Brewing - American Pale Ale

Yeast prep - March 23, 2020

Recovered yeast from American IPA.  Slurry refrigerated until brewday.

American Pale Ale Brewday - March 28, 2020

44L (Primary) | 1.052 OG | 33 IBU | 6 SRM

Part 1 - Setup

 - Grist - 

48% | 4.7kg Canada Malting Domestic 2-Row (1.8L)
48% | 4.7kg Canada Malting Superior Pale Ale Malt (3.1L)
4% | 400g CaraMunich III (57L)

- Hops -

|| Kettle ||
50g Mosaic (11.4% AA) @ 20 minutes
100g Mosaic (11.4% AA) @ 5 minutes

||Dry Hop ||
120g Mosaic (11.4% AA) @ Kegging



- Water -

56L treated with 1 campden tab to remove chloramine
Source Profile (mg/l):
Ca+2 = 8.7
Mg+2 = 2.1
Na+ = 18.4
Cl- = 6.7
SO4-2 = 27
Alkalinity (ppm as CaC03) = 32.5
pH = 9.4

|| Salts & Acid ||
Mash - 5ml (88%) Lactic Acid, 5g Calcium Chloride, 7g Calcium Sulfate
Boil - 7g Calicum Sulfate

Resulting Profile (mg/l) :
Ca+2 = 91.2
Mg+2 = 2.1
Na+ = 18.4
Cl- = 49.8
SO4-2 = 166.5
Alkalinity (ppm as CaC03) = -6.5
Residual Alkalinity (ppm as CaC03) = -72.8
Brewer's Friend Mash Report


Part 2 - Mash

Mash salts added directly to the milled to grist
Lactic acid added to half the brewing liquor (28L)
Mashed in @ 73C/162F
Target mash pH 5.40 (calculated @ 25C)
Mashed @ 65.5C/150F
After 60 minutes, vorlauf and collected 1st runnings
Batch sparge, vorlauf and collected 2nd runnings

Part 3 - Boil

With 20 minutes remaining, added 1st hop addition
With 5 minutes remaining, added 2nd hop addition, whirlfloc and immersion chiller
Chilled wort and transferred to fermenter
Gravity measured 1.052


Part 4 - Fermentation

Day 0 - 21:00 - Pitched 800ml slurry @ 17C, fermentation temperature set @ 20C

OG 1.052

Day 1 - 11:00 - Temperature @ 20C.  Active fermentation.  Dropped trub and reconnected collection ball

Day 12 - 18:30 - Disconnected heatwrap

Day 18 - 11:00 - Temperature has been sitting near 13C for the last several days.  Racked beer to purged kegs, dry hopped each keg with 60g Mosaic hops. Overfilled kegs to reduce head space as much as possible, sealed with a shot of CO2 @ 36psi then laid each keg on their side.  Final gravity measures 1.011-1.012 which temperature corrects to 1.010 for an ABV of 5.5%

Keg dry hopping to maximize surface contact



Day 19 - 09:00 - Rolled kegs to agitate dry hops

Day 20 - 09:00 - Rolled kegs to agitate dry hops.  First keg moved to serving fridge.

Day 21 - 11:00 - Second keg moved to the serving fridge

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