Penrose Picobrewery

Parti time!!!!

2012-01-28T06:29:00.000-08:00

Parti-gyle that is.
35 pounds of Cargill Pale Ale Malt
2 pounds of 135l crystal
14 gallons of water to bring mash to 149.
Should yeild 7 gallons of wort for an Old Ale/Barleywine.
Next will add 12 gallons of 155 water to yield a batch of Best Bitter.
Gravities and hop quantities to follow.
Did not work out as planned.
First runnings went big, 8 gallons out, one gallon too many, apperently my grain soaks up less than .2 gallons per pound. The barleywine entering the fementer was 1.120, about 25 points higher than the books said. Not nescessarilly bad. The small beer, due to high winds ended up 12 gallons in the fermenter, 1.5 gallons more than wanted at a gravity of 1.032, a small bitter, but tasted pretty good. This is going to require tweaking.

Batch #2 Mead for 2012

2012-01-24T14:54:00.000-08:00

Started as cranberry blossom honey on Dec 30th, 12 pounds of honey in 5 gallon batch. Today, 1-24-12, five pounds of Motecello (sp?) cherries were added.

10 Gallons of Porter

2012-01-08T12:11:00.000-08:00

No sparge again.
18 pounds of Maris Otter
3 pounds of Brown Malt
2.75 pounds of Carastan
1/2 pound of Chocolate
3 ounces Fuggles at 60 minutes
2.5 ounces of Fuggles at 10 minutes
Using 1968 yeast, third pitch!
This came in at 1055, at 11 gallons.
Filled two kegs today, a tasty ale, the chocolate and toffee flavors are excellent! Should be on tap in a week or so.

English Pale Ale

2011-12-31T08:24:00.001-08:00

5 gallon no-sparge
9.25 pounds of Maris Otter
.75 pounds of Crystal 135L
Hit 69 % effiency with this mash! With an OG of 1047
1 oz Bramling cross at 60 minutes
1 oz Bramling Cross at 30 minutes
1 oz Bramling Cross at 1 minute
Wyeast 1768 English Bitter yeast
This is nice, the no-sparge has really increased the malt profile. The Bramling Cross comes thru very nicely also. Will be changing how I brew English Ales in the future!!!!