April 8, 2007

Easter Brew

Hillside Brew -  Location: (2031, 3603)

Start (1200 - 1185): 70 Honey, 15 Dark Malt, 5 Raw Malt, 5 Burnt Malt

End (12 - 10): 40 Dark Malt

Seal @ 1180: Y-88, Y-97 

Result:

Very Potent Fruity Beer, Noticeable date flavor

  • Alcohol: 1232, Color: 196, Mold: 0, Vitamins: 922
  • Glucose: 0, Maltose: 168, Lactose: 0
  • Acids: 0
  • Flavors
    • Barley: 190
    • Orange: 49
    • Banana: 17
    • Cherry: 24
    • Date: 568
    • Honey: 83
    • Nutmeg: 35
    • Cinnamon: 28
    • Tannin: 63
    • Grassy: 74
    • Nasty: 35
  • Microbes: Y-88, Y-97
March 20, 2007

Hillside Brew

Location: (2031, 3603)

Start (1200 - 1185): 60 Honey, 30 Dark Malt, 20 Med Malt

End (30 - 18): 15 Honey, 15 Light Malt, 25 Raw Malt

Seal @ 1180: Y-88, Y-97

Result:

Cloying Beer

  • Alcohol: 1232, Color: 248, Mold: 0, Vitamins: 2384
  • Glucose: 0, Maltose: 448, Lactose: 0
  • Acids: 0
  • Flavors
    • Barley: 369
    • Orange: 43
    • Banana: 15
    • Cherry: 20
    • Date: 511
    • Honey: 286
    • Nutmeg: 32
    • Cinnamon: 23
    • Tannin: 119
    • Grassy: 70
    • Nasty: 30
  • Microbes:Y-88, Y-97

Take Two - Location: (2031, 3603)

Start (1200 - 1185): 40 Honey, 20 Dark Malt, 10 Med Malt

End (25 - 15): 10 Honey, 5 Light Malt, 15 Raw Malt

Seal @ 1180: Y-88, Y-97

Result:

Bitter Beer

  • Alcohol: 943, Color: 153, Mold: 0, Vitamins: 1238
  • Glucose: 0, Maltose: 67, Lactose: 0
  • Acids: 0
  • Flavors
    • Barley: 216
    • Orange: 20
    • Banana: 5
    • Cherry: 7
    • Date: 200
    • Honey: 186
    • Nutmeg: 11
    • Cinnamon: 8
    • Tannin: 69
    • Grassy: 37
    • Nasty: 10
  • Microbes: Y-88, Y-97

Take Three - Location: (2031, 3603)

Start (1200 - 1190): 70 Honey, 15 Dark Malt

End (20 - 10): 40 Dark Malt

Seal @ 1110: Y-88, Y-97 (wasn’t paying attention, should be 1180)

Result:

Cloying Beer

  • Alcohol: 1232, Color: 132, Mold: 0, Vitamins: 867
  • Glucose: 0, Maltose: 128, Lactose: 0
  • Acids: 0
  • Flavors
    • Barley: 132
    • Orange: 27
    • Banana: 8
    • Cherry: 11
    • Date: 315
    • Honey: 74
    • Nutmeg: 17
    • Cinnamon: 12
    • Tannin: 34
    • Grassy: 6
    • Nasty: 15 
  • Microbes: Y-88, Y-97, A-46

Take Four - Location: (2031, 3603)

Start (1200 - 1185): 70 Honey, 15 Dark Malt, 5 Raw Malt

End (12 - 10): 40 Dark Malt

Seal @ 1180: Y-88, Y-97 

Result:

Very Potent Fruity Beer, Noticeable date flavor

  • Alcohol: 1232, Color: 136, Mold: 0, Vitamins: 921
  • Glucose: 0, Maltose: 158, Lactose: 0
  • Acids: 0
  • Flavors
    • Barley: 191
    • Orange: 49
    • Banana: 17
    • Cherry: 24
    • Date: 568
    • Honey: 83
    • Nutmeg: 35
    • Cinnamon: 28
    • Tannin: 63
    • Grassy: 75
    • Nasty: 35  
  • Microbes: Y-88, Y-97
March 16, 2007

Home Brew

Finished my beer kettle!

Testing out my compound.

Yeast Test, (2101, 3578)

Open Kettle: M-15, Y-2, Y-64, Y-80, Y-9, A-38, L-4, L-28, Y-72, L-21, Y-11, A-14, L-20, L-53, Y-48, y-10, A-94, Y-49, Y-66, Y-89

Seal @ 1200: M-15, Y-2

Yeast Test, (3104, 3582)

Open Kettle: M-15, Y-2, Y-64, Y-80, A-38, Y-9, L-21, Y-72, L-4, L-28, Y-11, L-53, L-20, Y-48, Y-10, A-14, Y-66, A-94, Y-89, Y-49

——

Hill Behind Compound, (2031, 3603)

Open Kettle: Y-88, Y-97, A-46, A-78 … crap, accidentally closed window. But, yeasts first, good news.

Seal @ 1200: Y-88

Seal @ 900: Y-88, Y-97, A-46, A-78, Y-11, L-29

Seal @ 1030: Y-88, Y-97, A-46, A-78

Seal @ 1125: Y-88, Y-97, A-46

Seal @ 1160: Y-88, Y-97, A-46

Seal @ 1180: Y-88, Y-97 - Score!

