Method

Start a 1 litre 1.040 yeast started the day before.

Cracked the grains with rolling pin, put them into a grain bag, and put bag into brewpot containing about 9 litres of cold water. Turn on burner, drain and remove bag as water comes to a boil.

Turn off element, empty extracts into pot, turn element back on. Put hops directly into brewpot according to above schedule. Turn element off, add finishing hops, steep 5 min. Tested out new trub/hop filter and CF chiller. The filter got clogged with all the plug hops, so had to strain entire brewpot into a white bucket with a spigot, then drain from there into the chiller whose output went to the carboy. The chiller worked like a charm.

Once in the carboy, it was a bit cold so the water I added was warmer. Filled carboy all the way and aerate 15 to 20 minutes with pump (with new aeration wand, not stone). Was then able to pitch immediately.

The amount of break was nowhere near as much as the previous batch. There was perhaps 1.5 to 2 inches after an hour.

Data

brewed: Mar 16, 1996
pitched: Mar 16, 1996 (6pm, immediately)
racked: Mar 24, 1996 -- S.G 1.014
bottled: Mar 26, 1996 -- S.G. 1.014
O.G. 1.042 (really odd that it's so low)
F.G. 1.014

Pitching

March 16, 10pm. Pitched about 500ml of starter that was already past high kraeusen.

Fermentation

At 9am on the next day foam was built up, and 1 hour later was blowing out the blow-off. Still going strong as of the evening of the 18th.

Other Notes

Taste Tests

Yield

2 litre x 1
650 ml x 9
600 ml x 5
341 ml x 31