House Dust IPA Conical - Sunday,June 27, 2021

Conical

Giving this another go at using brewing salts. I do have a Chinook IPA which is very close to be kegged, but still finishing up. I bought 7.5 lbs. of Citra ( most expensive hop around ) so I want to get this right. So far, I can get 10 Conical brews out of these hops. I tasted vanilla in the 2nd keg for a day or so. Now, that was weird, but it is gone now.

Ingredients

22 lbs. CMC

2 lbs. Munich I

1.38 lbs. Crystal 40

1 lb. Canadian Wheat

4 ozs. Roast Barley - 500 srm

45 g Chinook at 60 min. ( 29.7 )

72 g Citra at 10 min. ( 10.3 ibu )

100 g Citra at 0 min.

100 g Citra dry hop. Tossed it in loose. Not 3 - 5 days before kegging as it is still bubbling away and

very slow ferment just like the last one.

US-05

PH - 5.43 ( no acidulated malt needed in mash )

CA - 95

MG - 10

Sodium - 8

S04 - 201

CI - 51

                                                

Mash Additions

Gypsum - 10.8 g

Calcium Chloride - 2.9 g

Epsom Salts - 4 g

Baking Soda - 1 g ( just to raise the ph to where Bru'n Water says for a 10 srm beer )

Kettle Additions

Gypsum - 10.8 g

Calcium Chloride - 2.9 g

Epsom Salts - 4 g

Sparge Tank

0.4 ml Lactic Acid

O.G. - 1.050 - ( going higher sometime this year )

F.G. -

% -

SRM - 10

BU - 41

Efficiency down a bit, ( 76% ). Good brew day, nothing out of the ordinary. Quite humid and sticky but done at around 12 noon including clean up. Wort is a wonderful golden colour which I like and hope it isn't too malty. May lower the C 40 if it is. I didn't hydrate the yeast, just tossed it in. I took my flashlight and tried to see if it still had foam on top, can't see because of the low height.

                                                           FERMENTATION NOTES

Day 2 - Pitched yeast at 6:30 am.

Day 3 - Some activity.

Day 4 - More active, getting there. Set temp at 66 F.

July 4 - Slowed down a lot. I guess I should add the dry hops before it stops completely. Still have

             at least 8 days to go even though it may stop bubbling.

July 8 - Still going, but a lag time between bubbling is like 10 minutes or even more. Almost done.

             Today is day 10. Going to the cottage and will keg this on day 16 or so. No hurry though.

July 16 - Kegging day.

                                                   Tasting Notes after cooling in kegs

Low hop aroma, so I added 4 ozs. of Citra in a hop sack and it will sit for 5 days in the keg. Remove it on July 21st and carb up. There is an off taste to it. Not sure where it is coming from. 4 ozs. of Roast Barley I added for colour may of been a factor but I assume it will balance out in time. I guess it isn't an off taste, I just don't like it. My new and improved recipe deleted it. I was thinking on all Citra, but changed my mind. Chinook does bring something to the table, a kind of sharp spicey flavour that I don't think Citra brings.

                                                                2ND KEG FROM FRIDGE

I added 137 g of Citra hops to the other keg on August 3rd. The over the top Crystal malt seems to of settled down now as of August 24. I am on the last keg. I am still going for a lower Crystal malt % and not sure about the rest yet. This beer tastes like a CIPA should taste like. Ever since I have been adding my sparge water salts to the boil as Kal has on his website for a long time, my beers have drastically improved.

                                                       Taste on September 6

Not that great. My next one will be way lighter and no crystal malt.