Awesome... not exactly one of those stories where you think "Hmm, a mistake was made, but it's worth replicating" because hell, that was a lousy brew day, but your recipe must be bulletproof. Care to share?
Haha, certainly, but it's nothing amazing by any means. Was going for a Belgian/Cascade fusion pale ale, but I didn't end up getting much Belgian funk out of the yeast (not impressed with T-58), so it ended up as a really nice fractional IPA/hoppy pale ale. Not my place to decide which to call it; I just get to drink it.
FG is predicted given the hydrometer breaking, but the efficiency was known. Since this is BIAB, mash volumes are appropriate for that (and as constrained by my kettle size).
The only thing I'd change in making it again is significantly increasing the dryhop. This was also the first beer I've dryhopped, so I didn't know just how much aroma it was going to contribute. I didn't want it to compete with the Belgian-ness, but seeing as this yeast didn't give much Belgian-ness for me (may be a function of the temperature wackiness), I'd go to probably 3 oz's in the dryhop. But I like hoppy beers, so YMMV.
The Super Galenas are in no way relevant to the recipe; I just have pounds of them sitting in the freezer from a friend who grows them and they're a nice neutral bittering hop. Regardless, they could be subbed out for whatever would be more at home the style, but they did give it a really nice bitterness that was definitely "there" but not overpoweringly dominant.
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Batch Size: 5.000 gal
Boil Size: 6.057 gal
Boil Time: 60.000 min
Efficiency: 78%
OG: 1.052 (predicted)
FG: 1.011
ABV: 5.4% (predicted)
Bitterness: 38.8 IBUs (Tinseth)
Color: 6 SRM (Morey)
Fermentables
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Name Type Amount Mashed Late Yield Color
Belgian Caravienne Malt Grain 16.000 oz Yes No 74% 24 L
Great Western 2 Row Pale Malt Grain 8.000 lb Yes No 81% 2 L
Total grain: 9.000 lb
Hops
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Name Alpha Amount Use Time Form IBU
Super Galena 12.0% 0.500 oz Boil 60.000 min Leaf 19.1 (AA% is an estimate, since they've been sitting sealed in my freezer, but they have good storage properties, so it may be a bit higher)
Cascade 8.9% 1.000 oz Boil 15.000 min Leaf 14.1
Cascade 8.9% 1.000 oz Boil 5.000 min Leaf 5.6
Cascade 8.9% 1.000 oz Boil 0.000 s Leaf 0.0
Cascade 8.9% 1.000 oz Dry Hop 14.000 day Leaf 0.0 (I don't rack to a secondary, so I dryhopped directly in the primary 1 week before bottling. Obviously, rack off if you so desire.)
Misc
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Name Type Use Amount Time
Wyeast Yeast Nutrient Other Boil 0.500 tsp 10.000 min
Whirlfloc Fining Boil 0.5 tablets 5.000 min
Yeast
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Name Type Form Amount Stage
Safbrew T-58 Ale Dry 11.5 g Primary
Mash
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Name Type Amount Temp Target Time
Dough In Infusion 6.475 gal 107.187 F 104.000 F 20.000 min
Saccharification Rest Temperature --- --- 152.000 F 60.000 min
Mash Out Temperature --- --- 170.000 F 10.000 min
Infusion 1.348 qt 32.000 F 32.000 F 0.000 s
Water Corrections
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Salt Amount
CaSO4 4 g
CaCl2 5 g
MgSO4 1 g
88% Lactic Acid 2 ml
Ion Final Concentration
Ca2+ 113 ppm
Mg2+ 12 ppm
Na+ 9 ppm
Cl- 102 ppm
SO42- 108 ppm
Est. Room Temp Mash pH: 5.45