Dry Hoppin

I racked both the beers today. Things seem good so far. Shelley took some pictures, they are in my pictures folder. Both beers taste and smell good. I am going to give them three weeks or so in the secondary.
Note: I added 1/2 ounce of casade hops to the secondary. Dry Hoppin!

Stout & IPA Update

Both beers are venting nicely. I need to order some new valves for the bottling buckets. I am thinking about using an online vender for supplies, maybe I'll try one for the valve. I am thinking about homebrewheaven or Brew Your Own Beer

Stout

I also got this recipe from http://beerrecipes.org/ but I had to modify it a bit based on what I could get.

Ingredients:
½ lb flaked barley
¼ lb black patient malt
½ lb crystal malt
2 3.3lb cans dark malt extract – Munton's
2 ounces Kent Golding
Yeast Safale S-05 dry yeast

Procedure:
Get two gallons of water to 175 F. Turn off heat. Steep flaked barley, black patient malt and crystal malt for 30 minutes. Remove hope bag, turn heat back on. Bring to a boil, turn off heat, add malt extract. Boil for 15 minutes. Add 1 ounce Kent Golding. Boil 30 minutes. Add 1 ounce Kent Golding. Boil 3o minutes.
Move pot to ice bath. After cool add to primary fermented and bring up to 5 gallons.
Hydrate and proof yeast, then pitch.
Move to basement and wait.
I will rack this after 7 or 10 days.

IPA

This is based on a liberty IPA clone recipe that I found online at http://beerrecipes.org/

I changed it a little based on availability of ingredients and Barry's recommendation. I just found http://www.howtobrew.com it's a pretty rockin site. I decided to boil for a little longer than normal and add more hops than I normally would. It's an IPA after all.

Ingredients:

½ lb crystal malt
2 4lb cans light unhopped malt extract – Mountmellick
1 lb dry light malt extract
1 ounce Northern Brewer hops
2 ounces Cascade hops
Yeast Safale S-04 dry yeast

Procedure

Get two gallons of water to 170 F. Turn off heat. Steep crystal malt for 30 minutes. Remove hope bag, turn heat back on. Bring to a boil, turn off heat, add malt extract. Boil for 15 minutes. Add ½ ounce Northern Brewer. Boil 45 minutes. Add ½ ounce Northern Brewer and ½ ounce Cascade. Boil for 30 minutes. Add 1 ounce Cascade and 1 teaspoon Irish Moss. Boil for 15 minutes.
Move pot to ice bath. After cool add to primary fermented and bring up to 5 gallons.
Hydrate and proof yeast, then pitch.
Move to basement and wait.

I am planning to dry hop this batch. I am going to add the last ½ ounce of Cascade to the secondary fermenter.