Dave's Home Brew IPA

After a long brewing hiatus I finally was able to brew a batch tonight!  Wifey made a nice brewing corner in the kitchen for all the gear and we're back in business.  At least for the near term.

I had bought a kit some time ago from a local brew house in Sydney - Dave's Home Brew but never had the gear or time to brew it.  Until tonight.

The ingredients were mostly familiar and the process generally the same, though I modified the instructions a bit.  The grain was Torrified Wheat.  Bag A had 500g of dry malt extract with what looked to be target hops added to the extract.  The Yeast was Safale S-04, bittering hops were East Kent Golding hops and there was a Goldings hop bag.  

Ingredients in the kit

 I mentioned the instructions didn't look right so I modified them slightly.  Game plan was....

1) Bring 3 gallons water to 158 (70) to steep grains
2) steep grains for 20 minutes
3) after grains then add 2 malt extracts, bag A, bag 2 of hops, bring to boil
4) boil for 45 minutes,
5) then add bag 1 hops
6) boil another 15 then stop...
7) cool down  to 80 F
8) add yeast and then get it into the primary.

And for the most part I did... some photos.

Grain bag in the steep

Nice large grain bag

How awesome is that - grain bag properly hanging from the cabinet!

Post grains and mid boil... going good

So through the boil everything was going good.  No dramas.  Like riding a bike.  After the boil was done then I moved into the laundry room to bring the brew down in temps.  It didn't go as quickly as Cocoa Beach simply b/c I didn't have ice.  If I had ice and a drain plug it would have gone about the same.

Eventually the temps came down and it was time to transfer it to the carboy.  Though because I didn't have a good funnel I ended up having to auto-siphon it.  That worked until about the end when it clogged with the hops, then I had to transfer it using other ways... which made an absolute mess.  Oh well.

End result is a OG of 1.060 (and I think it's actually higher than this because when I transferred to the hydrometer some water also transferred).

OG of Dave's Pale Ale - 1.060(+)

For future reference...

Timeline
7:50 fill - 7 carafe = 49 cups
8:01 start
816 = 60C
826 = 72C
826 = start steep (awesome setup with grain bag from above)
856 = bring to boil 75
902 = 90
906 = boil
910 = bag 2 added
950 = bag 1 added
953 = finishing hops activated in boiling water - these hops smell good.... others didn't at all
1000 = off heat
1002 = back on
1006 = Removed from heat, cool-down begin
1009 = 85
1014 = 65
1019 = 54
1024 = 44
1029 - 37
1034 - 32
1039 - 28
1042: begin autosiphon
1055: pitch yeast
1100 shake it
1108 airlock
1111 beer brewed
1200 midnight, cleanup done