Brewing Saturday 4/9/16

[Matt F]

I plan to brew a DIPA on Saturday. Haven't made a recipe yet as I need to check my hop supply. I recall having lots of Columbus, Apollo and Mosaic so probably those primarily. Other than that, lots of 2-row, maybe some carapils, little bit of carastan and sugar.

DETAILS -- UPDATED start time!
Mash in by 8 am
Wrap it up before 3:00 pm

You can find directions here in the Members Only section.
http://www.crbeernuts.org/phpBB3/viewto ... 895#p24895

[bf514921]

Hmm I think I can make it for awhile, I even might have a ride lined up

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[Matt F]

Hmm I think I can make it for awhile, I even might have a ride lined up

Sweet

[bf514921]

That's what I thought

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[Matt F]

I updated the original post. Wife will be home so I do not have to run kids to and from a birthday party. Going to start earlier at 8 am so can be done by 3 pm (should be sooner) for family stuff that night. After looking through my inventory of hops and grains sitting around It looks like grain bill will be 2-row, honey malt, golden naked oats, carapils & carafoam, sugar. Hops will be a little Chinook, then lots of Centennial, Simcoe, Apollo. WLP001 for yeast. Going to be about 10 gallons so a boat load of hops in this one.

[bf514921]

Cool I will be there, around 915-930 sounds like you can't misbehave

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[bf514921]

Wait I can misbehave for the both of us

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[Matt F]

OG today was 1.079 and did not add the 1.5 lbs. of sugar yet. Was shooting for 1.074. It is time to accept that I should not be using 75% efficiency to make recipes. Beer smells good. It should be a decently hoppy DIPA.

Thanks to Randy today for helping calibrate my PH meter. Had never used one before. Very useful.

[karl]

It was 1069 before the boil, right? What was the volume to the fermenter?

Thanks for hosting. I'm plotting minor improvements to my equipment and deciding on the next recipe.


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[Matt F]

Yeah, was 1.067 or 1.069 pre-boil. Just shy off 11 gallons in carboys but one of them has a huge pile of hops in it. Probably 9 gallons after racking and dry-hopping.

[bf514921]

Had a great time, thanks for letting me come out and hang for a brew session

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[Matt F]

My pleasure. Hope to start hosting more Brew sessions this year. Glad you could make it.

[Matt F]

With a 10 gallonish batch of DIPA you have a ton of hops. Lots of people bag, use a hop spider, etc. I just toss in pellet hops with reckless abandon. With well over a pound of hops in the boil kettle, mostly in the whirlpool, you are going to have a big pile of hops to mess with by just tossing them in like I do. In the picture below you can see one carboy on the left is a nice clean carboy. The one on the right has a bunch of hop debris in suspension. It was about a 3" pile on the bottom before fermentation kicked in. The picture was taken the next morning after brew day. I plan to tap both at the same time and see if I can taste any difference between them. Also curious of clarity difference and some other stuff.

Other picture is what I dumped out of the bottom of the kettle after filling the carboys. Not all of it, but most. After sitting for a while, the hops settled to the bottom and the clear wort rests on top. The clear wort is about a pint total. I just dump this because I don't want to mess up a batch by trying to save every last drop. A lot of homebrewers I talk to waist a lot of time and resources trying to get every last drop. I would suggest letting it go. I like to think those last few drops are the worst ones, and not worth tainting an entire batch to save a pint.

The other option I have seen is using a sanitized vessel, dump the bottom of the kettle in it. Once everything settles, you can decant off the clean wort to the fermenter. Like I previously mentioned, something I do not do but to each their own.

[tony b]

Wow! That's a lot of sediment.

[Matt F]

Almost all hops. That is not all of it either.