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IPA Brew Day!

Well, now that the brew day is over I guess I can do a recap….

My recipe was purchased from Austin Homebrew Supply and it arrived just in time for brewing.  This batch was their American IPA and I was looking forward to brewing another IPA.  I was unable to make a starter this time, but I had pitched the yeast straight from the White Labs tube before and had pretty good results.

It was a perfect day for brewing; the temperature was 70 degrees with a slight breeze and not a cloud in the sky.  I can’t believe it’s the first week of July, it felt like late September.  After everything was sanitized, it was time to get the kettle boiling.

There weren’t any surprises during the brew other than finding out (beforehand) that my thermometer was 15 degrees off on the low side.  So, you may want to calibrate your thermometer with boiling water before starting.  :)   I did overshoot my target mash temp by 6 degrees.  Not a huge deal, but it would potentially have an effect on my final gravity reading.  One change I did make this time was to slow my sparge down to 12 minutes per gallon, so it took a little over an hour to collect 6.25 gallons of wort for boiling.

After the boil, the outside temp had climbed to about 90 but there was still a nice breeze.  I chilled my wort down using the counterflow chiller and measured an original gravity reading of 1.055, 5 points too low.

Recipe:

10 lbs 12.0 oz Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM)
1 lbs Caramel/Crystal Malt – 60L (60.0 SRM)
4.0 oz Special B Malt (180.0 SRM)
Columbus (Tomahawk) [14.00 %] (60 min)
Cascade [5.50 %] (15 min)
Cascade [5.50 %] (5 min)
California Ale V (White Labs #WLP051)

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