Need a little help as this will be my first brew involving a mini-mash. I plan on doing a 2.5 gallon version of this brew next week. Looks something like this:
Batch Size: 2.5 gallons
Estimated Original Gravity: 1.061
Estimated Final Gravity: 1.015
Estimated Color: 9.9 SRM
Bitterness: 72.4 IBU
Mash Temp 151 F (45 min)
3.00 lb Extra Light Dry Extract
0.50 lb Munich Malt-10L
0.25 lb Carafoam
0.25 lb Crystal Malt-60L
0.25 lb Melanoidin Malt
0.25 oz Citra [14.1%] (First Wort Hop) 15.6 IBU
0.50 oz Citra [14.1%] (15 min) 25.6 IBU
0.50 oz Citra [14.1%] (10 min) 18.7 IBU
0.50 oz Citra [14.1%] (5 min) 10.3 IBU
0.50 oz Citra [14.1%] (1 min) 2.2 IBU
1.50 oz Citra [14.1%] (Dry Hop 10 Days)
Safale S-04 Dry Ale Yeast
I plan on doing a full boil as I have a 5 gallon kettle. I do have a few questions however.
1- What volume of water/wort should I start the boil with to finish with 2.5 gallons?
2- How much water do I mash with? A gallon? Then top up to boil volume?
3- Should I add the 60 min addition since it will be a full boil? My BrewR app has it at 72.4 IBU w/o it and 98 IBU with 0.25 oz at 60 min.
Thank you in advance and a big thanks to skeezerpleezer for the recipe.
I had some questions similar to yours that were answered in this thread. Regarding your first question, it really depends on your set up and how much you're going to boil off. If it were me, I'd start with 3.5 gallons preboil.
General consensus for mashing is about 1 to 1.25 quarts of water per pound of grain. After mashing and rinsing, top up to achieved desired pre-boil volume.
Regarding question 3, leave the 60 minute addition out if doing a full boil.
Side note: Be VERY careful with your fermenting temps if you are using s-04. I've done this batch twice. Once with 1968 and once with s-04. I read that fermenting should be done in the low 60's, so I figured setting my ambient temp to 62-63 should be fine. I obviously made a mistake there, since the fermenting wort was well above 62-63, and I got a lot of banana esters from too high a fermentation temp with s-04.