4 Dog Brewery

  Ingredients 12 lbs. Horton Ridge Organic 1 lb. Breiss Crystal 60 20 g Wye Challenger at 60 min. 20 g EKG at 60 min. 20 g EKG at 0 min. US-05   Water Profile - Amber Dry CA - 50 MG - 15 S04 - 110 CI - 51 PH - 5.50   O.G. - 1.042 - 66% - Why am I getting 66% efficiency? F.G. - % - SRM - 7.3 BU - 28 Mash Gyp - 2.1 g CI - 1.7 g Eps - 3.4 g Baking Soda - .6 g Strike Temp - 163F Mash at 154F. Boil Gyp - 1.8 g CI - 1.5 g Eps - 2.8 g Lactic Acid Sparge - .2 ml Mash water volume - 6 gallons Sparge water volume - 5 gallons Hope this is the first of many good Bitters, ESB, and Pub Ales. Our Beer Store quit selling most British Beers and the LCBO seems to be out of most of them. Brew Your Own I say!!! I have 120 grams of US-05 left. I am using 42 now and have enough for a batch of something in May in the Conical. After that, I have to decide on what British Ale yeast to use.                               ...

Putting this 5 week Cru International 8 L kit together today. Need to do a SG check just to see how the yeast is doing. I got a lot of foam in the bucket that holds the Starsan. O.G. - 1.088 F.G. -  .998 % -     12.2 Checked it a few hours later and it was fermenting away. Now, that was fast. 72F. Heat on. Day 1 -  Doing okay. 74F. Day 2 - Same. 74F. Day 3 - Going good. 74F. Day 6 - Same. 74F. Day 7 - 72F for some reason. Turned heat up a smidgen. That wall heater sucks. Day 8 - 74F. Rack when done no matter how many days it takes. Day 9 - Seems done, not much activity. Will wait until the 14 day mark to rack. Feb. 29 or so. Day 10 - Racking today when I check the gravity. .998 = 12%.               I am very close to the bottom ring in the bucket. I should of went right to it according               to when I did a water level check in the pails.  Day 11 - The next day after adding all of...