Author Archives: Kodiak

Strong (Wee Heavy) Scottish Scotch Ale – All Grain Recipe

Pandemic Brew 2020! About two and a half months ago, in the middle of our Regional Pandemic, I brewed this Scottish Ale. It felt weird and strange brewing it in the middle of the happening. Basically the recipe was used … Continue reading

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Belgian/French Saison aka Farmhouse Ale Recipe +Fruit – All Grain

Brew in 2020: Belgian Saison (no fruit additions) Beer came out delicious – this yeast/beer needs conditioning and aging, right off the bat it doesn’t taste all that good, but give it 3 months and what a difference, give it … Continue reading

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London Stout

8/31/2019 10-gallon primary batch sparge 18 lb 2-row Northwest Pale 1.5 lb Crystal 60 1 lb Chocolate malt 350 love 1.5 lb roasted barley 300 love Hops: 1.0 whole hops Yakima – start of boil 1.5 ounce Norther Brewer hops … Continue reading

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London Brown Ale 10 + 5 gallon batch

Today I am brewing a Brown London Ale using Wyeast 1318 yeast, which is a “London Ale III”. Here I will do my standard 10 gallon batch sparge, but also do a 2nd running on the (same grain) and brew … Continue reading

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Wild Blonde Ale

About 5 weeks ago we brewed a Blonde Ale / here I wanted to experiment more with the wild yeast culture that I have collected from raspberries in summer of 2018. This is my second attempt, the first was brewing … Continue reading

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Wild Farmhouse Ale

some warning – this was my first time collecting wild yeast and fermenting using it, there is a lot more to wild yeasts than meets the eye and more than I wrote in this blog, I am aware of it … Continue reading

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Kviek Norwegian Farmhouse Ale

10 gallon batch. Today 1/6/2019 we brewed a Norwegian Farmhouse Ale – but not using any traditional means, just a farmhouse grain stack with yeast – Imperial Yeast A43 Loki. I will brew this again in the future using the … Continue reading

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How-To process the raw Beeruino data using R

One of the first things after getting the Beeruino working, is to leave it running in your brewing environment where fermentation will take place. Let it capture a few weeks worth of data, maybe even during different seasons, then learn … Continue reading

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Hazy Stone Fruit Ale / Single Malt, Dual Hop – SMaSH, SMaDH

It is said that in order to become really good, or semi-pro or Pro beer Crafter, at the very least you need to be able to consistently create good beer from just one grain and either one hop or some … Continue reading

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English style “Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout” – Clone All Grain 8 gallon Recipe

This beer was brewed on June 24th – OG was at 1.082.  We did a vigorous boil for 90 minutes to get down to target.  About 7.5 ~ 8 gallons was brewed, we expect this to end up at 9% … Continue reading

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