Yuma Brewers

Tonight’s beer: Belgian Dubbel (Abbey)
This is an authentic Abbey style ale like those that arose long ago in Trappist monasteries throughout Belgium.  Dark brown in color, high in gravity and alcohol, this kit exhibits medicinal, plum, and raisin flavors when fermented at warm temperatures.
Yeast: #1388 Belgian Strong Ale. Robust flavor yeast with moderate to high alcohol tolerance.  Fruity nose and palate, dry, tart finish.  Flocculation: low.  Apperent attenuation: 73-77%. Optimum temp: 65-75
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Tonight’s beer: St. Paul Porter
Due to an oversight last week no ingredients were ordered for this week. Thankfully we had the St. Paul Porter (It’s not a Sout DJ!) on hand so iinto the kettle it goes. Late start tonight, 9:22 the grains are going in. Jason got distracted typing this and missed the grain pull by 2 minutes so at 9:39 they finally came out and the propane was cranked up to start the boil. The boil started at 10??

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Tonight’s beer: Extra Pale Ale
Ingredients: see Northern Brewer Extra Pale Ale Kit

This is the beer we intended to brew last week but arrived late due to the holidays. Fortunately, We had DJ’s backup for last week.

The recipe is as easy as it gets yet we somehow forgot one of the key ingredients. The boiling hops did not get added until the finishing hops for the last minute. As I added the finishing hops I glanced over and saw the open but full boiling hops bag sitting on the burn barrel lid.

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Tonight’s beer: Maibock
Specialty Grains (hand ground in house w/ rolling pin): 1 lbs. Dingermans Caramel Pils
Fermentable: 9.3 lbs. Gold Malt Syrup
Boil Additions: 1 oz. Perle (60 min) - 1 oz. Hallertauer (10 min)
Yeast: Yeast #2124 Bohemian Lager Yeast. A pilsner yeast from the Weihenstephen. Ferments clean and malty, with rich residual maltiness in full gravity pilsners. Flocculation: medium. Apparent attenuation: 69-73%. Optimum temp: 48-58
In Germany, this sub style of the bock family is brewed late in the year and lagered all winter; then in May, the beer is ceremonially tapped and consumed at huge outdoor parties that haveing unpronounceable German names. Maibocks are quite strong, and are very pale despite their high original gravities - the palest commercial examples are barely darker than a pilsner. With a traditionally pale color and a delicate noble Hallertau hop aroma, the Northern Brewer Maibock is a Fruhjahrstarkbierfest in a box.

Deej chose the Mai Bock kit as a back up kit incase something happened; late ordering or derelict UPS driver. As fate would have it, the first brew session of ‘06 required such kit. It was picked out of Northern Brewer.

Unfortunately we hit 150 upon adding our grains, so the heat was turned off. The grains were down for approx. 23 minutes.

Added extract and starting hops, boil started at 9:25
Finishing hops in at 10:20 tx at 10:30

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