Brooks Dubbel

First thing, first here is the recipe: http://beersmithrecipes.com/viewrecipe/2435454?&doid=5ca8c5507a79e

There are a couple of tweaks we are subbing the amber candi for dark candi and dropping to 6oz. I am using the Imperial yeast Triple Double.

I started with distilled water since it’s a 90 min boil my full volume is 8.7 gallons of water. (this ended up being a mistake and why I think I missed my OG.)

Added salts and lactic acid during heating my strike water:

Then Milled my grain:

Mashed in at 152:

Mashed for 1 hour

I use the BIAB method so I squeezed my bag.

After 30 min of boiling I added 2.5 oz of Hersbrucker Hops 2.2 AA

I always rock some jams while I brew!

Here is my boil:

Added the chiller with 15 min left:

Added the Candi Sugar with 5 min left to boil:

Started my chill and my Hydra is super fast:

Chilled to 68 and moved to the fermenter:

Pitched my yeast and put it into the fermenter. I missed my target gravity by 6 points. I thnk 1.056 could still get me to 6% as long as my fermentation attenuates well. We will see…

Here are the numbers so far:

OG 1.056
Will ferment at 68 for the next 4 day then will ramp up to 70.

I’ll update this as things change…

The video is post cleanup the attached photo is the blowoff.

Looks like things are going well. How do you like your Tilt? Do you find they are pretty accurate, any problems? I looked at them but was nervous about spending the money if they did not work, on the other hand I cannot have too many brewing toys.

Chuck