Fruit Bazooka!

Northern Brewer's Fruit Bazooka extract kit.

Jed and I brewed this in February, the same day as the German Lager. Good times.

1lb rolled oats (in a boat)
6 lb pilsen LME (60 min)
2lbs plisen DME (15 min)
1lb wheat DME (15 min)

Hop Stand 30 min
1oz, Mosaic
1oz Citra
1oz Equakot
1oz Azarcca

Stick in the snow bank to chill.

OYL 200 Tropical IPA @ 76f

Dry hop during fermentation
1oz, Mosaic
1oz Equakot

Dry hop 5-7 days before packaging
1oz Citra
1oz Azarcca

Brewed: 02/22/2019
Racked: 03/02/2019
Packaged: 04/15/2019

Fresh IPA.

This was much better fresh. Or maybe the sweetness of the beer had a hard time competing with the dryness of the lagers I had on tap this spring. Still, a good beer. The aroma, 4 months in, is still fruity but not overpowering. The beer is sweet, cut slightly by the bitterness but maybe under attenuated. It's really a one and done beer. Maybe two. Interesting, not bitter like a west coast IPA but not an east cost, hazy IPA either. (Mrs. Brew North's fav.)

I've made better Azaracca/ Citra beers. Jerrylo is a good one too. I think I prefer the malt bill of a pale ale rather than a stronger IPA. Light and refreshing are two qualities that keep me coming back to a beer, not that an IPA needs to be that, I just miss them from time to time.

- Brew North

Cheap swill

Brewing some cheap lager beer today. I've got 5lbs of Pilsen DME, bags of backyard hops (cascade?), and buckets of trub from the schwartz beers. That and the basement is the right temperature for cold fermentation. Not so much lagering but hay, it's cheap swill right?

I'm hoping the Pilsen DME makes a nice straw colored beer. I threw in 0.5 lbs of carapils for head retention and it's magic properties. I'm not sure if a half was a good amount or if I should have went for a full pound. At a rate of 0.5lbs/ 5 gal, who knows if I'll even be able to tell it's there.

Another bonus, I'm doing it on the stove top like the olden days and the house smells so good!

Feb-brew-ary, too cold to go outside!

Stove-top brewing!

The first sip meets with approval.

Not bad for a stove-top brew.

0.5lb carapills
2lb Pils DME 60 min
2oz backyard hops 60min
4lbs Pils DME 10 min
Irish Moss 15 min

Brewed: 02/22/2019
Racked: 03/02/2019
Packaged: 05/01/2019

Pitch "washed" trub from schwartz. (this will be beer #3 for this batch of yeast.)

Stuck it in a snowbank to chill.

It tastes like... Miller Genuine Draft. It's nothing like Lite, High Life, Bud, Heineken (fresh not skunked), or Grain Belt. It tastes "cheaper" than Minnesota Gold or Surly Hell. Something about the backyard hops that is very familiar.

In the future, this will be the 10 gallon batch, it's very drinkable, and stronger than you'd think. I have no idea what the OG/FG are, tt wasn't that kind of brew day, but two pints in and it's doing a fine job.

- Ride North

The Schwartz

The schwartz bier, a German response to porter.

A ten gallon pot for a ten gallon batch.

This may be the only picture I have of the 2018 Schwartz bier in the wild.

But there is 5 more gallons hanging out in the basement waiting to be kegged. 

(and it's June!)

9 lb Pils LME, 3lb pilsen DME @ 60 min, 

Steeped: 1 lb Carafa III, 0.5 lbs roasted barley, 0.5 lb carahell 

0.5 oz Magnum (1 yr old), 0.5 oz GH 60 min, 1.5 oz German Hallertau 15 min

Omega German Lager I OYL - 106 (trube from dunkel)

Brewed Jan. 5th, 2019
Racked Jan. 23rd 2019
Kegged ?
First keg was emptied in June 2019. 
Second keg TBD!

The 1lb Caraffa III made this beer very rosty. 0.5 would have done nicely.
The bitterness was spot on. (low)

- Brew North

the Dunkel

the "chocolate" dunkel

Brewed 12-23-2018

3 lb Munich LME,
3 lb Pilsen DME,
0.5lb melinoidain,
0.5 cara aeromatic,
0.5 chocolate rye

1oz GH 4%AA 60,
0.5 oz German Tradition 6.5%AA 15

Omega German Lager I OYL - 106
56f 14 days,
58f - 63f 3days,
56f (no lager other than keg storage in serving fridge)

2018-12-23, 2019-01-06, 2019-01-22

Mmmm, the smells.

This thin pot just does this.

I am an Uncle. I like a Dunkel. I am fun. I am a fun Uncle. A fun uncle is a Funkle. Fun Uncles with Duckels are Funkles with Dunkels. Merry Christmas a Dunkel New Year!

- Mrs. Brew North