Cavan Uncommon - Wednesday, June 19, 2019
5.5 Gallons
I am going with the same grains, but may change the hop schedule if the last one is not to my liking. Hard to do when you just kegged it and things change in a short period of time. Either way, I am going to brew this. This will be bottle conditioned in my plastic bottles which I bought and have never used. You have 3 sachets of US-05 and it will be late mid-August before you need any more. Do not run low and always order at least 2 sachets with every order and always keep some in stock. I may change this recipe to get it a bit lighter in srm and taste. Compare the two to see which one you like best.
Ingredients
11 lbs. UCM
1 lb. Breiss Crystal 40
8 ozs. Breiss 120
US-05
22 g Columbus at 60 min.
56.70 g Columbus at 0 min.
28.35 g Cascade dry hop 5 days before kegging.
113.4 g Columbus dry hop 5 days before kegging. ( did I use too much? we will see. )
O.G. - 1.047
F.G. - 1.010
% - 5
SRM - 10
BU - 44
NOTES
Day 2 - Just woke up to the start of activity.
Day 4 - Very active. No blow off though. Has an intense smell of the hops.
Day 5 - Slowing down, but still active. Normal. Smells great. May keg on July 5.
Keg on July 5
Check your stock of carboys and if a wine has not taken one up, brew another one of these with your newer recipe. Toss this on the bench. The Kolsch that may have a stuck fermentation can go on the floor or if okay, bottle condition it. It is fine but a tad of a higher FG.
DRY HOPPED ON TUES JUNE 25
I added a ton of hops today. 3 ozs. of Columbus and for some reason I tossed in an ounce of Cascade. Well, it hopefully won't fade a week after kegging like the last one did. Maybe I should bottle condition this.
KEGGED WITH CORN SUGAR - JUNE 29
I am sick and tired of Praxair raising their prices, so I am going to bottle condition a lot of my beers in bottles and kegs. This one is in a keg. It is nice and warm in my basement now, so this will not be a problem at all. Will be ready to serve by the middle of July. It does have a lot of hop gunk in it, but it will settle on the bottom along with all the rest of the trub. I hope it doesn't plug the dip tube, if it does I will have to syphon it into another keg. That will of course screw up the keg conditioning I am doing.
I pulled the keg ring and there is lots of C02 coming out, but still needs to age to get that corn sugar flavour out of it. Takes 2 - 3 weeks.
TASTE ON JULY 10
Yuck!! Too hazy and too much dry hops. I am sure it will mellow out in time though, but this recipe and keg conditioning is gone.
July 11 - The weed taste is slowly dissipating, but yea, way too much dry hops. Needs more C02.
July 29 - Drain pour. Tastes good, but I can't get it out of the keg. When I do, it is not carbonated. There must be a ton of trub/hops at the bottom and it clogged the dip tube.
TASTE ON AUG 11
Dip tube still clogged, but I can still get a glass of beer out of it, a lot of foam though. Still has that weedy taste to it. Nope, no more dry hopping.
Ingredients
11 lbs. UCM
1 lb. Breiss Crystal 40
8 ozs. Breiss 120
US-05
22 g Columbus at 60 min.
56.70 g Columbus at 0 min.
28.35 g Cascade dry hop 5 days before kegging.
113.4 g Columbus dry hop 5 days before kegging. ( did I use too much? we will see. )
O.G. - 1.047
F.G. - 1.010
% - 5
SRM - 10
BU - 44
NOTES
Day 2 - Just woke up to the start of activity.
Day 4 - Very active. No blow off though. Has an intense smell of the hops.
Day 5 - Slowing down, but still active. Normal. Smells great. May keg on July 5.
Keg on July 5
Check your stock of carboys and if a wine has not taken one up, brew another one of these with your newer recipe. Toss this on the bench. The Kolsch that may have a stuck fermentation can go on the floor or if okay, bottle condition it. It is fine but a tad of a higher FG.
DRY HOPPED ON TUES JUNE 25
I added a ton of hops today. 3 ozs. of Columbus and for some reason I tossed in an ounce of Cascade. Well, it hopefully won't fade a week after kegging like the last one did. Maybe I should bottle condition this.
KEGGED WITH CORN SUGAR - JUNE 29
I am sick and tired of Praxair raising their prices, so I am going to bottle condition a lot of my beers in bottles and kegs. This one is in a keg. It is nice and warm in my basement now, so this will not be a problem at all. Will be ready to serve by the middle of July. It does have a lot of hop gunk in it, but it will settle on the bottom along with all the rest of the trub. I hope it doesn't plug the dip tube, if it does I will have to syphon it into another keg. That will of course screw up the keg conditioning I am doing.
I pulled the keg ring and there is lots of C02 coming out, but still needs to age to get that corn sugar flavour out of it. Takes 2 - 3 weeks.
TASTE ON JULY 10
Yuck!! Too hazy and too much dry hops. I am sure it will mellow out in time though, but this recipe and keg conditioning is gone.
July 11 - The weed taste is slowly dissipating, but yea, way too much dry hops. Needs more C02.
July 29 - Drain pour. Tastes good, but I can't get it out of the keg. When I do, it is not carbonated. There must be a ton of trub/hops at the bottom and it clogged the dip tube.
TASTE ON AUG 11
Dip tube still clogged, but I can still get a glass of beer out of it, a lot of foam though. Still has that weedy taste to it. Nope, no more dry hopping.
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