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 ?