Daily Archives: November 12, 2011

Chili, Baking and Homebrew

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Today was a wonderful saturday.  The weather was gorgeous, I didn’t have any commitments, I had a batch of beer to brew, AND, to top things off, Jason came over with all the ingredients for homemade chili.  He had a hankering and I wasn’t going to let an offer like this pass me by.

As I worked on brewing my Chinook IPA, Jason made up some fantastic chili.  Then Jen got home and decided to whip up some Tastefully Simple Beer Bread.

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Chinook IPA

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Aiming for:

Hoppy American IPA.  Kit link

Yeast:

Safale S-05 Dry Ale Yeast. Dry. 11.5g. Rehydrated.

Speciality Grains:

.75 lbs Belgian Caramel Pils
.25 lbs Briess Caramel 120

Malts:

6 lbs Pilsen malt syrup Liquid
1 lb. Pilsen malt extract dry

Hops:

1 oz. Chinook 60 minutes 11.2% AAU
.5 oz. Chinook 10 minutes 11.2% AAU
.5 oz. Chinook 1 minute 11.2% AAU
1 oz. Chinook Dry Hop 11.2% AAU

Calculated IBUs:  38 IBUs (via calculator)

OG: 1.070 @ 70 Degrees
FG:
ABV:

Brew Day Pics (11/12/2011):

 

 

 

 

 

Racked to Secondary (11/22/2011):

FG: 1.018

Bottled on 12/3/2011: