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White House Honey Ale

155 calories 16.3 g 12 oz
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Beer Stats
Method: All Grain
Style: American Lager
Boil Time: 60 min
Batch Size: 10.5 gallons (fermentor volume)
Pre Boil Size: 13 gallons
Post Boil Size: 11.5 gallons
Pre Boil Gravity: 1.039 (recipe based estimate)
Post Boil Gravity: 1.047 (recipe based estimate)
Efficiency: 70% (brew house)
Calories: 155 calories (Per 12oz)
Carbs: 16.3 g (Per 12oz)
Created: Sunday May 24th 2020
1.047
1.012
4.6%
17.1
4.8
5.7
n/a
 
Fermentables
Amount Fermentable Cost PPG °L Bill %
17 lb American - Pale 2-Row17 lb Pale 2-Row 37 1.8 89.5%
1 lb Canadian - Honey Malt1 lb Honey Malt 37 25 5.3%
1 lb Honey1 lb Honey - (late boil kettle addition) 35 2 5.3%
19 lbs / $ 0.00
 
Hops
Amount Variety Cost Type AA Use Time IBU Bill %
2 oz Tettnanger2 oz Tettnanger Hops Leaf/Whole 4.5 Boil 60 min 16.31 62.5%
1.20 oz Perle1.2 oz Perle Hops Leaf/Whole 8.2 Aroma 1 min 0.77 37.5%
3.20 oz / $ 0.00
 
Other Ingredients
Amount Name Cost Type Use Time
4 tsp Gypsum Water Agt Mash 1 hr.
5 each Alpha-galactosidase enzyme 600 GALU Other Mash 1 hr.
2.50 tsp Yeast Energizer Other Boil 15 min.
2 each Whirlfloc Fining Boil 15 min.
 
Yeast
Wyeast - Scottish Ale 1728
Amount:
1 Each
Cost:
Attenuation (avg):
71%
Flocculation:
High
Optimum Temp:
55 - 75 °F
Starter:
Yes
Fermentation Temp:
60 °F
Pitch Rate:
0.35 (M cells / ml / ° P) 162 B cells required
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Priming
CO2 Level: 2.65 Volumes
 
Target Water Profile
Balanced Profile
Ca+2 Mg+2 Na+ Cl- SO4-2 HCO3-
80 5 25 75 80 100
I'm using Reverse Osmosis water, but I don't know how to get the data on it.
Mash Chemistry and Brewing Water Calculator
 
Mash Guidelines
Amount Description Type Start Temp Target Temp Time
8 gal Infusion 164 °F 152 °F 60 min
8 gal Fly Sparge 180 °F 170 °F 20 min
Starting Mash Thickness: 1.5 qt/lb
Starting Grain Temp: 65 °F
Quick Water Requirements
Water Gallons  Quarts
WARNING: Boil kettle capacity (12 gal | 48 qt) exceeded. Volume required: 12.12 gal (48.48 qt). Suggest reducing initial water volume to 11.92 gal (47.66 qt) and adding 0.12 gal (0.48 qt) sparge/top-off.    
Strike water volume at mash thickness of 1.5 qt/lb 6.75 27  
Mash volume with grains 8.19 32.8  
Grain absorption losses -2.25 -9  
Remaining sparge water volume (equipment estimates 7.79 g | 31.1 qt) 8.75 35  
Mash Lauter Tun losses -0.25 -1  
Pre boil volume (equipment estimates 12.04 g | 48.1 qt) 13 52  
Volume increase from sugar/extract (late additions) 0.08 0.3  
Boil off losses -1.5 -6  
Hops absorption losses (first wort, boil, aroma) -0.12 -0.5  
Post boil Volume (equipment estimates 10.5 g | 42 qt) 11.5 46  
WARNING: Exceeded batch size - reduce boil size    
Going into fermentor (equipment estimates 11.5 g | 46 qt) 10.5 42  
Total: 15.5 62
Equipment Profile Used: System Default
 
Notes

This is based on a beer brewed by Obama and his staff in 2011-12 (see link below). I meddled with it to make it all grain and to accommodate the ingredients on hand.

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/09/01/ale-chief-white-house-beer-recipe

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