House Dust IPA - Friday, May 24, 2024
I have a window of 7 days to keg this and get the Conical ready for my Helles. As soon as the 2nd House Dust is in the fermenter, open the pool. You can work on it for 2 weeks to get it up and going. I assume a lot of vacuuming. I broke my syringe I use for small amounts of lactic acid. I bought a package of 20 from Amazon.
Ingredients
11 lbs. Rahr
8 ozs. Munich I ( for some reason I used 1 lb. )
30 grams Duke 25 @ FW
56.70 grams Dule25 @ 10 min.
56.70 grams Duke25 @ 0 min.
70 grams Duke25 dry hop.
US-05 - ( the last of my brick )
YEAST PITCHED AT 11 AM
O.G. - 1.046
F.G. -
% -
SRM - 4.4
BU - 35.4
CA - 110
MG - 20
CI - 50
S04 - 275
PH - 5.30
Mash Water - 5.50 gallons
Sparge Water - 5 gallons
Mash
Gyp - 7.4 g
CI - 1.6 g
Eps - 4.1 g
Lactic Acid - .3 ml
Boil
Gyp - 6.7 g
CI - 1.4 g
Eps - 3.8 g
Lactic Acid in sparge - .2 ml
Brew Day Is Finally Here
A lot going on at the moment, so finally brewing this. Still brewing in the basement
because the garage is still a mess. Will get to it. I can clean the pool and take a day
to brew beer and today is that day.
Brew Day - Disaster free and on schedule so far. I got a ton of trub in my carboy.
If I waited until it ran clear, I would of been way short of beer. I can
use the big funnel with the built in strainer. I didn't realize I had that
much. Research says to not worry that much because it isn't going to
stay there that long. Next time you brew a IPA, strain it when adding
it to the carboy. Other than that, things look good.
Day 2 - Going good the next morning. 64F. Set it higher. The trub was kind of
mixed up which was expected. It will be a real mess when I keg it.
Day 3 - Quite active. Swirling around like crazy which is great.
Day 4 - Same.
Day 5 - Same.
Day 6 - Same.
I should be able to toss this on the bench since it is not that hot outside. I can go ahead
and get ready for my Pilsner anytime.
I added the dry hops on June 3rd. Keg on June 10 with gelatin.
KEG THIS ON JUNE 10
I have to do a closed transfer on this to avoid any oxidation. I will figure it out. This is my
last IPA for awhile so may as well do it the proper way. The siphone tube clogged up. What
a mess to unclog it. Also, my beer QD leaked. Looks like it needs a o ring.
BOUGHT MORE HOPS
The previous one tasted like watered down hops. Now with a second one with no hops
in the freezer, I had to buy some dry hops for the keg. I will fine with gelatin in
the keg for a few days and then add the sack of dry hops for a week. After that, transfer
to another keg and carb up.
Kegged on June 12
If this isn't oxidated, it will be a miracle. I just tossed in the 4 ozs. of Cascade in a sock in
the keg and it went to the bottom because of the 200 gram weight I used. I don't care at
this point. I added the gelatin at the same time. Give it a week and rack to another keg if
that is even possible. I will try to bring out the hop bag if it clogs. If I can't do that I will
syphon it out and go from there. Didn't have too bad a time dragging the sack out. A hell
of a lot bigger now than when I put the hops in.
REMOVED HOP SACK ON JUNE 15
Gelatin is already in but don't know how good it will work considering I dry hopped
at the same time. Punched it up with C02 also. I don't care if it is hazy, I will lie and
say it is supposed to be hazy just like a lot of other brewers.
UPDATE
I sampled on June 17 and it is definitely a hazy ipa. Good hop taste, a little strong on the
Cascade flavour but should subside. I have my doubts that this will clear but no use
doing anything more, just live with it.
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