Beer 2014.01

Overview

• Style: Irish oatmeal draft stout (w/ rosemary)
• Codename: Rosemary's Stout
• Brewmaster: Eric Stein
• Type: All-grain
• Initial Gravity: ??
• Final Gravity: ??
• ABV: ??
• Brewed: 1/19/2014
• Kegged: ?/?/2014
• First served: ?/?/?
• Last served: ?/?/?

Brewing

Mash

Grain Bill:

• 6 lbs British 2-row pale malt
• 1 lbs flaked oats
• 0.5 lbs UK roasted barley
• 0.5 lbs 60L

Mash Schedule:

• Type: Single step in insulated mash tun, no heating
• 2 gal 2 2/3 qt water at 170F
• Target temp: 150F (overshot to 157, reduced w/ cold water to 149.5)
• Start pH: 5.4
• Time: 90 mins
• End temp: 146F
• End pH: 5.3

Sparge

• 5 gal, target: 170F
• For some reason, the mash jammed. Suspect false bottom problem. Had to transfer mash into brew kettle, fix the false bottom, and transfer back before starting the sparge. Probably resulted in lost sugars, mash cooled more than it should.
• Overshot sparge water temp, started anyway at 178F. Mash was probably colder than usual due to the emergency transfer.

Boil

• 90 mins
• At 30 mins add 0.6 oz. Fuggle whole leaf hops (4.5% alpha, 4.5 AAUs)
• At 10 mins add 0.2 oz Simcoe
• Chill to 78F, rack through pump
• After racking, gravity was ??, volume was ?? gallons. Added 1 gal distilled water. This gives us:
• Yield: ?? gal wort
• Initial gravity: ??

Fermenting

• Primary ferment: Carboy
• Pitched Wyeast 1084 Irish Ale yeast.
• Racked ?/?/?. Gravity: ?, ?% ABV.

Kegging

• Kegged on
• Final Gravity
• Kegged into Keg ?
• Pressurized to 5 PSI. Placed back in fermenting chamber.