House Dust IPA - Sunday, January 22, 2023
This is another pilot brew. Made this in 2019 and I said it was bland. I want bland now. The last one tasted way too strong. Although it took a couple of weeks to show up. I hope to get a balanced beer that doesn't taste too strong and astringent. This water profile is way lower than the last one. Almost 3 times as less brewing salts. I want to wait until this is kegged and aged a bit to give it a good taste to see if this is where I want to be.
11 lbs. Rahr
4 ozs. Crystal 40
12.2 g Citra at FWH
56 g Citra at 0 min.
85 g Citra - Dry hop 3 days before kegging.
US-05 - 28 g ( 176 billion cells )
O.G. - 1.044
F.G. - 1.008
% - 4.7
SRM - 4
BU - 20
Mash Water - 4.75 gallons
Mash Salts
Gyp - 1.3 g
CI - 1.6 g
Eps - 1.5 g
.2.7 ml Lactic Acid in Mash
Boil Salts
Gyp - 1.4 g
CI - 1.7 g
Eps - 1.6 g
Sparge Water - 5 gallons
.2 ml Lactic Acid in Sparge
CA - 50
MG - 8
S04 - 75
CI - 59
PH - 5.30
No supplies yet, 2 days before brew day. I will definitely buy a sack and a brick of yeast. I am not letting anyone else dictate when I can brew and when I can't, fuck that shit. Bobcaygeon Brewery called here on Jan.10 and said my grains are in. Nice. Now I am waiting for my dry yeast. Yeast did not come. It has been 8 days since I ordered it. Fuck me... One more day for get my yeast in the mail. If I think it is lost I will order some from OBK just to get a batch of IPA going. Nope, no yeast today. Who knows when it will come? No yeast from Guelph. Got 55 lbs. of grain and a brick of US-05 in 2 days.
BREW DAY
Not sure about the temperature Mr. Robobrew is showing. I didn't calibrate it. I will when I clean it today with some ice and water and do it then. Kind of difficult but I will look it up on how to do it. The temp was 58 F and the Thermopen read 59 F. No calibration needed.
Yeast pitched @ 1 pm. 64 F. I need to rehydrate this yeast in the future. Use your 500 ml flask to do this. Boil some well water, cool it a bit and add 280 ml to the flask. Check temp and adjust if needed either by a cool water batch, or use the microwave to heat it up. It should be around 80 F. When ready, add the yeast to the flask and let sit for 30 min. Shake it into a cream and adjust it to pitching temp and pitch it into your fermenter at around 68 F. Set temp in fridge to 66 F. During winter you will most likely not need to turn the fridge on. You will get way more viable cells doing it this way. The wort was too cold today, 61 F. Check it more often and drain it into the carboy earlier. You can always turn the fridge on to cool it. Hard to heat it up if it gets too cold in the winter.
FERMENTATION NOTES
Day 1 - Starting to ferment in a normal way the next morning. By 11 am it had a good thick head.
Day 2 - Going great. Hop smell is amazing. Hope it leaves some in the beer.
Day 3 - Same. I noticed some blow off going into the pot. Did not get this with the last one.
Day 4 - Still going good. If it slows a little early, install an air lock and put it on the bench
and turn the wall heater on.
Day 5 - Tossed on bench and turned wall heater on. 61 F.
Day 6 - 68 F. Depemds on the wall heater, not very accurate. May keg on day 10 like I used to. I
will wait until no activity at all and keg in a day or two after that. Add gelatin to the
keg along with the dry hops. How long? Do some reasearch. Use a muslum bag and
boil it before use.
Day 10 - I think I will add the 85 g of hops to the carboy and keg after 3 days.
Day 13 - I gave this an extra day because it still had a bit of activity. I may not do this again as it
is hard to estimate when I am going to keg it. It seems to work out fine. It was on day 4.
It was way better at least in an easy thing to do is just dump the 85 g in the carboy and
toss on the air lock. Better this than boiling a Muslum bag and dry hopping in the keg.
If you think it needs more hops, go with 113 g of hops, but no further.
Sample After Gelatin
Hopefully it won't change drastically like the last one did. Wow! After 2 days it went rogue. I
have never tasted a beer that changed tastes on a daily basis. Oxidation? No idea. This one
seems to be what I want in this style. I will know in a few days.
Carbed up two PET Bottles
Not crystal clear yet. Usually it takes 7 - 10 days to clear, at least for me. Carbing this up because
I have no beer and am just wondering what it will taste like.
A mellow IPA for sure. I think I will stick with this water profile for awhile and see how it goes.
Seems to be okay, at least in the PET bottles. Waiting for the keg to carb up, takes a few days. If this doesn't go rogue on me, I will not change the recipe as it is just what I want.
FINAL TASTE
This looks great, fantastic head. It still has that odd after taste the last one had. I have no idea where it is coming from. How can I fix it if I don't know where it is coming from? Even with a boat load of Citra hops, it will still have that odd taste. The last one kind of disappeared the last 2 - 3 litres in the keg though. I don't want 2 - 3 litres of drinkable beer in a 19 L keg. I want it all to taste good. I will know more after I brew my Blonde Ale which has very little hops and no chance to hide anything. I have to fix this before I make my Kolsch later on in April because that is the beer I am going with after my US-05 yeast is gone. Blonde Ales mostly until I use most of the yeast up. A brick of Kolsch yeast is too much money, so back to liquid yeast and stir plates.
I think the odd after taste is starting to fade. More on this later. Gone now. Tossed out about 2 - 3 L. Try again Mr. Homebrew.
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