Femme Fatale Brewing

Femme Fatale just completed its first all grain batch! We brewed the Scottish Export and it smelled great.

Here is a lovely picture of the mash tun in action.

Wanna give blood now?

More on the beer later!

Opened another keg and found more. This time we didn’t dump it, but gave it to a brewing buddy who will send it off to a lab to be examed. We may get a nice lambic starter out of it, or something else. We will see!

Femme Fatale Brewing has been hard at work shifting into the next level of home brewing. It hasn’t been cheap either.

The goal is to move into all grain brewing and kegging. Kegging is moving slower then desired but we are almost ready to brew our first all grain batch. All that is left is some minor repare work to the demon box otherwise known as our first mash tun. The darn thing keeps leaking and valve keeps sticking but we figured out why and will fix it soon.

The first all grain batch will be a simple pale ale, otherwise known as Fael Ale. Here is the recipe (note: the hop ratios in the actual brew will not be exact, we are using left over hops to bitter the beer, also, the yeast is left off the recipe but it will be basic dry ale yeast):

Fael Ale
American Pale Ale

Type: All Grain
Date: 9/11/2008

Batch Size: 5.00 gal
Brewer: Femme Fatale Brewing
Boil Size: 6.41 gal    Asst Brewer:
Boil Time: 60 min    Equipment: Brew Pot (7.5 gal) and Cooler (48 qt)

Ingredients
Amount    Item    Type    % or IBU
10.00 lb    Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM)    Grain    100.00 %
0.25 oz    Liberty [4.30 %] (60 min)    Hops    3.8 IBU
1.00 oz    Sterling [7.50 %] (60 min)    Hops    26.6 IBU
0.25 oz    Liberty [4.30 %] (15 min)    Hops    1.9 IBU
0.25 oz    Liberty [4.30 %] (5 min)    Hops    0.8 IBU
0.25 oz    Goldings, East Kent [5.00 %] (5 min)    Hops    0.9 IBU
0.25 oz    Goldings, East Kent [5.00 %] (0 min)    Hops    -

Beer Profile
Est Original Gravity: 1.055 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.014 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 5.26 %
Bitterness: 33.9 IBU    Calories: 246 cal/pint
Est Color: 3.9 SRM    Color:

Mash Profile
Mash Name: Single Infusion, Medium Body, Batch Sparge    Total Grain Weight: 10.00 lb
Sparge Water: 4.74 gal    Grain Temperature: 72.0 F
Sparge Temperature: 168.0 F    TunTemperature: 72.0 F
Adjust Temp for Equipment: FALSE    Mash PH: 5.4 PH

Single Infusion, Medium Body, Batch Sparge Step Time    Name    Description    Step Temp
60 min    Mash In    Add 12.50 qt of water at 165.9 F    154.0 F

Hopefully it turns out well enough.  It has to, as we need to brew another Throwdown beer and it too is an all grain recipe.

Still not blood oranges but the sweet orange hefeweizen won a local throwdown at the brew club. Glad people liked it. So far I’d have to say the hefe is our best beer.

Next, we brew a simple all grain pale ale. This will be our first all grain beer.