains for 30 minutes at 155. 
add malt extracts and boil the schedule.
Cool, pitch, etc. as per normal