markaberrant wrote:J343MY wrote:How did the TenFidy clone go today?
And what is the recipe?
good, and really horribly.
wife had the laptop, so she sent me the BeerSmith text file.
3 hr boil, looked amazing.
and then, at 90 min, i topped it up with the 1.25 gallons of water for that additional hr of boil.
my back was fucking KILLING me from lugging my keggle around from sparge (indoors) to boil (outdoors) then racking (indoors). plus i helped my neighbour put up some artwork in her house and it made for awkward usage of my back.
in the end, i exhaustedly checked the gravity. 1.080. wutthe?....
and then i go to Beersmith and i see that the boil time was set for 180 min. i had changed it to 120 min boil so that the water calculations wouldn't include sparging for that extra 60 min (wanted to avoid tannins from sparge extraction). so yeah. that info isn't apparent on BeerSmith's txt file. i mean, it is there, but it isn't how it is on the Design page. so didn't see the discrepancy, and had an extra gallon or so added to my boil.
so...it will be around a 6.5-7% stout instead of a massive pantload. and the mouthfeel will be off.
but...it looked beautiful in the mash tun. tasted great. really tough beer to mash in. the boil produced so much hot break...the foam was insane. looked like a lovely shot of espresso prior to boil. very handsome beer. insanely slow sparge. was debating about rice hulls and yes, i would use them the next time. sparge was a wee bit slower than i'd like, but not stuck or a problem.
but otherwise?
my recipe that i came up with (i changed the boil time):
Boil Time: 120 Minutes
Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
12 lbs 8.0 oz Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 1 61.0 %
1 lbs 12.0 oz Oats, Flaked (1.0 SRM) Grain 2 8.5 %
1 lbs 12.0 oz Roasted Barley (300.0 SRM) Grain 3 8.5 %
1 lbs 8.0 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 4 7.3 %
1 lbs 8.0 oz Chocolate Wheat (Weyermann) (415.0 SRM) Grain 5 7.3 %
1 lbs Oak smoked wheat malt (3.5 SRM) Grain 6 4.9 %
8.0 oz Special B Malt (180.0 SRM) Grain 7 2.4 %
1.50 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [16.30 %] - Boil 90. Hop 8 72.1 IBUs
0.50 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [16.30 %] - Boil 20. Hop 9 13.6 IBUs
1.00 Items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 mins) Fining 10 -
0.50 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [16.30 %] - Boil 5.0 Hop 11 4.5 IBUs
1.0 pkg California Ale (White Labs #WLP001) [35. Yeast 12 -
1.00 tsp Yeast Nutrient (Primary 3.0 days) Other 13 -
Mash Schedule: Single Infusion, Full Body, No Mash Out
Total Grain Weight: 20 lbs 8.0 oz
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Name Description Step Temperat Step Time
Mash In Add 26.82 qt of water at 78.8 C 68.9 C 75 min
Sparge: Fly sparge with 3.57 gal water at 75.6 C
Notes:
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boil time is 3 hrs. added 1.25 gallons of water prior to boil to top up to prevent astringent mash
odds are that my recipe's way more complex than what OskarBlues does. but i swear that i get some raisin on the palate when i drink TenFidy, so i thought that some special B needed to be in there.
