Articles by William Grady

Milk Stout Homebrew Recipe

William Grady — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:20:00 +0000

A while back I found beer recipes for partial-grain Saison and Milk Stout on Homebrew.com*. I brewed both of the recipes and was very happy with the results.

I took notes along the way on each of the brewing sessions. I wisely posted my Saison recipe notes but never got down to doing the same with the Milk Stout recipe. As this was a few years ago, both beers are long gone now and I can no longer find the Milk Stout notes.

I am going to try making the Milk Stout again and this time I am choosing to start out with this post and I will come back to edit whatever I change along the way. This is the Milk Stout ingredient list that I will be using this time:

Milk Stout Ingredients

I am buying these items from NorthernBrewer.com and have included links to each item.

1 pound Briess Caramel 120L malt
12 ounces Briess Organic Roasted Barley malt
8 ounces Briess Organic Chocolate malt
1 pound Flaked Oats
5 pounds Northern Brewer Dark Malt Syrup
1.25 ounces UK Kent Goldings Hop Pellets
1 pound Lactose
1 teaspoon Irish Moss
Wyeast 1318 London Ale III yeast

Milk Stout Directions

Mill the malted barley (I am buying it milled.)
Add the flaked oats to the malted barley and place the mixture into grain bag.
Steep the filled grain bag in 2 gallons of 150° F hot water for 30 minutes.
Remove the filled grain bag from the water
Add the Dark Malt Syrup
Bring to a boil
Add the Kent Goldings hops. Return to boil. Mixture will foam up. Add and remove from heating until mixture stops foaming over.
After foaming stops, boil for 35 minutes
Add the lactose and Irish Moss.
Boil for 15 minutes
Remove from heat and place in an ice bath to cool.
Decant into fermenter.
Cool to below 85° F. (A wort chiller is helpful here.)
Move the unfermented beer (wort) into your bew bucket and add 3+ gallons of cold water until the mixture of wort and water equals 5 gallons total.
Add yeast.
Wait 10 minutes and then give the top of the mixture a quick stir.
Seal brew bucket, add airlock and leave in 75 ° F area.
Wait three weeks and then move to second fermentation in different brew bucket.
Seal brew bucket and add airlock and leave in 75 ° F area.
Wait two weeks and then move to bottling bucket.
Add priming sugar and bottle.
Wait at least 3 weeks before drinking

Approximate alcohol content: 4.5 percent.

*The article on Homebrew.com indicates that this recipe was originally found at HomebrewAdventures and includes a dead link to HomebrewAdverntures. On further examination, I found that HomebrewAdventures.com appears to be gone so I cannot link back to that post.

Seed Catalogs, Round 2

William Grady — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:23:26 +0000

Just requested my second round of print seed catalogs. Here is what I sent off for:

Here is a list of my first round of seed catalogs.

Replacement iPod Nano

William Grady — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:55:38 +0000

My first replacement Nano has arrived!

1st Gen iPod Nano Recall Process

William Grady — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:55:42 +0000

About six weeks ago, I was reading the MacRumors website and found an article about the Apple recall of the first generation Nanos. The article explained that Apple was recalling first generation Nanos due to a battery issue. My wife and I each had Nanos a few years back, but I was unsure if they were first generation and eligible.

Seed and Plant Catalogs

William Grady — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:35:00 +0000

On the train ride home from work last night I noticed that one my friends had a Burpee seed catalog with him. I remarked that I was surprised that Burpee still had a print version of their catalog and had not just gone web-only. He told me that he still gets loads of print catalogs for flowers, seeds and plants and orders from them on a regular basis.

Favorite Tweets, Keepers - Round One

William Grady — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:38:13 +0000

More often than not when I read Twitter, I do so from my iPhone. While reading Twitter, I often flag items as favorites as a reminder to go back and take a look at them from a larger device. As I appear to have slid past 100 favorites, I thought I would post of few of them here to keep them for future reference.

Apple Recycling Program and PowerON

William Grady — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 01:38:16 +0000

A few months ago I decided that it was about time to upgrade my second-hand, iMac desktop (G5 2.0 GHz single-core PowerPC, 1GB Ram, 200GB hard drive, 17” display.) The computer had spent about a year suffering through problems booting and subsequent bouts of kernel panic. I probably could have reinstalled OS X but there would be little to gain from it. As configured this aging desktop was stuck with OS X Tiger...

Spotify and the Evolution My Music Needs

William Grady — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:51:59 +0000

Recently I heard about a new service called Spotify and my initial reaction was a bit negative. Why would I need that? I have iTunes and I have Pandora. (Being a fan of all things technology, I still requested an invite.)

New Computer

William Grady — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 01:40:34 +0000

For the better part of the last decade and a half, I have made my living supporting folks in a Windows environment. I have guided users through the process of learning Windows and upgrading from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 to Windows 98 to Windows 2000 (happily skipping WinMe) to Windows XP to Windows 7.

TweetLouder from SonicLiving

William Grady — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:42:52 +0000

If you happen to be a Twitter user who enjoys music, TweetLouder is a website worth looking at.