Cavan IPA - Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020
5.5 gallons.
For the first time I am going with a true IPA water profile. May as well, my water profile is not working out so well.
Ingredients
11 lbs. UCM
1 lb. Breiss Crystal 40
1 ozs. Weyermann de-bittered black malt - 500 L
14 g Simcoe at 60 min.
28.35 g Simcoe at 10 min.
28.35 g Simcoe at 5 min.
28.35 g Simcoe at 1 min.
70 g Simcoe at 0 min. ( hop stand )
Escarpment Cal Ale
Water Profile - ( the electric brewery - IPA )
PH - 5.40
O.G. - 1.050
F.G. -
% -
SRM -8.4
BU - 45
Using all 6 ozs. of Simcoe since I am thinking on buying 5 lbs. of Chinook from UCM if they have it. Price is right - $59.00 for 5 lbs. = $11.80 a lb. Very good price. They closed down, should of bought it last fall.
Brew Day Notes
Forgot to secure the sparge arm. Lost a bit of wort and made a mess too. Secure it right at the start.
Yeast pitched at 1 pm. Great colour of wort, just where I wanted it. Very sweet so hard to tell where the bu is yet.
Fermentation Notes
Next Day - Going good. No temp strip, need to buy one.
Day 2 - More active, blow off too. Thermapen says it is 65 F. Not sure how accurate that reading is
considering it is just pricked to the side.
Day 6 - Doing a d rest for the lager and this is included. Kind of warm in the room, but I am busy
with my septic tank which backed up for the second time in 3 weeks. 94 mm of rain in 3
weeks.
Day 7 - Sampled today and it tasted like cat pee or if you actually drank cat pee, this is it.
I know I will like Chinook better.
Day 11 - Still fermenting away. God, quit already... Keg when done.
TASTE UPDATE
Took another sample. Nice colour, very clear. I like it. Cat pee, yea still, but not as bad as it sounds. However, the C-40 seems to be too grainy for me. I am going to go with Kal's recipe which uses Vienna malt which gives it a bread-cracker like sweet taste which sounds better. I do have Munich I which I will use next week. Have to buy some new malt in March.
KEGGED ON FEB 7
Should be done by now. Making 2 batches close together to get some beer in stock. Lagers sure slow things down. Bought some C02 from Peterborough Hydroponics for $45 for a 20 lb. tank. Praxair charges around $40 for 5 lbs. Fuck them. Will toss some in my pop bottles and carb the rest. I realize it will be hazy now but whatever... Taste is fine, a little low on the hop aroma taste though. Smells right though. Not sure what I can do without dry hopping. May have to though, as long as it is in the primary. Maybe I can dry hop when I move it to the keezer so I can keg it without any height restrictions. All in all, this is an acceptable beer and I do plan on tweeking it. Still needs some Vienna malt to give it some sort of cracker/bready after taste which according to a lot of recipes works out great.
Taste After Carbing
Well, this is the first time I have made a " tea bag " beer before. I did make one back in around 1994 or so but that was with well water. This is almost undrinkable, way astrigent. I am not sure what I did wrong. Maybe the PH was too low? Try again I guess. The samples were fine, one during the end of fermentation, tasted great. Kegging day was fine too, just after carbing it up. I don't think it is carb bite. Seems to be not as bad after carbing up for 30 hours and bringing up to the pub room. Hmmm...
It must of been oxidation when I used my thumb tap to carb up a pop bottle. I guess I have to stop doing that, or get a tap hose and fitting to do it. No astrigent taste at the moment from the tap. Nope, it is back.
Research on Sulphate Levels
Lowering the sulphate level a bit. 200 ppm. Will taste the Feb. 11 beer which was 275 ppm. It wasn't harsh tasting until I carbed it up. Not sure if it is carb bite or it is really harsh. Whatever, I don't like it.
Update to the harsh taste
I must of just got oxidation somewhere in the process. I used a closed transfer with this beer. I didn'[t dry hop but used a hop stand and that should not of done this. The next one is very good and I did not do a closed transfer as it plugged up my racking cane.
