This recipe has been brewed 2 time(s)
Brew Session: Baby its Kolsch outside
senecaur
6/14/2015 12:00:00 AM
- Water Infusion
- Mash/Boil
- Fermentation
Very hot, humid day - lost less than planned through boil off and very difficult to chill beer. I think I must have taken the pre-boil gravity sample before enough first runnings - doesn't matter though as we hit OG pretty much.
Brew Session: Baby its Kolsch outside
senecaur
2/20/2015 12:00:00 AM
- Water Infusion
- Mash/Boil
- Fermentation
- Conditioning
- Tasting Notes
Forgot to measure mash final temp so had to guess! Boil size needed to be 7 gallons to account for 1g/hour boil loss and 0.5g trub loss. Only ended up yielding 4.5 gallons in fermenter. Only got 63% efficiency which will lead to slightly low ABV - things I will try next time: pre-heat mash tun, stir up initial mash a couple more times during mashing, leave batch sparge in longer (15 mins) and do a second batch sparge. Turns out my sparge water temp was far too low - I used the same as the ...
Recipe Facts
- 5.00 Gallons Liters Batch Size
- 7.00 Gallons Liters Boil Size
- 90 min Boil Time
- 1.045 OG
- 1.011 FG
- 23.9 IBU (tinseth) Bitterness
- 0.53 BG:GU
- 4.8° SRM Color
- 70% Efficiency
- 4.3% ABV Alcohol
- 149 per 12oz Calories