4th Brew - Belgian Trippel IPA

Brew:	Belgian Trippel IPA (Quad Hopped)
Date:	03/10/2007
Weather:	Partly cloudy, 34°-55°
Recipe:	PDF \| REC
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Notes:	Pitched two 3/4 liter starters w/ 2.5 oz of DME each White labs Belgian Ale Yeast (WLP550) White labs California Ale Yeast (WLP001) Dough-In was up to sparger Boil started with 14.5 gallons with runnings at 1.020 120 min boil without FWH Produced 11.75-12 gallons Therminator worked great except hop leaves clogged quick disconnects

Statistics

Time	Description
08:10 am	Started filling HLT
08:15 am	Started heating HLT
08:20 am	Filling complete (14 gallons)
08:30 am	Added 3 tablespoons of Buffer 5.2
08:40 am	HLT PH reads 6.2. Added 2 more tablespoons of B5.2
08:55 am	HLT PH reads 6.17. Added 2 more tablespoons of B5.2
09:22 am	HLT PH reads 6.06
09:02 am	HLT heating complete to 160°
09:30 am	Started to dough-in (by myself)
	Added mash hop pellots and got some flow back into the HLT
	Water/Grain level reach bottom of sparger
09:43 am	Mash started at 150°
10:08 am	Started HERMS re-circulation
11:05 am	Places FWH into the boil
11:13 am	Mash complete, stopped re-circulation
	Started raising HLT temp to sparge temp 170°
11:20 am	HLT reached sparge temp
	Starting transferring mash wort to the boil slowly
11:21 am	Started the sparge
	Ran out of propane. Had to run to Home Depot to get more.
	End of sparge was below the target 170°as a result
11:35 am	Started heating the boil
12:45 pm	Sparge complete. 14.5 gallons collected.
	Runnings at 1.020. PH of boil contents 5.86
01:15 pm	Boil started
01:57 pm	First Hop addition. 13 gallons remains in boil
03:00 pm	Second hop addition. 12 gallons
	Added Irish moss
03:15 pm	Boil complete
	Chilled using therminator
	Pitched both starters and oxygenated for 3 mins

Date	Time	Description
03/10/07	~05:00 pm	Placed fermentor in basement with thermowell, etc, and heat wrap connected
		Left heat wrap on over-night to ensure it was working. Left at 67°
03/11/07	~08:20 pm	Fermentor up to 78°. Moved into laundry room and reconnected etc.
		Bubbling once a second. Gravity at 1.070. Tastes very hoppy.
03/17/07	06:30 pm	Hydrometer reading 1.026. Bubbles once every 3 seconds
		Lots a flavor and aroma hops, slight bitter finish
03/22/07	08:15 pm	Hydrometer reading 1.017. Slight sulfer from Belgian yeast
03/25/07	09:30 am	Dumped 30 oz of trub. Bubbles 1 / 30 secs before dump
	11:00 am	Added two ounces of dry-hop (Goldings and Centennial)
03/31/07	03:30 pm	Filtered beer using 1 micron sediment filter from fermentor into two 5 gallon cornys using pump
		Final gravity: 1.014