House Dust IPA - Saturday, March 7, 2026

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I am out of beer and looking for an IPA to buy. I can't believe the prices. Screw that.
That is offensive and completely unreasonable. Fuck them!!! Fuck them all!!!!!!!
I am stepping up my brew schedule because of this. My lager won't be ready to drink after
aging until April or even May. I have to CPBF them in my PET bottles when it is ready.

 Ingredients

11 lbs. Rahr
4 ozs. Honey Malt
4 ozs. CaraRed
19 grams Warrior @ 60 min.
56 grams Cascade @ 15 min.
56 grams Cascade @ 0 min.
85 grams Cascade dry hop 3 days before kegging
US-05

O.G.  - 1.042 - 72%
F.G. -
% -
SRM - 4.1
BU - 41


Mash and Sparge Water - Distilled
Mash Volume - 5.50 gallons
Sparge Water - 5 gallons


Mash
Gyp - 7.3 grams
CC - 1.7 grams
Eps - 4.3 grams
Baking Soda - .4 grams

Boil
Gyp - 6.6 grams
CC - 1.5 grams
Eps - 3.9 grams

Lactic Acid in Sparge - .2 ml

CA - 110
MG - 20
S04 - 275
CI - 51
PH - 5.33

Bit of a late start but done okay. I can pitch the yeast between 10 and 11.

Brew Day - Pitches US-05 at 2:30 pm. Wort was to cold earlier - 60F. Heat on - 64F.
March 8 -  - No activity next am. Typical of US-05.
March 12 - 74F. Should of checked it last night. Big krausen head though.
March 15 - Seems to be done. Adding dry hops today.

Keep an eye on it and add the remaining hops 3 days before kegging. That will be
somewhere between March 19 and March 22. Heater on, it is bloody cold downstairs.

                                        KEG ON WED MARCH 19          

Since I screwed up my lager, I have this left as the only beer on hand. I do have to clear
it so this won't be ready until March 27. Had trouble with the syphon hose but got most
of it. 

                                                ADDED GELATIN ON MARCH 20 @ 12 NOON

I will transfer to a keg today on March 26 and carb it up.
Done, but the transfer was way too slow. I let it ride for now and will take apart
all hoses and take apart everything else and give it all a good clean and store it
for the move to the house where brewing beer is a big challenge. 

                                    SAMPLED ON MARCH 28

Fine. A little too much hop aroma but that is because I left it in the keg longer than usual.
It will subside in the next few days as it always does.

Sampled on April 15 - It has held it's hop flavour and aroma which is a surprise.








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