(Include any important notes from brew day until tasting)
Brew Day (10/22/2017)
Strike temp for steep needs to go a bit lower .. try 165 ... as it hardly cooled off to start. Had to add some ice.
Added the last 3.5lb of Gold Malt pre boil too.
0.5oz Centennial in at 15 min wen it should have been 20 min. Oops.
OG measured at 1.065. Added 1.25 pints to fermenter to adjust to 1.063.
10/24/2017
Took over 24 hours to develop a yeast cap. Probably caused by a lack of oxygenation. Should have aerated the wort in the fermenter (as I did not filter it through the hop spider). Also, I should have used a yeast starter to ensure I pitched the proper amount of yeast (1 purepitch packet technically not enough). Mr Malty yeast calculator says I should have used 2.3 packs or a 1 liter starter with stir plate.
10/30/2017 (8 days)
Yeast cap finally collapsed (8 days).
11/2/2017 (11 days)
Gravity Reading: 1.014 @68.7F = 1.015 75% attenuation, 6.3% ABV
11/5/2017 (14 days)
Transferred to secondary, added dry hops.
11/9/2017 (18 days)
Set fermentation temp to 55F to start cold crash. Took 10 hours to drop to 55F from 69F. Then lowered to 50F.
11/12/20127 (21 days)
Gravity Reading 1.016 @54.5F - 1.016 6.1% ABV
Kegged.
Boil
Boil
NaN (estimated)
6.5
gallonsliters0.00 (gallonsliters estimated)
60
minutesminutes(60 minutes estimated)
5.2
galsliters
Gravity Estimates
Based on boiling 6.50gallonsliters at NaN for 60 minutes, this will decrease your wort by 0.00gallonsliters, bringing your after boil OG to NaN.
You wanted an OG of 1.063. It looks like it will be over.
