Source water profile: Ca: 50.0 Mg: 2.0 Na: 7.5 Sulfate: 15.0 Chloride: 17.0 Bicarbonate: 97.2 pH: 7.7 Target water profile: Edinburgh Ca: 100.0 Mg: 20.0 Na: 55.0 Sulfate: 140.0 Chloride: 50.0 Bicarbonate: 285.0 Finished water profile: Ca: 90.0 Mg: 20.7 Na: 55.8 Sulfate: 89.1 Chloride: 53.4 Bicarbonate: 103.9 epsom salt: 0.19g/L = 4.0g / 9.3g canning salt: 0.06g/L = 1.2g / 3.0g baking soda: 0.09g/L = 1.9g / (4.5g) chalk: 0.10g/L = 2.1g / (5.0g) 88% lactic acid: 0.25 mL/L = 5.2ml / 5.2ml pH: 6.9 / 5.3
| date | step | volume | temp | gravity (corrected) |
notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-01-07 10:55 EST | strike water | 5.50 gl | 165 f | 30 lbs propane. | |
| 2012-01-07 11:19 EST | strike water | 123 f | |||
| 2012-01-07 11:45 EST | strike water | 190 f | Overshot temp, letting cool off. | ||
| 2012-01-07 12:00 EST | strike water | 172 f | |||
| 2012-01-07 12:10 EST | strike water | 182 f | Dropped to 172 after heating mash-tun. | ||
| 2012-01-07 12:20 EST | dough-in | 5.50 gl | 157 f | pH 6.0. Added 2.5ml lactic acid. | |
| 2012-01-07 12:45 EST | mash | 154 f | pH 5.7. Added 2.5ml lactic acid. | ||
| 2012-01-07 13:10 EST | mash | 149 f | pH 5.4 @ 51.8°C. | ||
| 2012-01-07 13:30 EST | 1st runnings, start | 1.102 | |||
| 2012-01-07 13:37 EST | 1st runnings, end | 1.75 gl | 2.5g expected. 27 lbs propane. | ||
| 2012-01-07 13:38 EST | sparge | 6.50 gl | Added lactic acid to sparge water, pH lowered to like 3.5 or something. Added some of the baking soda from the kettle addition to neutralize, settled on a pH around 5.2, totally luckily. | ||
| 2012-01-07 13:48 EST | 2nd runnings, start | 1.056 | |||
| 2012-01-07 14:14 EST | 2nd runnings, end | 6.50 gl | |||
| 2012-01-07 14:15 EST | sparge | 6.50 gl | |||
| 2012-01-07 14:25 EST | 3rd runnings, start | ||||
| 2012-01-07 14:51 EST | 3rd runnings, end | 6.50 gl | |||
| 2012-01-07 14:55 EST | boil, start | 15.00 gl | 1.036 | 2 gallons removed to kitchen stove to boil down to ~2 quarts for caramelization. | |
| 2012-01-07 15:30 EST | boil note | 12.00 gl | |||
| 2012-01-07 16:20 EST | boil note | 11.00 gl | |||
| 2012-01-07 16:30 EST | boil note | 10.75 gl | |||
| 2012-01-07 17:00 EST | boil note | 10.00 gl | Start recirculation for sanitation. | ||
| 2012-01-07 17:15 EST | boil, end | 9.75 gl | 100 c | 19.5 lbs propane. | |
| 2012-01-07 17:25 EST | boil, end | 73 c | |||
| 2012-01-07 17:33 EST | boil, end | 63 c | Pump wasn't; no recirculation occurring. Restarted. | ||
| 2012-01-07 17:37 EST | boil, end | 46 c | |||
| 2012-01-07 17:38 EST | boil, end | 38 c | |||
| 2012-01-07 17:42 EST | boil, end | 38 c | Started closed-loop cold recirculation. | ||
| 2012-01-07 17:45 EST | boil, end | 31 c | |||
| 2012-01-07 17:50 EST | boil, end | 26 c | |||
| 2012-01-07 18:10 EST | boil, end | 9.00 gl | 62 f | Cooling done. | |
| 2012-01-07 19:12 EST | pitch | 9.00 gl | 62 f | 1.042 | pH 5.7. Glass carboy: ECY 07 (4g) Better bottle: WY 1728 (5g) Temp controllers setpoint: 66°F, differential 2°F. |
| 2012-01-21 | primary fermentation | 1.012 | |||
| 2012-01-29 | kegged | 1.012 | I didn't put them side by side, but I could not tell the ECY07 vs WY1728 apart. Hit with 7 psi @ ~40°F targeting ~2 volumes. |