| LOSTCABIN Brew Notes |
Gold Pail Ale
08/15/09 |
| Grains: | 14 lb two row pale malt |
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| 7 lb munich malt |
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| 6 lb malted wheat | ||
| 6 lb 120 L crystal malt |
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| Water for Dough-in: |
12 Gal |
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| Hopping: | 6 oz N. Brewer HOPS (60 mins boil) 3 oz Cascade ( 1.5 oz 60 min boil, 1.5 oz 30 min boil) |
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| 3 oz Hallertau Finish | ||
| extras: | 3 tsp gypsum in mash H2O | |
| 3 tsp irish moss (30 mins boil) | ||
| 2 cups rice hulls |
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| Yeast: |
Wyeast American Ale 1056 pitchable starter 3
packs |
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| Starter Solution: |
| time | comments |
| 10:30 |
start cleaning the bejesus out of brewery (Last three
brews have been infected) |
| 10:00 |
weigh grains |
| 11:15 |
activate Wyeast American Ale - leave out at room temperature 20 °C |
| 11:50 |
crack grains, brewery assembled,
wort chiller empty |
| 12:00 |
finished cracking grains,
filling brew pot to 12 gallons |
| 12:05 |
still filling, add 3 tsp gypsum |
| 12:14 |
filling pot flame off, get ready
to dough in |
| 12:31 |
Done dough in, start
recirculation |
| time | Tin (°C)/ comment | Tout (°C) / comment |
| 12:33 |
49 |
48, flame to "simmer" 1/4" |
| 12:38 |
49 |
48, flame still at 1/4" |
| 12:40 |
50 |
49, flame to just barely, great
flow rate |
| 12:52 |
49 |
49 |
| 1:01 |
49 |
48, flame to 3/8 |
| 1:04 |
51 |
48 |
| 1:08 |
51 |
50, flame to 5/8" (need to rise
faster) |
| 1:15 |
55 |
53 |
| 1:20 |
58 |
55, still good flow rate, minor
slowing only |
| 1:25 |
61 |
57 |
| 1:30 |
63 |
60 flow rate dropping a little
more, still ok |
| 1:35 |
65 |
62 |
| 1:40 |
67 |
63 flame to 3/8" |
| 1:50 |
69 |
66 flame to 1/4" |
| 1:55 |
69 |
67 |
| 2:07 |
69 |
68 |
| 2:09 |
70 |
68 flame to 3/16" |
| 2:30 |
69 |
68 flame to 3/4" |
| 2:47 |
76 |
74 pump off sparge on |
| 3:00 |
80 |
74 sparge done flame to full |
| 3:32 |
boil |
add 6oz N. brewer pellets 8.1
and 1oz cascade pellets 7.5 and.5 oz cascade whole 7.2 |
| 3:45 |
lid on flame to 1/2" to try and
reduce pellet hop scorch on bottom of kettle |
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| 4:02 |
add cascade 1.5 oz whole 7.2 and
irish moss |
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| 4:30 |
add 3 oz Hallertau 3.9% alpha
acid for last 5 mins boil |
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| 4:39 |
flame off, start cooling |
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| 4:53 |
inside T < 90 wort
chiller/recirc on |
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| 5:00 |
62 |
50 |
| 5:10 |
44 |
39 |
| 5:20 |
34 |
32 |
| 5:25 |
31 |
30 - start racking to fermenter,
wort chiller off |
| 5:40 |
brew pot empty, backflow through
wort chiller to get remaining wort into brew pot |
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| 5:42 |
resume racking remaining wort |
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| 5:45 |
finished racking, start clean up |
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| 6:14 |
only a itty bitty, teeny tiny
bit of burned stuff on the bottom of the brew pot - w00t |
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| 6:35 |
cleaning looking good, waiting
for cold break |
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| 9:20 |
drop trub, pitch yeast, take
sample for OG |