March Club Meeting - GameCraft Brewing Anaheim - Tuesday, March 19th, 6:30pm

[Justin H]

Our next club meeting will be Tuesday, March 19th, 6:30pm - 8:00 at:

GameCraft Brewing's new location in Anaheim
1884 S Santa Cruz St,
Anaheim, CA 92805

(Off Gene Autry Way between the Angel Stadium and the 5 freeway)
https://www.gamecraftbrewing.com/

Bring your homebrew if you would like to receive feedback. Meetings are open to all Brewcommune forum members (paid and non-paid). If you are new to Brewcommune, come out and introduce yourself.

Please drop a comment to let us know if you plan on attending.

[romen]

I have another event earlier so I can't make it by 6:30 but I plan to come late. I'll bring some homebrew.

[ctninh]

Got my stout ready.

-Calvin

[Reid]

I should be there.

[CurtisG]

The new Gamecraft location is great!

[ctninh]

The new Gamecraft location is great!

So, you going or what?

[Justin H]

Curtis is always there in spirit.

[Justin H]

Just a reminder, March meeting is tonight at 6:30. See you all at Game Craft in Anaheim.

[ctninh]

Got my stout ready.

-Calvin

It is here + my notes. Share your recipes here. Everything is bought from Windsor. Great time to everyone for sharing. Thanks GameCraft.

Steep these grains at room temp 5.25 gal of RO water. Heat up to 150 deg F. Remove grains. This steam lasted `30 min for me from when steeping started.
1 lb roasted
4 oz special roast
8 oz Kiln Coffee
4 oz chocolate rye

Then, heat water to boil. During that time, add:
3.3 lb LME Breiss Golden Light (1 container)
5 lb DME Breiss Golden Light

Boil schedule:
1st wort Nugget hops (14.2% aa)
15 min Hallertau Mittelfrüh (5.4% aa)
10 min Hallertau Mittelfrüh (5.4% aa)

Also add yeast nutrients, Irish moss, & copper coils.

Yeast is WLP1983 Charlie's Fist Bump https://www.whitelabs.com/yeast-single? ... type=YEAST

OG = 1.066
FG = 1.010
est ABV = 7.4%

Overall:
It is a bit smooth for an American Stout. Members tonight liked it for that. I would like a bit more astringency.
Hops are just there for bitterness and cleaning out my freezer. If I were to dry hop, use resinous an earthy hops for aroma.

[romen]

Here's my failed lager recipe. I don't recommend it

https://web.brewfather.app/share/b7vnd07n0oRh8c

[romen]

Calvin - I tried to translate your recipe to Brewfather, does this look right?
https://share.brewfather.app/Xhhkz3D1MaVxO2

The vitals are pretty wild.

[ctninh]

Nope. Looks weird.

Overall, it's an American stout that was smoothed out by adding the dark grains to a slowly heated pot of water. Then, add in malt extract.

Hops can change. Just use a high bittering (magnum, CTZ, millennium, ect). Other hops were minor bitterness and a bit of aroma for me.

Grav is a bit high on Brewfather. Is there an extract setting?

[romen]

Super helpful, thank you! I have it set up for the Brewzilla 35L, I'm not sure if it is factoring a more aggressive boil off rate maybe? If I lower the DME to compensate it brings the vitals more in line with your recipe.