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My 1.5 gallon fermentation buckets have arrived!  That means I kick off Grain School this weekend.

Grain school will be my way to really nail down what all the different grains actually cause beer to taste like.  I will be brewing a base recipe, and then several more recipes, each with a different grain added.  These will be one-gallon batches.

My schedule will look something like this:

Brew Day #1:
MO + Cascade hops
US 2-Row + Cascade hops

- all other recipes add one grain to US 2-Row + Cascade:

+Vienna
+Melanoiden

Brew Day #2:
+Honey Malt
+Crystal 20
+ Crystal 60
+ Crystal 80

Brew Day #3:
+ Biscuit Malt
+ Victory Malt
+ Munich 10
+ Munich

Brew Day #4:
+ Special B
+ Light Chocolate Malt
+ Chocolate Malt
+ Roasted Barley

Brew Day #5 - Head retention/mouth feel day:
+ Cara-Pils
+ Flaked Oats
+ Flaked Wheat
+ Flaked Barley

This will take me through at least the end of the year, but I’m really looking forward to it. I can’t wait to fill a notebook with geeky beer data!

In reality, I’ll probably brew up two batches a day instead of four, but you get the gist.  By the time I finish this I should be much better at crafting tasty recipes where the grains really work with each other to accomplish a goal.  Of course getting the ratios right will still take tweaking when perfecting a recipe, but I should at least usually get off to a good start.