Homebrew Belgian Pale Ale Full Brew Day & Recipe
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- čas přidán 18. 05. 2020
- I'm up in Washington (have been for a while now but video editing takes a minute) for quarantine and this is the first beer I ever brewed up here! Honestly, I was pleasantly surprised.
Equipment links in the description below
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For not treating water, controlling temperature or really doing anything I usually spend time worrying about, we made a solid brew! I've already remade this one because it turned out so nice. This one is proof you don't need fancy equipment with all the bells and whistles to make great tasting beer (we finished the keg in a week so it was obviously a favorite even over the amazing PNW IPAs we have in our fridge).
You'll be seeing more of my next door neighbors in the upcoming videos (until the shutdown ends anyway) we've become a quarantine family so we don't go lose our minds up here in the woods. I've never had this much help brewing before and I think I'm already getting spoiled.
Equipment:
Brew in a Bag bag: amzn.to/2TnKD7b
Dark Star Burner: amzn.to/3bFZLTC
Big Mouth Bubbler Fermenter: amzn.to/2yfaqa8
Refactometer: amzn.to/39Hd45A
Brewfather App: bit.ly/38JXW7t
Dog Treat Recipe:
2 cups spent grain (make sure there’s no hops, they are poison for pups)
1 cup flour
1/2 cup peanut butter
oil to grease the pan
2 eggs
Bake at 300º(149ºC) for 3 hrs or until not squishy. They'll last unrefrigerated for months if you get all the water out.
Beer Recipe:
Belgian Pale Ale
6.2% (Actual 7.4%) / 16.6 °P
Recipe by
Flora Brewing
All Grain BIAB (No sparge)
Batch Volume: 4.5 gal
Boil Time: 60 min
Vitals
Boil Volume: 5.35 gal (Actual 5.5gal)
Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.061 (actual 1.063)
Original Gravity: 1.068 (actual 1.081… I have no idea how this happened as you will see in the video)
Final Gravity: 1.021 (Actual 1.025)
IBU (Tinseth): 31
Color: 4.6 SRM
Mash Efficiency 87.5%
Brewhouse Efficiency 95% (this seems like it should be wrong!)
Mash
Temperature - 152 °F (66.5ºC) - 45 min, strike water 157º (69.5ºC)
Malts (10 lb 6 oz)
10 lb (96.4%) - Briess Brewers Malt 2-Row - Grain - 1.8 SRM
4 oz (2.4%) - Briess Caramel Malt - Grain - 10 SRM
2 oz (1.2%) - Cargill (Gambrinus) Honey Malt - Grain - 25 SRM
Hops (3 oz)
1 oz (20 IBU) - Tropica 8.8% - Boil - 20 min
1 oz (5 IBU) - Julius 6.6% - Boil - 5 min
1 oz (7 IBU) - Tropica 8.8% - Boil - 5 min
Miscs
8 g - Lemon Peel - Boil - 5 min
Yeast
1 pkg - Fermentis S-33 SafBrew Ale
Fermentation
Primary - 68 °F - 14 days
Force carbed (shake method 5min shake @ 30psi) - Jak na to + styl
"Hose water is the best water in the world!" :D I first got into brewing in the mid 90s. I took some lessons from a local brew shop that held them on Sunday mornings. A simple propane burner, 10 gallon kettle and water from the hose connected to the side of the store building. The guy brewing was John Doble who ran the home brew shop and soon after that opened up the Tampa Bay Brewing Company in Ybor City, Florida. He was fine with hose water so why shouldn't we be fine with it. LOL
I got to see him brew a 5 gallon all grain batch of his Iron Rat Stout recipe on that Sunday then on Saturday, less than a week later, there was a Tampa Bay beer festival and he was there serving that beer from a corny keg and it was one of the best tasting beers I think I've ever had. Maybe I was really just in the mood for a stout at that time but I loved it. From grain to glass in 6 days and it was fantastic.
what a beautiful place. Judging by the chirpy mood you're in, its doing you the world of good. Great veiws, great beer, great mates, happy days...
It's definitely good for my mental health.
I'm sitting here laughing with a beer in my hand as I watch the video. Nice environment and an extra challenge with simple equipment. You make it so entertaining Sarah.
Thank you! Yeah it's lovely up here right now, way better than the tiny apartment.
Looks like a pretty chill brew day in an awesome location! Looking forward to the tasting!
