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RYE IPA with T-58 & US-05

Started by sdixon, March 11, 2013, 02:20:14 AM

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sdixon

Type: All Grain    Date: 13-03-10
Batch Size (fermenter): 18.00 gal    Brewer: Stephen
Boil Size: 23.26 gal    Asst Brewer:
Boil Time: 60 min    Equipment: Grimross Pilot Brewery (20 gallon)
End of Boil Volume 19.76 gal    Brewhouse Efficiency: 72.00 %
Final Bottling Volume: 16.50 gal    Est Mash Efficiency 76.4 %
Fermentation: Ale, Two Stage    Taste Rating(out of 50): 30.0

Ingredients
10.00 kg    Pilsner (2 Row) Ger (2.0 SRM) 54.0 %
2.50 kg    Rye Malt (4.7 SRM) 13.5 %
1.50 kg    Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM) 8.1 %
1.00 kg    Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) 5.4 %
1.00 kg    Wheat Malt, Ger (2.0 SRM) 5.4 %
1.00 kg    Wheat, Flaked (1.6 SRM) 5.4 %
0.40 kg    Caraaroma (130.0 SRM) 2.2 %
0.11 kg    Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM) 0.6 %
1.00 kg    Sugar, Table (Sucrose) (1.0 SRM) 5.4 %
90.00 g    Magnum [14.00 %] - Boil 60.0 min
90.00 g    Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 30.0 min
70.00 g    Crystal [3.50 %] - Boil 1.0 min
2.0 pkg    Fermentis #T-58
1.0 pkg     Fermentis #US-05

Beer Profile
Original Gravity: 1.060 SG    
Est Final Gravity: 1.012 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 6.4 %
Bitterness: 58.4 IBUs
Est Color: 15.0 SRM
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feldmann

I tried brewing this today but scaled down to a 5 gal recipe. I got terrible efficiency and I was looking for some advice for the next time I try it.

1. I got around 40% efficiency. I mashed @ 65C for 60 minutes, should I push it to 90 minutes?

2. I wasn't too sure of when to add the sugar. I used regular table sugar and added it with 15 minutes left in the boil because I read adding it too early can eliminate some of hop flavour.

Roger

From my experience I get better efficiency from very slow lautering. So I only open the valve on the mashtun so it trickles out this requires a great deal of patience. Also quite hot sparge water near boiling. A longer mash time might help. But if you drain the mashtun very slowly the bulk if your wort is still mashing. I think your spot on with the sugar addition. These are only my experiences I'm sure you'll get more feedback.

DandyMason

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Yeah try slowing down the lautering... 40% seems pretty low. What are you mashing in?

For the sugar, not sure it matters. When you boil hops with a higher gravity wort you get lower hop utilization compared to a lower gravity wort, so depends on what you want

brew

Yeah 40 is real low. 65 C is a bit low as well, although I mash around there frequently as it helps dry out my beer as well - which I like. I often mash for 2 or 3 hours (strike over lunch, sparge after work). Even still, 60 minutes should still give you much better efficiency than that... sounds like something might have gone wrong, maybe a scaling error on the grain? Thermometer problem? More water than you thought? Something like that? I've mis-measured before and been confused with the end product - easy to do...
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feldmann

I lauter so that if the ball valve was open any less, it wouldn't drain. I fly sparge and it takes me about an hour. My sparge water was 80C. I'm mashing in a rectangular cooler with a SS braid, its a newer set up that I've probably only mashed in 5 or 6 times but I've consistently hit 75-80% on all but this recipe. I did have more wort pre-boil (max half a gallon) and post boil (max 1 gallon) I didn't loose anywhere near as much from evaporation or hop absorption as I normally do.


Here is my scaled down version:

6.74 lb German - Pilsner
1.68 lb Rye Malt
1.01 lb American - Caramel / Crystal 40L
0.67 lb American - Caramel / Crystal 60L
0.67 lb German – Wheat Malt
0.67 lb Flaked Wheat
0.27 lb American - Caramel / Crystal 120L
0.07 lb American - Chocolate

My O.G. was 1.040

Roger

Maybe your wort got confused on what to do with all those specialty grains.  :lmao:
But seriously just let it ferment worst case scenario it makes beer. If this keeps happening it's probably got do do with your method if not it's probably the ingredients. I know that doesn't help much but your method seams solid enough.

DandyMason

Chalk it up as a one off batch! 75-80% is great effiiency

Al-Loves-Wine

That is unusually low for 11ish pounds of grain. Did you end up with a poor crush by chance? I just did a Belgian wit a few days ago and ended up with 84% at 11 pounds of grain, and I drain at half a valve. However I try to drain my mash tun dry before I start my sparge.

Did you do a hydro reading at a higher temp maybe that threw off your reading?

feldmann

Nope, did a reading at 20C before pitching to be sure. I guess I'll try again and just hope it was an off batch.