Brewing Method: All Grain
Yeast: white labs english ale
Yeast Starter: 1 quart
Batch Size: 5 gallons
Original Gravity: 1.056
Final Gravity: 1.010
Alcohol Content: 5ish %
Total Grains: 11.75
Color: black
Extract Efficiency: 75 %
Hop IBU's: 25ish
Boiling Time: 90 minutes
Primary Fermentation: 5 days
Secondary Fermentation: 7 days
Additional Fermentation:
Grain Bill:
8 lbs breiss pale 2-row
1 lb crystal 70
.5 lb roasted barley
.75 lb chocolate malt
.5 flaked barley
1 lb oatmeal
1 pot strong coffee (10 heaping tablespoons fresh ground)
2/3 cup hershey's low fat cocoa ( in the mash)
Hop Bill:
2 oz. east Kent Golding
1oz at 60 minutes
1oz at 30 minutes
Mash Schedule:
mashed for 90 minutes at 152 degrees
mashed out with boiling water until mash reached 170
Brewers Notes:
try it you'll like it! the cocoa didn't come through as much as I'd hoped so feel free to bump it up a bit and let me know how it turned out.