I thought my first "partigyle" deserved my first post. Been a daily reader for 1.5 years now.
I had the day off today (thanks Dr. King, RIP) and it was the first day in over 2 years that I had the entire house to myself. The wife had to work, and daycare was open and I had to pay for it whether I sent the kids or not.
I had decided to brew a barleywine and a brown ale. 5 gallons of each.
I started with:
25 lbs Gambrinus Pale Malt
1 lb Caramel 20L
0.25 lb Caramel 60L
0.5 lb Caramel 120L
0.25 lb Special B
1 oz Chocolate Malt
Mashed with 7.8 Gal H20 at 149 for 90 min.
Hop Bill
0.5 Centennial (12.1%) FWH
0.5 Cascade (5.5%) FWH
2.5 oz Magnum (12%) 60 min
1 oz Cluster (7.9%) 60 min
0.5 Centennial (7.9) 0 min
0.5 Cascade (5.5) 0 min
Put 4.75 Gal (OG 1.105) on an US-05 cake. Original recipe had an OG of 1.110 so I may boil a little corn sugar and add it in a few days to get the gravity up to match my IBU's.
I only have one pot big enough to boil in so I had time to re-mash with a few specialty grains for the Northern Brown Ale.
Added to the mash:
1 lb Brown Malt
0.5 lb Special Roast
0.25 lb Victory
and mashed for another 90 min at 152.
drained and added
1 oz US Goldings (4.5%) 60 min
Then I messed up:
I checked my gravity sample for the Brown and it read 1.032. Had 1.045 written on the board. Quickly added 0.66 lbs of 2 year old Light DME. Then thought about it. Hey I forgot to cool the sample/correct for temp. Took temp. 100F. correction increases gravity to 1.035. Probably would have needed some DME anyway. Disappointed. Then while I was consoling myself, I remembered that the 1.045 written on the board was the Starting gravity not the pre-boil gravity.
Well Damn, if I'm gonna have this kinda problems anyway might as well pull a draft and have an excuse. Then I'm sipping and thinking, maybe my volume will be a little off and I can top off with filtered water. Wouldn't you know it it's the first time I end up with exactly 5 Gal in the bucket.
Ended up with 5 gal. at 1.055 of Brown.
Cleaned up, made some dog treats with the spent grains, put em in the oven and went to pick the kids up from daycare. All in all I'm pleased. It was a great day. Hope yours was good too.
I had the day off today (thanks Dr. King, RIP) and it was the first day in over 2 years that I had the entire house to myself. The wife had to work, and daycare was open and I had to pay for it whether I sent the kids or not.
I had decided to brew a barleywine and a brown ale. 5 gallons of each.
I started with:
25 lbs Gambrinus Pale Malt
1 lb Caramel 20L
0.25 lb Caramel 60L
0.5 lb Caramel 120L
0.25 lb Special B
1 oz Chocolate Malt
Mashed with 7.8 Gal H20 at 149 for 90 min.
Hop Bill
0.5 Centennial (12.1%) FWH
0.5 Cascade (5.5%) FWH
2.5 oz Magnum (12%) 60 min
1 oz Cluster (7.9%) 60 min
0.5 Centennial (7.9) 0 min
0.5 Cascade (5.5) 0 min
Put 4.75 Gal (OG 1.105) on an US-05 cake. Original recipe had an OG of 1.110 so I may boil a little corn sugar and add it in a few days to get the gravity up to match my IBU's.
I only have one pot big enough to boil in so I had time to re-mash with a few specialty grains for the Northern Brown Ale.
Added to the mash:
1 lb Brown Malt
0.5 lb Special Roast
0.25 lb Victory
and mashed for another 90 min at 152.
drained and added
1 oz US Goldings (4.5%) 60 min
Then I messed up:
I checked my gravity sample for the Brown and it read 1.032. Had 1.045 written on the board. Quickly added 0.66 lbs of 2 year old Light DME. Then thought about it. Hey I forgot to cool the sample/correct for temp. Took temp. 100F. correction increases gravity to 1.035. Probably would have needed some DME anyway. Disappointed. Then while I was consoling myself, I remembered that the 1.045 written on the board was the Starting gravity not the pre-boil gravity.
Well Damn, if I'm gonna have this kinda problems anyway might as well pull a draft and have an excuse. Then I'm sipping and thinking, maybe my volume will be a little off and I can top off with filtered water. Wouldn't you know it it's the first time I end up with exactly 5 Gal in the bucket.
Ended up with 5 gal. at 1.055 of Brown.
Cleaned up, made some dog treats with the spent grains, put em in the oven and went to pick the kids up from daycare. All in all I'm pleased. It was a great day. Hope yours was good too.