Monday, December 3, 2007

How I Spent My Saturday

Wow. At 15.25 pounds, this was my largest grain bill ever.
It produced a nice malty wort of 1.066, only 2 points off my expected OG. So my technique has a 69% efficiency. Not bad.
I did burn my finger while boiling the wort on my turkey fryer. I'll live.
I may have underpitched, just slightly. The the C3-PilsnerO, I used two smack packs of lager yeast, but with this bock I only pitched one. They're like $7 each, so that's why. $36 was enough for that day's Listy trip. I could've made a starter, but I didn't. So sue me. I followed the manufacturer's recommendation to all the fermenting to start and THEN bring it down to lagering temps (50F).
Right now, I've got a nice primary fermentation going in the chest freezer.

Spaz Bock (Name changed due to the hop substitutions.)
AKA The Empire Strikes Bock

Batch Size (Gal): 5.00 Wort Size (Gal): 5.00
Total Grain (Lbs): 14.75
Anticipated OG: 1.068 Plato: 16.65
Anticipated SRM: 36.9
Anticipated IBU: 20.7

Grain/Extract/Sugar

% Amount Name Origin Potential SRM
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3.4 0.50 lbs. Chocolate Malt Great Britain 1.034 475
94.9 14.00 lbs. Munich Malt(dark) America 1.033 20
1.7 0.25 lbs. Briess Caramel 80L America 1.034 80

Hops
Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
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1.00 oz. Spalt Pellet 3.20 14.4 60 min.
1.00 oz. Czech Saaz Pellet 3.20 3.9 15 min.
1.00 oz. Czech Saaz Pellet 3.20 2.4 5 min.

Yeast
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WYeast 2206 Bavarian Lager

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