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Competition lager April 22 2018 Brewed with Toby, Paul, Jeremey and Denny lauter ended up with 13.4 brix adn 11 gallons added one gallon water so went from 1.053 to 1.050 12 gallons 1.050 pre boil post boil 9 gallons or so at 1.064 FG Put 5.5 gallons in fermonster, 2.25 litres in erlmyer flask for starter and rest in 3 gallon fermonster. about 2 to 2.5 gallons in it. Pitched decanted 4.6 litre 2206 on Tuesday April 24 at 10 pm June 3 2018 i gelatined both primary fermenters June 9 2018 racked to two cornies and forced carbed. 2.5 gallon batch great, 5 gallon batch has off flavour from Yeast? Not submitting the off flavour corny! FG 1.012 with bavarian 2206 yeast 80.3% attenuation 6.8%abv It took first place at inter club homebrew completion. Plus got us an invite to Brew it at Callister Brewing!

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Brew # 63 Prohibition Pilot batch 1 ------------------------------------------- brewed on Paul's system. cut six row in half and used weyermann pilsner for half. added box of minute rice 700 grams in addition to corn maize. Fresh corn maize. Carpils for foam head first step 120 F. protein rest for 30 minutes. Then added 1.5 gallons boiling water to get to 137 F. wanted 140-144 F but missed. Used Rims to step up heat for the rest of brew. ended up at 144 F at 93 minutes after infusion. Rested at 144 for maybe 30 minutes and then raised up to 168F. We did not do a decoction. Spent a lot of time on playing with Rims and new Riptide pump. Vacuum packed grain bed, so added rice hulls. 93minutes in we are at 144 F. and PH of 5.2. Mostly converted. Just reached 144 too. Was a slow rise from 137 F to 144 F as actually went down to 132 F while trying to heat. Ended up covering lid with blanket. Too much heat and steam loss on partially open lid to allow recirc hose with diffuser end back in on top of mash. We should just mash in a pot next time then transfer to lauter tun after first sacc rest and recirculate to second sacc rest and mash out. lauter strted 2.5 hours in. final runnings may have been 2.6 brix 1.010 pre-boil 8.5 gallons 12.4 brix 1.049 97% mash efficiency added1.5 gallons hose water now at 10 gallons pre boil 10.6 brix 1.041. Beersmith on Paul's tablet has a different calibration. Brad messed up and added too much water. But in the end the compensation of adding 15 more minutes boil time brought us over our wanted final gravity. We would have been fine with 90 minute boil rather than our 105 minute boil. 15 minutes in to boil 11.2 brix 1.044 sg 9.75 gallons 45 min in boil or 15 min in real boil 12.2 brix 1.048 post boil 6.875 gallons 15.2 brix 1.061 og 30 min hop steep at 160 F. 25 LITRES prior to chilling down from 160f or adding steeping hops. (1.9 ozs of hops) finally cooled hyrometer sample 1062 - 1.063 at 55 F. Very clear wort! nicely coagulated trub. 6.34 gallons into fermenters.