| LOSTCABIN Brew Notes |
Honey Basil Ale
08/07/11 |
| Grains: | 20 lb two row pale malt |
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| 10 lb munich malt |
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| 7 lb wheat malt |
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| (Per bought wrong again, adj: 6 lb wheat, 11 lb munich) |
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| Water for Dough-in: |
12 Gal |
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| Hopping: | 3.5 oz Mount Hood HOPS (60 minute boil) | |
| 1.5 oz cascade Finish | ||
| 36 g fresh basil (weighed
dry, rinsed in iodine water) |
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| extras: | 3 tsp gypsum in mash H2O | |
| 3 tsp irish moss (30 mins boil) | ||
| 3 cups rice hulls |
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| 3 lb Home grown Honey from
ang.'s bee dude |
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| Yeast: |
Wite Labs WLP 001, California Ale yeast | |
| Starter Solution: |
N/A |
| time | comments |
| 08:00 |
begin cleaning |
| 10:40 |
weigh grains |
| 10:30 |
prep yeast |
| 10:45 |
crack grains, brewery assembled,
wort chiller empty |
| 11:00 |
finished cracking grains,
filling brew pot to 12 gallons, 3 tsp gypsum added |
| 11:25 |
filling pot flame off, get ready
to dough in |
| 11:40 |
Done dough in, start
recirculation |
| time | Tin (°C)/ comment | Tout (°C) / comment |
| 11:40 |
46 |
48 |
| 11:45 |
44 |
44 flame to 1/4" |
| 11:55 |
48 |
46 flame to simmer |
| 12:10 |
47 |
47 flame to 5/8" |
| 12:20 |
52 |
50 |
| 12:30 |
55 |
53 flame to 9/16" |
| 12:40 |
60 |
56 |
| 12:50 |
64 |
60 flame to 1/2" |
| 12:55 |
67 |
62 flame to 3/8" |
| 1:00 |
65 |
64 |
| 1:15 |
67 |
66 |
| 1:45 |
67 |
66 flame to 3/4 get ready to
sparge |
| 2:00 |
75 |
70 start sparging |
| 2:15 |
sparge done, ~18 gal |
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| 2:47 |
BOIL |
add 2.5 oz 7.1 alpha Mt hood
pellet hops |
| 3:17 |
add 2 lbs honey dissolved in 1.5
gal wort and irish moss |
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| 3:47 |
add 1.5 oz Cascade whole hops
7.8% alpha acid |
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| 3:47 |
flame off, add 36 g of organic
basil rinsed with iodine water |
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| 4:05 |
wort chiller on |
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| 82 |
39 |
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| 4:10 |
69 |
48 |
| 4:25 |
34 |
30 |
| 4:55 |
27 |
24 start racking to fermenter |
| 5:03 |
stop racking, backflow through
wort chiller |
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| 5:05 |
resume racking |
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| 5:15 |
done racking, near full yield
(did not tip brew pot - oh well) |
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| 6:15 |
done with most cleaning |
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| 7:30 |
drop trub, pitch 3 vials of
White Labs WLP001 California Ale yeast |
| Date |
Temperature |
Evolution rate |
| 8/8 |
72F |
1 sec |
| 8/9 |
74F |
Full Flow |
| 8/10 |
73F |
0.5 sec |
| 8/11 |
70F |
4 sec |
| 8/14 |
68 |
5 sec |