House Dust IPA - Saturday, January 17, 2026

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 Ingredients
11 lbs. Rahr
6 ozs. Honey Malt
22 grams Warrior at 60 min.
56 grams Cascade at 15 min.
56 grams Cascade at 0 min.
56 grams Cascade dry hop 3 days before kegging
US-05

O.G. - 1.044
F.G. -
% -
SRM - 4
BU - 45


I am starting to make lagers soon. Make this just to have, toss it on the bench and start
to make your lager. I am waiting to buy some Pilsner Malt, so this recipe will be brewed
until I run low of Rahr malt.

Mash Volume - 5.50 gallons
Sparge Volume - 5.00 gallons

Mash
GYP - 7.3 g
CC - 1.7 g
EPS - 4.3 g
Baking Soda - .4 g

Boil
GYP - 6.6 g
CC - 1.5 g
EPS - 3.9 g

Lactic Acid Sparge - .2 ml

A normal brew day. The boiling wort does smell funny. Not sure why though. I still think that
the hops were Hallertauer. God, I hope not. I didn't label them and totally forgot what they
were.

                                                                FERMENTATION NOTES
Jan. 17
Yeast pitched at 10 AM. 
Wort: 68 F.

Jan. 18 - Slight activity but it is early - 6:30 AM. - 66F - ( wall heater sucks )
Jan. 19 - Going good. Still need to install a blow off hose. 68F.
Jan. 20 - Temp rising, turned off heater and opened the door. 70F. - too warm.
Jan. 21 - 60F. 10F drop since yesterday. Installed the heat belt but only for now. 74F.
Jan. 22 - After turning off the heat belt, this AM it is 68F but almost done. Fine. I will
                turn on the wall heater later today to finish.
Jan. 23 - Very cold outside and down on the bench. Turned on the heater and closed
                the door.
Jan. 25 - 70F. Turned down heater. Think it is done.

                                         ADDED 56 GRAMS OF HALLERTAUER
                                                         ON JAN. 25

Will do this even though it is done fermenting. Keg in 3 days. The container of hops that I
think are Cascade may not be but should be. I had them in my beer fridge freezer and have
not brewed a lager since June. I will know in 3 days when I keg this.

I kegged it but there was a ton of green hops in there. Fine, I can get it out when I add 
gelatin. I do remember not getting anywhere near 23 litres of wort though. 

                                                              ADDED GELATIN ON Feb. 4

Better late than never. Once all of our road trips are over, I can figure out what I am going
to brew. We do have dogs for 2 months so I can't just brew beer all the time. 

                                                TRANSFER ON FEB. 10

Thursday, 2/12. Carbed up and sampling. Okay beer, I do think it needs more dry hop
hops. Try 85 grams instead of 56.

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