February 7th, 2015 - SMASH Test Dummy

Slightly Confused Brewing Company

 SMASH Test Dummy (SCBC recipe)

Batch 42

Main reason is to test out the Wee Baby mash tun (5 g) for smaller batches
First SCBC recipe - 2.5 g size

Ingredients:
US 2-row
--total grain bill ~4.5#
Added 4.5 oz (.28125#) dextrose

Cascade Hops:
0.5 oz at 60'
0.25 oz at 30'
0.25 oz at 2'

White Labs WLP 001 California Ale

Stats:
OG: 1.043 (estimated; 1048 with dextrose); 1.065 (measured)
FG: 1.010 (estimated); *** (measured)
ABV: 4.4% (estimated; 4.87% with dextrose); *** (measured)
Recipe built on BrewersFriend.com

Brewing Steps:

• Heated 1.4 gallons of water to a strike temperature of approximately 165 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
• After 60 minutes lautered into bucket (to measure volume)
• Lautered over 5 minutes
• Heated 3.1 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 3.1 gallons
• Had about 1/4 - 1/2 pitcher left
• Boiled for 60 minutes
• Added hops
• Chilled
• Pitched yeast and aerated wort 
• Pitched yeast from starter
• Poured into fermenting bucket

• Ferment about 2 weeks then bottle

Notes:
-1 gallon left over after lautering; remove 1+ gallon off sparge pal?
-Final volume about 2.25 g. Lost about 0.85 g during boil (lost 27% of preboil volume).
-Not sure why OG was so high. Lower volume likely contributed, but with 1 g left over after lautering.
-Need to measure gravity after initial mash prior to sparging.



The Wee Baby Mash Tun

January 19th, 2015 - Robust Porter

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 Puma Man Robust Porter (Hoggetowne recipe)

Batch 41

Made on Hain's birthday

Ingredients:
UK Pale Malt
Biscuit Malt
Dark Chocolate Malt
UK 120L Crystal Malt
Black Patent Malt
--total grain bill ~11.375#
NOTE: did not re-crush grains after getting from brew store

Northern Brewer Hops
Hallertauer-type Hops

White Labs WLP 001 California Ale

Stats:
OG: 1.059 (estimated); 1.054 (measured)
FG: 1.013 (estimated); 1.008 (measured)
ABV: 6.1% (estimated); 6% (measured)

Brewing Steps:

• Heated 3.6 gallons of water to a strike temperature of approximately 165 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
• Stirred twice
• After 60 minutes lautered into bucket (to measure volume)
• Lautered over 15 minutes
• Heated 4.8 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
• Had about 1/4 - 1/2 pitcher left
• Boiled for 60 minutes
• Added hops
• Chilled
• Pitched yeast and aerated wort 
• Pitched yeast from starter
• Poured into fermenting bucket 
• Ferment about 2 weeks then rack to secondary

Notes:
-Put into secondary on 2/14/15, gravity 1.016
-Kegged 6/5/15
-Really good

December 2014 (exact date?) - Dubbel the Pleasure (HT)

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Dubbel the Pleasure (Hoggetowne recipe)

Batch 40

Made at some point in December after TitleTown IPA

Ingredients:
US 2-row (subbed for Belgian Pilsner Malt)
Belgian Biscuit Malt
CaraMunich II Malt
Special B Malt
UK 120L Crystal Malt
--total grain bill ~11.5#

Clean Candi Sugar/Syrup
Hallertauer hops
Saaz hops

White Labs WLP 500

Stats:
OG: 1.065 (estimated?); 1.060 (measured)
FG: 1.012 (estimated); 1.008 (measured)
ABV: 6.9% (estimated); 6.8% (measured)

Brewing Steps:

• Heated *** 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
• Added water to mash tun first (water, then grains)
• Mashed 60 minutes
• Stirred twice
• After 60 minutes lautered into bucket (to measure volume)
• Lautered over 15 minutes
• Heated *** 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
• Had about 1/4 - 1/2 pitcher left
• Boiled for 60 minutes
• Added hops
• Chilled
• Pitched yeast and aerated wort 
• Pitched yeast from starter
• Poured into fermenting bucket 
• Ferment about 2 weeks then rack to secondary

Notes:
-Second time making this batch (October 2013)
-Subbed US 2-row for the base malts because had it around
---Definite difference in taste due to substitution of US 2-row (would not do again)

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

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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

December 28th, 2014 - Yeti Imperial Stout (clone)

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Yeti Imperial Stout, Great Divide Brewing (clone)

Batch 38

Ingredients:

15.25 lbs (6.9 kg) American 2-row malt

1.0 lb (0.45 kg) crystal malt (120 °L)

12 oz. (0.34 kg) chocolate malt

12 oz. (0.34 kg) black patent malt

10 oz. (0.28 kg) roasted barley

8.0 oz. (0.23 kg) flaked wheat

8.0 oz. (0.23 kg) flaked rye

14.3 AAU Chinook hops (60 min) (1.1 oz./31 g of 13% alpha acids)

7.2 AAU Chinook hops (30 min) (0.55 oz./16 g of 13% alpha acids)

5.3 AAU Centennial hops (15 min) (0.50 oz./14 g of 10.5% alpha acids)

0.5 oz. (14 g) Centennial hops (5 min)

