10/27/21:
Brew day -
Batch 75
Brewed with Matt
Start time 12 pm
Target mash temp 154, strike temp ~165. Preheated mash tun with 3.75 G of 171 deg water (5 minutes). Liquor treated with 5g of gypsum+calcium chloride, and 3 ml of lactic acid. Doughed in to achieve rest of 152, let rest for 60 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes.
While brewing we packaged the previous batch (42) of remnants. We are packaging 2.4 gallons of aged Remnants batch 2, targeting 3.35 volume of Co2 with 93 g of corn sugar added to keg. Beer was pushed with CO2 through a racking cane into purged/sealed keg with priming sugar inside. Headspace was purged after.
Vorlaufed 13 minutes, before collecting 2 G of first runnings. Sparged with 5.6 gallons of 172 deg water.
Vorlaufed 10 minutes before draining directly into kettle, pre boil volume of 7 gallons. Boiled with heat stick and ultra burner on 5, added hops at recipe times.
Rapidly cooled with copper immersion chiller to 70 deg over 30 minutes. Transferred hard through spout/hose to 6 G glass carboy. Transferred cake from Remnants (2) after shaking.
OG: 1.050
11/02/21: Thin ring of Krausen
11/03/21: Krausen slowly thickening as fermentation picks up