October 2nd, 2016 - SCBC Pale Ale

Slightly Confused Brewing Company

SCBC Pale Ale - SCBC Recipe
Batch 68


Ingredients:
9.5# 2 Row
0.75# Victory
0.5# Crystal 60L

0.5 oz Centennial (pellet) 60'
0.2 oz Apollo (pellet) 45'
0.3 oz Chinook (pellet) 30'

WLP 001 via 1 L starter

Stats:
OG: 1.050 (estimated); 1.060 (measured)
FG: 1.012 (estimated); *** (measured)
ABV: 5% (estimated); *** (measured)
IBU: 4.7
Color: 8.4 SRM

WLP001 via 1 L starter

Brewing Steps:

Brewed in Red Mash Tun

• Heated 3.4 gallons of water to a strike temperature of approximately 166 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)
• Both volume and temperature seemed low, so added another 1 qt
• Mashed 60 minutes
• Did not stir
• After 60 minutes lautered into bucket (to measure volume)
• Lautered over about 7 minutes
• Heated 4.9 (about) gallons of sparge water to approximately 175 degrees and added to mash tun
• Let sit for 10 minutes, then lautered until there was nothing left in the mash tun
• Likely a little under on our volume
• 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 

Notes:

-May have messed volumes yet a little bit with not taking out enough water/taking out too much d/t red tun vs. mixing up this recipe with the other one made today
-Final volume in fermenter seemed to be right about 5 gallons, but once trub is accounted for final volume likely going to be 4.25 - 4.5 g
----Low volume like responsible for higher OG than estimated