{"id":328,"date":"2014-05-26T19:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T19:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/?p=328"},"modified":"2014-05-28T15:33:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T15:33:02","slug":"batch-35-slay-our-demons-witbier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"Batch 35: Slay Our Demons Witbier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recipe Type: All-Grain<br \/>\nYeast: WLP400<br \/>\nYeast Starter: No (1 vial used)<br \/>\nBatch Size (Gallons): 5.5 gallons<br \/>\nOriginal Gravity: 1.048<br \/>\nFinal Gravity:<br \/>\nIBU: 17<br \/>\nBoiling Time (Minutes): 75<br \/>\nColor: 3.5<br \/>\nPrimary Fermentation (# of Days &amp; Temp):<\/p>\n<p>5# Rahr 2row<br \/>\n4# Torrified Wheat<br \/>\n1#\u00a0Flaked Oats (Giant Quick Oats)<\/p>\n<p>1oz Cascade Leafs 75min<\/p>\n<p>0.3 oz Bitter Orange Peel 5 min<br \/>\n0.3 oz Grapefruit Peel 5 min<br \/>\n0.7 oz Crushed Coriander Seed 5 min<\/p>\n<p>Mashed in with 3.5 gal water at 165* to get a 154* mash. 10 minutes in, mash held at ~150*<\/p>\n<p>Sparged with 5 gal water (in two batches) first 2.5 at 196* water temp, second 2.5 at 160* water temp (mash after draining the first sparge was at 156*). Collected ~6.5g for boil<\/p>\n<p>OG 1.047 at 75* (corrected to 1.048) \ud83d\ude42 Pitched at 75*, looks like I have between 70% and 75% brewhouse efficiency on this one! I sparged quite slowly, weary of all of the wheat and oats, and I used at least a half-pound of rice hulls. I might have to sparge more slowly from now on to see if I can improve my efficiency!<\/p>\n<p>UDPATE 4\/27: Healthy fermentation, seems to be in the high 70s. I see the remnants of a high krausen that almost reached the top of the 6 gallon fermenter, but stopped just short (whew, no blow-out).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recipe Type: All-Grain Yeast: WLP400 Yeast Starter: No (1 vial used) Batch Size (Gallons): 5.5 gallons Original Gravity: 1.048 Final Gravity: IBU: 17 Boiling Time (Minutes): 75 Color: 3.5 Primary Fermentation (# of Days &amp; Temp): 5# Rahr 2row 4# Torrified Wheat 1#\u00a0Flaked Oats (Giant Quick Oats) 1oz Cascade Leafs 75min 0.3 oz Bitter Orange [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,31,37,7,36,85,101,99,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-row","category-belgian-wit","category-bitter-orange-peel","category-cascade","category-coriander","category-flaked-oats","category-grapefruit-peel-dried","category-torrified-wheat","category-wlp400-belgian-wit-ale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","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=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}