Brew Day - May 4, 2014

Slightly Confused Brewing Company

The Plinian Legacy (Northern Brewer recipe)

Ingredients:
Malteurop American 2-row
Briess Carapils
Bairds Carastan
Corn sugar
--total grain bill 15.25#

Hopshot x2
Columbus
Simcoe
Centennial

White Labs WLP001 California Ale

Stats:
OG: 1.070 (estimated); 1.072 (measured)
FG: 1.015 (estimated? Not provided); 1.009 (measured)
ABV: 7.2%% (estimated? Not provided); 8.3% (calculated)


Brewing Steps:
Note: recipe states calculations are based on 6 gallons due to expected losses from hops

• Heated 4.8 gallons of water to a strike temperature of approximately 163 degrees
• Target mash temperature 151; volume at 1.25 quarts/pound
• Used Sparge Pal app for volume calculations
• Added water to mash tun first (all water, then grains)
• After 75 minutes lautered into bucket (to measure volume)
• Heated 5.5 gallons of sparge water to approximately 175 degrees and added to mash tun 
• Let sit for 10 minutes, then lautered until we had about 7.25(?) gallons
• Added hops according to schedule
• 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 10 minutes
• Pitched yeast and then aerated wort by transferring between brew pot and bucket 6 times
• Pitched yeast from starter
• Poured into fermenting bucket 
• Ferment about 2 weeks in primary
• Will do 2+ weeks on secondary to do dry hopping
• Dry hop (first addition) for 14 days
• Dry hop (second addition) for 5 days)

Notes:

-Harvested small amount of yeast from starter to save for future batch (worked well)
-About 5 days after first dry hop addition moved across town; carboy in passenger seat so everything was very well mixed
-After second dry hop addition complete transferred into another carboy because couldn't cold crash fridge because had just put new brew into it. Will let sit overnight and then keg following day (6/9/14)