Beer 2013.01

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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

Racking

Racked into secondary, glass carboy.

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

Kegging

  • Kegged on ?
  • Final Gravity ?

Tasting Notes