Brewing Log 15

Starter

• 20 oct ~ noon
• 2.5x, 1.5L h20, 5.3oz DME, WLP001
• yeast in fridge from feb

Mash

• Brewing in garage. Need more table?
• 15.5 lb grain. Mash 153°
• Strike 3.25 gal @ 169°
• Sparge 5.75 gal (2gal absorb)
• Needed 4.8 gal strike! fixing… adding 1.6gal water… about 155°, 15min in.
• New sparge is 4.25
• pre boil grav: 1.052

Boil

• Forgot to use new hop tube. Need chain for it for next time.
• going to attempt using it as a shield for racking. (that worked poorly, got slogged. Could use to dry hop in keg?)

Ferment

• OG: 1.067
• FG: 1.013, nov 4, 7%