It didn't even rain on us!
This looks bloody good mate.
Bloopers....holy shit the BLOOPERS!
SO GOOD!
Great video. Nice to see its possible to make really good beer with minimal equipment or over planning. You look super relaxed and like your having fun up there. And looks like you might all be going a little lockdown crazy which is highly entertaining. Same shit here in England.
We were definitely crazy before..being in the woods is definitely helping with morale at least!
And welcome to how I still brew! Great video ... :-) Cheers!
It's a wonderful way to do it.
Really like your method of rolling the bag on a board. Gonna use that. Also enjoy that you didn’t stress or get pissed about overshooting OG or whatever. It’s all good man. Enjoy the end product. Stay safe.
It makes it so much easier. I use slats from a bed frame when I'm in LA haha! I personally love a high ABV beer so I only get mad when it's lower than expected...this one turned out so amazing I'm hoping I can recreate it but I didnt get the efficiency I was expecting when I rebrewed so who knows what was going on here.
@@FloraBrewing Yeah I have a few TREX slats leftover from a deck build I can cut down and use. Sounds like a pretty big beer for the grain bill (8.5 lbs). I have an 8 gal MegaPot and only feel comfortable with up to 12 lbs grain ... haven't used an adjunct in a while to supplement. I scale down to 3-3.5 gal if I want a bigger ABV, just to do a smaller batch or something more experimental. Yeah, it seems you can never reproduce a good beer! LOL Glad Batch #1 worked out anyway! Oh, I don't drink during brew day either and I'm a huge fan of Short and Shoddy method. Short mash and short boils when I can. Next batch is a semi-clone of Bell's Two Hearted but will add in some Falconer's Flight for hop stand ... 180-150 degrees. I guess that wont make it much of a clone! :-)
HAHAHA, another great video and bloopers!
soooo many bloopers! This is the first brew I drank beer through the whole thing so it was ripe for mistakes lol
@@FloraBrewing perfect! Keep it up
Great video again... so funny 😂😂
Thank you 😁
Awesome video as always! I recently started using the BIAB method and it is so much easier than the old double bucket sparge filter I used in the 80's.
I don't know if I'll ever stop BIAB it just seems so much simpler than any other method!
Thanks for sharing the recipe, Flora. In the very near future I will replicate it.
It's lovely.
You seemed pretty lit :D . I'm new to this. Just made some Mango Mimosa from Costco Mango Juice. OG (original gravity) 1.060. But I think I'm going to like the taste of the Tropicana Watermelon juice I have fermenting which starts at 1.040. It's very fragrant.
Interesting!
Great video, thanks for sharing. You know if it was me I would be staying there after lockdown finishes, what a beautiful place :-)
Yeah trying to figure out the logitics of that...
Hi Sarah. I can't find this recipe in the Brewfather library. Are not all of your recipes in there? I see that you link to the Brewfather software in your description.
Love our Vizsla's 🐕
I'm sold, never was into them before but she's such a sweetie that we babysit her weekly now.
U are getting better and better at this, confidense suites u, cheers from Norway.
Thank you! It's a learning curve for sure.
I have a family of robins that has been here for over a decade. Quite a few generations of birds have passed now. I started to throw them the left over grains to them.
Good idea I should leave some for my song birds, they are plentiful out here.
@@FloraBrewing I love my robins. They are wonderful. Unusually friendly, and like to sit on my fence and sing when I sit outside. You'll make some neat little friends with those treats.
Nice! I am in Monroe WA and our well water is really soft and almost a perfect lager water. Hope you let the hose run a while.
Just saved some yeast from Dupont and have been wanting to do a Belgium ale so going to try something similar!
yeah we run the hose out for sure. It's really good I strongly suggest it especially if you're getting lovely weather like we are in Bremerton it's the perfect lawn beer (if you're cool getting a bit drunk on it)
87percent efficiency haha OMG. Cheers and the out takes very funny.😎👍
It feels wrong haha
not wrong, Belgian IPA is a BJCP style! me personally, I like it, but I get why you dont! btw! great videos!! =) greetings from Mexico!!
Yeah I need my belgians to be sweeter than IPAs typically are.
My spent grains and hops go into the compost pile(Fred) he is alive. Which will be fertilizing hops, which go into my home brew, completing the circle of life. Oh and that twisty stick idea is genius! Thanks for the great video.
