Batch 52: Blue Bench Blonde Ale

Recipe Type: All Grain
Yeast: WLP001
Yeast Starter: Yeast Cake from Batch 50
Batch Size (Gallons): 8 (8 gallon boil, 6.5 fermentation topped up at kegging)
Original Gravity: 1.066
Final Gravity:
IBU: 25
Boiling Time (Minutes): 60
Color: 5.5
Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp):
Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp):

8# 2-row
8# Maris Otter
4oz C60
4oz Melanoiden

1oz Aurora (10%) 60 min
1oz Aurora (10%) 10 min

1 Whirlfloc

1 tsp Gypsum per 5gal hot liquor (3tsp Gypsum)

BrewPal instructions were 170* for 1.5 qt/gal mash at 150. I heated water to 175*, we mashed in and hit a 152* initial mash temp. I’m leaving it without foil top in the tun (~4 in headspace) to see if we can get the temp to drop over the course of the mash. Mash ended at 149* (90 minute mash, due to intervening breakfast)

first 4 gallons of run-off 1.064 at 131* (corrected to 1.077). second 4 gallons 1.020 at 136* (corrected to 1.034)

came into about 6.5 gallons

Posted July 13, 2015 by fbarrett in Uncategorized