Smoking Malt (in Your Smoker!!)

Create shallow grain bed in your largets metal pan (non stick works great). Bring smoker temp to above 200 degrees F. Add small amount of water to pan. I used 12 oz H2O for 6 pounds of maris otter. Put in smoker and turn/stir every half hour. That is how far I am right now. Have one more hour in the smoker for a total of two and half hours. Used pecan wood. Dry out grain and then use a week or more later. Those are instructions from Radical Brewing, although they don’t give a water to grain ratio. It just looked like a good level to me. Not enough to actually mash anything, but enough to semi hydrate the grain and allow it to be permeated with smoke.

Brewing Monday, May 25

Yeah, I know, I’m at it again. Brewing a rye tomorrow, should be starting by 9am, probably going until about 3pm. All Hoppers welcome to stop by.

Rodney Gravenor

7202 Buckingham Place, 80130

303-902-0423

Frankenbier Update

So the frankenbier has dropped to 1.010, but it is sweet! Very little hop character of any kind in this bad boy. We were wondering if it may benefit from some dry hopping (in small quantities – perhaps goldings) to try to balance out the sweetness some. Thoughts? Regardless, this bad boy is going to need some again as it’s coming in at 10.5% ABV.

3rd attempt at all-grain w/ weird results. Please help!

I set out to brew a clone of Murphy’s stout using an all-grain recipe that also uses 1/2 lb. of sugar.  According to Beersmith, the 5-gallon batch should have had an O.G. of 1.043.  I have had a bit of a problem w/ prior batches ending up with too little volume after chilling, so I added an additional 1/2 gal. prior to boiling as this is the amount I typically have to add in the end.  After, the boil was done I ended up with about 6 gallons with an O.G. of 1.050.  Can anyone explain how I ended up with a higher O.G. with an extra gallon of volume?

Late notice is better than no notice.. keep May 30th open!

Time again for the spring version of the Smith family beerfest! Sat May 30th, starting around 3pm.

For those that haven’t been before here’s the plan. Everyone bring 2 different sixpacks, or equivelent of spring / summer, or homebrew to share and sample.

We’ll have some pork BBQ, and a cake of course. Feel free to bring anything else you want, as we always have room on the grill. The party will be kid friendly, at least till late evening, so feel free to bring the rugrats!

Please RSVP to 720-229-0334 , or firefighter083@comcast.net. The address is 1058 Kittery Street In Castle Rock 80104,  and feel free to invite any friends that would enjoy it as well.

Sorry again for the late noticer, hope to see lots of you there!

 

Scott