Double James Brew Session

Brew Session Info

Brew Date 2/22/2015

Notes (Include any important notes from brew day until tasting)

Brew Day: Made a silly error on this one, recipe batch size should have been 6 gallons, but I entered it in as 7 for some reason (had I been drinking?). No major issue with that other than wasting ingredients. Second issue, was calculating for 1 gallon of kettle trub loss, which ended up actually being .4 gallons for 6oz of hops (~ .07 gal lost per ounce of pellet hops). That left me with an extra .6 gallons of wort and diluted the final brew resulting in a loss of 7 gravity points. Bummer. Hoping to make up the lost ABV with a higher than predicted attenuation. Fermentation: 02/22/2015 - Fermentation started in about 3 hours, lots of steady bubbling coming from the blow off tube. 02/27/2015 - Fermentation is mostly done. Added 1oz Amarillo Dry Hops.. 03/01/2015 - Added 2oz Citra and 2oz Nelson Dry Hops. 03/06/2015 - Moved to Fridge for Cold Crash Conditioning: 03/08/2015 - Transferred to Keg Observations: - Aroma is great but could be stronger -- maybe more dry hops for longer. - Flavor is not as strong as desired -- maybe more hops in the 5 minute/flame out timeframe. - Everything else great

Water Infusion

Brew Session Specific

Grain Weight

18 lb kg

Grain Temp

57.4 °FC

Target Mash Temp

150 °FC

Mash Thickness

1.37 qt/lbl/kg

Total Boil Time

60 min.

Wort Into Fermenter

7 gals liters

Equipment Profile

Grain Absorption

0.15 gals/lb liters/kg

Sparge Grain Absorption

0.01 gals/lb liters/kg

HLT-MT Heat Loss

°FC

Mash Tun Loss

0.25 gals liters

Brew Kettle Trub Loss

1 gals liters

Boil Loss

1.8 gals/hour liters/hour

Wort Shrinkage

0.2 gals liters

Calculated Totals

Total Water Needed

12.88 gals liters

Mash Tun Capacity

7.61 gals liters

Mash/Strike Volume

6.42 gals liters

HLT Temperature

162.98 °FC

Strike Temperature

162.98 °FC

1st Runnings

3.72 gals liters

Sparge Volume

6.46 gals liters

Total Runoff

10.00 gals liters

Mash / Boil

Mash

Mash PH

Mash Start Temp

150.8 °FC

Mash End Temp

148 °FC

Mash Time

60 minutes

Boil

Pre-Boil Gravity

1.055 1.060 (estimated)

Boil Volume

10 gallons liters 10.00 (gallonsliters estimated)

Boil Time

60 minutes minutes (60 minutes estimated)

Post-Boil Volume

7.6 gals liters

Gravity Estimates

Based on boiling 10.00 gallonsliters at 1.055 for 60 minutes, this will decrease your wort by 1.80 gallonsliters, bringing your after boil OG to 1.065.

You wanted an OG of 1.073. It looks like it will be under.

Fermentation

Volume in Fermenter

6 gallons liters 7.60 (gallonsliters estimated)

Original Gravity

1.073 (1.073 predicted)

Final Gravity

1.012 (1.012 predicted)

Conditioning

Condition Date

3/8/2015

Bottle/Keg

Keg PSI

11 PSI

Tasting Notes (3)

Tasted on 3/22/2015 by ctorx

Tasted on 3/19/2015 by ctorx

Notes:

Pours cloudy with a short 1/2 inch head from the keg. The aroma is clearly noticeable and citrusy but lacking the punch-in-the face-hop aroma I was after. Medium to low body with hop characteristics all the way down, though again not as strong as I had hoped. Bitterness is low and not overly alcoholic. So far this beer is great and enjoyable but I think it might still need more time to condition despite being in the keg for 2 weeks now.

Tasted on 3/8/2015 by ctorx

Notes:

I tasted about 8 ounces when transferring to the keg, so at this point the beer was not conditioned or carbonated. Great hoppy aroma and flavor -- peaches, sage, a little citrus. At 8% ABV, great balance with no overwhelming alcoholic flavors.

Recipe Facts

Double James

Double IPA

7.60 Gallons Liters Batch Size
10.00 Gallons Liters Boil Size
60 min Boil Time
1.073 OG
1.012 FG
92.1 IBU (brewgr) Bitterness
1.26 BG:GU
9.8° SRM Color
78% Efficiency
8.0% ABV Alcohol
248 per 12oz Calories

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