Batch: 3

Recipe:

• 3 lbs Maris Otter Pale
• .5 lbs English Chocolate Malt (omitted by choice this time)
• .75 lbs American Caramel 60*L [Crystal]
• 4 lbs Dry Light (malt extract)
• .33 oz Galena (Pellets 13.00 %AA) boiled 60 min
• .75 oz Cascade (Pellets 5.50 %AA) boiled 30 min
• 1 oz Tettnanger (Pellets 4.50 %AA) boiled 5 min
• yeast: White Labs WLP002 English Ale [used wyeast 1338]

Original Gravity:  Oops.

Notes:

Bought another plastic airlock since I slightly melted my other one.

I picked up a Fluke meter like Matt’s through a seller on E-Bay for under $35.  I have to fashion a probe for it but now I have what I hope will be an excellent way to measure most temperatures. I bought a couple of probes (one for insertion and one for surface temperatures) and it’s working great.

I talked with them at Cellar and they pretty much always have Chocolate malts so it’s unlikely that my first batch used a substitute.  I have to assume that I paid for but never actually received them.  They were kind enough to give me a discount for that mishap as I purchased the new batch of supplies and ingredients.

Color is pretty light compared to what I remember from the first batch.  Perhaps I only received a portion of the Chocolates the first time?  Maybe I misremember the color?  Who knows.

I made a slurry from the dry malts and warm water.  That made adding the dry malts a lot easier.  Definitely worth repeating.

Fermentation:

• Tuesday 29 May – 64.2 f – no bubbles
• Wednesday 30 May – 64.2 f – ~28 seconds
• Sunday 3 June – 64.8 f – ~16 seconds
• Monday 4 June – 63.2 f – 18.16 seconds
• Sunday 10 June – 65.4 f – 18.34 seconds
• Monday 11 June – 66.8 f – 17.48 seconds
• Wednesday 13 June – 64.4 f – 21.94 seconds
• Thursday 14 June – 62.0 f – 32.59 seconds
• Friday 15 June – 64.8 f – 54.25 seconds
• Saturday 16 June – 66.0 f – 43.87 seconds
• Monday 18 June – 66.0 f – 88.19 seconds
• Thursday – switched from blow-off tube to airlock (unmelted w/ vodka)
• Sunday 24 June – 65.2 f – 50.55 seconds
• Friday 27 July – Bottled (Finally!)

Final Gravity:

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