Cascade++

A fresh-picked Cascade wet hopped brew.

Grain Bill / Fermentables

  • 4 lbs 2 Row Pale Malt
  • 3 lb Pilsner Malt
  • 2 lb Munich Malt
  • 1 lb Crystal 20
  • 1 lb Honey Malt

Hops

  • 0.5 oz Magnum (12.8 AAU)
  • 1 oz Centennial (8.7 AAU)
  • 8 oz Cascade (Home Grown!)

Yeast

  • White Labs WLP001

Target Stats

  • 5.5 Gallons
  • OG 1.067
  • FG 1.016
  • ABV 6.69%
  • IBU 101.17
  • SRM 8.46

Prior to Brew Day

We’re using an existing yeast cake, nothing to see here.

Brew Day

Heat 5 gallons of water to 160°. (2 gallons filtered Dover city water and 3 gallons of distilled water to reduce sulfates.)

Gently dough in grains until all grain is covered by water.

Mash grains at 152° and take a ph reading. Continue for 1 hour.

Remove “grain bag” and allow grains to drain.

Bring wort to a boil and add 0.5 oz Magnum hops and continue boil for another 15 minutes.

Add 0.5 oz Centennial hops and continue boil for 15 minutes.

Add 0.5 ozCentennial hops and continue boil for 10 minutes. (This is a good time to drop in the wort chiller.)

Add 4 oz fresh, wet Cascade hops and continue boil for 5 minutes.

Remove from heat source, drop wort temperature to 170 and add 4 oz fresh, wet Cascade. Cover and reduce wort temperature to 68° and take OG reading.

Sufficiently aerate and transfer to primary fermenter, pitching directly onto existing yeast cake.

Allow beer 2~3 weeks in the primary to adequately ferment and cleanup any diacetyl produced during fermentation.

Cold crash, bottle and wait another 2 weeks…

Enjoy!

Notes:

  • 2017-07-29, Brew Day
    • Adjusted mash pH to 5.10 using 1/4 tsp citric acid.
    • Mashed for 1.25 hours due to extended hop picking.
    • Added an additional 1 oz fresh picked Cascade hops to flame out.
    • Pitched wort onto yeast cake a bit warm at 84 degrees.
  • 2.5 hours, krausen starting to form and visible activity in airlock.
  • 8 hours, 2″ krausen and a constant, hoppy stream of bubbles in the airlock.
  • 18 hours, 4″ krausen, the largest I’ve ever witnessed in a 6.5 gallon carboy.
  • 42 hours, krausen began dropping out and little airlock activity.
  • 58 hours, krausen has mostly dropped out and almost no airlock activity.