Dark given that it’s black as night, forest given that I’ve used a rather healthy serving of Northern Brewer hops (for a stout) which are purported to have a piney resinous flavor and\/or aroma, and stout because it doesn’t seem (after consulting BJCP) that it’s any form of porter, even though that’s what I originally had in mind when I started choosing grain. After looking around some, I’m starting to wonder if this is more in the direction of a roasty and not over-hopped black IPA?<\/p>\n
I used Brew Pal (iOS 5) to calculate my stats (IBU, SRM, etc), here they are:<\/p>\n
Recipe Type:<\/strong>\u00a0All Grain\/BIAB 5# 2row 1oz Northern Brewer (8.6% – 60min) 1 Whirlfloc (10 min)<\/p>\n WLP001 washed from batch 7<\/p>\n 1 step thick mash of 1.25 qt\/lb giving ~2.25 gal mash at 155* target, ended up closer to 160* for the first 30 minutes, dunk sparged with ~2gal at 170*<\/p>\n The first and a half runnings went to the first pot, the second half of the second runnings went to the second pot.\u00a0I boiled in two pots at once, with 3 gal to start in one, 1 gal to start in the other, and this all boiled down to just about 3 gallons total. Hop additions were made in a 3:1 ratio for the first and second pots (matching the initial boil sizes).<\/p>\n First 3G: 142*, 1.038 OG (1.054) (brewed on Sunday, Oct 7th)<\/p>\n UPDATE (Nov 4th): The brew has been fermenting for ~1 month at ~68*F, with a slightly-longer-than-usual lag in fermentation (1-1.5 days) that wasn’t particularly vigorous for much of the time. Bottled with 1.2oz sugar, yielded 3 flip-top growlers, and 1.9 22oz bombers. I kept the 0.9-filled bomber to taste and measure FG. FG was 1.023 (~6% ABV), which was puzzling. This yields 6% alcohol, which you can’t taste AT ALL in the beer. It tastes a bit sweet, is as dark as death is final, but has a bit of complexity lurking beneath. Given that it’s been fermenting for about 1 month, I think I’m seeing the fruits of a few errors in process: 1) I likely got a bunch more unfermentables than expected given the high temps during the mash, and 2) I bet I underpitched the yeast, which can lead to high FG.<\/p>\n UPDATE (12\/10): dumped it. After input from a few home-brewing friends, it was irredeemable, with the funky flavor prominent and not promising to abate. I think I just used way too much dark malt. Seeing as the porter in batch 14 used only a fraction of this dark malt percentage and turned out quite toasty and complex, I think this current recipe was doomed to failure. Here’s to learning \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dark given that it’s black as night, forest given that I’ve used a rather healthy serving of Northern Brewer hops (for a stout) which are purported to have a piney resinous flavor and\/or aroma, and stout because it doesn’t seem (after consulting BJCP) that it’s any form of porter, even though that’s what I originally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,45,63,62,14,61,40],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-row","category-belgian-special-b","category-biscuit","category-carafa-ii","category-northern","category-special-roast","category-wlp001-california-ale","tag-special-roast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nYeast:<\/strong>\u00a0WLP001
\nYeast Starter:<\/strong>\u00a0None
\nBatch Size (Gallons):<\/strong>\u00a03
\nOriginal Gravity:<\/strong>\u00a01.069 measured (1.057-1.069 predicted)
\nFinal Gravity:<\/strong>\u00a01.023 measured (1.013-1.016 predicted)
\nIBU:<\/strong>\u00a068 est
\nBoiling Time (Minutes):<\/strong>\u00a060
\nColor:<\/strong>\u00a0est > 50
\nPrimary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp):<\/strong>\u00a0at least 14 @ 68-70*
\nSecondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp):<\/strong>\u00a0not sure<\/p>\n
\n0.5# black patent
\n0.5# special b
\n0.5# Belgian biscuit
\n0.25# carafa II<\/p>\n
\n1oz Northern Brewre (8.6% – 10min)<\/p>\n
\nNext 1g: 160*? 1.020 OG (1.036)
\nFG: 1.068 at 70* (1.069)
\nlooks like ~70% efficiency \ud83d\ude42 not bad, considering my inefficient history.<\/p>\n