| LOSTCABIN Brew Notes |
Honey 'It'll Kik you in the
@$$ ' Basil Ale (red)
1/23/05 |
| Grains: | 27 lb two row pale malt |
| 9 lb munich malt |
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| 7 lb malted wheat |
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| 1 lb 40 L crystal malt |
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| 0.5 lb chocolate malt |
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| 2 tbs black patent malt |
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| Water for Doughin: |
13 Gal |
| Hopping: | 4 oz Mt Hood (boil) |
| 2 oz Cascade (finish) | |
| extras: | 3 tsp gypsum in mash h2o |
| 3 tsp irish moss (30 mins boil) | |
| 2 cups rice hulls |
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| 5 lb raw honey |
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| 70 g Basil |
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| Yeast: |
4 vials White Labs California Ale yeast (WLP001) |
| Starter Solution: |
N/A |
| time | comments |
| 11:30 | brewery cleaned, add h2o start cracking grains, heat mash water |
| 12:00 |
Tout = 46, raise to 50 and prep for dough-in |
| 12:05 |
begin dough-in, high cracked grain volume, needed to add a little less than 0.5 gallon more hot water to get close to grain coverage |
| 12:23 |
done with dough-in, begin recirc |
| time | Tin / comment | Tout / comment |
| 12:25 |
45 |
43 flame to 1/4" (observed 3 degree delta
due to poor thermal contact)
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| 12:35 |
45 |
41 |
| 12:45 |
47 |
42 |
| 12:55 |
48 |
43 raise flame to 5/8" |
| 1:05 |
52 |
46 |
| 1:15 |
56 |
49 |
| 3:30 |
power outage... all data lost. normal brew
timings, etc. sparge to 20 gallons... wait for boil to start |
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| 3:55 |
boil add 4oz Mt Hood 4.5% alpha acid |
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| 4:25 |
add irish moss and 5 lbs honey dissolved in hot wort |
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| 4:55 |
flame off, add 70g chopped basil and 2 oz Cascade
6.0% alpha acid |
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| 5:20 |
wort chiller on |
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| 5:25 |
56 |
45 |
| 5:36 |
37 |
33 |
| 5:45 |
30 |
27 stop pump / wort chiller. backflow
through wort chiller to 22 gallons |
| 5:50 |
rack to fermenter and aerate |
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| 6:06 |
done racking... looks good, start cleaning |
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| 7:30 |
Cleanup mostly done, dropped 1QT trub. CIP
partially functional, Ran out of TSP, used Soda Ash on Brewery, and drained
fully. |
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| 7:50 |
pitch 4 vials yeast |