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148-150 mash temp. Do at least 150 on sulfate. Change to 10 gal and just add the other hops in too. Use Wyeast 2007. It's The Amarillo hops giving the perfume flavor. Beer judge liked it. Others, including pro Brewer, agreed w me. Maybe do sorachi and saaz.

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YEAST 3 packs Wyeast 2007 (~3.5-4L starter on stir plate depending on viability (4 packs if production date is earlier than October). May have to stick one liter in the 2L flask on the other stire plate. ust combine all in one and then split by pouring carefully. Decant for sure; put in fridge Friday afternoon. The big stir plate only works on the counter for some reason, and then it just crapped out too and had to finish the large flask on the small stir plate which could handle it just fine. WATER DILUTION For the mash, 6 of the 10 gallons in the HLT will be distilled water. For the sparge, 5 of the 9.5 gallons added to the HLT will be distilled water.Because I though some one step cleaner may have remained in the lines, I dumped some of the original mixture in mash MLT and without thinking filled it back up with regular tap water. Although I adjusted the brewing salts and campden as best I could, I was unable to add more distilled water, so it was more like 3.5 gallons of distilled water was used rather than 6 for the mash MLT. BREWING -Heated HLT water to 164; doughed in with 1 tsp of acid. -Let sit without circulating for 12 minutes at 148, then recirculated for 55 minutes -initial pH reading was 5.7; then added 1.5 tsp at 24 minutes, then down to 5.5 pH; then added 2 more tsp and down to 5.42 (recirculated for last 20 minutes at 5.42); final pH measurement was 5.42 after mash. -90 minute total mash time -Only 1 step for sparge; added 5.5gallons and 4 tsp of acid right off the bat (I think around 5.6 pH on first measurement)' -Sparge recirculated for 40 minutes. -drained into BK and then just topped off with brewing water to 13.5 gal. -boil off rate was craszy high; had to add water several times (about 2 gallons over the course), and still post boil voulme was only 10.5 (which is 2 gallons less than we were supposed to have); had several boil overs too; need fermcap -boil actually ended up being 110 minutes, so all of the hop times were 10 minutes longer than they said. -OG was 1.052 - removed hop bag and squeezed before adding flame out hops; whirlpool as about 40 minutes, but only because waiting on ice. -got it down to 75-80 (below 80 while adding oxygen); had it to stick in cooler over night to get to 48 degrees to pitch the yeast FERMENTATION When pitched yeast, accidentally left the temp controller unplugged so that the draft cooler stayed on too low and the beer was at 42 degrees about 18 hours later (Monday morning) and barely bubbling; the temp controller was then plugged in and set at 48. Monday night at 49 degrees with little bubbling. Tuesday morning and evening at 50 degrees and bubbling heavily. Wednesday eveningg at 52 and bubbling away. Thursday morning at 54 degrees. Thursday night at 52 degrees and 1.036 gravity Friday am at 51-52. Saturday am at 51. Bumped up to 60 Monday night to start diacetyl rest 63 Tues and 1.021 11/3 Thurs 68 and 1.015 11/5 Sat 68 and 1.012 and buttery diacetyl on the forced test. 11/7 Mon 68 and 1.011 and still a slight butter shell after force test. 11/8 Tues 68 and 1.011 and very slight butter smell w force test. Difficult to smell 11/9 Wed start dropping temp around lunch 11/9 pm down to 62 w sporadic bubbling 11/10 am down to 60 degrees 11/10 pm down to 50 degrees 11/11 pm down to 45. Transferred to other keg via clean hose and CO2 and bottom racking arms. Very clear beer coming through hose. Then sanitized Mason jars and shook up remaining beer on yeast cake before turning racking arm 90 degrees to bottom, hitting w CO2 and opening valve to fill it into sanitized jars that were then placed in fridge. 11/12 next day, MVG down to 38 on left side of draft cooler. 11/10 When transferring fermenters, need to go from one Sabco to other without air touching for secondary. Need to force with CO2 and need 1/2 ID hose with Sabco tri clamp connection.