bunkerbrewer
Regular.
Day off work, brew on, could be worse :)
This is the second time I've brewed this style, the main difference from the previous attempt is being very low on Crystal and subbing in Cara instead.
Recipe Specs
Batch Size (L): 23.0
Total Grain (kg): 5.580
Total Hops (g): 155.00
Original Gravity (OG): 1.049 (°P): 12.1
Final Gravity (FG): 1.012 (°P): 3.1
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 4.81 %
Colour (SRM): 34.8 (EBC): 68.6
Bitterness (IBU): 40.0 (Tinseth)
Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 66
Boil Time (Minutes): 75
Grain Bill
4.600 kg Pale Malt (82.44%)
0.350 kg Carafa III malt (6.27%)
0.250 kg Caramalt (4.48%)
0.230 kg Crystal High Colour (4.12%)
0.150 kg Wheat Malt (2.69%)
Hop Bill
35.0 g Challenger Leaf (7.9% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil) (1.5 g/L)
25.0 g Cascade Leaf (8.2% Alpha) @ 10 Minutes (Boil) (1.1 g/L)
20.0 g Challenger Leaf (7.9% Alpha) @ 10 Minutes (Boil) (0.9 g/L)
35.0 g Cascade Leaf (8.2% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (Aroma) (1.5 g/L)
40.0 g Cascade Leaf (8.2% Alpha) @ 7 Days (Dry Hop) (1.7 g/L)
Single step Infusion at 66°C for 90 Minutes.
Fermented at 20°C with WLP001 - California Ale
Recipe Generated with BrewMate
Got my water treatment sorted for this one, thanks to the help from this forum.
Obligatory grain shot:
BIAB mashing can get quite close to the limit (all according to plan, honest!)
Cold day, so wrapped it all up nice and cosy for a 90 minute mash:
I tend to open the lid and give it a good stir every 30 mins. After one hour the temperature was down to 64.5°C, so bumped it back up to 66.
The nice thing about mashing in your kettle is that you might as well do a mashout and gain a bit of efficiency, as you've got to raise the temperature anyway. Here it is on its way to 78°C:
Boil hops in a sock:
Aroma hops doing their thing:
Boil-off rates were very high today. Ended up 1.5L short at 1.053, liquored back to 1.049 before dropping lovely fresh wort into the cube for overnight cooling:
Leftovers:
And finally the WLP001 starter using 1L of wort liquored back to 1.040:
No rush, no dramas. Hopefully it'll turn out as tasty as version 1 did :)
This is the second time I've brewed this style, the main difference from the previous attempt is being very low on Crystal and subbing in Cara instead.
Recipe Specs
Batch Size (L): 23.0
Total Grain (kg): 5.580
Total Hops (g): 155.00
Original Gravity (OG): 1.049 (°P): 12.1
Final Gravity (FG): 1.012 (°P): 3.1
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 4.81 %
Colour (SRM): 34.8 (EBC): 68.6
Bitterness (IBU): 40.0 (Tinseth)
Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 66
Boil Time (Minutes): 75
Grain Bill
4.600 kg Pale Malt (82.44%)
0.350 kg Carafa III malt (6.27%)
0.250 kg Caramalt (4.48%)
0.230 kg Crystal High Colour (4.12%)
0.150 kg Wheat Malt (2.69%)
Hop Bill
35.0 g Challenger Leaf (7.9% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil) (1.5 g/L)
25.0 g Cascade Leaf (8.2% Alpha) @ 10 Minutes (Boil) (1.1 g/L)
20.0 g Challenger Leaf (7.9% Alpha) @ 10 Minutes (Boil) (0.9 g/L)
35.0 g Cascade Leaf (8.2% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (Aroma) (1.5 g/L)
40.0 g Cascade Leaf (8.2% Alpha) @ 7 Days (Dry Hop) (1.7 g/L)
Single step Infusion at 66°C for 90 Minutes.
Fermented at 20°C with WLP001 - California Ale
Recipe Generated with BrewMate
Got my water treatment sorted for this one, thanks to the help from this forum.
Obligatory grain shot:
BIAB mashing can get quite close to the limit (all according to plan, honest!)
Cold day, so wrapped it all up nice and cosy for a 90 minute mash:
I tend to open the lid and give it a good stir every 30 mins. After one hour the temperature was down to 64.5°C, so bumped it back up to 66.
The nice thing about mashing in your kettle is that you might as well do a mashout and gain a bit of efficiency, as you've got to raise the temperature anyway. Here it is on its way to 78°C:
Boil hops in a sock:
Aroma hops doing their thing:
Boil-off rates were very high today. Ended up 1.5L short at 1.053, liquored back to 1.049 before dropping lovely fresh wort into the cube for overnight cooling:
Leftovers:
And finally the WLP001 starter using 1L of wort liquored back to 1.040:
No rush, no dramas. Hopefully it'll turn out as tasty as version 1 did :)
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