Snorkel Stout

Ingredients-

Grain:

25 lbs- 2 Row Pale Malt
3 lbs- Crystal 120
1 lb 8 oz- Chocolate Malt
8 oz- Black Patent
8 oz- Carafa III

Hops:

1.5 oz- Nugget (pellet)
2.0 oz- Cascade (whole)

Yeast:

Safale American 05

Water:

Mash-
9.5 Gallons @ 162 for 70 minutes
Sparge-
1.5 Gallons @ 168 for 2 Minutes
6.5 Gallons @ 168 for 10 Minutes and re-circulate

Pre-boil Adjusted Gravity- 1.054
Post Boil Specific Gravity- 1.076

04JUN2011- Had the privilege of brewing this with Jon Brawley which was awesome. Brewing went fairly well except for the fact after we had mashed and drained the mash water and the first sparge water the Mash Tun clogged and we couldn't get the wort out of the mash very easily while keeping it free of grain pieces. We had to use the Poormeister suggested "snorkel" technique (hence the beers name) which was difficult and took countless tries but was finally successful. Ended up with about 13.5 gallons pre-boil. Boil was really fun yet we ended up with slightly lower final amount than expected and higher specific gravity than expected. I think this one is going to be really really good. I can't wait.

11JUN2011- Gravity down to 1.012, which gives us 8.4% ABV. I am going to transfer my 4.5 gallons to the keg today and transfer Brawley's to cold crash. This way when they are ready we can compare and see how big of a difference cold crashing makes.