January 1st, 2015 - Hop Rod Rye (clone)

Slightly Confused Brewing Company

Hop Rod Rye, Bear Republic Brewing (clone)

Batch 39


Ingredients:
13.5# Pale Malt
3# Rye Malt
0.5# Crystal 80
0.375# Crystal Rye
0.19# (3 oz) Carafa I
--total grain bill ~17.5#

1 oz Columbus x 60' (15% AA)
1 oz Centennial x 30' (10% AA)
1 oz Cascade x 20' (6% AA)
1 oz Columbus x 10' (15% AA)

White Labs WLP 001 (3rd recycle)

Stats:
OG: 1.072* (estimated?); 1.070 (?)(Thought we hit our number, but can't remember and didn't write down the OG apparently)
FG: 1.015 (estimated?); 1.015 (measured)
ABV: 7.2% (estimated); 7.2% (assuming OG is correct)
*Estimated based on other recipes online. From calculator (brewersfriend.com), using grain bill and assumed efficiency of 65%, estimated OG 1.080

Brewing Steps:

• Heated 5.5 gallons of water to a strike temperature of approximately 164 degrees
• Target mash temperature 152; volume at 1.25 quarts/pound
• Used Sparge Pal app for volume calculations
• Used 5 gallons of RO water, the rest was tap water
• Added water to mash tun first (water, then grains)
• Mashed 75 minutes
• Stirred twice
• After 75 minutes lautered into bucket (to measure volume)
• Lautered over 15 minutes
• Heated 3.5 gallons of sparge water to approximately 175 degrees and added to mash tun
• Took 0.3 gallon off Sparge Pal calculation 
• Let sit for 10 minutes, then lautered until we had about 6.25 gallons
• Boiled for 60 minutes
• Added hops
• Chilled
• Pitched yeast and aerated wort 
• Ferment about 2 weeks then rack to secondary

Notes:
-Second time making this batch (August 2014)
-Put into secondary on 1/19/15
-Kegged 3/1/15