Brewing Log 7

Starter

• 2 dec: 5.3oz of DME in 1.5L water
• 1 pkg WLP002 in growler, shake method
• You can’t heat growlers on the stove. Broken glass.

Starter 2

• 2 dec: same as above, boil in pot, transfer to sanitized growler
• 3 dec: move starter to fridge to crash. Seems to have worked.

Recipe

• 6 lb marris otter
• 6 lb english pale
• Crystal 20L instead of 15L

Mash

• Heated water to 158°
• target: 152°
• after adding grains; 152°
• stirred, wrapped pot in blankets inside
• temp at 60min: 148°
• Should overfill biab by about 1/2gal for absorb
• pre boil gravity: 1.048 (corrected)

Boil

• running out of propane. Had to borrow from Nick. Need a spare tank.
• started with 7 gal (had to add a bit to get there)
• ending volume: 6

Ferment

• Cooled to 75. whirlpool. Siphon. At 72°.
• Just shy of 5.5 gal in bottle. Lots of trub though
• OG 1.056
• Ambient temp target 68°
• 7 dec: temp at 70°
• 11 dec: 1.008 (6.3%) that seems low. Doest taste off though. Moving to fridge to crash
• 12 dec: gelatin

Carb

• 14 dec: kegged directly to ‘out’ connector through filter.
• Siphon clamp is an amazing idea, should have been doing already. (
• Kegged 5 gallons!!
• Burst carb at 20 PSI, target 20 hr.