The Stout brewday went pretty well. I got my now-normal 88% efficiency in the mash, and the numbers ended up perfect. I boiled this one for 90 mins, as was suggested in a few places. The hop schedule, a big one, only went from 60 minutes in the recipe, but I tossed in the bitterring charge at the 90 minute mark...oops, force of habit. It's ok though, because it didn't change the IBUs at all.
-1.5lbs 2-row
-2.4oz Roasted Barley
-2.4oz Chocolate
-2.4oz Crystal 40L
-0.25oz Warrior @ 90
-0.2oz Cascade @ 30
-0.2oz Cascade @ 0
This should be a deep, dark, roasty, hoppy beer with a lot of character.
Today marked two weeks since the Wheat went into bottles, so I opened one to see what I had made. It's kind of boring actually. There is very little wheat character, and almost no hops at all. I think for the next batch, brewing this weekend, is going to have more wheat malt- maybe 60% as opposed to 50% of the grains. I'm also going to abandon the Tettnanger hops and throw in an American variety to give it more character.,,I just have to choose which one. The beer also lacked the clean character I was expecting from the Safale US-05, so I will have to treat the yeast a little better from now on.
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