| LOSTCABIN Brew Notes |
Light Rye Ale
11/08/09 |
| Grains: | 16 lb two row pale malt |
| 5 lb munich malt |
|
| 6 lb rye |
|
| 3 lb corn |
|
| 3 lb wheat |
|
| Water for Dough-in: |
12 Gal |
| Hopping: | 3 oz Cascade (boil) |
| 3 oz Cascade (finish) |
|
| extras: | 2 tsp gypsum in mash H2O |
| 3 tsp irish moss (30 mins boil) | |
| 3 cups rice hulls |
|
| Yeast: |
Wyeast acitvator American Ale yeast - 3 packets |
| Starter Solution: |
N/A |
| time | comments |
| 9:00 |
begin cleaning |
| 10:40 |
weigh grains |
| 11:10 |
crack grains, brewery assembled,
wort chiller empty |
| 11:20 |
finished cracking grains,
filling brew pot to 13.5 gallons (accidental overfill) |
| 11:25 |
still filling, add 3 tsp gypsum |
| 11:30 |
filling pot flame on full, get
ready
to dough in |
| 11:55 |
flame off, fill mash tun, start
dough in, had to dump a little liquid |
| 12:10 |
Done dough in, start
recirculation |
| 1:00 |
activate yeast packets ambient
T=23 |
| time | Tin (°C)/ comment | Tout (°C) / comment |
| 12:11 |
46 |
44 flame to 1/2" |
| 12:20 |
49 |
45 |
| 12:25 |
50 |
46 flame to 3/8" |
| 12:30 |
50 |
47 flame to 1/4" |
| 12:40 |
51 |
48 flame to 5/8" |
| 12:50 |
55 |
49 (slow flow = slow rise) |
| 1:00 |
58 |
51 |
| 1:05 |
59 |
52 flame to 3/4" |
| 1:10 |
63 |
53 |
| 1:20 |
65 |
55 flow rate too low... all stop
to stir |
| 1:30 |
68 |
57 restart... gotta get haze in
your beer somehow |
| 1:56 |
69 |
61 flame to 3/8" |
| 2:00 |
65 |
62 flame to back up again |
| 2:05 |
69 |
62 |
| 2:30 |
67 |
63 - call start of 1 hour hold,
apply in batches to get more effective heat transfer |
| 2:35 |
68 |
66 - wiggle wire on
thermocouple, presume start of hold to be at 2:00pm |
| 3:00 |
66 |
65 - raise flame to 3/4" to get
ready for sparge |
| 3:15 |
68 - recirc off. heat water for
sparge, two shots at 71, 73 C |
|
| 3:25 |
done with sparge - flame on full |
|
| 4:02 |
BOIL - add 3 oz Cascade whole
hops at 7.2 alpha acid |
|
| 4:32 |
add 3 tsp irish moss |
|
| 4:55 |
add 3 oz Cascade whole hops at
7.2 alpha acid |
|
| 5:02 |
flame off, close up, get ready
to cool in wort chiller |
|
| 5:10 |
83 |
42 - wort chiller with recover
system running |
| 5:15 |
65 |
50 |
| 5:20 |
51 |
41 |
| 5:25 |
40 |
35 |
| 5:30 |
32 |
29 |
| 5:35 |
29 |
26 - wort chiller off, recovery
system full with approx 80 gallons |
| 5:37 |
start racking |
|
| 5:45 |
backflow through wort chiller,
resume racking |
|
| 5:50 |
done racking, start cleaning |
|
| 7:35 |
drop 2Q trub, pitch yeast |