For my first partial mash BIAB, I decided to do a 1.2 gallon Pliny the Younger clone based on scottland's recipe: http://www.bertusbrewery.com/2013/03/pliny-younger-clone-20.html
Late Saturday night I mashed 2 pounds of 2-row and a little over an ounce of C15 in a 9-quart cooler. I heated the water up to 154*. It came down to 148* when I poured it on the grain, so I stirred it for about a minute until it got down to 144*, then I closed the lid. I wanted to do a 90 minute rest at 144*, but after 90 minutes the temperature had gone down to 132*. I heated the wort to 168 and did a dunk sparge, but ultimately got 48% efficiency. I added 1.4 lbs DME and 3 oz sugar.
My hop additions were as follows:
1 oz Apollo @ 90
14g CTZ @ 45
10g Simcoe @ 30
14g Simcoe @ 0
10g Centennial @ 0
7g Amarillo @ 0
3g CTZ @ 0
I quickly cooled my wort to 140, let it slowly cool to 120 over the next hour to whirlpool the hops, and quickly cooled to 70 after that, and poured it through a strainer into my 3 gallon carboy. I thought I would lose more water to boil off than I did, so at the end I had 1.4 gallons and gravity was only 1.075. I also didn't realize how old my freshly shipped WLP090 was. I needed 90 billion cells, but my yeast had less than 40 billion cells based on the exp date. I wish I would have looked at it on Friday and made a starter, but I didn't. Therefore I decided to use an 11.5g packet of S-04. I re-hydrated the packet in 2 cups of water and dumped it in my wort. That brought the gravity down to 1.070 so I decided to keep adding sugar until I got the gravity up to 1.088. Therefore I added another 11 oz of sugar. While the hops may be like PTY, it has way more sugar and an English yeast, which is why I'm calling it Pliny the Angry Young Man.
Late Saturday night I mashed 2 pounds of 2-row and a little over an ounce of C15 in a 9-quart cooler. I heated the water up to 154*. It came down to 148* when I poured it on the grain, so I stirred it for about a minute until it got down to 144*, then I closed the lid. I wanted to do a 90 minute rest at 144*, but after 90 minutes the temperature had gone down to 132*. I heated the wort to 168 and did a dunk sparge, but ultimately got 48% efficiency. I added 1.4 lbs DME and 3 oz sugar.
My hop additions were as follows:
1 oz Apollo @ 90
14g CTZ @ 45
10g Simcoe @ 30
14g Simcoe @ 0
10g Centennial @ 0
7g Amarillo @ 0
3g CTZ @ 0
I quickly cooled my wort to 140, let it slowly cool to 120 over the next hour to whirlpool the hops, and quickly cooled to 70 after that, and poured it through a strainer into my 3 gallon carboy. I thought I would lose more water to boil off than I did, so at the end I had 1.4 gallons and gravity was only 1.075. I also didn't realize how old my freshly shipped WLP090 was. I needed 90 billion cells, but my yeast had less than 40 billion cells based on the exp date. I wish I would have looked at it on Friday and made a starter, but I didn't. Therefore I decided to use an 11.5g packet of S-04. I re-hydrated the packet in 2 cups of water and dumped it in my wort. That brought the gravity down to 1.070 so I decided to keep adding sugar until I got the gravity up to 1.088. Therefore I added another 11 oz of sugar. While the hops may be like PTY, it has way more sugar and an English yeast, which is why I'm calling it Pliny the Angry Young Man.