Small Batch IPA – All Grain / No Chill

January 10, 2024 Mike

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Jesse and Mike have been talking about doing some small batch brewing for a little while now, and Jesse finally did it! Here he talks about his method and recipe for a small batch IPA. He ran into a couple of issues along the way.

One of the lessons learned was that he can’t bring 2 gallons of wort to a boil on his electric stove using the 10G kettle. Jesse was counting on about 1/2 Gallon of boil off outside, but he had to resort to bringing the kettle outside and boiling it on his normal burner, and along with the wind, he ended up with quite a bit of boil off.

The gravity was supposed to be 1.063 but ended up at 1.081. No worries though, once he diluted it to the volume he was looking for he ended up at 1.053.
Mike has ran into the same problem with trying to boil a couple of gallons of water on the electric stove as well.

Jesse mentioned that while looking at a 5L flask, he ran across the smaller 5G kettle for $29.99.
https://www.morebeer.com/products/stainless-steel-brewing-kettle-5-gal.html?a_aid=CoBrewTalk

It’s also available as a discount where they take $14.95 if you buy the flask and kettle and use promo code “Safety1” at checkout. See details here:
https://www.morebeer.com/products/erlenmeyer-flask-5000-ml.html?a_aid=CoBrewTalk

Mike was talking about the SMASH beer that we did as a group, he used Elixir Hops.
https://cobrewtalk.com/ingredient-deep-dive-elixir-hops-smash-pale-ale-homebrew-tasting/

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Here’s Jesse’s Recipe:

Recipe Details

Batch Size	Boil Time	IBU	SRM	Est. OG	Est. FG	ABV
2 gal	60 min	59.3	16.2 SRM	1.059	1.011	6.3 %

Fermentables

Name	Amount	%
Pale Malt, 2-Row	2.5 lbs	57.15
Bonlander Munich Malt 10L	1.5 lbs	34.29
Caramel/Crystal Malt	6 oz	8.57

Hops

Name	Amount	Time	Use	Form	Alpha %
Magnum	0.45 oz	60 min	Boil	Pellet	14.7
Centennial	0.19 oz	30 min	Boil	Pellet	10.7
Cascade	0.12 oz	30 min	Boil	Pellet	5.8
Magnum	0.12 oz	30 min	Boil	Pellet	14.7
Cascade	0.25 oz	0 min	Boil	Pellet	5.9

Miscs

Name	Amount	Use	Type
Baking Soda (NaHCO3)	1 g	Mash	Water Agent
Calcium Chloride (CaCl2)	0.7 g	Mash	Water Agent
Canning Salt (NaCl)	0.14 g	Mash	Water Agent
Epsom Salt (MgSO4)	2.11 g	Mash	Water Agent
Gypsum (CaSO4)	4.21 g	Mash	Water Agent