6.5 lbs British Pale Malt. I think I got Maris Otter.
0.5 lbs Munich.
1.0 lbs Crystal 40L
0.5 lbs Honey Malt
0.25 lbs Crystal 120L
3.0oz Pale Chocolate 200L (this is one I may have had a hard to finding and substituted)
UK Kent Goldings 0.75oz 5.8%AA
WLP002 x2 Date: 01-09-14 Lot: 1001913
Whirlfloc
Servomyces
50% RC water
50% Distilled
These brewing salts:
We are shooting for a mash of 158F.
3:38 pm- Wanted to start around 1pm. Started around 2pm. Just got the strike water to temp. The mash tun is creaky today. First time I've heard it do that.
4:03pm - Ellie here. Just mashed in. Hit 158F.
5:28pm - Runoff done. All is well. Gravity = 1.034. Should get 1.044ish. I will add all the hops. Hanging with Ellie has been fun. She made Kevin bring burgers.
8:42pm - Done the for day. Kevin brought burgers, tacos, and beer. The OG is 1.040. I thought that might be a little low for the amount of hops I added but the wort didn't taste bitter. Also, I attached the O2 stone to a racking cane with plumbers tape to better control it. It seemed to work well but there was a small leak in the tubing from the tank to the filter that I could hear. I'll need to fix that.
When it came to cooling I was able to cool the wort to 70F in 30mins. I needed to push more cool water through the big coils. I think that is why it was so slow last time. There is a lot of surface area. It makes no sense to push a small amount of water through it. There just wouldn't be enough contact. So, for a big coil, more is better.
Other than that it was a ho hum brew day. I had the gate for the dogs. They ate the barley but it was hot so the would get burned. But they wanted to eat it so bad. It was funny.
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