House Dust IPA - Saturday, May 4, 2024 - Robobrew
Picking a day that it rains because I am making this in the basement. Take your pick, it rains all the time.
11 lbs. Rahr
8 ozs. Munich I
US-05 ( using around 40 grams since it is way past it's BB )
30 grams Cascade Duke 25 @ FW ( 7.1%AA ) - ( added to the side of mash tube )
56.70 grams Cascade Duke25 @ 10 min. ( 7.1% AA )
56.70 grams Cascade Duke25 @ 10 min. ( 7.1% AA )
56.70 grams Cascade Duke25 @ 0 min. ( 7.1% AA )
70 grams Cascade Duke25 dry hop for 3 days ( 7.1% AA )
Added to my fermenter 3 days before kegging. I just tossed them in.
Check Robobrew temp against your dependable Thermopen to see if they are close. Calibrate if you have to. Usually only 1 F difference lately. It was fine this morning.
O.G. - 1.044
F.G. - 1.004
% - 5,25
SRM - 4.4
BU - 35
Mash Volume - 5.50 gallons
Sparge Volume - 5 gallons
CA - 110
MG - 20
S04 - 275
CI - 50
PH - 5.30
MASH
Gyp - 7.4 g
CI - 1.4 g
Eps - 4.1 g
Boil
Gyp - 6.7 g
CI - 1.6 g
Eps - 3.8 g
Finally getting around to making this. Using Quebec grown Cascade hops for the first time. Hops were cheap but the shipping wasn't.
BREW DAY NOTES
Day 1 - Got slightly more wort than I wanted. 7.75 gallons instead of 7.5.
Other than that, things are going normal, no disasters yet.
Chiller in at 9 am, so things are going okay. It is nice to be able to open windows to clear
the place out on brew day. US-05 pitched at 10 am.
Day 2 - Going good the next morning. Good, starting to wonder about this old yeast.
Day 3 - Same, Temp is 64F. Trying for 66F.
Day 4 - 64F. Turned off the fridge. Still a big thick krausen though.
Day 5 - 64F. Cold in basement and cold outside. Heater not on yet.
Day 6 - 66F.
Day 7 - Almost done. Keg in a week or so.
Day 12 - Still the odd bubbling going on. I have tons of other stuff to do at the moment.
By the time I get the shed cleaned out and get to the garage to clean it out, it will be time
to keg this so no use brewing another soon. May as well use the wide mouth fermenter
after this one is kegged. Just have way too much stuff to do around here. Brewing soon. I want another one in the fermenter and then open my pool. When I weighed out the dry hops, I had some left over. May as well split them up and add them to the 2 bags I have in the freezer. Done.
KEGGED ON MAY 23
This is not a closed transfer as I have no time to prep it. The keg is purged and if I am very
careful and do it slow I think there will be no issues. IPA's seem to have issues with that, but
most other beers are fine. Just be careful and you should be okay.
TASTE ON KEGGING DAY
Problems right away. Since no pressure transfer, I cannot clip the syphon tube to the
carboy. Got trub and stuff in the keg for sure. Besides that, it does taste good and will
be much better after it is cleared and carbed.
ADDED GELATIN ON MAY 26
Pressure trasfer to another keg and carbed up 2 2L pop bottles. Okay beer. This is what will
get in the future. Nothing more I can do except add more hops. That isn't always the answer. I
would like to get a little bit more of a specialty grain taste. I don't know which one to use. Maybe
in the future to replace the Munich malt with Caramunich? Perhaps.
TASTE AFTER CARBING UP IN POP BOTTLE
I must of oxidized it too much when I used the pop bottles. Taste is way different than the
non-carbed up sample I had just a few minutes before carbing up. It may be okay in time,
but since I am out of ale yeast and these hops, I may as well brew lagers until further notice.
Corporate will be pissed if I go on another spending spree. More tastings to come.
NEXT DAY
The odd taste is gone now but I am not happy with the hop flavour so far. I realize this is a
session ipa, but it just tastes like a watered down version. I may dry hop the next one for
a longer period than 3 days or even in the keg. I will have to use a hop sack or I will never
transfer to another keg because it will clog up the dip tube.
TOO ASTRINGENT
I guess I used too much hops in this recipe, at least too much T90 hops. I should of used
Cryo hops like I did a few months ago. No matter as I am not making an IPA for the
immediate future.
TASTE ON 2ND POP BOTTLE
I sampled the 2nd pop bottle I had in the fridge and it isn't oxidated. Now, that tells me that
I am oxidating it when I keg it. But using the thumb tap in conjunction with the pop bottle
really swishes it around and it wasn't oxidated? Now I am really confused.
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