Brewed a 4 gallon, all grain Pale Ale yesterday. 5 gal boil.
7.5lb 2 row
0.5lb Caramel 40
0.5lb Carapils
Mash at 154 for 75 min.
Mash out, batch sparge the recirculated the wort for 25 min with cousin's recirc pump. Wow!!! Wort in to boil kettle was so clear...
0.5oz Citra 60 min
0.75oz Exp Stonefruit 15 minutes
1.0oz Exp Stonefruit flameout.
Whirlpool to 170 then cooled.
Aerated wort well and Pitched WLP001 at 65 deg.
Fermenting 1 week, secondary two weeks, bottle 2.4 vol three weeks.
OG: 1.053
Es FG: 1.012
Est abv: 5.3
SRM: about 7
IBU: 53
Fermentation took off about eight hours after pitching the yeast and temps are holding 65-66 last I checked.