House Dust IPA - Monday, October 18, 2021

Brewing to use up my hops which I bought too much of. Having trouble selling some even with half price hops as opposed to brew shops. These Citra hops are the cream of the crop and I am kind of surprised no one scooped them up. This is an all Citra hop brew, hell I have enough of them.

Ingredients

11 lbs. CMC

8 ozs. Munich I

8 ozs. Wheat

5 ozs. Acid Malt

15 g Citra at 60 min.

30 g Citra at 15 min.

30 g Citra at 10 min.

30 g Citra at 5 min.

100 g Citra at 0 min.

60 g Citra 5 days before I kegged it.

US-05 - 20 grams

Water Profile - Yellow Dry

CA - 50

MG - 10

S04 - 104

CI - 46

PH - 5.35

Mash

gypsum - 2.3 g

calcium chloride - 1.4 g

epsom salt - 2.2 g

Boil

gypsum - 2.1 g

calcium chloride - 1.3 g

epsom salt - 2 g

Sparge - .2 ml Lactic Acid

O.G. - 1.048

F.G. -

% -

SRM - 4.5

BU - 52

I have tried different amounts of sulphates and was not happy with most of them. This is kind of low, but the beer will not suffer, just maybe not a in your face taste of citra hops. So, after this one I may up it to around 150  ppm. As always, taste is the main factor.

                                                   BREW DAY NOTES

Mashed in at 6 am. Added the mash salts 10 min in. Good? Bad? Research says it is okay, some brewers wait and add them 15 min in the mash. Not doing that though, I will forget for sure. Made a note in the brew journal so I can't miss it again. Other than that, a good brew day. Very hazy wort but it is an IPA with a lot of hops. Quite aromatic hop taste in the sample.

                                       Pitched Yeast At 10 pm

Day 1 - No activity next morning of course. US-05 is a slow starter.

Day 2 - Going good. Must of started during the wee hours of the morning.

Day 3 - Same.

Day 4 - Same.

Day 5 - Slowing down a bit. It never blew out into the blow off bucket.

Day 6 - Slowed down a lot. Can toss on bench if I need to.

Day 7 - Activity every 30 seconds or so. Krausen way down. Faster than the last one which

             went like 16 - 18 days. This recipe is way lighter than the last one, not sure what

             that means though. 66 F. Outside temp is 6 C.

Day 12 - Kegging day. 

This beer fermented fast. Usually around 16 - 18 days with US-05. I did use 20 grams.

Really hazy beer in the carboy. That may be an issue and I don't know why it is not

clearing.

                                           KEGGED SATURDAY, OCT. 30

Strong hop aroma today when I kegged it. I didn't taste it. A lot of trub/hop sludge and it was pretty well done on day 12. Absolutely not clearing in the carboy. Will add gelatin tomorrow and hope it clears. No reason it shouldn't, but if there is I will need help on the reasons why not? I will give this a few more days to clear and if no change then I will filter it. Hope I don't oxidize it. Will try to do a closed transfer to another keg and don't want the pump to over heat or something as the hoses are beverage lines which are smaller than wine hoses. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

                                                    TOSSED OUT