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1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> |
2 | <!DOCTYPE recipe> |
3 | <recipe application="qbrew" version="0.4.1"> |
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4 | <title>Thoth</title> |
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5 | <brewer>Clinton Ebadi</brewer> |
6 | <style>Foreign Extra Stout</style> |
7 | <batch quantity="5.00 gal"/> |
8 | <notes class="recipe">Treat water with 1/4 campden tablet |
9 | |
10 | Steep grains for 30 minutes in 2 quarts water (strike 170F). Rinse with 1qt distilled water @ 170F. |
11 | |
12 | Treat boil water with 1g Water Crystals, 2g NaCl ("balance between malt and bitterness") |
13 | |
14 | Boil as per usual |
15 | |
16 | Add star anise 20 minutes before end of boil (whole, 2 of them or ~10-14g) |
17 | Add molasses 10 minutes before end of boil |
18 | </notes> |
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19 | <notes class="batch">* Brew Day Notes |
20 | |
21 | Batch was a bit screwed up ... Steve milled the grains for me, but he did not quite get the instructions and *only* milled the leftover ingredients, and for the chocolate malt which he did weigh he used the scale in ounces mode and misread 5oz as 0.5lbs. I almost gave up, but Rebecca suggested that I use a coffee grinder... I tried a bit, and it seemed OK (at least for flavor grains that don't need to be mashed...) and the following were ground that way: |
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22 | |
23 | - 3oz chocolate malt (weighed with my digital tea scale) |
24 | - 1/2lbs black patent (american six row instead of british as well) |
25 | - 3/4lbs 80⁰L Crystal |
26 | |
27 | The amounts of steeping grains are as a result of this pretty inexact--the amounts we had leftover were not recorded quite exactly, and my kitchen scale is only really accurate to 1/8-1/4lbs. |
28 | |
29 | The steeping process was not ideal, I used a bit less water than I should have (2quarts), struck at 170⁰F, but the oven was broken and I used a crock pot (which was able to hold the temperature of water fairly well, I think the water needed to strike at a higher temperature for that much grain but I have to calculate that... and should have used more water anyway). The final temperature was 158⁰F. |
30 | |
31 | After this debacle, however, brewing went smoothly. No boilovers, everything was added on time. The new wort chilling setup worked remarkably well--using ice water in a tub and a pump the wort was at 74⁰F in 18 minutes. |
32 | |
33 | Two star anise pods were used, and these weighed 2.7g. The recipe notes call for 10-14g because I am an idiot and have no idea how much they actually weighed :). |
34 | |
35 | OG = 1.072 @ 74F (1.074 corrected). I feared the ibeer would have a husky astringent flavor from the makeshift grind, but it was not. There was a strong nose of molasses and anise, with a mellow anise flavor at the end. |
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37 | * Fermentation Notes |
38 | |
39 | Fermentation did not take off for 36 hours. At the 30 hour mark I sanitized the wort stirring spoon with rubbing alcohol and agitated the yeast cake; this resulted in the fermentation starting farily quickly. I assume the yeast were compacted enough and old (the previous beer had sat on the cake for around six weeks due to unexpected scheduling problems and a member of the brewing team being sick for over a week). After it started, however, it was quite vigorous (over 4 bubbles per second from the airlock, and more wort churning than I've seen before). |
40 | |
41 | 2011-01-16 |
42 | 19:30 @ 72⁰F: Racked onto brown ale ringwood cake |
43 | |
44 | 2011-01-17 |
45 | ... @ 68⁰F No activity to report |
46 | |
47 | 2011-01-18 |
48 | 00:30 @ 68⁰F: Still no activity, sanitized wort spoon with rubbing alcohol and agitated the yeast cake to suspend compacted yeast |
49 | 13:49 @ 68⁰F: Finally active. 1" krausen, airlock bubbling 2/s |
50 | 14:35 @ 70⁰F: 3/s, 2" Krausen. Turning fan on 1/3 and adding water to tray |
51 | 22:00 @ 68⁰F: 4/s |
52 | |
53 | 2011-01-19 |
54 | 02:00 @ 67⁰F: 5/s |
55 | 13:07 @ 67⁰F: 3/s |
56 | 23:30 @ 66⁰F: 1/2, krausen receding. Fast and furious fermentation! |
57 | |
58 | 2011-01-20 |
59 | 03:00 @ 64⁰F: 1/[2s]. Replacing wet tshirt with a dry one, and removing water from tray. Krausen almost entirely gone. |
60 | 20:00 @ 67⁰F: 1.[5s]. Krausen is gone |
61 | |
62 | ... no readings, average temp 68⁰F ... |
63 | |
64 | 2011-01-26 @ 68⁰F: Racking to secondary to free up the main fermenter. SG = @ 68⁰F = 1.016 (1.018 adjusted, on target). |
65 | |
66 | * Bottling |
67 | |
68 | 2011-03-09 -- Yeah, that sat in secondary for a while... at least it wasn't on the yeast cake. |
69 | |
70 | Primed with 4.3oz corn sugar in 1qt distilled water |
71 | |
72 | Yield: 38 x12oz bottles + 5x22oz bottles |
73 | |
74 | SG @ 68⁰F = 1.016 (1.018 adjusted, on target)</notes> |
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75 | <grains> |
76 | <grain quantity="1.00 lb" extract="1.027" color="525" type="Grain" use="Steeped">British black patent</grain> |
77 | <grain quantity="0.50 lb" extract="1.034" color="475" type="Grain" use="Steeped">British chocolate malt</grain> |
78 | <grain quantity="1.00 lb" extract="1.034" color="80" type="Grain" use="Steeped">Crystal 80L</grain> |
79 | <grain quantity="4.50 lb" extract="1.037" color="5" type="Extract" use="Extract">Light malt extract</grain> |
80 | <grain quantity="1.50 lb" extract="1.026" color="200" type="Sugar" use="Extract">Molasses</grain> |
81 | <grain quantity="3.30 lb" extract="1.037" color="10" type="Extract" use="Extract">Munich Malt Extract</grain> |
82 | </grains> |
83 | <hops> |
84 | <hop quantity="1.00 oz" alpha="3.5" time="30" type="Pellet">Styrian Golding</hop> |
85 | <hop quantity="1.00 oz" alpha="4.7" time="45" type="Pellet">Willamette</hop> |
86 | <hop quantity="1.50 oz" alpha="4.7" time="60" type="Pellet">Willamette</hop> |
87 | </hops> |
88 | <miscingredients> |
89 | <miscingredient quantity="1.00 unit" type="Fining" notes="one teaspoon">Irish Moss</miscingredient> |
90 | <miscingredient quantity="1.00 unit" type="Yeast" notes="Reusing cake from brown ale">Ringwood Ale yeast</miscingredient> |
91 | <miscingredient quantity="2.70 unit" type="Spice" notes="grams">Star Anise</miscingredient> |
92 | <miscingredient quantity="1.00 unit" type="Other" notes="2.2g wyeast nutrient">Yeast Nutrient</miscingredient> |
93 | </miscingredients> |
94 | </recipe> |