Here to resurrect an old-ish thread. This is my next brew so I'm doing some research. I've already built out the recipe and put in the grain order. Here's what I've come up with
Boil Time: 90 min
Batch Size: 5 gallons (fermentor volume)
Boil Size: 6 gallons
Boil Gravity: 1.045
Efficiency: 70% (brew house)
STATS:
Original Gravity: 1.054
Final Gravity: 1.012
ABV (standard): 5.63%
IBU (tinseth): 37.87
SRM (morey): 9.76
FERMENTABLES:
9.6 lb - Pale 2-Row (90.6%)
1 lb - Caramel / Crystal 60L (9.4%)
HOPS:
0.4 oz - Cascade, Type: Pellet, AA: 7, Use: Boil for 90 min, IBU: 11.86
0.4 oz - Cascade, Type: Pellet, AA: 7, Use: Boil for 60 min, IBU: 11.09
0.7 oz - Cascade, Type: Pellet, AA: 7, Use: Boil for 30 min, IBU: 14.92
2.5 oz - Cascade, Type: Pellet, AA: 7, Use: Boil for 0 min
MASH GUIDELINES:
1) Temperature, Temp: 150 F, Time: 60 min, Amount: 5 gal
YEAST:
White Labs - California Ale Yeast WLP001
Now the reason the mash temp was brought down to 150F, from 155F as stated on the site, is to get close to the actual plato/gravity numbers on the SN site. Per their site the og should be 13.1 plato (1.053) and fg should be 2.8 plato (1.011). Now the other thing I looked at along side the gravity's were the calories per 12 oz serving. Per the SN site theirs is 175 and my clone is 177 so it's pretty darn close calorie wise. I looked through the thread and the recipe on the site. It looks like there are additions at 90, 60, 30, and flameout with NO dry hop. With that information I figured it'd be good to load up on the flameout addition with 2.5 oz Cascade plus whatever Cascade is left in my deep freezer (somewhere in the .1 oz to .25 oz range). Figure this would be good with a pitch of wlp001 fermented around 64F. Now for the water additions I'm not too sure of as I just fly by the seat of my pants on brew day via the brewers friend water calc lol. Anywho mind taking a look at what I've got (especially CentralCoastBrewer) and seeing what you think? I only have 4.25 oz of Cascade hops so I can only use that much tops.