Here are the beers I brewed in temporal order.
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bottledbrewed
preparing the starter: (tuesday) 1 cup wheat DME, 16 oz water,
roughly 2-3 oz each from bottom of 2 shepherd neame (10/10/2004, warm), and the bottom 3 oz of a hopzilla (chilled, which also provided the bottom) 4 northern brewer hop pellets:
10 minute boil (pellets/water/DME) , cooled down to
77°, mixed into sanitized 650ml (22oz) hopzilla bottle, cap with fermentation lock (sanitized),
dark place -- basement temp is 68° -- plan to let this go for 4
days and brew w/half, save half (pre-bottling yeast kicker). basement temp
is on the edge so am preparing a small T-bath.
starter T-bath ended up at 71°
brewday: have been concerned about the starter for the last
few days, but today it "blossomed" (got foamy) and it seemed, with
the help of a flashlight, that there was a lot of activity in that
bottle: basement temp seems to be 72° (unseasonably warm), but
have a T-bath in preparation: should be ready by the AM
2nd target drop at +15 min as usual
rackday: tossed in the dry hops (1/2 oz); the activity level
of the fermentation must have been high since the height of the gunk
above the level of the beer was: the T-bath was 68-69° during the
primary fermentation
pre-bottling: 10 days before bottling, pitched other half
of yeast (warmed up) from brewday: it was gassy: this seemed to activate
the brew quite a bit, so i waited an extra week to bottle
bottling day: 50 bottles, leftovers good, maybe reconstitution
is not such a bust after all
Reference
"Clone Brews"
Tess Szamatulski
Mark Szamatulski
Publisher: Storey Books
Page 108
The recipes described indicate the ingredients I used to brew the
beer. These may or may not match with the ingredients found in the
cited references. For the authoritative clone recipe and complete
descriptions of how to make any of these beers using either
extract, mash or mini-mash methods consult the cited text. I
heartily recommend the "clone" books referenced, any of them is
well worth the small investment and will pay off in great beer.