| 2007-04-14 19:55 | 5 gallon carboy with RO water sat for about six hours in 50°F chiller. Smacked yeast pack a few times and shook it like a British infant. Started with 1.5 gallons as opposed to the 1 gallon in recipe. Just did not have enough volume for thermometer, grain bag. Also, recipe totaled 4 gallons, not 5. Floated the plastic jar of LME in sink with 130°F tap water, set kettle on high burner and stirred in brew salts. | |
| 2007-04-14 20:20 | Water at 160°F, dropped to gas 6 and added sock for 20 minute steep. Temp hovered between 155°F and 161°F. Occasionally turned gas to low | |
| 2007-04-14 20:40 | Heat off, rinsed grain bag after full drain. | |
| 2007-04-14 20:54 | added DME and LME, bringing back to boil | |
| 2007-04-14 21:15 | Hit boil, added about 3/4 oz Halertauer (boil) hops. Boiling for 50 minutes on gas setting 8. | |
| 2007-04-14 22:05 | added about 1/2 oz Halertauer (aroma) hops and Irish Moss, boil another 10 minutes. | |
| 2007-04-14 22:15 | Immersed kettle in icewater bath, poured in at lease 3 gallons cold RO water from glass carboy. There was a lot of foam, so I sanitized a metal spoon and tried to remove as much foam as possible. | |
| 2007-04-14 22:45 | Wort had chilled down to about 80°F. Poured wort through mest strainer into fermentation bucket, providing a great deal of aeration. Strainer started clogging, so I used the sanitized metal spoon to shove trub out of the way. Looks like I filtered out and discarded about 1.5 to 2 cups of mushy hop-like solids. Wort cooled down to about 71°F. Pulled sample for cylinder. Pitched yeast and sealed. | |
| SPGR reading 1.050 at 71°F. Converts to 1.051 initial gravity and 6.5% potential alcohol by volume. | ||
| 2007-04-14 23:00 | Primary fermentation in chiller, Johnson set to 70°F | |
| 2007-04-15 09:00 | Chiller temp shows 72°F, some bubbles. Setting Johnson to 68°F | |
| 2007-04-15 09:00 | Chiller temp shows 68°F, roughly .8 bubbles per second. Vented air. | |
| 2007-04-15 20:24 | currently at 71.2°F and up to 19 bubbles in 15 seconds. Vented air. | |
| 2007-04-19 18:00 | Racked to secondary as per recipe in spite of a good two to three inches of thick, dry krausen | |
| 05/01/2007 05:30 | Very slow bubble at 63°F. Concerned about mold and such, dropped temp to 57°F | |
| 05/01/2007 05:30 | Dropped the hydrometer into the carboy last night, reading at 61°F is 1.012 | |
| 05/01/2007 05:30 | Reading hydrometer at 62&Deg;F as 1.012 | |
| 05/04/2007 12:20 | Bottled at 60&Deg;F SPGR 1.012 padv 1.5% Volume 4.125 gallons | |
| Final product was 5% Alcohol by volume. One 2L growler, sixteen 22oz bottles, nine 12oz bottles |
Afterthoughts:
Kind of winelike and sweet. More popular with guests who liked fruity drinks or wine. Not a bad beer, but definitely not Kölsch.