| LOSTCABIN Brew Notes |
Trappist Ale
09/11/05 |
| Grains: | 25 lb two row pale malt |
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| 3 lb munich wheat | ||
| 1.5 lb 120 L crystal malt |
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| 3 lb belgian candi sugar (rock) |
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| Water for Doughin: |
12 Gal |
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| Hopping: | 6 oz Hallertau (60 mins boil) 2 oz Kent Goldings (60 mins boil) |
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| 1 oz Northern Brewer (last 5 mins boil) (substitute for Willamette) | ||
| extras: | ||
| 3 tsp irish moss (30 mins boil) | ||
| 2 cups rice hulls |
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| Yeast: |
White Labs WLP500 Trappist Ale |
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| Starter Solution: |
2 cup H2O and 1 cup of DME, start boil for
5 min, cool to 28 deg C, pitch 1 slant yeast incubate at 28 deg C |
| time | comments |
| 10:50 |
2 cup ml H2O and 1 cup of DME added, boiled for 5 mi floors cleaned, brewery rinsed washing commensed. |
| 11:45 |
Finished cracking grains, add yeast to starter
at 29 deg C in incubator, assemble brewery |
| 11:50 |
beer stone still being released after extensive
cleaning but amount decreasing. continue and expect the remaining
to be filtered by the grain bed |
| 12:45 |
brewery assembled, 12 gal h2o added, start heating
w/recirc |
| 1:10 |
done with dough-in, begin recirc, good flow begin
protein rest |
| time | Tin / comment | Tout / comment |
| 1:15 |
45 |
44 flame to 3/8" |
| 1:25 |
47 |
46 |
| 1:35 |
49 |
47 flame to simmer |
| 1:45 |
49 |
48 flame to 5/8" |
| 1:55 |
53 |
51 |
| 2:05 |
58 |
55 |
| 2:15 |
62 |
60 |
| 2:30 |
67 |
65 flame to simmer |
| 2:50 |
64 |
64 flame to 3/8" |
| 3:05 |
65 |
63 |
| 3:15 |
68 |
66 flame to full, rise to sparge |
| 3:40 |
76 |
73 - OT blowoff valve goes off at 82 deg C...
fails... D'oh. Drop flame to hold at sparge temperature while repairs
are made |
| 3:55 |
begin sparging, sparge to ~22 gal |
|
| 4:07 |
flame to full still sparging |
|
| 4:10 |
done sparging, stop at approx 22 gal, but still
some mash in the mash tun |
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| 5:00 |
boil add 6 oz Hallertau 4.8% alpha acid add 2 oz Kent Goldings 5.9 % alpha acid |
|
| 5:30 |
add belgian candi sugar and irish moss, takes
10 minutes to start boiling again, add 10 minutes to total boil time |
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| 6:05 |
add 1 oz Northern Brewer 7.0% alpha acid |
|
| 6:10 |
flame off... start cooling, close off mash tun |
|
| 6:23 |
wort chiller on |
|
| 6:25 |
81 |
51 "that's great" |
| 6:30 | 63 |
48 |
| 6:40 |
43 |
36 |
| 6:45 |
35 |
30 ready to rack to fermenter |
| 6:52 |
backflow approx 2 gal to 23.5 gallon total volume,
rack to fermenter |
|
| 6:56 |
pitch yeast (due to the late start, will not wait
for a cold trub separation) |
|
| 7:05 |
done racking |
|
| 8:00 |
done cleaning |
| Date |
Temperature |
bubble evolution rate |
| 9/12 |
76 deg F |
positive pressure |
| 9/13 |
70 deg F |
one bubble per 0.7s |
| 9/14 |
68 deg F |
one bubble per 1.5s |
| 9/15 |
64 deg F |
one bubble per 3s |
| 9/17 |
63 deg F |
one bubble per 10s |