Friday, June 3, 2016

May 30th, 2016 (America) - Orange 20

Slightly Confused Brewing Company

Orange 20 (SCBC recipe #3)


Batch 63

Made in RedCooler. Stats below account for updated volumes for the red tun.

Ingredients:
8# 2-Row
0.3125 Biscuit malt
0.5# Crystal 40L
---total grain bill 8.8125#


Hop Schedule:
0.25 oz Columbus @ 60'
0.25 oz Columbus @ 45
0.5 oz Citra @ 30'
0.25 oz Cascade @15'
0.5 oz Citra @ 0'

1 oz of Tangerine zest at day 5 of fermentation

Yeast:
WLP 001 (via 0.5 L starter)
-Second use

Stats:
OG: 1.041 (estimated); 1.050 (measured)
FG: 1.010 (estimated); 1.008 (measured)
ABV: 4.1% (estimated); 5.5% (measured)


Brewing Steps:
  • Heated 2.8 gallons of water to a strike temperature of approximately 160 degrees
    • Target mash temperature 152; volume at 1.25 quarts/pound
    • Used Sparge Pal app for volume calculations
  • Added water to mash tun first (water, then grains)
    • Mashed 60 minutes
    • Did not stir
  • After 60 minutes lautered into bucket (to measure volume)
    • Lautered over about 7 minutes
  • Heated 4.2 (about) gallons of sparge water to approximately 175 degrees and added to mash tun
    • Couldn't quite fit all of the volume into the tun; just left remainder in kettle and then used it for the boil
  • Let sit for 10 minutes, then lautered until we had about 6.25 gallons
    • Volume may have been slightly above 6.25 gallons
    • Had ~1/4 gallon left (maybe slightly more)
  • Boiled for 60 minutes
    • Kept fairly vigorous boil going
    • Added hops
  • Chilled
  • Pitched yeast and aerated wort 
    • Pitched yeast from starter
  • Poured into fermenting bucket 
  • Ferment about 2 weeks 

Notes:
-Added 1.2 oz tangerine zest on 6/3 (every tangerine in a 3# bag); likely included some rine. Sanitized with vodka

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