Subiir/First Brew
subiir: The sudoroom collectively brewed beer.
This is subiir 0, the first ever brewed.
It is an american pale ale with lots of hops.
Expected ethanol percentage is 4.5% to 5.1%.
This one was brewed with ingredients gotten from the Oak Barrel Winecraft homebrewing store in Berkeley and a few ingredients gotten for free from Craigslist. A more detailed list will follow.
The brewing equipment is in [User:Juul|Juul]'s, [User:Factotum|Factotum]'s and [User:Tunabananas|Tunabanas]' back yard in Oakland. It was designed for outdoor brewing (for minimal and easy cleanup), so is not suitable for brewing at sudoroom's current space.
The brewing method was "brewing in a bag" all-grain.
The ingredients were:
- Primary malt: About 12 pounds pre-ground pale ale malt from Oak Barrel winecraft
- Secondary malt: 2 pounds of mystery "specialty malts" free from Craigslist. Appeared lightly roasted.
- Bittering hops: 7 grams Cascade.
- Flavouring hops: 7 grams ?
- Bittering hops: 7 grams ?
- More details coming.
The brewing equipment was:
- A converted turkey fryer.
- A lightly modified 100% ramie pillow cover from Ikea.
- A home-made counter-flow chiller (copper pipe in garden hose).
- Food-safe Home Depot HDPE buckets modified with spigots and airlocks.
Materials and food safety:
- Food grade stainless steel.
- Unleaded drinking-water grade copper.
- NSF 51 food safe high temperature silicone tubing.
- 100% non-dyed ramie cloth.
- Labeled-as-food-safe HDPE (only contacting mash/beer at low temperatures (< 30 C).
Sanitizing agent was: Iodofor.