December 6th, 2014 - Titletowne IPA (HT)

Slightly Confused Brewing Company

Titletowne IPA (Hoggetowne)
Batch 36

Ingredients:
US 2-Row malt
US 20L Crystal malt
US 40L Crystal malt
CaraPils/CaraFoam malt
--total grain bill 12#
Assumed 70% efficiency

Chinook
Cascade

California Ale Yeast WLP 001
-- Via 1.5 L starter (new yeast)

Stats:
OG: 1.060 (estimated); 1.056 (measured)
FG: 1.014(estimated); 1.008 (measured)
ABV: 6% (estimated); 6.3% (measured)
91 IBU

Brewing Steps:

• Heated 3.8 gallons of water to a strike temperature of approximately 165 degrees
• Target mash temperature 152; volume at 1.25 quarts/pound
• Used Sparge Pal app for volume calculations
• Added to mash tun (water, then grains)
• Mashed 60 minutes
• Final temperature around 150
• After mash lautered into bucket (to measure volume)
• Lautered slowly (seems to help efficiency)
• Sparged with 4.9 gallons (minus one pitcher)
• Heated to 175
• Let sit for 10 minutes, then lautered until we had about 6.25 gallons (maybe a little more?)
• No water left over - all sparged; final volume about 6.25
• Boiled for 60 minutes
• Added hops
• Chilled
• Pitched yeast and aerated wort 
• Ferment about 2 weeks then rack to secondary
• Dry hop for 5 days

Notes:
-OG likely a little underestimated due to final post-boil volume above 5.5 gallons; didn't seem like much was lost during boil