Beer 2013.03

Overview

• Style: Barley Wine
• Codename: Rainy Day Barley Wine
• Brewmaster: Eric Stein
• Type: Partial-grain
• Initial Gravity: 1.040
• Final Gravity: ?
• 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)
• 1 cup 3 tsp light dried malt extract
• 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
• 20 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: ?
• Start pH: Did not measure
• Time: 90 mins
• End temp: ?
• End pH: Did not measure

Sparge

• 12.5 qts sparge water
• Target temp: 168F

Boil

• 115 mins. Start with 1.7oz of nugget pellet hops.
• 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

Fermenting

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

Kegging

• Kegged on ?
• Final Gravity ?