California Ale Yeast WLP 001

-- Via 4 L starter (recycle #2)

Stats:

OG: 1.090 (estimated); 1.082 (measured)

FG: 1.018(estimated); 1.014 (measured)

ABV: 9.3% (estimated); 8.9%(measured)

Brewing Steps:

• Heated 6 gallons of water to a strike temperature of approximately 162 degrees
• Target mash temperature 150; volume at 1.25 quarts/pound
• Used Sparge Pal app for volume calculations
• Added to mash tun (water, then grains)
• Mashed 75 minutes (stirred at 15' and 50')
• After mash lautered into bucket (to measure volume)
• Lautered slowly (seems to help efficiency)
• Sparged with 3.5 gallons (3.6 per SpargePal)
• Heated to 175
• Let sit for 10 minutes, then lautered until we had about 6.25 gallons (maybe a little more?)
• One pitcher left over after
• Boiled for 60 minutes
• Added hops
• Chilled
• Pitched yeast and aerated wort 
• Ferment about 2-3 weeks then rack to secondary
• Plan for at least 3-4 weeks in secondary prior to kegging

Notes:

-Maybe a little over on final volume. Maybe boil wasn't vigorous enough to lead to an "average" amount of boil off?
-Put into secondary on 1/19/15; gravity 1.019
-Kegged 4/23/15

Great Divide Yeti Imperial Stout Clone:

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December 26th, 2014 - Dry Dock Breakwater Pale Ale (NB)

Slightly Confused Brewing Company

Dry Dock Breakwater Pale Ale (Northern Brewer recipe)
Batch 37

Ingredients:
US 2-Row malt
Briess Caramel 60L
Belgian Biscuit
--total grain bill 9.7#

Chinook
Citra (dry hopping)

California Ale Yeast WLP 001
-- Via 1.5 L starter (recycle #1)

Stats:
OG: 1.049 (estimated); 1.042 (measured)
FG: ??? (not provided); 1.008 (measured)
ABV: ??? (not provided); 4.6% (measured)

Brewing Steps:

• Heated 3 gallons of water to a strike temperature of approximately 165 degrees
• Target mash temperature 153; volume at 1.25 quarts/pound
• Used Sparge Pal app for volume calculations
• Added to mash tun (water, then grains)
• Mashed 60 minutes
• Final temperature around 150
• After mash lautered into bucket (to measure volume)
• Lautered slowly (seems to help efficiency)
• Sparged with 5 gallons (minus one pitcher)
• Heated to 175
• Let sit for 10 minutes, then lautered until we had about 6.25 gallons (maybe a little more?)
• No water left over - all sparged; final volume about 6.25
• Boiled for 60 minutes
• Added hops
• Chilled
• Pitched yeast and aerated wort 
• Ferment about 2 weeks then rack to secondary
• Dry hop for 7 days

Notes:
-Second time making this recipe
-Unsure if I put 7# or 9# of 2-row into mash tun. Per brewersfriend.com, at 65% efficiency with 9# estimated OG 1.042; with 7# and 75% efficiency 1.039 (1.049 with 9# and 75% efficiency)

-Put into secondary on 1/19/15
-Took 1 gallon and put into 1 g fermenter with 1/3 - 1/2 of a medium toast oak spiral
---Bottled 7 bombers (about) on 2/7/15; used CO2 tabs for carbonation
---Package says "full extraction in 6 weeks"
-Dry hopped for about 7 days; kegged 1/28/15
---Took 1 g of dry hopped beer and put into 1 g fermenter with 1/3 - 1/2 of a medium toast oak spiral
---Will let sit for 6(?) weeks then bottle. Plan to try original oak-aged version and if not oaky enough will let sit for 6 weeks

December 6th, 2014 - Titletowne IPA (HT)

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Titletowne IPA (Hoggetowne)
Batch 36

Ingredients:
US 2-Row malt
US 20L Crystal malt
US 40L Crystal malt
CaraPils/CaraFoam malt
--total grain bill 12#
Assumed 70% efficiency

Chinook
Cascade

California Ale Yeast WLP 001
-- Via 1.5 L starter (new yeast)

Stats:
OG: 1.060 (estimated); 1.056 (measured)
FG: 1.014(estimated); 1.008 (measured)
ABV: 6% (estimated); 6.3% (measured)
91 IBU

Brewing Steps:

• Heated 3.8 gallons of water to a strike temperature of approximately 165 degrees
• Target mash temperature 152; volume at 1.25 quarts/pound
• Used Sparge Pal app for volume calculations
• Added to mash tun (water, then grains)
• Mashed 60 minutes
• Final temperature around 150
• After mash lautered into bucket (to measure volume)
• Lautered slowly (seems to help efficiency)
• Sparged with 4.9 gallons (minus one pitcher)
• Heated to 175
• Let sit for 10 minutes, then lautered until we had about 6.25 gallons (maybe a little more?)
• No water left over - all sparged; final volume about 6.25
• Boiled for 60 minutes
• Added hops
• Chilled
• Pitched yeast and aerated wort 
• Ferment about 2 weeks then rack to secondary
• Dry hop for 5 days

Notes:
-OG likely a little underestimated due to final post-boil volume above 5.5 gallons; didn't seem like much was lost during boil