I wanted to do another hop filled creation, but didn't want a full on IPA, so I went with it's distant cousin, the ESB. I've enjoyed Bachelor ESB from Deschutes Brewing before, so I figured I'd give this a shot. I screwed up the hop bill though and somehow bought Tettnanger instead of East Kent Goldings. Not sure how I did that, but oh well. Hopefully it turns out.
Recipe:
5.5 gallons
Grain Bill:
10lb GW 2-Row
1.75lb Crystal 40L
.85lb Munich Light
.85lb Carapils
Hops:
1.75oz Amarillo @ 60m
1oz Nugget @ 30m
2oz Tettnanger @ 2m (should have done 1oz East Kent Goldings, but since I got the wrong one I got upset at myself and threw them all in).
Yeast:
Wyeast 1968 London Ale Slurry from Old Dirty Randy
Extras:
1tsp Irish Moss @ 15m
Details:
Anticipated OG: 1.062
Anticipated FG: 1.019
IBU: 65
SRM: 10.5
Strike: 5 gallons @ 165 (collected just over 3 gallons)
Sparge: 3.9 gallons @ 181 (collected just under 4 gallons)
Notes:
A smooth brewing day. I racked the Black Beauty and my half of the Breakfast Stout (1056 version) to a keg while I finished off the Chico's Export from the keg. Good timing on that. Didn't hit my gravity again despite moving my calculations to 70% from 75%. I'll have to research some more to figure that out. OG: 1.052.
Update 6/2/11: Racked to secondary. Gravity was 1.017.
Update 6/9/11: Bottled. 8 22's and 40 12's.
Update 6/22/11: Sampled a couple bottles last night with my wife. It's really good. Good hop flavor and a smooth body. This is a great inbetween of a pale ale and an IPA.
Try moving the efficiency to 67% and see how close you get. Then work on temps, different sparge techniques, using a sparge arm, stirring and everything else you can think of from there to try and bring your efficiency up.
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ReplyDeleteI'm going to try a rinse sparge next batch. I usually let the sparge sit for 10 minutes or so. I'll let it flow through this time and see if more sugar gets collected. That and Randy said the new grain mill at BrewBros is much better so it should raise the efficiency's.
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