LOSTCABIN Brew Notes |
Newly Fangled Gingered
Ale
11/05/11 |
Grains: | 36 lb two row pale malt |
6 lb munich malt |
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1 lb 40L crystal malt |
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Water for Dough-in: |
12.5 Gal |
Hopping: | 2 oz cascade (60 minutes boil) |
1 oz northern brewer (60 minutes boil) |
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2 oz hersbrucker (finish) |
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0.5 oz mt hood (finish) |
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extras: | 1 tsp gypsum in mash H2O |
6 lbs honey |
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18 oz ginger root peeled and
ground |
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3 tsp cinnamon |
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1.5 tsp nutmeg |
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3-4 grapefruit peels finely
chopped |
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3 tsp irish moss (30 mins boil) | |
2 cups rice hulls |
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Yeast: |
White Labs 3 vials American Ale Yeast WLP 060 |
Starter Solution: |
time | comments |
10:30 |
begin cleaning - water heater pump kaput... |
11:00 |
weigh grains |
10:30 |
prep yeast |
11:30 |
crack grains, brewery assembled,
wort chiller empty |
11:30 |
finished cracking grains,
filling brew pot to 13 gallons |
11:42 |
still filling, add 1 tsp gypsum |
11:55 |
filling pot flame off, get ready
to dough in |
12:10 |
Done dough in, start
recirculation **unable to go past 40 lbs** mash tun full, approx 3 lbs
of two row left in pot |
time | Tin (°C)/ comment | Tout (°C) / comment |
12:15 |
46 |
47 |
12:15 |
add in 1 lb of grain - squeeze
in last amounts |
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12:40 |
42 |
43 flame to simmer |
12:50 |
48 |
45 flame to 5/8" start rise to 67 |
12:57 |
51 |
46 |
1:05 |
54 |
50 |
1:15 |
57 |
53 |
1:25 |
61 |
56 |
1:40 |
65 |
59 flame to 3/8" |
1:45 |
66 |
61 |
1:55 |
68 |
63 |
2:00 |
69 |
65 flame to simmer |
2:15 |
68 |
66 |
2:40 |
67 |
65 |
2:50 |
begin rise to sparge |
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2:58 |
74 |
67 |
3:08 |
Sparge start |
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3:24 |
slow, stuck sparge, got 18 gal,
flame on full, dribble to finish volume |
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4:30 |
BOIL! Volume now at
22.5 gal add 2 oz Cascade 9.1% alpha acid, 1 oz Northern Brewer 10.0%
alpha acid, 9 oz Ginger, 2 chopped grapefruit peels and 1.5 tsp Cinnamon and 0.75 tsp Nutmeg, approx 4 lbs Honey |
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5:00 |
add irish moss |
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5:20 |
add second half of ginger,
grapefruit peels, spices and honey |
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5:30 |
done boiling, add hops 2 oz
Hersbrucker 3.0% alpha acid, 0.5 oz Mt Hood 5.1% alpha acid - flame off |
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5:45 |
wort chiller and recirc on
initial Tin = 84 |
37 |
5:50 |
64 |
47 |
6:00 |
44 |
36 |
6:05 |
36 |
31 |
6:15 |
30 |
27 |
6:20 |
27 start filling fermenter |
24 |
6:30 |
stop racking, backflow through
wort chiller and restart at 6:32 |
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6:35 |
done filling start cleaning |
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7:25 |
cleaning done, wait for trub
break... |
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9:00 |
drip 1/2 gallon of trub, dense
green ook... pitch 3 vials yeast. |
Date |
Temperature |
Evolution Rate (seconds) |
11/6 |
73 |
3 |
11/7 |
72 |
1 |
11/8 |
70 |
2 |
11/10 |
68 |
5 |
11/12 |
68 |
no rate - rack to secondary 3
cups of slurry |
11/13 |
68 |
10 |
11/14 |
68 |
7 |
11/15 |
68 |
7 |
11/20 |
67 |
13 |
11/22 |
66 |
19 |