Wednesday, March 28, 2018

March 9th, 2018 - Hop Rod (80)

Slightly Confused Brewing Company

Hop Rod Rye, Bear Republic Brewing (clone)
Batch 70

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)
Irish Moss x 15'
1 oz Columbus x 10' (15% AA)

White Labs WLP 001 (3rd recycle)

Stats:
OG: 1.077 (estimated); 1.076 (measured)
FG: 1.018 (estimated); 1.014 (measured)
ABV: 7.7% (estimated); 8.1% (measured)

Brewing Steps:
  • Heated 5.5 gallons of water to a strike temperature of approximately 166 degrees (added a couple degrees to Sparge Pal)
    • 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 70 minutes
    • Stirred twice
  • After 75 minutes lautered into bucket (to measure volume)
    • Lautered over 15 minutes
  • Heated 3.7 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

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