Best laid plans...a call out at work today, so I go in...din;t get out until 6:30, so here I am adding the first hops at 10:20pm. I am scheduled 6:30-2:30 tomorrow, so it looks like about 4 hours of sleep tonight. My second time brewing this beer, I'm going to try adding some lemon grass directly into the fermentor this time.
GRIST:
5 lbs Weyermann Pale Malt
3 lbs Franco Belges Pilsen Malt
HOPS:
1oz Nugget 45 minutes
1oz Saaz 15 minutes
1oz UK Kent Golding 5 minutes
ADJUNCTS:
.75oz Sweet Orange Peel 5 minutes
.75oz Lemongrass 5 minutes
1 lb organic honey 5 minutes
YEAST:
Wyeast #3522 Belgian Ardennes
TARGET OG 1.052 ACTUAL OG 1.050 (too much volume, wound up with 5.5 gallons of wort)
Mashed in 3.3 gallons 161 degree water, target 151
Mashed out 1 gallon boiling water
Sparged 3.3 gallons 180 degree water
.25oz lemongrass added to fermenter at terminal gravity
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