We've been composting it as well and man does it get stinky!
Hayyy- we're in the same state! Also looks like this video is gonna take off. Kudos!
Well hey neighbor! Unfortunately it looks like I have to go back to CA sooner than later :(
Wow what a scenic brew environment. Probably better of staying there than going back to LA.
I feel the same.
Awesome. Could you give a link of your propane burner?
Here's the one in the video amzn.to/3bFZLTC
Cheers Flora, Nice Vid!
Thank you!
Good video and what a peaceful area to be brewing beer!
Not that more alcohol is a bad thing but just wandering if you had a little too much boil off? It looked like you had about 4 gallons or less? Also just wander why not add water to top it off to get your desired 4.5 gallons and or gravity?
I do have another question how is it your mash temp only dropped 5 degrees when you added your grain? I usually always have 12 deg drop... On gas fired and electric.
I like a stronger beer so I didnt worry about it. I made a tripel this weekend that I topped off. It always seems to be around 5º drop for me not really sure why it's just what happens 90% of the time. I usually use around 10-12 lb of grain for most beers.
Nice to brew outside👍🍺
It sure is
Bremerton..not too far from me..heck yeah!!
I'm so sad I have to leave Tuesday...the day job is summoning me back.
Brew in a bag is awesome for efficiency
Truly!
@@FloraBrewing i was a biab brewer for 6+ years before i purchased the grainfather. great videos!
Good every Nice.
What hops would you personally substitute if those would not be available in your region? :)
They are actually just strains of Chinook and Cascade! Sub chinook for tropica and Cascade for julius. It works great, we did that for our double brew day edition of the Belgian Pale.
@@FloraBrewing have checked that video after posting the question here... you have mentioned it there :D thank you :)
Gotta love biab efficiency !
It's crazy.
Thats cool kicking it old school, I rarely use my brew bags since i had a brew filter made for my set up, wish I had thought of that simple stick, sqeeze trick, even in my mash filter I press the liquid out, thats awsome efficiency, can't wait to get back to brewing. Good job, except you forgot the " to glass " part ;-)
To glass to come shortly ;)
I can get either hop in Australia. Swap with?
Sounds like a nice juicy beer,hope it turns out well,I may have a go at brewing something similar tbh.
Great video
Cheers 🍺🍻
It was wonderful I'm posting review as soon as I can
@@FloraBrewing I look forward to seeing how that turned out tbh.
Cheers 🍻🍺
Great video. I'd love to try this out. Do you have it in script form or is it only this video? I'm new to brewing.
You can find the recipe in the description, it should give you all the info you need so you don't have to keep rewinding :)
Would rather watch you cuss and laugh than listen to Palmer or Mosher.. that’s happy brewing😁
My mouth gets dirtier the more beers I've had haha!
@@FloraBrewing Extremely high brewing knowledge, beer knowledge, funny, cute, and a dirty mouth? You could be the perfect woman. I've been brewing for several years and watched hundreds of videos. This is now my favorite. It's your knowledge and personality. I'm going to get a stick for my BIAB. I've never seen that before and I'm tired of holding the stupid thing above the kettle. It's heavy.
Any theories about how you got the mash efficiency up so high!? 😳 I STUFF my 8 gallon kettle to get 1.058 beers with BIAB...
I'm only doing 4-4.5 gallon batches in the 8 gallon
Replace the magnets with a simple dip stick with quarts or liters marked on it.
But the magnets are so cool!
I'm not crying
I'll have to try that. Just getting back into Belgians.
Are you suffering climate shock!?? Wow. Southern Cali to Bremerton Wa! Yikes! Thanks for another great video. Totally entertaining during this time man! Peace.
I would kill to be up here 100% of the time. I am not a desert rat, that's for sure.
Hey wait... you said you only brought the refractometer...then you said you also brought the bag. How can we believe anything you tell us!?!?!?! 😁 Great video. Video quality outside is awesome.
You caught me! Its crazy what natural light will do you for. I swear it was only those two equipments ;)
Nice I'm planning a Belgian wit with lemon zest chers
lemon and belgian beer go together so well!
Those hops sound interesting.
Tropica: Flavor Profile: Pineapple, Mandarin Orange, Tropical, Dank
"Dank" doesn't sound too good to me though. Have you found beers with it to be funky tasting?
