Recipe Type: Extract Yeast: Salafe S-05 Yeast Starter: No Batch Size (Gallons): 5.5 Original Gravity: 1.043 Final Gravity: 1.011 IBU: 22 Boiling Time (Minutes): 60 Color: 7 Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 7 @ 68 F Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 14 @ 68 F
Hops
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0.75 oz Willamette at 60
0.75 oz Willamette at 20
0.50 oz Willamette at 1
Other
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1 unit, Whirfloc at 20
Notes
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Place 3 gallons of cool water in brewpot and bring to 150 F. Put steeping grains in bag and steep for 1 hour.
Lift bag out, let drain and discard.
Bring water to boil, remove from heat and stir in 3 lbs of DME. Return to heat.
Bring to boil and watch for messy boil over. Once risk has subsided, add 60 min hops and start timer.
At 20 minutes, add whirfloc (or irish moss) and 20 minute hops.
At 5 minutes, add remaining DME (using same procedure as above).
At 1 minute, add last 0.50 oz of hops.
Add 1 gallon of cool water to primary.
Chill, transfer to primary, add cool water to bring to 5.5 gallons, pitch re-hydrated yeast.
I've adjusted the hop schedule (shown above) for next time, as it was too bitter for what I was trying to create (it is now IBU 17).
I am also going to push the second DME addition to 5 minutes as the color was still too dark (golden when i wanted something more towards straw)
On a side note, I also tried using olive oil instead of aeration. I dipped the very, very tip of my sanitized metal thermometer in some olive oil and added it the wort when I pitched my yeast. I pitched 1 pack of rehydrated Safale-05. I had to attach a blow off tube because of the vigorous fermentation at 68 deg. The beer ended up with excellent head and with zero trace of the oil.
My next batch (an amber) I used 2 packets of rehydrated yeast and shook aerate. The fermentation was about 1/4 as strong as the previous batch.
Well, my LHBS doesn't seem to carry the Safale line of dry yeasts. They do have a generic Muntons ale yeast. I'd rather not spring for a liquid Wyeast. How would the Muntons work as a substitute?
"Place 3 gallons of cool water in brewpot and bring to 150 F. Put steeping grains in bag and steep for 1 hour." That seems like a lot of water for the amount of grain and a long steep time. That being said, I'm still a "beginner" brewer and made it this today. I overshot my temp and it got up to 165. I'm still perfecting on my temp control. I turned the heat off and only steeped for 45min. I wouldn't think it would make much difference in the end.
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