Sierra Nevada

Another batch of this beauty, and this time a full 25 litres.

Brewday details:

• Length: 25 litres
• OG: 1.068
• FG: 1.012
• ABV: 7.3%

BeerXml File: Damn The Torpedoes

Damn The Torpedos

• Style: American IPA
• Length: 25 litres
• Yeast: Safale American (DCL/Fermentis US-05)
• OG: 1.073
• FG: 1.015
• ABV: 7.7 %
• Colour: 19.6 EBC
• Bitterness: 70.0 IBUs

Comments:

Measured 36 litres in the copper at 13.4Bx = 1.052.

28 litres at the end of the boil at 1.068, and 25 litres into the FV, so a little low on gravity and high on volume – for some reason today I only boiled off 8 litres instead of 9 litres, and I also collected a little more wort than I needed from the mash tun, so I need to tweak my equipment settings in BeerSmith to get it a little more accurate.

2012-07-17: Was only down to 1.026 after 7 days fermenting at 18C, so I raised the temp slightly to 21C and it’s now down to 1.016.  If it’s not moved much by tomorrow I’ll rack in into secondary for dry hopping.  Since it’s US-05 there’s a big layer of yeast on the top still, so not inclined to just chuck them in.

2012-07-19: Racked 24 litres to a secondary FV, and added the dry hops.  Dropped the temp back to 18C.  Will leave it a few days to infuse, then crash chill.  Contemplating gelatine finings, but since it’s destined for bottling and US-05 isn’t the most flocculant strain, I may not.  Don’t really mind cloudy beer!

2012-07-29: After dry-hopping and chilling, racked 22.5 litres into the bottling bucket with 80g of sugar in 250ml water.  Bottled 55 small bottles.  Tastes very good.  FG was 7.6Bx = 1.012 (by hydrometer), so that’s a pretty-much-on-the-money 7.3% ABV.

A big and special beer for my 25th Anniversary (of all-grain brewing).  Inspired by this post on Jim’s Forum, it’s a Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA clone.

Brewday details:

• Length: 15 litres
• OG: 1.064
• FG: 1.012
• ABV: 7.2%

Torpedo

• Style: American IPA
• Length: 15 litres
• Yeast: Safale US-05 ( )
• OG:
• FG:
• ABV:

Comments:

23 litres into the boiler at 12.8Bx = 1.050, so that’s a mash efficiency of 73%.

After cooling in the boiler, about 18 litres at 15.6Bx = 1.062, 1.064 by hydrometer, which is quite a lot low.  About 15.5 litres into the FV.

Dry hops went in on Sat 3rd, day 7, then crash cooled for 3 days at 1C bef0re bottling 40 (in small bottles!) today, day 12, with 50g priming sugar.

Measured FG at 7.6Bx = 1.007, but the hydrometer thinks 1.012, which seems a lot more likely.  The latter means an ABV of 7.2%.  Bloody good job I bottled it in the small ones..!