Bacchus E-Lines May 2021 6633 Nieman Rd. Shawnee, KS 66203 913 962 2501 [email protected]

Happy Mother's Day from the Bacchus & Barleycorn team. May your day be filled with fun, family and home fermented treats!

We will be CLOSED Monday, May 30th in observance of Memorial Day. Originally known as Decoration Day, Memorial Day is an American holiday honoring the men and women who died while serving in our country's armed forces.

“We do not know one promise these men made, one pledge they gave, one word they spoke; but we do know they summed up and perfected, by one supreme act, the highest virtues of men and citizens. For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and their virtue.” --- James A, Garfield May 30, 1868 Arlington National Cemetery

Customer Appreciation Lid with Hole Socializing, community building, Brilliantly clear with built-in 5-Gallon, 6-Gallon asking questions of fellow home and 7-Gallon markers on the side for your fermentation hobbyist and answering convenience. The 4" wide mouth opening and rib- their questions occur during the first less side make mixing and cleaning a breeze. The hour of Customer Appreciation events. During the drilled accommodates a #10 stopper or medium second we offer an educational component. Mark bung for air lock. $35.50 your calendar for the next two events: Sunday, May 16, 3:00-5:00 and Wednesday, June 16, FerMonster PET 3 Gallon Carboy includes Lid 6:00-8:00. with Hole The May gathering will be held on the back lot at Brilliantly clear, the 4" wide mouth opening and Bacchus & Barleycorn so we can social distance. rib-less side make mixing and cleaning a breeze. Anyone tired of hearing the words “social **Requires a #10 stopper or medium bung for air distancing”? What is social about standing 6 ft. lock** $27.00 apart? There won't be a program so we can spend our time getting reacquainted. Please bring your FerMonster Lid Opener favorite, or not so favorite home fermented Easily grip and remove the four beverage to share. If you have a lawn chair you inch lid from your FerMonster may want to bring that with this Lid Opener. $4.75 too. Bacchus will provide snacks. Bring your ideas Easy Drinking Summer collection for home fermentation With summer just around the corner it's time to topics to discuss at future start thinking about and for those gatherings. long hot days and sultry summer nights. Maybe something from this collection of Bacchus Batches Featured Products will fill the bill. FerMonster PET 7 Introducing Prohibited Pils to our Bacchus Gallon Carboy includes Batches Prohibited Pils (Classic American Pilsner) Wyeast Rustic Spring On The Patio The Classic American Pilsner was originally Private Collection – brewed by German immigrants who brought both Available April - June 2021 the process and yeast with them when they settled 1217-PC: WEST COAST IPA in America. Using native ingredients, they created Saccharomyces cerevisiae a unique version of the original Pilsner with a Profile: This strain is ideally slight grainy-like from the use of maize. suited to the production of West After prohibition, the style died out. It has been Coast-style American craft beers. Thorough resurrected by home-brewers and craft brewers. attenuation, temperature tolerance, and good $51.00 flocculation make this an easy strain to work with. Flavor is balanced neutral with mild ester Other summertime favorites from our popular formation at warmer temperatures, allowing hops, Bacchus Batches include: character , and flavorings to show through. Summer Breeze (Kölsch) Beer styles: American Pale & Brown , Although Kölsch, being a protected appellation, American IPA, Red IPA, Double IPA, Scottish may only be brewed in the city of Cologne, Light, Scottish Heavy, Scottish Export, Wee Heavy Germany, home brewers and craft brewers are Apparent ABV Tolerance: 10% increasingly replicating the style. The dense, Flocculation: Medium-High frosty, white head sits atop this golden brew. Apparent attenuation: 73-80% Summer Breeze has a soft, round palate with well Temperature range: 62-74 °F (17-23 °C) attenuated and fruity sweetness from fermentation with just a nuance of spicy hops. 2575-PC: KӦLSCH II Smooth, clean and crisp, this is a pleasantly Saccharomyces cerevisiae refreshing brew; great for the summer. $54.50 Profile: This authentic Kӧlsch strain from one of Germany’s leading brewing schools has a rich Wammo (American Pils) flavor profile which accentuates a soft malt finish. Our first encounter with this recipe was in the mid It has low or no detectable diacetyl production and 1980's. It was entered in the Kansas City Bier will also ferment well at colder temperatures for Meisters homebrew competition by Sam fast lager type beers. Wammack and won Best of Show. The following Beer styles: Kölsch, Altbier, International Amber year Alberta made the same recipe with minor Lager, Festbier modifications and entered it in a competition in Apparent ABV Tolerance: 10% North Carolina where it won Best of Show. Flocculation: Low Though its style is American Pilsner neither of Apparent attenuation: 73-77% those Best of Show winners were lagered so feel Temperature range: 55-70 °F (13-21 °C) free to make it steam beer style. $41.00 5223-PC: LACTOBACILLUS BREVIS Wit’s Up (Belgian Wit) Lactobacillus brevis A pale straw color with a dense white head, Wit’s Profile: Unlike most lactic acid bacteria used in Up has grainy, wheat aromatics. Wit beers are brewing, this species will tolerate higher levels of often very cloudy from starch haze and/or yeast IBUs in wort. This strain is excellent for remixing giving it a milky whitish-yellow appearance. the profile in a Lambic-style or Flanders Red , Moderate zesty, orangey fruitiness combine with or for kettle souring wort for a balanced Berliner perfumy coriander and spicy hops producing Weisse. complex herbal notes in the background. The soft Beer styles: Lambic, Gueuze, Fruit Lambic, effervescent pallet finishes refreshing, dry and Flanders Red Ale, Berliner Weisse, Oud Bruin, thirst quenching. $60.00 Mixed-Fermentation Sour Beer, Wild Specialty Ale Apparent ABV Tolerance: 9% Demerara is a special light Temperature range: 60-95 °F (15-35 °C) from England which imparts a mellow, sweet flavor contributing 1.041-1.042 gravity points per Tips & Tidbits pound per gallon. Brewing In addition to (malt sugar), Golden is rich and flavorful invert sugar brewing sugar (classed as malt syrup, almost -like, made from cane ) sources were traditionally contributing 1.036 gravity points per pound per geographic dependent. British gallon. brewers fortified their brews with cane sugar and sourced Honey, the oldest form of sugar known to man is a from their colonies in the Caribbean and Africa. complex mixture containing about 45% , In Colonial American corn was a readily available 35% dextrose, 13-20% water and small amounts of source of sugar for brewing. Beets were prevalent maltose, , dextrins, gums, vitamins, in northeast Europe where the use of beet sugar in enzymes and more. It also contains antibiotic brewing got its start. Today brewer preference compounds which can make fermentation difficult rather than geography determine the sugars and slow. Additional nutrients like Fermaid-K are selected to go into a beer. recommended when fermenting with honey. Gravity points gained from honey vary depending There are several types of sugar. Dextrose or on the water content. They are generally around commonly known by homebrewers as 1.032 points per pound per gallon. corn sugar is very fermentable by brewer’s yeast. Sucrose includes cane sugar, candi sugar, beet Invert Sugar is made by boiling cane sugar in a sugar, demerara and turbinado. It ferments okay dilute solution of acid. Home-made invert sugar by brewer’s yeast, but rather slow. is can be made by boiling 2 pounds of cane sugar in derived from milk and is completely one pint of water with one teaspoon of citric acid unfermentable by brewer’s yeast. Malto-Dextrin until the solution has a pale golden color. The is halfway between sugar and starch. Because of acidity must be neutralized back to a pH of 7 after its complexity, it is unfermentable by brewer’s boiling by adding calcium carbonate. It will yeast. contribute 1.046 gravity points per pound per gallon.

