• Northern Brewer Ingredient Kit
• Irish Red Ale
• Brooklyn Brew Shop Recipes
• Rosebud / Rosehips Belgian Blonde
• Belgian Trippel
• Brooklyn Brew Shop Ingredient Mix
• Summer Wheat

2014 One-gallon batch home beer brewing

Tracking our small-batch beer brewing

#todo create separate article pages, describing each.

Northern Brewer Ingredient Kit

Irish Red Ale

• Irish Red Ale
• malt extract
• brewed on Mon, Apr 21
• bottled on Sat, May 3 - produced 7 × 12 ounce bottles
• drank our first bottle on Wed eve, May 14, 2014, and it tasted surprisingly good. It was well-carbonated.

Brooklyn Brew Shop Recipes

• Brooklyn Brew Shop
• recipes from their book titled Beer Making Book
• New Year Beer - One Gallon Batch
• Grapefruit Honey Ale - One Gallon Batch

• brewed on Sun, May 4
• bottled on Sun, May 18. produced 8 bottles.
  • i disliked the taste because of the grapefruit, but DD likes grapefruit, so all is well. maybe we'll try this recipe again with a different fruit, such as the Mackinaw Peach.
  • we drank a bottle on Jun 4, and it tasted fine. the strong grapefruity taste must have subsided during bottling. the fruity taste exists, but it's mild, and acceptable to me. i like the wit beer better though.

Rosebud / Rosehips Belgian Blonde

• brewed on May 15
• used Wyeast Trappist HG 3787
• during fermentation, a strong, funky smell existed for the first 10 days or so, but it subsided some during the last week.
• bottled on Jun 1
  • produced 9 bottles
  • tasted great during bottling
• drank our first two bottles on Jun 14, and it tasted excellent. probably second favorite after the wit.

Belgian Trippel

• brewed on June 4
• used Wyeast Trappist HG 3787
• we finished brewing and added blow-off tube around 11:00 p.m., June 4
• around 7:00 a.m. on June 5, no surface activity existed. but within an hour or so, considerable surface activity existed, filling the carboy to the lid with bubbles.
• by 11:00 p.m. on June 5, the most vigorous fermentation activity had already subsided.
• at 7:00 a.m. on June 6, fermentation activity continues at nice pace with gas flowing through the blow-off tube, but the activity is less than the evening before.
• fermentation on June 4, 5, and 6 occurred in the dining room with an air temp between 68 and 71 degrees. i wrapped a blanket around the carboy, and i stopped opening the window in the dining room because our morning temps this week were around 50 to 55 degrees.
• temps in the dining room remained in the mid 70s from Jun 7 through Jun 9.
• on Mon eve, Jun 9, turned the furnace on to 80 degrees for a while. Then later, I moved the fermenter to the upstairs bathroom and closed the door.
• we had cool mornings and days all week, Jun 9 through Jun 13. temps in the upstairs bathroom remained in the 70s.
• on Fri, Jun 13, I moved the carboy to the basement.

Brooklyn Brew Shop Ingredient Mix

ingredient mix purchased from their website

Summer Wheat

Summer Wheat

• brewed on Wed, May 14
  • we tasted some of the wort and the spent grains after the mash, and it tasted like a sweet oatmeal-type cereal. nice.
• bottled on Jun 1
  • produced 9 bottles
  • still tasty during bottling
• drank our first two bottles on Jun 14, and I liked it. Extremely carbonated to a fault. Opened bottle, then while bottle remained still on counter, bubbles rose, then more bobbles, then irruption from the sediment, then it foamed out the top for a while. fascinating to watch. unsure what's going on.

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