Easy Peasy Lemon Hazy 001

Batch 001
Brew day: July 22, 2018.
Temperature: 98
Location: Garage (2811 Detroit St)

Mash in

• Water: tap, through a TastePure RV/Marine water filter.
  
• Pre rinse cooler with 150 degree water.
  
• Grains at 75 degree (indoor room temp)
  
• 4 gallons at 168. Pump to Igloo cooler.
  
• Add grains. Temp dropped to 155.
  
  Mash out:
  
• Heat 3.5 more gallons to 168. Transfer to cooler. (Start heating water 25 minutes before mash is done.)
  
• Recirculate wart in cooler for 15 min. (Shower head didn’t really work. Leaked from the QD fitting. Need a better way to spray. Or hold the shower head above the grain bed.)
  
• Transfer to kettle. Ended with 6.25 gallons in the kettle.
  
• Take gravity reading. 1.020 at 135 degrees. Converts to 1.034, 64% efficiency.
  
  Boil
  
• Boil 6.25 gallons of wort. Add hops as per recipe.
  
• With 6oz of hops, the screen for clogged pretty good. Need to remove the screen between hot additions and clean it. Or buy an additional screen.
  
  Chiller
  
• Used mash tun igloo cooler as the ice bath after cleaning out the grains.
  
• 6” silicone hose from ball valve out to water in barb. (No clamps needed.) Water out hose back into cooler. Will run faucet water to get the wort down to a lower temp.
  
• Kettle outlet screen got clogged during the cool down. Was only able to get to 90 degrees. Put into the fermenter and then the fridge after oxygenation.
  
• Waited 24 hours before adding yeast, until it was under 70 degrees. Oxygenated with pump for 15 minutes, then pitched yeast.
  
  Fermenter
  
• Post boil gravity at 68 degrees: 1.040
  
• No room for airlock in fridge. Used clear tubing from airlock hole to glass filled with star san. Seems to be air tight.
  
• Fermentation schedule:
  
  • 3 days at 65.
    
  • Add 2oz Lemondrop hops. Set to 69.
    
  • 3 days at 69.
    
  • Transfer to secondary for 7 days.
    
  • Transfer to keg.
    
    Tasting
    
• Definitely strong lemon flavor. Less strong lemon aroma. Slight bitterness.
  
• Not hazy at all. Actually quite clear. Look at adding wheat to the grain bill, and different yeast. London Fog or Belgian Wit?