For the first time I am going with a true IPA water profile. May as well, my water profile is not working out so well.
Ingredients
11 lbs. UCM
1 lb. Breiss Crystal 40
1 ozs. Weyermann de-bittered black malt - 500 L
14 g Simcoe at 60 min.
28.35 g Simcoe at 10 min.
28.35 g Simcoe at 5 min.
28.35 g Simcoe at 1 min.
70 g Simcoe at 0 min. ( hop stand )
Escarpment Cal Ale
Water Profile - ( the electric brewery - IPA )
PH - 5.40
O.G. - 1.050
F.G. -
% -
SRM -8.4
BU - 45
Using all 6 ozs. of Simcoe since I am thinking on buying 5 lbs. of Chinook from UCM if they have it. Price is right - $59.00 for 5 lbs. = $11.80 a lb. Very good price. They closed down, should of bought it last fall.
Brew Day Notes
Forgot to secure the sparge arm. Lost a bit of wort and made a mess too. Secure it right at the start.
Yeast pitched at 1 pm. Great colour of wort, just where I wanted it. Very sweet so hard to tell where the bu is yet.
Fermentation Notes
Next Day - Going good. No temp strip, need to buy one.
Day 2 - More active, blow off too. Thermapen says it is 65 F. Not sure how accurate that reading is
considering it is just pricked to the side.
Day 6 - Doing a d rest for the lager and this is included. Kind of warm in the room, but I am busy
with my septic tank which backed up for the second time in 3 weeks. 94 mm of rain in 3
weeks.
Day 7 - Sampled today and it tasted like cat pee or if you actually drank cat pee, this is it.
I know I will like Chinook better.
Day 11 - Still fermenting away. God, quit already... Keg when done.
TASTE UPDATE
Took another sample. Nice colour, very clear. I like it. Cat pee, yea still, but not as bad as it sounds. However, the C-40 seems to be too grainy for me. I am going to go with Kal's recipe which uses Vienna malt which gives it a bread-cracker like sweet taste which sounds better. I do have Munich I which I will use next week. Have to buy some new malt in March.
KEGGED ON FEB 7
Should be done by now. Making 2 batches close together to get some beer in stock. Lagers sure slow things down. Bought some C02 from Peterborough Hydroponics for $45 for a 20 lb. tank. Praxair charges around $40 for 5 lbs. Fuck them. Will toss some in my pop bottles and carb the rest. I realize it will be hazy now but whatever... Taste is fine, a little low on the hop aroma taste though. Smells right though. Not sure what I can do without dry hopping. May have to though, as long as it is in the primary. Maybe I can dry hop when I move it to the keezer so I can keg it without any height restrictions. All in all, this is an acceptable beer and I do plan on tweeking it. Still needs some Vienna malt to give it some sort of cracker/bready after taste which according to a lot of recipes works out great.
Taste After Carbing
Well, this is the first time I have made a " tea bag " beer before. I did make one back in around 1994 or so but that was with well water. This is almost undrinkable, way astrigent. I am not sure what I did wrong. Maybe the PH was too low? Try again I guess. The samples were fine, one during the end of fermentation, tasted great. Kegging day was fine too, just after carbing it up. I don't think it is carb bite. Seems to be not as bad after carbing up for 30 hours and bringing up to the pub room. Hmmm...
It must of been oxidation when I used my thumb tap to carb up a pop bottle. I guess I have to stop doing that, or get a tap hose and fitting to do it. No astrigent taste at the moment from the tap. Nope, it is back.
Research on Sulphate Levels
Lowering the sulphate level a bit. 200 ppm. Will taste the Feb. 11 beer which was 275 ppm. It wasn't harsh tasting until I carbed it up. Not sure if it is carb bite or it is really harsh. Whatever, I don't like it.
Update to the harsh taste
I must of just got oxidation somewhere in the process. I used a closed transfer with this beer. I didn'[t dry hop but used a hop stand and that should not of done this. The next one is very good and I did not do a closed transfer as it plugged up my racking cane.
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