Citra pale ale

[Thomas]

Citra pale ale #2
10-A American Pale Ale
Author: Thomas
Date: 12-02-10



Size: 5.25 gal
Efficiency: 80.49%
Attenuation: 75.0%
Calories: 213.66 kcal per 12.0 fl oz

Original Gravity: 1.064 (1.045 - 1.060)
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Terminal Gravity: 1.016 (1.010 - 1.015)
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Color: 11.61 (5.0 - 14.0)
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Alcohol: 6.31% (4.5% - 6.2%)
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Bitterness: 48.3 (30.0 - 45.0)
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Ingredients:
10.0 lb 2-Row Brewers Malt
1.0 lb Wheat Malt Pale (Organic)
1.0 lb Caramunich® TYPE II
1 oz Northern Brewer (9.9%) - added during boil, boiled 60.0 min
0.5 oz Cascade (5.5%) - added during boil, boiled 10.0 min
0.5 oz Citra  (11.0%) - added during boil, boiled 10.0 min
0.5 oz Cascade (5.5%) - added during boil, boiled 1.0 min
0.5 oz Citra  (11.0%) - added during boil, boiled 1.0 min
0.5 oz Cascade (5.5%) - steeped after boil
0.5 oz Citra  (11.0%) - steeped after boil
0.5 oz Cascade (5.5%) - added dry to secondary fermenter
0.5 oz Citra  (11.0%) - added dry to secondary fermenter
1.0 ea Fermentis US-05 Safale US-05

Schedule:
Ambient Air: 70.0 °F
Source Water: 60.0 °F
Elevation: 0.0 m

00:03:00 Mash in - Liquor: 3.75 gal; Strike: 167.66 °F; Target: 154.0 °F
01:03:00 Mash - Rest: 60 min; Final: 154.0 °F
01:08:00 Batch sparge - First runnings: 0.0 gal sparge @ 154.0 °F, 5.0 min; Sparge : 3.86 gal sparge @ 186.0 °F, 0.0 min; Total Runoff: 6.36 gal

Results generated by BeerTools Pro 1.5.12

[Ian Grant]

what's up with the Efficiency #'s looking at the 3 recipes you posted i thought it was strange

[Thomas]

Beertools allows you to make a recipe with a a pre-set efficiency of 75% (although you can enter in whatever efficiency value you want if you know your system). However you can enter your measured OG afterwards and it spits out your actual efficiency for the batch.  All three of these cascade recipes used the same grain and mash schedule, so the slight differences in efficiency is due to grain absorption/boil losses.
I also tightened the gap setting on my grain mill and went from ~55-70% efficiency to the now ~80% efficiency of the last three batches.

[Ian Grant]

I c.  I thought you was changing it yourself.

[Chris Craig]

FWIW, BeerSmith 2 works the same way.  It's great when you are making somebody else's recipe, and you want to hit the same gravity as the creator.