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09: Crystal Wheat Clone

160 calories 13.5 g 12 oz
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Beer Stats
Method: All Grain
Style: American Wheat or Rye Beer
Boil Time: 80 min
Batch Size: 5.5 gallons (fermentor volume)
Pre Boil Size: 7.5 gallons
Pre Boil Gravity: 1.036 (recipe based estimate)
Efficiency: 70% (brew house)
Source: sierranevada.com
Calories: 160 calories (Per 12oz)
Carbs: 13.5 g (Per 12oz)
Created: Wednesday March 25th 2015
1.049
1.008
5.4%
40.7
4.1
n/a
n/a
 
Fermentables
Amount Fermentable Cost PPG °L Bill %
4 lb American - Pale 2-Row4 lb Pale 2-Row 37 1.8 40%
6 lb American - White Wheat6 lb White Wheat 40 2.8 60%
10 lbs / $ 0.00
 
Hops
Amount Variety Cost Type AA Use Time IBU Bill %
0.80 oz Perle0.8 oz Perle Hops Pellet 7.7 Boil 60 min 24.09 20%
1 oz Crystal1 oz Crystal Hops Pellet 3.3 Boil 10 min 4.68 25%
2 oz Crystal2 oz Crystal Hops Pellet 3.6 Whirlpool at 200 °F 15 min 9.81 50%
0.20 oz Perle0.2 oz Perle Hops Pellet 7.7 Whirlpool at 200 °F 15 min 2.1 5%
4 oz / $ 0.00
 
Yeast
Fermentis - Safale - American Ale Yeast US-05
Amount:
1 Each
Cost:
Attenuation (avg):
81%
Flocculation:
Medium
Optimum Temp:
54 - 77 °F
Starter:
No
Fermentation Temp:
67 °F
Pitch Rate:
0.35 (M cells / ml / ° P) 89 B cells required
$ 0.00 Yeast Pitch Rate and Starter Calculator
 
Target Water Profile
Ca+2 Mg+2 Na+ Cl- SO4-2 HCO3-
0 0 0 0 0 0
Bought 6 gallons of distilled water and used ~5 gallons of San Jose tap water for sparging
Mash Chemistry and Brewing Water Calculator
 
Mash Guidelines
Amount Description Type Start Temp Target Temp Time
Infusion -- 150 °F 60 min
Starting Mash Thickness: 1.33 qt/lb
Quick Water Requirements
Water Gallons  Quarts
Strike water volume at mash thickness of 1.33 qt/lb 3.33 13.3  
Mash volume with grains 4.13 16.5  
Grain absorption losses -1.25 -5  
Remaining sparge water volume (equipment estimates 5.83 g | 23.3 qt) 5.68 22.7  
Mash Lauter Tun losses -0.25 -1  
Pre boil volume (equipment estimates 7.65 g | 30.6 qt) 7.5 30  
Boil off losses -2 -8  
Hops absorption losses (first wort, boil, aroma) -0.07 -0.3  
Post boil Volume 5.58 22.3  
Hops absorption losses (whirlpool, hop stand) -0.08 -0.3  
Going into fermentor 5.5 22  
Total: 9 36
Equipment Profile Used: System Default
 
Notes

Brewed 3-28-15 with Briar and Nick
3.5 gal distilled strike water
Mashed at 150F for 60 min
3 batch sparges at 170F, used 3 more gal distilled and 5 gal San Jose tap water
First runnings 17.5P, 2nd runnings 9P, 3rd 5P.
80 minute boil
whirfloc at 15 min
yeast nutrient at 11min
Flameout...added hops
whirlpooled for 15 minutes due to wort chiller o-ring coming out of housing. Was only supposed to be a 10 min hop stand. Not too concerned.
Chilled to 80F, got it into 6-gal glass carboy and set in fridge. Took 1.5 hours to get from 80F to 62F pitching temp. Started re-hyrating yeast roughly 1.5 hours too early. Yeast sat in sanitized measuring cup with tin foil over the top for 40 minutes.
OG = 1.049 = right on
Oxygenate wort for 2 min with pure O2 and stone
Less than 5 gallons into fermentor. Maybe 4.5
It took 1.5 hours to get from 80F to 64F
Oxygenated for 2 min and pitched at 64F
Let beer free rise once US-05 was pitched from 64-67F and kept at 67F from 2 weeks. Cold crashed for 1 week at 35F, then bottled with 4oz priming sugar. Didn't taste beer before cold crashing. Tasted beer after 11 days in bottle and it taste like first IPA...little buttery and "homebrew" tasting. Not sure if yeast was underpitched. First IPA was US-05 as well.

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