Slightly Confused Brewing Company
Get up and Gose (Rowdy Reptile Brewing Co)Batch 62
Third time making this batch (second attempt was 8/24/13)
Ingredients:
Wheat malt
Pils
Acid Malt
Crushed coriander seed
Salt
Total grain bill: 10.25
Saaz
Lactobacillus (Olympic pack)
Safale US-05 yeast
Stats:
OG: 1.040 (estimated); ??? (measured)
FG: 1.012 (estimated); *** (measured)
ABV: 6.3% (estimated); *** (measured)
IBU: 77
Color: 7 SRM
Brewing Steps:
- Heated 3.2 gallons of water to a strike temperature of approximately 163 degrees
- Added grains to mash tun
- Added water to mash tun
- Mashed for 60 minutes
- Lautered
- Heated about 5 gallons of sparge water to approximately 175 degrees and added to mash tun
- Let sit for 5 minutes then lautered into bucket
- Got clogged; tried swirling mash tun a few times and it didn't unclog
- Final post-lauter volume only about 4 g, so added 1 additional gallon of water
- unclear how much water was left in mash tun, but seemed to be at least a gallon if not more
- Boiled for about 5 minutes
- Chilled to 100 degrees
- Put into fermenting bucket with lactobacillus to sit for approximately 24 hours
- The next night brought to a boil, added hops, salt, and coriander according to schedule over 60'
- Cooled, added to fermenter; turned temperature to 60 degrees
- Finished at 1040 pm so was tired and forgot to take the OG
- Ferment for 14 days
Notes:
Tried to keg 5/30. Gravity at that time was 1020; floating pieces of grain in the bucket; minimal to no krausen. Not sure what happened, so dumped out.
