I did a partial mash with this but it seems a bit watery after 15 days in primary and kegged for 3 days. Is it too early? Did I do something wrong? My steps are below.
I also just brewed a partial mash of this today. Won't be able to tell you for several weeks whether it's "watery" as you say. Mouthfeel is apparently a pretty complicated thing, being a lot more than just finishing gravity, so it's hard to say what could be wrong (if anything, really). Your partial-mash adaptation of the recipe looks fine to me, given that you hit the OG right on the money. For comparison, my brew report is below (a bit different than yours, but not significantly, really). It tastes fantastic so far -- thanks for the base recipe, BierMuncher!
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Centennial Blonde[/size]
[size=+1]6-B Blonde Ale[/size]
Author: BierMuncher
Date: 6/25/09
Size: 5 gal
Efficiency: 83.0%
Attenuation: 74.9%
Calories: 132.04 kcal per 12.0 fl oz
Original Gravity: 1.040 (1.038 - 1.054)
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Terminal Gravity: 1.010 (1.008 - 1.013)
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Color: 4.12 (3.0 - 6.0)
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Alcohol: 3.9% (3.8% - 5.5%)
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Bitterness: 23.8 (15.0 - 28.0)
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Ingredients:[/size]
3.25 lb American 2-row
0.75 lb Cara-Pils® Malt
0.5 lb Caramel Malt 10L
0.5 lb Vienna Malt
0.25 oz Centennial (8.0%) -
added during boil, boiled 55.0 min
0.25 oz Centennial (8.0%) -
added during boil, boiled 35.0 min
0.25 oz Cascade (7.1%) -
added during boil, boiled 20.0 min
1.4 lb Dry Light -
added during boil, boiled 15.0 min
1.0 tsp Irish Moss -
added during boil, boiled 10.0 min
0.25 oz Cascade (7.1%) -
added during boil, boiled 5.0 min
1.0 ea Fermentis US-05 Safale US-05
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Notes[/size]
Heated 2.5 gal of strike water (RO), with 0.5 tsp gypsum added, to 166F, doughed-in, hit 157F, higher than expected (in the past i've gotten a drop of more like 15 deg... must be the new stove). Added several cups of cold RO water, brought temp down to 152F-ish. Mashed for 60 min with towel blanket, final temp was around 150, 151F. Not bad for stove-top. Recipe target was a 150F mash. Heated 2 gal of RO water to 180F, batch sparged for ten minutes at 162F. Had to juggle mash runnings and sparge between kettle and bucket, finished with a bit too much wort for the kettle, filled it as much as possible (3.85 gal), dumped the rest (less than half a gal, maybe a quart). Use less sparge water in the future. Pre-boil wort measured 1.020 apparent gravity at 138F, 1.036 real, which at 3.85 gal implies an efficiency of about 83%. Not bad for stove-top! Based on this efficiency, adjusted the amount of DME (late addition) from planned 1.75 lbs (anticpating ~75% eff.) to 1.4 lbs, in order to maintain 1.040 target OG.[/i]
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