| LOSTCABIN Brew Notes |
GoldPail Ale
07/25/04 |
| Grains: | 28 lb two row pale malt | |
| 20 Gal |
8 lb malted wheat | |
| 8 lb 120 L crystal malt |
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| 2 cups rice hulls | ||
| Hopping: | 8 oz N. Brewer HOPS (60 mins boil) 4 oz Cascade ( 2 oz 30 min boil, 2 oz 15 min boil) |
|
| 4 oz Hallertau Finish | ||
| extras: | 3 tsp gypsum in mash H2O | |
| 3 tsp irish moss (30 mins boil) | ||
| 2 vials WLP001 (White Labs California Ale) yeast |
| time | comments |
| 11:20 |
600ml H2O and 300ml of DME added, start boil (12:05) for 5 mi floors cleaned, brewery rinsed washing commensed. |
| 11:30 |
Grains weighed, brew assembly in process, grain cracking
ho. |
| 11:50 |
Assembled, filled to 13 Gal, heating to 50 degC,
3tsp gypsum, beer 30 |
| 12:10 |
Liquor at 50 deg C, Dough in starting - flame off |
| 12:20 |
"hol-ey-smoke" - confirmed: MAX_MASH=44 lb perhaps should call that 42 lb... |
| 12:20 |
Shower on, blew plug out, |
| time | Tin (deg C) / comment | Tout (degC) / comment |
| 12:20 |
50 |
47 "looks like gold pail ale already" -Per |
| 12:30 |
47 |
46 ( good flow) |
| 12:35 |
46 |
46 flame on simmer |
| 12:50 |
48 |
46 flame to 3/4" begin 45 minute rise |
| 13:00 |
56 |
51 |
| 13:10 |
61 |
56 rate a little high drop flame to 5/8" |
| 13:15 |
64 |
58 |
| 13:20 |
66 |
60 decrease flame to 3/8" |
| 13:30 |
67 |
63 |
| 13:35 |
68 |
64, flame to 3/16" (brewers modification, hod
at 65deg C for 45 min) |
| 13:40 |
pitch 2 vials White Labs WLP001 - California Ale
yeast into starter |
|
| 13:50 |
68 |
66 "sweeet" |
| 14:00 |
67 |
65 |
| 14:10 |
67 |
65 |
| 14:20 |
67 |
65 add 15 minutes back in to process (matching last
20 Gal goldpail) |
| 14:40 |
67 |
65 noticable increase in flow rate, increase flame
to 5/8" to rise to sparge temperature |
| 14:48 |
72 |
66 Flame on full. |
| 15:00 |
high activity on yeast starter - temperature 30 deg
C, turn off incubator |
|
| 15:05 |
72 drain mash ton - 1/2 way down blast in 0.5-1gal
80 deg C h2o |
|
| 15:15 |
73 still draining - one more 0.5 gallon blast added,
starting to lighten in color |
|
| 15:20 |
done adding water, let remaining dribble in, current
volume 12 gal |
|
| 15:30 |
BOIL - add 8 oz Northern Brewer 7.5% alpha acid |
|
| 16:00 |
add 2 oz Cascade 6.6 % alpha acid and irish moss,
high fluid level requiring constant stirring |
|
| 16:10 |
pull another 0.5 gal from bottom of mash tun - "it's
really full now" |
|
| 16:30 |
add 2 oz Cascade 6.6 % alpha acid add 15 mins to
boil - pull a little more from mash tun |
|
| 16:45 |
add 4 oz Hallertaur 3.4% alpha acid, heat off |
|
| 16:48 |
Wort chiller on |
|
| 17:01 |
67 |
54 |
| 17:06 |
54 |
48 |
| 17:13 |
40 |
38 |
| 17:25 |
29 ready, wort chiller off, clean fermenter from
last brew (just racked) |
|
| 17:45 |
racking to fermenter |
|
| 18:10 |
done racking - approx 21 gallons |
|
| 19:20 |
cip done, brew pots done, sample our handiwork |
|
| 22:30 |
Dropped 1/2 gal of cold trub, pitched yeast, temp
= > 78 deg F |