Boiling full volume. Steeped grains on stove in small pot. Should have started heating rest of water at the same time.
This burner looks kinda weak. Might need a better one, more sturdy with legs to the support, for this amount of water and pot size. Also need a better scale, or calibrate this one.
Pre boil volume: 7 gal
Adding irish moss @ 15 mins
accidentally added fuggles @ 15 instead of 10
Using a whirlpool; cooling in laundry room. lots of hop in the bottom. sStill more liquid in fermenter than before. Need to do a test for volume marks on carboy. In addition to marks on new pot.
Forgot to record post-boil volume. 1.5 gal of trub left
Ferment
Fermenting in pantry, darker. Star san in bubbler.
OG 1.054
27 oct: swapping bubbler for blowtube. Foam all the way up.
based on carboy markers for brew#6, I estimate 4.5 - 4.75 gallons in fermenter.
8 nov: 1.020 may have gotten cold ~62 deg
9 nov: 1.019
12 nov: 1.019
Crash
Adding gelatin at time of moving to keg
1tsp per 2/3 C, pasteurized to 150 deg
cold crashing in keg 1 day before carbonating
not as much yeast cake as I often see.
Carb
Kegged about 4.25 gallons, I think
12 nov: Put in keg
20 nov: final result is not the best. Doesn’t taste much like an ipa. A bit sweet. Probably related to how far off the gravitys were.