COTU wort share

Local brewery (COTU = Center Of The Universe) is doing a wort share, just got the ingredients list today. I think I know what I want to do, but I am so new of a brewer, I am open to suggestions. I will keep tight lipped about my intentions, but I thought yall might be interested:

Wort Recipe

Cargill Special Pale 57%
Cargill Munich 17%
Dingemans Aromatic 17%
Crisp Dextrin 9%

Expected Pre-Boil Gravity - 1.036

brokebucket said:

Local brewery (COTU = Center Of The Universe) is doing a wort share, just got the ingredients list today. I think I know what I want to do, but I am so new of a brewer, I am open to suggestions. I will keep tight lipped about my intentions, but I thought yall might be interested:

Wort Recipe

Cargill Special Pale 57%
Cargill Munich 17%
Dingemans Aromatic 17%
Crisp Dextrin 9%

Expected Pre-Boil Gravity - 1.036

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Interesting! I'll have to check this out--they're about 1.5 hours away...

Reviving this thread, COTU is doing this again. I just signed up for 2 buckets of wort today.

They don't release the composition until 10 days before mash day so I'm coming up with some preliminary idea's.

On mash day everyone picks up 6 gallons of wort and takes it home to brew, returning at the end of february for judging and the winning beer is brewed large scale at the brewery!

I missed out on it this year. Bummer.

Here's the bill for this years...

90.6% Special Pale
4.6% Caramel 30
2.5% Crisp Dextrine Malt
2.3% Flaked Oats
2.8 to 1 liquor to grist ratio.
Target Mash Temperature 155° F
15.5° Plato (1.078 SG)

I've never done this before, but wouldn't 15.5 Plato be closer to 1.063 SG? And then maybe 1.078 is expected post boil OG?

Should be fun, I am looking forward to Brew day.

This is what I got out of beersmith....I hope I did it right. I shot for a preboil gravity in between since I dont know what is actually right. either way, it looks like they are angling for a strong beer.




Type: All Grain
Batch Size: 5.00 gal
Boil Size: 6.00 gal
Est Color: 7.5 SRM
Estimated pre-boil gravity: 1.072
Ingredients

12 lbs 4.0 oz Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.5 SRM) Grain 1 90.4 %
10.4 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 30L (30.0 SRM) Grain 2 4.8 %
5.6 oz Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) Grain 3 2.6 %
4.8 oz Oats, Flaked (1.0 SRM) Grain 4 2.2 %


Est Color: 7.5 SRM

Congrats to John for winning this with an IPA.

What did you all come up with? I wish my heavier one had about another month to mellow, but here's some beer porn from my 2 COTU wort share entries.

I went for a heavier bodied blue moon on one, sweet and bitter orange peels and corriander with a california ale yeast and 25 range for ibu's.

The second I partial mashed the wort once I got it home and went a bit darker and amber. It finished at a 9.2% though and was a bit hot by the deadline.
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