Brown Sugar is sucrose crystals covered with Lactose is known as milk sugar. Although it adds molasses. The molasses provides the flavor. The 1.043 gravity points per pound per gallon to the darker it is the more flavorful it will be. wort, it is non-fermentable by brewing yeast therefore it remains in the finished beer providing Belgian Candi Sugar is crystallized sucrose some residual sweetness. Traditionally lactose is derived from sugar beets. Color ranges from clear used in sweet stouts which are often called milk (0L) to dark (220L) adding 1.038-40 gravity points stouts. It has a distinct flavor the does not go well per pound per gallon. Clear candi sugar is with lighter beers. typically used in Tripels and . Molasses is the residue produces when raw sugar Belgian Candi Syrup is beet sugar and water cane is processes into sugar. It contains the syrup adding 1.032 gravity points per pound per impurities from the sugar that are not wanted in gallon. Color ranges from 1 to 180 SRM. The refined sugar. As a result, it contains the most additional color in the D-180 is derived from the flavor and all the available sugars and . addition of along with the beet sugar. There are three grades of molasses: light, medium These syrups are a great addition to all Belgian and black strap. The lighter grades are more style beers. highly fermentable (up to 90%) with fewer flavor contributions. Black strap grades will be less contains few impurities. If using raw sugar, use fermentable (50-60%) with a much higher flavor the darkest you can find. impact. Its strong flavor will add 1.036 gravity points per pound per gallon. is known as British molasses. It is generally heavy and black. As with all molasses Rice Syrup Solids will lighten the body, reduce there are various colors and grades adding 1.036 malt flavor and increase alcohol while resulting in gravity points per pound per gallon. a slightly drier beer adding 1.040 gravity points per pound per gallon. Turbinado Sugar is a form of raw cane sugar.

Raw Sugar is brown unrefined sugar crystals Have fun experimenting with some of these covered with a film of syrup. It is reported to be brewing sugars. 97% sucrose so it is highly fermentable and

“I'm prejudiced in favour of making wine in realistic quantities – a bottle of wine a day is not an excessive ration, but it mounts up to ten five-gallon batches a year. So why make single gallons unless of an experimental wine. It's no more bother to make five gallons of wine than to make one – and it lasts twice as long”

Duncan Gillespie Lighthearted winemaking 1971