Lawrence Brewers Guild

Bill and I are going to do a double mini-mash of oatmeal stout.

Anyone else putting something together?

I brewed my first IPA all grain recipe. Went down to Alternative Beverage (ebrew.com) and picked up

12 # 2 row pale malt
8 oz CaraPils
12 oz of Crystal 60

1 oz Amarillo (first wort hop)
2 oz " " (60 minutes)
1 oz (30)
1 oz (15)

I batched sparged got a little bit less than 2 gallons on the first running (water at 165F and the bed was at 156F). I then sparged with 172F water (bed stayed at 156F) and ended up with 6 gallons of wort.

Let's see how that turns out.

Is this your first all grain, or your first all grain IPA? Either way, congrats! What was your OG?

Cheers!

John

Yes this was my first AG beer. The OG was 1.050 (at 100F) the corrected gravity is 1.056. I didn't check the gravity before the boil, so I am not sure I know my efficiency. From what I am told, batch sparging is pretty inefficient.

I used S-04 dry yeast, first time using dry yeast. It is supposed to be like the whitelabs' english ale yeast.

It takes a bit more time but the getting the wort out is so rewarding.

Thanks.

Preboil gravity was 1.050
OG was 1.066

Even though it was a trying day (immersion chiller split in the boil, hell to chill, yeast took 20+ hours to get started), it's looking pretty good.

Guess we'll see what happens in the end.

Wort tasted damn good though.

Well, I guess the yeast decided it wanted to work out after all..



I had to add blowoffs this morning.

Sorry for the blurry picture.. My camera phone is only as good as the operator.

whoooohoooo.....congrats!

The beer looks like it is going great, what concerns me is what is in the background. Is that a bottle of white zin in the rack? I hope and pray it is some sort of wonderful french rose.....