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First time homebrewer. Picked a Black IPA recipe I thought sounded good. I'm two weeks in (dry hopped after one week) and the beer has a very strong and sharp alcohol taste that overpowers it (I assume this is fusel alcohol).
I'm using the Williams kit, converted 10 gallon cooler and a 6.5 gallon carboy.
I used 15 quarts of strike water based on 1.25 quarts per pound of grain. Seemed like too much as the water covered the grain, and I may not have gotten that "oatmeal" consistency.
Mash temp was right on 153 for the hour.
Spare water was around 170.
Cooling took a while to get down to 70, and it may have been a few degrees more when the yeast was pitched.
Carboy has been sitting in a closet at 68 to 70 degrees (maybe too warm)?
Everything the cooled wort touched was sanitized with StarSan.
The recipe is below. I'm quite disheartened as this is looking like a drain pour. What is in my glass now really isn't drinkable.
Where did I go wrong?
The Wealth of DarknessBatch
Size: 5 US gallons
Efficiency: 70%
Estimated OG: 1.060 (we were a bit lower than this, though)
Target finishing gravity: about 1.009
IBUs: 69
Boil time: 60 minutes
Grain Bill
10 lbs Pale 2-row (85.11%)
1 lb Crystal 40 (8.51%)
8 oz Midnight Wheat (4.26%)
4 oz Chocolate Malt (2.13%)
Boil/Hops
2 oz Columbus (14.60 AA) at 15min
1 oz Nugget (12.20 AA) at 15min
1 oz Columbus (14.60 AA) at flameout
1 oz Nugget (12.20 AA) at flameout
1 oz Columbus (14.60 AA) for dryhop last 7 days of primary
1 oz Nugget (12.20 AA) for dryhop last 7 days of primary
Yeast: Safale US-05
Mash: 60 minute mash at 153 degrees F
Fermentation: 3 weeks at 68 degrees F
Bottling: It was ready to go after 2.5-3 weeks in the bottle at room temperature.
I'm using the Williams kit, converted 10 gallon cooler and a 6.5 gallon carboy.
I used 15 quarts of strike water based on 1.25 quarts per pound of grain. Seemed like too much as the water covered the grain, and I may not have gotten that "oatmeal" consistency.
Mash temp was right on 153 for the hour.
Spare water was around 170.
Cooling took a while to get down to 70, and it may have been a few degrees more when the yeast was pitched.
Carboy has been sitting in a closet at 68 to 70 degrees (maybe too warm)?
Everything the cooled wort touched was sanitized with StarSan.
The recipe is below. I'm quite disheartened as this is looking like a drain pour. What is in my glass now really isn't drinkable.
Where did I go wrong?
The Wealth of DarknessBatch
Size: 5 US gallons
Efficiency: 70%
Estimated OG: 1.060 (we were a bit lower than this, though)
Target finishing gravity: about 1.009
IBUs: 69
Boil time: 60 minutes
Grain Bill
10 lbs Pale 2-row (85.11%)
1 lb Crystal 40 (8.51%)
8 oz Midnight Wheat (4.26%)
4 oz Chocolate Malt (2.13%)
Boil/Hops
2 oz Columbus (14.60 AA) at 15min
1 oz Nugget (12.20 AA) at 15min
1 oz Columbus (14.60 AA) at flameout
1 oz Nugget (12.20 AA) at flameout
1 oz Columbus (14.60 AA) for dryhop last 7 days of primary
1 oz Nugget (12.20 AA) for dryhop last 7 days of primary
Yeast: Safale US-05
Mash: 60 minute mash at 153 degrees F
Fermentation: 3 weeks at 68 degrees F
Bottling: It was ready to go after 2.5-3 weeks in the bottle at room temperature.