Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Pliny!

It has been a really long time since an AG brew so I had to get some Pliny into the fermenter.  Brew day was easy, easy, easy.  I hit all my numbers and had cleanup done in 5 hours.

Grains
12.25# Pale Ale malt
10 oz c-40
10 oz carapils
1# corn sugar

Mash at 150 for 45 mins, 15 min sparge

90 min boil
3.5 oz Columbus at 90
.75 oz Columbus at 45
1 oz Simcoe at 30
2 oz Chinook at 0
1.25 oz Centennial at 0
.5 oz Simcoe at 0

1.5 oz Simcoe dry for 7 days
1.75 oz Columbus dry for 7 days
1.75 oz Centennial dry for 7 days

Target og 1072
Target fg 1011

US-05 at 68

Results
1048 pre at 7.62 without sugar
1056 pre at 7.62 with sugar

1068 post at 6.12

76.9% efficiency

Water Adjustments
2 tsp gypsum