If you haven't used it before; I am curious if you find this beer to be funky tasting.
OK so I did some research and apparently the hops are just variations of Chinook and Cascade! I think when they say dank it means resin-ey so like piney is what I think of. It was very fruity and citrusy. I'll post a review shortly!
Was about to brew this, but they are sold out of Tropica. Will have to put it on the list for later. Got ingredients to brew a quad instead.
Why 45 min mash instead of 60? I'm surprised you ended up with more preboil gravity just with 45. I always re use my spent grain making bread. Once I did a nice belgian blonde ale with just pilsner, saaz and hallertau, amazing u should try it. Maybe the malts you used were different producer and that's why u got more gravity?
'They' say that most of the conversion takes place in the first 15 min so I figure why not...I've not really noticed a difference between 45 and 60. That blonde sounds right up my alley. I'm posting a double belgian brew day with a tripel and a modfication of this recipe soon! I did use 2-row instead of pils but I think Brewfather just estimates BIAB to be less efficient than eveyrthing else for some reason.
@@FloraBrewing according to Palmer, BIAB has the second highest efficiency, interesting, can't wait for more videos 👍🏽
28th amendment "When quarantining, surround yourself with pine forests and nice neighbors!" Cheers!
new rule :)
6:18 Some say don't push all of the wort out the bag and some say yes. I see for at least 2 times you do. Have you not pushed the wort out and seen a different in the Taste?
Taste is great and the efficiency really increases when you do it. Brulosophy myth busted it: brulosophy.com/2017/05/22/brew-in-a-bag-the-impact-squeezing-the-bag-has-on-beer-character-exbeeriment-results/
GREAT. THANKS. #STAYSAFE.
I believe the guy that makes that brew bag busted it also :-)
You’re so cute hello from Peru show me how to make double IPA salud Hermosa 😄
Why so small? I brew 6galon batches in 8galon kettle. Goats also love spent grain.
It was my first time...I'm getting used to it and starting 5 gallons now. Do you do BIAB? I don't think the grain would fit if we were starting with 7gal h20 for a 6gal batch
@@FloraBrewing when I did a few BIAB batches with a 8 gallon kettle i had to sparge over the top of the grain bag. You Can make it work its just a pain
so it's more of a belgian golden strong? awesome!
Yeah! I think it may be one of the best beers I've made.
@@FloraBrewing don't you love it when your accidents turn out amazing? Did you end up dry hopping it more to balance the extra maltiness?
I make both dog treats and horse treats (with molasses). Welcome to Warshington and the Pacific Northwet!
I love it! unfortunately I have to go back sooner than I thought :(
@@FloraBrewing Bummer! That was a great video! Thanks for sharing. Something PNW about an impromptu brew day out on the patio under grey skies wearing a parka with the green and trees all around. Very inspiring. I am using a RoboBrew but just got an nice burner and have pretty good SS kettle and a BIAB bag. Thought all-in-one was way to go but BIAB is really growing on me.
I’d like to see a video on a Kveik beer.
Ill probably make one when I get back to LA, I have some yeast in the fridge there and I'm sure it's crazy hot there.
It’s a cool yeast family. Haven’t done it myself because I live in the Midwest. Still too cold for kveik.
It's the Pacific Northwest water lol
It's the best, truly.
@@FloraBrewing I lived in Portland for 10 years I truly miss the pnw
Drinking and brewing in Washington 🍺 1.08 what the fuck man 🙈
right? IDK how that even happened
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haha good times. only thing as awesome as dogs is beer...
seriously
This "pooping in my underwear" thing requires an explanation
It's how my husband and I ask "are you shitting me?" haha it's become a common saying in our household (and we have tons of other ones)
By breaking habits, did you just stumble upon ways to earn gravity points? Cheers!
haha who knows it's a mystery
Great Video. #STAYSAFE More ABV KIILLS MORE CBB ( CORONAVIRUS BY BODY ) #DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE GET YOUR HUSBAND TO DRINK.
True!
It is the hose water, correcting the PH to maximize the efficiency of the mash ? ? ? ? ? ? Are you believing this home bar analyst cometary dribble. NO, it is the altitude of the apocalypse 45 minute mash. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Are you believing this home bar analyst cometary dribble. NO. GOING TO BE A GREAT BEER ! ! ! ! ! ! ! CHEERS
hahah this beer proves you don't have to know that jargon ;)