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Batch #24: IPA
2009NOV21
12lb American 2 Row
1lb Crystal 20L
~4.5g mash water, strike @ 175F
one step infusion mash 60min (156F)
~4.5g sparge water @ 175F, collecting 6g
Boil
75min:
1oz Northern Brewer (10.6%)
0min:
1oz Centennial (9.1%)
OG: 1.072
Pitched White Labs California Ale Yeast WLP001
(source)
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2009DEC03
Racked to secondary
Dry hop:
2oz Centennial (9.1%)
Forgot to take a sample.
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2009DEC20
FG: 1.011 (8.1% ABV)
Primed with 2/3 cup cane sugar
42 12oz. bottles
Clear. Floral-sweet hop aroma, heavy mouthfeel. Grapefruit hop flavor, then a bitter finish. A bit of malt body.
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Wait... 12 lbs?
Loosely, 6 lbs of grain is equivalent to one 4 lb can of extract. So, if you use two cans of extract to brew, the same recipe made from all-grain will be 12+ lbs. Extract recipes usually call for a pound or so of specialty grains to tweak the malt profile.
The original recipe above calls for 14 lbs total, I'm actually a little light. But my OG is high, thereforw, I should have used more water to mash/sparge.
Consider also that a 5 gallon batch of beer is ~40 lbs of water weight.
I should have collected more than 6gal. from the mash/sparge, since I boiled for 75min. This left me with less than 5gal. in my fermenter (and a higher gravity).
The primary fermentation was impressive. Blew off through the airlock. This with less than 5gal. in a 6.5gal. carboy.