summer white ale
kind of a mixture between a spicy white ale and a summer ale
Brewer: | Big B | Email: | - | |||||
Beer: | summer white ale | Style: | Belgian White (Wit) | |||||
Type: | All grain | Size: | 10.5 gallons | |||||
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Bitterness: | 17 IBU | |||||
OG: | 1.046 | FG: | 1.006 | |||||
Alcohol: | 5.2% v/v (4.1% w/w) | |||||||
Water: | carbon filtered tap water. | |||||||
Grain: | 4 lb. 9 oz. Belgian Pilsner 5 lb. 7 oz. German Pilsner 8 lb. Wheat malt 1 lb. Dextrine malt (Cara-Pils) 2 lb. Flaked wheat |
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Mash: | 62% efficiency | |||||||
mashed for 1 hour at 152 with 7 gallons of water, sparged at 170 for an hour with 11 gallons of water | ||||||||
Boil: | 60 minutes | SG 1.044 | 11 gallons | |||||
3 grams of grains of paradise zest from 2 lemons 1 oz of dried sweet orange 1 oz of coriander |
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Hops: | 3 oz. Hallertauer (1.5% AA, 45 min.) 1 oz. Hallertauer (1.5% AA, 30 min.) 1 oz. hallertauer (8.6% AA, 15 min.) |
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Yeast: | we split this batch in half to ferment one 5 gallon batch got wlp400 and the other got wlp380 they both got 1/2 teaspoon of yeast nutrient and were oxygenated at 10 psi for 5 minutes. No Starter and they both kicked off in less than 24 hours. 3-7-09 transfered the 380 batch because gravity is at .006. and the 400 batch also at .006 3-10-09 | |||||||
Log: | brew date is 2-23-09 fermentation temp is between 68 and 72. | |||||||
Carbonation: | bottled 3-21-09 3/4 cup priming sugar |
Recipe posted 02/24/09.