I finished brewing and pitched the yeast last night on my latest variation of bitter (Bitter 4).<\/p>\n
3 lbs. Maris Otter Pale Malt
\n.5 lbs. 10\u00b0L Crystal Malt
\n.5 lbs Munich Malt
\n.25 lbs Cara-Pils
\n3.3 lbs. Briess Pilsen light liquid malt extract
\n1 lbs Corn Sugar
\n.5 lbs honey<\/p>\n
1 oz Northern Brewer 60 mins
\n.5 oz Kent Goldings (whole) 30 mins
\n.5 oz Kent Goldings (whole) 15 mins
\n1 tsp irish moss 15 mins
\n1\/2 tsp Wyeast nutrient 15 mins (Dissolved in 1 cup warm water)
\n1 oz Cascade (whole) 10 mins
\nAdded Honey and Corn Sugar @ 10 mins
\n.5 oz Kent Goldings (whole) 5 mins
\n.5 oz Ken Goldings (whole) 1 min<\/p>\n
Initial mashin with 1 gallon of 168F water, but the mash settled at 144F. I ended up adding almost 2 quarts of 200F water in stages to get it up to 155F. I lost power when I was getting ready to sparge, so my sparge water was not up to temp. I opted to wait until the power came back on. The grains ended up mashing for 2 hours until I had a chance to sparge. The grain temp before I sparged was 138F I started at 155 F 2 hours earlier. I collected 11 quarts of wort from the mash, FG was 1.042 @ 82F (1.044 Corrected). <\/p>\n
After the boil I let the wort cool in an ice bath, sparged, added 2.5 gallon of water, piched yeast and aerated the wort. Then I topped up the carboy with another gallon of water. I used WD brand spring water for everything, but ended up using a little tap water because I did not want to use up the water I had chilled in the fridge which I was saving for the carboy. I used .5 tsp of gypsum in the mash water and .5 tsp in the sparge water. The OG of the wort after pitching the yeast was 1.045@ 68F.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I finished brewing and pitched the yeast last night on my latest variation of bitter (Bitter 4). 3 lbs. Maris Otter Pale Malt .5 lbs. 10\u00b0L Crystal Malt .5 lbs Munich Malt .25 lbs Cara-Pils 3.3 lbs. Briess Pilsen light liquid malt extract 1 lbs Corn Sugar .5 lbs honey 1 oz Northern Brewer 60 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitter-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}