| LOSTCABIN Brew Notes |
No Stars Out Stout
04/26/09 |
| Grains: | 25 lb two row pale malt | |
| 5 lb american munich malt |
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| 4 lb english black malt |
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| 4 lb 40 L crystal malt |
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| 3 lb chocolate malt |
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| 1 lb flaked malt |
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| Water for Dough-in: |
13 Gal |
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| Hopping: | 4 oz N. Brewer HOPS (60 mins boil) 6 oz Cascade (3 oz 60 min boil, 3 oz 30 min boil) |
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| 3 oz Cascade Finish | ||
| extras: | 3 tsp gypsum in mash H2O | |
| 2 tsp irish moss (30 mins boil) | ||
| 2 cups rice hulls |
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| 2 cups molasses |
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| Yeast: |
White Labs English Ale (WLP002) | |
| Starter Solution: |
2 cup H2O and 1 cup of DME, start boil for 5 min, cool to 28 °C, pitch 1 slant yeast incubate at 28 °C |
| time | comments |
| 09:55 |
2 cup H2O boiled and 1 cup of DME added, start
boil for 5 mi floors cleaned, brewery rinsed w/ iodine. washing commensed. |
| 10:20 |
start cracking grains |
| 10:35 |
assemble brewery |
| 10:50 |
yeast starter cooled to 28
°C,
pitch vial of yeast (was out of fridge at 6:00am), place in incubator |
| 10:55 |
fill to 13 gallons (10.92 inches
- "the new black line") |
| 11:00 |
add 3tsp gypsum to mash H2O |
| 11:10 |
Tin 45 °C flame to full to
raise to dough-in temp |
| 11:15 |
top full 50 °C add grains:
1/3 rice hulls at start, add remainder at half way, flaked barley on top |
| time | Tin °C / comment | Tout °C / comment |
| 11:25 |
47 |
48 - recirc on |
| 11:30 |
46 |
44 - flame to 1/2", good liquid
level |
| 11:35 |
47 |
46 - flame to 1/4" |
| 11:45 |
47 |
46 - flame to 1/2" |
| 11:55 |
49 |
46 - begin rise |
| 12:00 |
51 |
48 - beer thirty |
| 12:07 |
52 |
49 - raise flame to 5/8" |
| 12:15 |
55 |
50 - flame to 9/16" |
| 12:30 |
60 |
54 |
| 12:35 |
60 |
54 - flow slows substantially.
stop pump, stir down foam under shower head |
| 12:42 |
67 |
55 - flow too slow. all
stop, stir, add 2c rice hulls |
| 12:47 |
restart, blew plug, flowing much
better, but slow, flame back on |
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| 12:55 |
flow back to terrible - grains
dry and compacted |
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| 1:00 |
add 1.2 gal to brew pot, pump up
to mash tun and stir again |
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| 1:10 |
stir complete, pretty chewy and
very full... might be better as a 15 gallon batch |
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| 1:15 |
60 |
58 - adjust flow by level in top
of mash tun now |
| 1:32 |
66 |
57 - slow pace, adjust flame to
keep in below 67 |
| 1:35 |
67 |
58 |
| 1:45 |
68 |
59 |
| 1:50 |
69 |
60 |
| 2:00 |
71 |
61 |
| 2:07 |
71 |
62 |
| 2:15 |
71 |
63-begin 1 hour marker |
| 2:45 |
70 |
64 - adding mash liquid in
batches |
| 3:00 |
71 |
64 |
| 3:10 |
stir one more time before rise
for sparge |
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| 3:15 |
73 |
65 - start sparging, Tin from
70-85 |
| 3:20 |
stir - continue sparging |
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| 3:25 |
66 |
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| 3:30 |
stop sparging, allow mash to
drain to brew pot, flame on full |
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| 3:45 |
69 sparged for approx 1gal more |
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| 4:35 |
boil - add 4 oz Northern Brewer
pellets 8.5% alpha acid add 3 oz Cascade pellets 7.5% alpha acid - volume at boil approx 22 gal |
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| 5:05 |
add 3 oz Cascade pellets 7.5%,
irish moss |
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| 5:35 |
boil off - close up and cool
down, add 3oz Cascade pellets 7.5% |
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| 5:45 |
recirc on for counter flow wort
chiller |
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| 5:53 |
60 |
48 |
| 6:00 |
50 |
42 |
| 6:15 |
35 |
31 |
| 6:20 |
32 |
31 input to counter flow wc
off... wait for fermenter |
| 6:30 |
wc back on to finish cooling |
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| 6:32 |
begin racking @30 |
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| 6:50 |
stop racking to drain wort
chiller (no backflow rinse this time), resume racking |
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| 6:55 |
finished, liquid level halfway
between 'top welds' |
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| 7:35 |
add 2 cups molasses, 2 cups
water boiled for 5 mins |
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| 8:15 |
done cleaning take sample for
gravity, pitch yeast |