House Dust IPA - Monday, August 29 , 2022
Using a ton of hops in this brew. I think I have enough though, 677g. I will have enough for a
5.5 gallon batch but just a session IPA. Not buying any more C hops at least for this year.
This is a big beer, at least for me. 6%.
12 lbs. Barke Pils malt
13 lbs. Golden Promise
1 lb. CaraAmber
1 lb. Carapils
1 lb. Wheat
3 ozs. Special III
17 g Citra at 60 min.
60 g Citra at 20 min.
150 g Citra at 10 min.
226 g Citra at 0 min.
226 g Citra - 113 g in each keg for dry hopping.
Nottingham ( 4 ) * Brewers Friend says I need 4 sachets *
O.G. - 1.058
F.G. - 1.010
% - 6.33
SRM - 8
BU - 50
PH - 5.45
Water Profile - 4 Dog Brewery
Mash
Gyp - 14.6 g
CI - 3.3 g
Eps - 8.4 g
Lactic Acid - .6 ml
Boil
Gyp - 12 g
CI - 2.7 g
Eps - 6.8 g
Sparge
Lactic Acid - .3 ml
Mash Water - 11 gallons
Sparge Water - 9 gallons
CA - 111
MG - 20
S04 - 275
CI - 53
A change of plans because I have to work around the rainy weather. Friday is rain and cooking chicken in the Roaster without the smoke on Saturday. The generator is busted so I am just cooking a whole chicken sort of. And pork loin along side of it too. Ball on Sunday, making this on Monday so that leaves cooking on Saturday.
BREW DAY NOTES
Boil over when I added the 226 g of hops. I took my eye off the not really a vigorous boil and saw the mess on the floor. After that I noticed liquid on the floor and kettle stand. Not sure what that was from. I will be shocked if this mess is drinkable. One thing though, I added more hops to sort of take the place of the boil over. It will have hops, that is for sure. I tasted the sample and it was well, normal.
PITCHED NOTTINGHAM AT AROUND 10 AM AUG. 30
FERMENTATION NOTES
Next Morning - Good, steady bubbling happening when I got up. Normal for Nottingham.
Day 2 - Same, going good.
Day 3 - Really slowed down. May turn it up but Notty is good for 59 F.
Day 4 - No activity. Done already? Come back in 7 - 8 days for a gravity sample. It wasn't
that an aggressive by looking at the bubbles going into the blow off bucket. No foam.
I used 4 sachets of Nottingham, better be done.
Day 7 - The odd bubble. This was almost done on day 4. Odd, but Nottingham is like that. May
take a sample but no need to as it still needs a few more days before kegging somewhere
around Sept. 14.
KEGGED ON SEPT. 12
TASTE ON KEGGING DAY
Not a lot of bitterness and hop aroma. However, no odd, unpleasant taste. Dry hopped on Sept. 13. After a few days, trasnfer to kegs and add gelatin. This will be ready in October. Make sure you add gelatin before we go to Frogville. I am going to use my IPA water profile for every beer. Seems my IPA profile gets okay beer and light ales and lagers which have a very soft water profile usually do not taste good. Can't figure that out at all.
DRY HOPPED ON SEPT. 14
Rack on day 4 of dry hopping. That will be on Monday, Sept. 18. Add gelatin on this day too. Done.
Should be good and clear when we get back from Frogville.
2 L Pop Bottle Sample
Lots of bitterness and hop aroma. Not very clear. It is only day 5 and I maybe didn't run off
enough hazy beer before adding to the pop bottle. No matter, hazy IPA beers are the latest thing and most brewers sell/serve hazy IPA. I know it will be clear when we get back from Quebec. The taste is just where I want and like it. No funny unpleasant malt flavours either which is bloody everything.
This beer will not clear even after adding gelatin. It has always cleared until now. I am not going to filter it. If my lighter beers are hazy, I will filter them. Cream Ale is still fermenting so I just have to wait.
Sampled the 2nd Keg
Not that great. Hardly any hop aroma and just tastes dull and bland. Of course I will use just 8 ozs. of Crystal 40 in future brews. I will use my Citra hops up. It may take awhile, but I will do it.
ALMOST TOSSED THIS
Had the keg by the pub room door for awhile but was too lazy to dump it. I brought it in and tossed it in the downstairs fridge. Not bad beer now. No funny off taste, just a mild IPA. Lose the darker malts and just go with 5%< C 40 which you have in stock. This never, ever will clear, so it is a hazy IPA. The next time I brewed this it was really good. No more darker specialty grains, just C 40 and it tasted great.
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