beoir dorcha le blas

Today I transferred my Vanilla Porter to secondary. This is the beer I blogged about in The unnamed one stout porter and now it has been named beoir dorcha le blas. 

Beoir dorcha le blas
Vanilla Porter
O.G. 1.058
F.G. 1.022 (could still drop a little)
ABV 4.7

Want some cake?

Wyeast 1084 yeast cake.

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Brewers Yeast Bread

Last night I got a little crazy. I baked bread. Not just any old bread.  It was Brewers Yeast Bread.  I had some US- 05 yeast I had harvest from my Brown Ale that I needed to use, But I did not want to use it in another brew.  US- 05 coming from a dry yeast pack, So if I want to use it in another beer I will just buy another pack of it. That being said I still did not want this yeast to go to waste. So what was I to do but make bread.

Look how much it rose. Brewers yeast being slow growing, I had to add a little Bakers yeast. It came out to be around 1/3 bakers yeast and 2/3 Brewers yeast.

Tasting Notes

It smelled like yeasty bread.
It had a slight taste of beer, I think it came from the brewers yeast.
It was very good.

In the first  minute nothing but crumbs were left.


Recipe
Brewers yeast Bread


1 Cup warm water
1/3 cup sugar
1 Tbsp Bakes yeast
2 Tbsp liquid brewers yeast
3/4 Tsp salt
1/8 oil ( I used butter)
3 cups of flour

1. Mix water, sugar and and yeast in large bowl.  Allow the yeast to proof till it resembles a creamy foam.
2. Mix salt and oil in to yeast. Mix in flour one cup at a time.
3.  Knead dough in a lightly floured surface until smooth. 
4. Place dough in a well oiled bowl and cover with a warm damp cloth.  Allow dough to rise until doubled in bulk, Around 1 hour.
5. Place dough in a small oiled loaf pan 
6. Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes

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Yeast Harvesting Time.

How to harvest your yeast and wash it.

After you have either  racked all your beer in to secondary or bottles you can harvest your yeast.  

Okay, you say you just did that. Well look at the bottom of your carboy or bucket. You see all the leftover stuff down there. That is your trub and dormant yeast. You want the yeast, Not the trub. So we have to wash it.

How do you wash yeast?

Here are the steps to follow to harvest and wash your Yeast.

1. Get a pot of water boiling and put some Mason jars in it.
2. After a good boil (10 to 15 minutes) allow the water to cool.
3. Take the cooled water and pour 2 mason jars worth of water in to the fermenter with the yeast trub cake.
4. Take your fermenter and swirl it around until well mixed.
5. Let the liquid settle for 20 minutes.
6. Drain liquid in to clean boiled jars.
7. Let the jars settle ( put in to the refrigerator to speed up settling.)
8. Pour in just the top two layers in to a new jar. Leave the thick grayish brown stuff in old jar.(It's just trub.)
9. In new jar with what you just poured add around one cup of the boiled water (cooled) and swirl to mix.
10. Let the jar settle again and you will have good yeast to use.

Here is what I got from my last brew.

   What you see is. The top is the wash water, then there is a nice layer of white yeast and the rest is a mix of yeast and trub.

Good luck to you in your harvesting.

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Recipe 1610 Brown Ale

1610 Brown Ale

5 Gallons 

Partial Mash

Target OG 1.065

Target FG 1.018

ABV 6.13%

IBU 38- 39

Malt

6 lbs Amber DME

4 oz UK Chocolate

4 oz UK Crystal 60L

2 oz UK Black Patent 

2 oz Belgian Biscuit

   

Hops

1 oz East Kent Golding @ 60 minutes

1 oz Mount Hood        @ 45 minutes

1 oz Styrian Goldings    @ 15 minutes

Yeast

Safale American Ale Yeast  US 05



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Brew Day. I'm thinking 1610 Brown ale.

I got all my ingredients needed for my partial mash brew Brown ale, I got all my grains and DME from my local brew store, HomeSteaders Brew supply.  This being my third brew I wanted it to really work and taste like BEER.  My first batch was a Mr. BEER kit, Good to get my brewing passion going, but no good as far as beer. Next as you can see here  I brewed an all grain California Ale. I jumped right in to the deep end and could barely swim. My Cali. ale came out as beer, but was weak. It hardly fermented and tasted very young.

This time I...

This time I did a lot of watching youtube and after all of that I feel I have a good idea on how to brew.   I knew I wanted to brew a Brown Ale.  So I want to my local brew supply shop in town and picked up my LME, my barley grains, my hops, and my dry yeast.   My 1610 Brown Ale is ready to brew. I got the recipe from local brew supply shop, I told the owner what I was looking to brew and he helped me tweak the recipe to my liking. 

 

 After that...

After that it was time to brew .

Getting that right Temp. to pitch the yeast

That's it.

OG 1.065
Now it's in it's fermentation bucket and bubbling away.