Brew Day June 22, 2014

Slightly Confused Brewing Company

Orange IPA (Austin Homebrew recipe)

Ingredients:
Pale Malt
Crystal 20L Malt
Carapils Malt
--total grain bill 11.25#
Note: added 16 oz dextrose to boil for some added ABV (and to get rid of excess dextrose)

Apollo
Summer
1/2 oz Sweet Orange Peel

White Labs WLP001 California Ale (2nd degree yeast. Used yeast harvested from Plinian Legacy --> Chipotle Porter)

Stats:
OG: 1.057 (estimated); 1.048 (measured)
FG: 1.014 (estimated); 1.011 (measured)
ABV: 5.6% (estimated); 4.9% (measured)


Brewing Steps:

• Heated 3.5 gallons of water to a strike temperature of approximately 162 degrees
• Target mash temperature 150; volume at 1.25 quarts/pound
• Used Sparge Pal app for volume calculations
• Added water to mash tun first (water, then grains)
• After 60 minutes outside of mash (near cooler walls) was approximately 149-150 degrees; middle of mash tun around 146 degrees
• After 60 minutes lautered into bucket (to measure volume)
• Heated 5 gallons of sparge water to approximately 175 degrees and added to mash tun
• Let sit for 10 minutes, then lautered until we had about 6.25 gallons
• maybe .25 gallons remaining in mash tun - likely not diluted
• Added hops
• Chilled by putting pot into tub with ice and water (filled about 6-8 inches of tub with water) and wort chiller/pre-chiller to 75 degrees in about 15 minutes
• Pitched yeast and then aerated wort by transferring between brew pot and bucket 6 times
• Pitched yeast from starter (yeast from previous starter for Plinian Legacy --> Chipotle Porter)
• Poured into fermenting bucket 
• Did not filter prior to putting into fermentation bucket; wanted to keep Orange Peel with beer for flavoring
• Ferment about 2 weeks then rack to secondary
• Secondary about 2 weeks then keg

Notes:

-Hot: 93-95 degrees outside? Temperature in garage 95+?
-Kegged 8/1
-Unsure why OG was low