Beer 2013.03

Overview

• Style: Barley Wine
• Codename: Rainy Day Barley Wine
• Brewmaster: Eric Stein
• Type: Partial-grain
• Expected Initial Gravity: 1.103
• Expected Final Gravity: 1.016
• ABV: ?
• Brewed: 2/10/2013
• Kegged: ?
• First served: ?/?/2013
• Last served: ?/?/2013

Brewing

Mash

Grain Bill:

• 8.6 lbs Organic 2 row pale malt
• 14.4 oz UK Crystal 60L (Pauls Medium Crystal Malt)
• 3.3 lb Muntons light malt extract
• 3.3 lb Muntons amber malt extract
• 3.3 lb Muntons dark malt extract

Mash Schedule:

• Type: Single step in insulated mash tun, no heating
• 17.75 qt water at 161F
• expect absorbtion of 4.56 qts, so out of mash pre-sparge we expect 15.44 of wort.
• Target temp: 148F
• Actual temp: 152F
• Start pH: Did not measure
• Time: 90 mins
• End temp: ?
• End pH: Did not measure
• Started: 3:40 PM
• End: 5:16 PM

Sparge

• 14.625 qts sparge water
• Target temp: 168F
• We accidentally put 3/4 of a teaspoon of 88% lactic acid solution in the sparge water. Don't ask.

Boil

• Start: ~8gals? Not sure.
• 105 mins. Start with 1.7oz of nugget pellet hops at flame start.
• after the boil is over, add 2 oz of czech saaz pellets in a bag, while the wort chiller runs. Yes that's wacky.
• Yield: 5.0 gal
• Boil start: 6:02pm
• Clearfloc: 7:24pm
• Boil done: 7:47pm (target)

Fermenting

• Starting gravity:
• Primary ferment: Plastic tub
• Pitched Wyeast 1098 (British Ale)
• Ferment temp set point: 60F
• Oxygenated with stone

Kegging

• Kegged on ?
• Final Gravity 1.071