March 12, 2007

Alexandria Brew, take 3

Trying again, going for a little more alcohol, a little darker, a little less sweet.

1200 - 1100 : 15 Dark Malt, 10 Burnt Malt, 15 Med malt, 10 honey

30 - 0 : 10 Light malt, 10 Med Malt, 5 Raw malt, 5 Honey (or was it 5 light, 15 med?)

Results:

Fruity Dry Brown Beer. Noticable honey flavor.

  • Alcohol: 610, Color: 260, Mold: 0, Vitamins: 974
  • Glucose: 4, Maltose: 126, Lactose: 0
  • Acids: none
  • Flavors
    • Barley: 206
    • Orange: 7
    • Banana: 12
    • Cherry: 47
    • Date: 12
    • Honey: 460
    • Nutmeg: 10
    • Cinnamon: 33
    • Tannin: 64
    • Grassy: 42
    • Nasty: 9
  • Microbes: Y-25

Second Alexandria Brew

Second attempt:

winging it based on last results.

1200 - 1180 : 10 Dark Malt, 5 Burnt Malt, 5 Med malt, 10 honey

25 - 0 : 20 Light malt, 5 Raw malt, 15 Honey

Results:

Baruti’s Alexandria Brew
Fruity Dry Beer, Noticable honey flavor.

  • Alcohol: 580, Color: 142, Mold: 0, Vitamins: 1307
  • Glucose: 4, Maltose: 126, Lactose: 0
  • Acids: 0
  • Flavors
    • Barley: 123
    • Orange: 6
    • Banana: 11
    • Cherry: 44
    • Date: 11
    • Honey: 609
    • Nutmeg: 9
    • Cinnamon: 32
    • Tannin: 41
    • Grassy: 46
    • Nasty: 8
  • Microbes: Y-25

Yeast-25 Conclusions:

  • Max Alcohol: 629
  • Glucose floor: 4
  • Maltose floor: 126
  • Vitamin floor: ??
  • Vitamin consume: ??
  • Barley: ??
  • Orange: .011
  • Banana: .021
  • Cherry: .076
  • Date: .021
  • Honey: ??
  • Nutmeg: .016
  • Cinnamon: .054
  • Grassy: ??
  • Nasty: .014
March 11, 2007

Travelling

Guild got sick, just about all of us. While out looking for herbs, found a beer kettle at 1220, 3668, nw of the schoold of thought. Check this location later, perhaps.

Found another at 1300, 3500, along the road south from School of thought.

And another at 1442, 3105.

4/9 - found another at 1231, 3345 

First Beer

Made in Alexandria kettle - 2170,3522

~3600 (~1200) - Added 20 Dark Malt, 10 Honey
~2400 (~0) - Added 20 Light Malt, 10 Raw Malt, 40 Honey

Yeast-25, Sealed at 850

Estimated pre-yeast stats:
Color: 149
Vitamins: 702
Glucose: 590
Maltose: 450

Flavors
Barley: 294
Honey: 66
Tannin: 118
Grassy: 66


Final Result: Failed
Cloying Beer

  • Alcohol: 629, Color: 127, Mold: 0, Vitamins: 1596
  • Glucose: 4, Maltose: 407, Lactose: 0
  • Acids: 0
  • Flavors
    • Barley: 166
    • Orange: 7
    • Banana: 13
    • Cherry: 48
    • Date: 13
    • Honey: 888
    • Nutmeg: 10
    • Cinnamon: 34
    • Tannin: 54
    • Grassy: 60
    • Nasty: 9
  • Microbes: Y-25
March 10, 2007

Alexandria Beer Kettle

Sealed at 0 (end of fermenting)

  • Y-25, Y-64, M-79, A-14, M-7, Y-80, Y-2, Y-66, Y-19, Y-27, Y-81, M-15
Sealed at 1190
  • Y-25, Y-64, M-79, A-14. M-7

Sealed at 850

  • Y-25

Also, the no weed killer method of growing barley seems to be more productive than using weed killer.  It does use more fertilizer, but makes more in the same time.  Uses no weed killer (so no need to hunt down those mushrooms), and takes a lot less thinking to do it.  I’ll probably stick to this.
March 9, 2007

Getting started

First off, this is largely here for personal tracking and recording .  Unless you are also just learning the ropes of the brewing profession in ATITD, you’re not likely to find much interesting here.  Even if you are, this is going to be mostly experimentation notes and things.  If I have very successful recipies, I’ll probably put them on my user page in the wiki.

Okay, disclaimers out of the way. 

I don’t have the beermaking skill yet, as I’m not high enough level.  I’m working right now on growing barley and malting/roasting it.  I figure having a good supply stored up will help with all the mistakes I’m going to be making.

I haven’t come across any of the Toad Skin mushrooms that are needed to make weed killer, so I am using the method described in the wiki guide to grow without it.  The results aren’t great, progress is slow at 2-4 barley per planting.  Some guildmates are going to see if they can find me a place where I can find some of the mushrooms.  If the barley grows to harvest, it’ll be 10 per planting.

Need to figure out what the pattern is with the grain ovens.  Otherwise I’ll end up with far too much burnt and light malt, and not enough of the dark.  Also, find a way to get more wood faster, those ovens go through it like nothing.