Thanks for the guide! I'm going to be doing this next Tuesday and have a few questions.
1) Should I use Campden and/or 5.2 pH Stabilizer with my bottled water?
2) Austin HB lists
Large Coarse Nylon Bag 20" x 22" without much of a description. I imagine this would be OK, but not sure if "coarse" means that smaller grains will fall through.
3) I'm trying to clone
Rogue's Yellow Snow IPA (One of my favorite IPAs). Rogue lists all the ingredients and specs on their website, so it makes this easy.
From their website:
6 Ingredients:
Malts: Two Row Pale, Cara Foam & Melanoiden.
Hops: Amarillo.
Yeast & Water: Rogue's Pacman Yeast and Free Range Coastal Water.
Specs:
15º PLATO
70 IBU
76 AA
14º Lovibond
Here's my recipe:
Recipe Specifications
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Batch Size: 5.00 gal
Boil Size: 3.50 gal
Estimated OG: 14.250 Plato
Estimated Color: 6.2 SRM
Estimated IBU: 69.5 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 65.00 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes
Ingredients:
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
4.00 lb Extra Light Dry Extract (3.0 SRM) Dry Extract 44.44 %
3.00 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 33.33 %
1.00 lb Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) Grain 11.11 %
1.00 lb Melanoiden Malt (20.0 SRM) Grain 11.11 %
2.00 oz Amarillo Gold [8.50 %] (60 min) Hops 41.8 IBU
1.00 oz Amarillo Gold [8.50 %] (40 min) Hops 18.4 IBU
0.50 oz Amarillo Gold [8.50 %] (20 min) Hops 6.3 IBU
0.25 oz Amarillo Gold [8.50 %] (10 min) Hops 1.9 IBU
0.25 oz Amarillo Gold [8.50 %] (5 min) Hops 1.0 IBU
Does that seem like it checks out? I'll pitch with Rogue's Pacman yeast. One thing I'm really confused about is the color that Rogue lists on their site. They list Yellow Snow as 14 degrees Lovibond, which according to Beersmith would be it really red/brown. I know from experience that it's not that red, and the amount of Melanoiden needed to get that color throws the recipe completely off. Any idea on why Rogue lists it like that?