House Dust IPA - Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Mr. Robobrew

Watched Brian from You Tube and he did this on his Robobrew. I may as well try it now since I have nothing to lose. Mash is way higher and the Sparge is way lower. Here goes nothing. I definitely won't over sparge with only 2 gallons of water. I have to heat up 5 gallons of water in my sparge tank or I will be below the element. I will heat to 168 F, remove 2 gallons and add .8 ml of lactic acid and sparge to grains. I went to another brew day on you tube and he basically used the same water ratio in that recipe.

Ingredients

12 lbs. Simpsons Golden Promise

6 g each of Citra and Chinook at 60 min.

10 g each of Citra and Chinook at 20 min.

25 g each of Citra and Chinook at 10 min.

30 g each of Citra and Chinook at 0 min.

56 g each of Citra and Chinook dry hop for 5 - 7 days

22 g Nottingham - Pitched @ 11 am.

Water Profile - 4 Dog Brewery

Mash 

Gyp - 8.8 g

CI - 1.9 g

Lactic - .6 ml

Boil

Gyp - 2.7 g

CI - .6 g

Sparge 

Lactic .1 ml

CA - 111

S04 - 200

CI - 51

PH - 5.30

O.G. - 1.047

F.G. -

% -

SRM - 4.4

BU - 41

Mash Water - 6.60 gallons ( 24.6 litres ) Easier to measure in Mr. Robobrew

Sparge Water - 2 gallons

It was a challenge to mash/sparge this way, but the wort was clear and I got 78% on notch 3 using my old mill. Not changing nothing at least yet. The mash didn't look good earlier on as it looked like water. It finally caught up when it was time to sparge. I went with heating 2 gallons in my ss pot because I didn't want to heat up 5 gallons in the sparge keg. You can't heat up 2 gallons. 

                                                       FERMENTATION NOTES

Day 1 - Going good the next morning. 64 F. May go to 66 F.

Day 4 - Krausen falling already. Slowed down a lot of course. Still, I will go 2 weeks and check

             the gravity before kegging. Nottingham does work fast, but 2 weeks is where most

             brewers say to go with, even longer.

Day 8 - Seems to be done also, Letting it sit for another week.

                                                   KEGGED ON APRIL 18

Added dry hops in a sock when I kegged it. Transfer in a few days or so and carb up. My regulator is broke. Had this one for awhile now. I may of got something in the C02 hose, or at least I smelled something bad. May have to take it off and clean it, add some star san and somehow dry it. That may be a challenge. 

                                     REMOVE HOP SOCK AND ADD GELATIN 

Doing this on April 25, Day 7. Done. 

April 29 or 30 - Rack to kegs and carb up and toss that Pub Ale which is shit beer. I need to check the gravity of this using Nottingham yeast as I have yet to do so.

Had a sample as I got rid of that horrible Pub Ale. Very good for a single malt beer. Good bitterness and no cloying hop taste. Finally, a beer I won't toss out. I just may brew this 95% of the time. Almost carbed up, not there yet. clearing up nicely. Very good for a one malt beer. Good firm bitterness. The hop aroma is still not in your face and I think it never will be no matter how much hops I use. 

                                                          FINAL THOUGHTS

After 2 weeks it got a real nasty after taste. Kind of hop related. Tossed.