Beer 2013.01

Overview

• Style: American IPA with cardamom
• Codename: Putting the India back in IPA
• Brewmaster: Ryan Pierce
• Type: All-grain
• Initial Gravity: 1.040
• Final Gravity: ?
• ABV: ?
• Brewed: 1/6/2013
• Kegged: ?
• First served: ?/?/2013
• Last served: ?/?/2013

Brewing

Mash

Grain Bill:

• 6 lbs British 2 row pale malt
• 1 lbs TF&S Pale Crystal
• 0.5 oz UK Chocolate

Mash Schedule:

• Type: Single step in insulated mash tun, no heating
• 11 qt water at 160F
• Target temp: 150F
• Actual temp: 148.5
• Added 5 cups boiling water to reach 149.4F about 20-30 mins in, subtracted from sparge water
• Start pH: Did not measure
• Time: 90 mins
• End temp: 143F ???
• End pH: Did not measure

Sparge

• 5 gal (less 5 cups)
• Target temp: 168F

Boil

• 90 mins
• 12 fresh green cardamom pods added in sock at start of boil
• At 30 mins, add 1.5 oz German Northern Brewer hops, whole leaf, 9.4% alpha, 14.1 AAU
• At 85 mins, add 1.5 oz hops, same as above
• Yield: 5.0 gal

Fermenting

• Primary ferment: Plastic tub
• Pitched Wyeast 1450 (Denny's Favorite)
• Ferment temp set point: 60F
• Oxygenated with stone
• Note: Fermentation chamber dropped below 60F due to shop temperature issues.
• Note: Fermentation chamber set point raised to 65F on 1/20/13 due to another brew requiring a higher temp.

Racking

Racked into secondary, glass carboy.

• Gravity 1.006, ABV 4.5%
• Date: 1/20/2013

Kegging

• Kegged on ?
• Final Gravity ?