No Stars Out Stout

LOSTCABIN Brew Notes

No Stars Out Stout (Guiding Light Stout)
10/13/02

**Recipe**
Grains:	27 lb two row pale malt
	4 lb black patent malt
	3 lb 40 L crystal malt
	3 lb chocolate malt
	1 lb flaked barley
	2 cups rice hulls
Hopping:	3 oz Northern Brewer (60 mins boil)
	8 oz Cascade 1/3 full boil, 1/3 30 mins, 1/3 finish
extras:	2 tsp gypsum in mash H2O
	3 tsp irish moss (30 mins boil)
	2 cups Molasses (30 mins boil)

Brewers' notes: Target Gravity upper 1.050's.

time	comments
10:45	done w/ wrangling on recipie - clean up done, start assembly
11:10	begin cracking grains, continue assembly
11:15	fill brew pot w/ 12 gal h2o ca 50 deg C - done cracking grains
11:31	heating Tin = 47, Tout= 44
11:40	Tin=50, Tout=50; Doh' in started, light stiring as grains are added.
11:47am	Dough in done, "nice lookin soup we got there" -CM, Receirc on

time	Tin / comment	Tout / comment
11:49am	51	48 "it's dark now" -CM
11:58am	46	46 - beer thirty
12:00n	46	45 flame to 1/4"
12:25pm	49	47 flame to 3/4"
12:35pm	53	51
12:45pm	56	53 - making foam... flow level changes
12:57pm	59	56 flame up a bit... maybe now 3/4"
1:07pm	63	62
1:15pm	67	65 - hold - flame to 5/8"
1:30pm	70	68 - flame to 3/8"
2:00pm	67	67 - flame to 1"
2:20pm	76	74 - sparge w/ h2o heater sp=70
2:27pm		74 - finishing up sparge, flame full
2:45pm	Boil - add hops	Add Cascade 44.7g 9.1 alpha 30g 5.8 alpha
		Add Northern Brewer, 3oz 8.7 alpha
3:15pm	add hops, molasses and irish moss	Cascade 74.6g 9.1 alpha acid, 3 tsp irish moss in 16oz h2o presoaked
3:45pm	heat off - start cooling	Cascade 74.6g 9.1 alpha acid finish
4:06pm	83	55 recirc through wort chiller
4:10pm	45	40
4:20pm		start racking to fermenter - spill 1pt by improperly sealed fitting
4:30pm		rinse back through WC to 10 gal in brew pot finish racking wort
4:40pm		done racking, allow trub separation to happen
5:40pm		most cleaning done, rinse CIP, over to iodine solution
6:17pm		pitch yeast, not enough trub at this point to warrant dump

Finish notes:
O.G. = 1.050, approx 15 gals initial in fermenter. taster's notes: quite dark beer, fuller mouthfeel, building bitterness in the finish palate from hops, burnt taste, molasses slightly detectable. Pitched 3 vials white labs California Ale yeast WLP001 at 78 degrees F

10/27/02 rack to keg (no drop for secondary). Final Gravity 1.022. Yield 15.00 gallons. Taster notes: Strong stout, slightly gritty mid mouth feel, burnt. Hopping character (bittering, finish) on target for a stout. Slightly fruity on the tip of the tongue but overall dry. Pressurize w/ co2 for 30 seconds @ 30 psi.