First AG Brew day - SMaSH Citra IPA

[Manxnorton]

Great thread pal.
chuffed you enjoyed.
im thinking of doing a smaller batch in the near furure.

 

[jafski]

2 weeks in the fermenter, just read gravity for the first time, got 1.002 at 21'c. Checked and checked again.

OG was 1.054, so that's an ABV of 6.8%!

How is that possible? Brewsmith predicted 5.8%.

 

[DoctorMick]

1.002 is very low. What yeast did you use? Did the sample taste alright?

 

[jafski]

Used Safale 05.

It tastes great, hoppy and clean and it does taste 6.8%

Looking around on the internet, seen others have reached 1.002 with the same yeast, so not so worried now.

Like this one: http://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=221432

 

[wfr42]

I was going to ask what temp you mashed at.

Mashing at 64°c got me down to 1.004 previously.

 

[jafski]

I was going to ask what temp you mashed at.

Mashing at 64°c got me down to 1.004 previously.

Here you go, all the details:

SMaSH Citra IPA - 04/02/2017

Ingredients:

5.4 kg Maris Otter
200gm Citra Hops
5g Irish Moss
safale 05 yeast 1 pack

Initial liquor volume 48l

Water treatment:

75ml of CRS to liquor
6g DLS added to grain (no further addition to wort pre-boil)
1 campden tablet

Mash volume 14.08L

Mash target temp was 66.7’c, achieved 66.5’c with strike water at 75’c.
Mash Ph achieved 5.2

60 minute mash - final mash temp 66’c.

Fly sparge
Pre boil volume of 33.5L
Pre-boil OG of 1.040 @ 53’c = 1.050 @ 20’c

 

[jafski]

OK for those who are interested. Just under 3 weeks in the bottle (bottled on 25th Feb after five days dry hopping) and I've had a taste. Very light in colour. Really dry and crisp, but those mango flavours from the citra are lovely. Not a complex beer as you'd expect from a SM&SH I guess. The hops overcome the alcohol so it's very drinkable. A little hazy, but that may be the sheer amount of hops, that's what I'm telling myself anyway! Here's a pic.

 

[DoctorMick]

75ml of CRS? You're water must be bloomin hard!

 

[jafski]

75ml of CRS? You're water must be bloomin hard!

You can almost knock a nail in with it! Here's the latest report:




328 mg/l (or parts per million)
:Calcium Carbonate

131.2 mg/l (or parts per million)
:Calcium

22.829 °C
Degrees Clark

32.8 °F
Degrees French

18.63 °dH
Degrees German

3.28 mmol/l
:Millimoles