Brewing Tomorrow

So Randy and I are brewing tomorrow and we are super excited. This will be our first ten gallon batch. Side Note- if you haven't check out Randy's blog at poor house brewing.

After much deliberation over ingredients we finally came to an agreement on the planned recipe. It is as follows:


Imperial NW Red Ale
Grain:
23 lbs 2-row
4 lbs Light Munich
1 lbs Crystal 30
1 lbs Crystal 50-60
1 lbs Crystal 120
0.5 lbs Pale Chocolate

Hops:
2 oz Millennium @60
2 oz Nugget @30
1 oz Cascade @10
1 oz Cascade @0

Yeast:Wyeast Irish Ale 1084 in a 1 quart starter made about 20 hours earlier

Water:12 gallons strike at 175 for 60 min 4.5 gallons double batch sparge at 190

Extra:1/4 teaspoon Wyeast Yeast Nutrient


UPDATE: So this is a little late but Brewing went well. We had a great time with only a few mishaps. See poorhouse brewing for more info on that. Today I sanitized one of the cornies I was able to get to pressurize and racked into it to start conditioning. I wish I would have gone to secondary though. It turned out a little thick and cloudy. Secondary would have helped to clear that up.


F.G. was at 1.014. We forgot to take an O.G. so the only thing we had to go off was the gravity I took the day after we pitched which ended up being 1.060. Overall the flavor is really good, a solid red ale with some extra hoppiness.

UPDATE: I didn't like how thick and cloudy it was. It gave a sort of weird mouth feel so I ended up de-pressurizing it and leaving it in the fridge for a little while. Then I siphoned out of the bottom a pint or two to try and get most of that removed. Its a lot more clear. I like it better. I will carbonate it here starting tomorrow if my CO2 is free.