This was the one of the 2009 AHA Big Brew recipes. I modified it a bit by adding 1lb of 2-row to (over)compensate for my previous efficiency woes.
Ingredients
- 8.25 lb 2-row pale malt
- 2 lb vienna malt
- 1/2 lb flaked wheat
- 1/2 lb flaked oats
- 1/2 lb honey (add at end of boil)
- .7 oz East Kent Golding hop pellet @ 90 min
- .5 oz hallertauer hop pellets @ 20 min
- .5 oz hellertauer hop pellets @ 0 min
- .75 tsp irish moss @ 15 min
- .5 oz crushed coriander @ 0 min
- .5 tsp grains of paradise @ 0 min
- .25 oz curacao (sweet) orange peel @ 0 min
- .25 oz valencia (bitter) orange peel @ 0 min
- Wyeast 3724 Belgian Saison yeast
- 1 cup DME w/ 1oz honey for priming
Mash conducted as follows:
note: mash water included 1 tsp of "super 5.2" ph balancer- this stuff has greatly increased my efficiencies.
75 min @ ~ 152 F <- this was longer than intended waiting for sparge water to get up to temp
sparge w/ 5 gal ~170F water to collect ~6.5 gal total for 90 min boil. Follow boil schedule per ingredient list.
OG: 1.063
FG: 1.017 after 11 days in primary - in hindsight I should have either racked to 2ndary for another week or so, or left primary a bit longer- I'm worried this beer is a bit underattenuated for a style that should be pretty dry. 1.01 would have been a better FG.
