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   1. Mac 'n' Jack's Amber clone (supposed to be close)

      by SeattleVet, 11 years ago in BIAB Recipes

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      Just kegged this batch. Tasted what was in the hydrometer vessel then drank the whole thing - it was good already, before conditioning/carbonation. Looks to be a pretty good batch. Initial and final gravity were right on the button. Quite an easy brew day too. (Maybe this one will help to make up for the 5 gallons I just dumped due to some type of nastiness getting in.)
      
      Hope I'm adding this right - added the recipe report and attached the file.
      
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      Yep. Bought a cabin on a river in the NW Georgia mountains. Little town called Ellijay. Nice little cabin with a 3-car garage! Lots of brewing room!
      
      I am brewing an Irish Red next week (same one I did a few years ago while traveling. I will follow up with the M&J as soon as I free up my fermenter. I still have only the one. I am working on building up my brewing tools again. But I have decided to stay with BIAB, even though I have the room to go bigger...
      
      I will post with results on both of...
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      OldGoat
      8 years ago
   2. Pike Place Space Needle Golden Anniversary IPA (clone)

      by SeattleVet, 13 years ago in BIAB Recipes

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      Just kegged this brew. I was going to brew several weeks ago but life intervened, so I did the brew day on May 10. I've been trying to duplicate this brew, and missed the hop bill a bit on my last try. This one seems to be somewhat closer to the original - maybe even right on the spot, after it has conditioned.
      
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      (Wow - that was an old message thread!)
      
      The DME was to boost the gravity a bit from what was calculated, and also because I had an extra bit of DME hanging around that I wanted to use. I could have added some additional 2-row and kept close to the same profile. The grain bill and strike water all fit the kettle but I do have to watch it a little as I get the grain in (BIABacus warns of approaching kettle limit). I did have a few inches of headroom, and no problem with the boil.
      
      The Pike Place...
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      SeattleVet
      10 years ago
   3. 3rd BIAB - Trying new hops variety

      by SeattleVet, 12 years ago in BIAB Recipes

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      Someone gave me some of the new(er) Calypso variety of hops, and I wanted to brew a fairly clean batch that would highlight the flavor of this one. I used Calypso for bittering and for dry-hopping, and added some Citra for flavor. Very pale right now, I'm very anxious to try this one out!
      
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      Mish-Mash - Batch 3
      
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      Looks good and should be a hoppy one with all those high AA hops.
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      Yeasty
      12 years ago
   4. You may have some new people here soon...

      by SeattleVet, 13 years ago in General Chit-Chat, Nonsense & Rambles

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      or at least some heavier 'guest' traffic.
      
      The January issue of Zymurgy has a nice little article titled 'Brew in a Bag' that has a link to here. Seems to be a well-written factual article that debunks a lot of the myths about efficiency, etc. You guys have made the big time here! Congratulations!
      
      Found this issue at the brew shop on Wednesday - it's just on the stands here, so it may take a little bit for the new folks to star wandering over.

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      Good job by Brad. I listened to him at the NHC in Seattle in 2012. I told him before hand that we were there to heckle him if he misrepresented BIAB. He did a good job and only Shibolet heckled him a little! I congratulated him at the nightly party and he was very pleased with his biab experiences. I did complain about the numbers being off in his IBU calculations but he shrugged it off because I was unable to stand up at this point of the night. Little credence is given to those who are...
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      BobBrews
      13 years ago
   5. First BIAB - lower OG, and a strange (fast) fermentation

      by SeattleVet, 13 years ago in Brew Day Stories and/or Pics

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      Did my first BIAB this past Wednesday. Made a mistake when milling the grain, and got it somewhat too coarse, so my OG was off from what I had initially calculated (Calc: 1.063, actual 1.046).
      
      The recipe was supposed to be a 5-gallon batch of 'Space Needle IPA', which appears to closely mimic Seattle's Pike Place Brewing 'Space Needle Golden Anniversary IPA' that they worked up.
      
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      Grain:
      Pale Malt 2 row: 8.5 Lb
      Pale Maris Otter: 1.5 Lb
      Crystal (60L): .75 Lb
      Munich (10L): .75...

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      I ran the grain bill for the porter through the slightly finer crush. It looks nicely cracked, but not tiny pieces. Have to pickup a little Magnum and another tank of propane then we'll fire up the burner and (hopefully) get the brew done today.
      
      I'm anxious to see how this one comes out - especially since my dear, sweet wife got me a complete kegging system for Christmas! We were all a little confused when she handed me a stocking with a long spiral wrapped bit hanging from it - that was the...
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      SeattleVet
      13 years ago

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