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brew of "JC's Roggenbier (BCS, modified)"

brewed on 2010-03-21 12:00 EDT by jsled from recipe JC's Roggenbier (BCS, modified)
5.00gl | All Grain | Roggenbier (German Rye Beer) | 1.058 | 21 IBU | 25 SRM
efficiency: 85.47% | abv: 5.00% | attenuation: 67.27%

journal

date step volume temp gravity
(corrected)
notes
2010-03-21 12:45 EDT strike water 4.50 gl 168 f Saving some mash water for mashout.
2010-03-21 12:50 EDT dough-in 4.50 gl 154 f
2010-03-21 13:20 EDT mash 154 f
2010-03-21 13:50 EDT mash out 1.00 gl 212 f 1g boiling water and 1/2 lb of (pre-soaked) rice-hulls. Only got up to 156.
2010-03-21 14:05 EDT 1st runnings, start 1.070
2010-03-21 14:15 EDT 1st runnings, end 2.50 gl 1.069
2010-03-21 14:16 EDT sparge 4.00 gl
2010-03-21 14:26 EDT 2nd runnings, start 1.036
2010-03-21 14:55 EDT 2nd runnings, end 4.00 gl 1.036 Left behind about 2L of wort in mash tun; saved 1L for wort starter.
2010-03-21 15:15 EDT boil, start 6.50 gl 1.051 Accidentally added the 60-min hops here.
2010-03-21 16:30 EDT boil, addition
2010-03-21 16:50 EDT boil, end 5.00 gl
2010-03-21 17:30 EDT pitch 4.75 gl 64 f 1.055
2010-03-28 14:12 EDT primary fermentation 61 f 1.018 A little sweet, but nice flavor otherwise. Very cloudy; for such a flocculant yeast, I'm surprised there's still so much in suspension; might need to secondary/cold-crash to get some clarity.
2010-04-04 14:55 EDT secondary fermentation 5.00 gl 62 f 1.016 Nice. Slightly sweet, lemony citrus.
2010-04-11 12:24 EDT kegged 5.00 gl 58 f 1.018
2010-05-30 consumed the keg kicked a while ago.