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: 2/10/2013
- 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 2/10/2013
- Final Gravity 1.010
- Primed with .5 cups of corn sugar in a cup and a half of water, heated until steaming hot and added in during the kegging. Placed back in the fermentation chamber.
Tasting Notes
At kegging, Tucker Eric and Esther tasted it. We found that it was a bit floral, light, mild bitterness for an IPA (more of a pale ale's bitterness) and a hint of sour.