I also brewed the Pliny the Elder Clone recently as Batch 14<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unfinished notes from Batch 13:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Batch 13: Brewed July 7, 2023. OG: 1.041 FG TBD. ABV TBD%.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The OG target was 1.07 to 1.076. Very disappointing actual OG. After reading many home brewer posts, my best guess is that too little mash water was used (~2.5 gallons) and too much sparge water (~5.25 gallons) to get to the 7 gallon start boil volume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Adjustments planned for next batch: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Batch 14: Brewed May 9, 2025. OG: 1.056 FG 1.008. ABV 6.3%.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Better OG than last batch, but still missed target. One adjustment made was to recirculate the wort during mash and boil. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The MASH: <\/strong>The total mash volume was 4.5 gallons or so and the post sparge volume was only about 6 gallons. The sparge took about 1.5 hours, much longer than in the past. Next batch, I am going to add rice hulls to the mash so the sparge water flows through it a bit better. Also going to mash with about 5.5 gallons and target the pre-boil volume close to eight gallons (kettle capacity) as the recipe calls for 9 gallons. The Mash temperature was also a bit high (160-157) while the target is 152. The mash-in was about 170F, next time we will start at 161F or so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pitch Temperature: <\/strong>The pre-pitch temperature was about 78F using a plate chiller. This could probably be reduced by chilling the wort a bit in the kettle before transferring hot-pitch in one pass. The fermentation proceeded reasonably fast, completing in about 3.5 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Filtering:<\/strong> As usual, I did not filter the beer before racking to the keg. The dry hops only added to the trub, despite transferring the wort to a secondary container after the fermentation was complete. The beer out of the keg is quite cloudy so I have a 5 micron filter on order to clarify the beer with a CO2 push to another keg. This will occur on Wednesday (Today is Monday).<\/p>\n\n\n\n CO2 Regulator:<\/strong> There seems to be a regulator issue as the primary tank pressure reads 0 regardless of the valve opening and the regulated pressure always reads 0 PSI. A replacement regulator is on order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I also brewed the Pliny the Elder Clone recently as Batch 14 Unfinished notes from Batch 13: Batch 13: Brewed July 7, 2023. OG: 1.041 FG TBD. ABV TBD%. The OG target was 1.07 to 1.076. Very disappointing actual OG. Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davestaubin.com\/beer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davestaubin.com\/beer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davestaubin.com\/beer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davestaubin.com\/beer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davestaubin.com\/beer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/davestaubin.com\/beer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/davestaubin.com\/beer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davestaubin.com\/beer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davestaubin.com\/beer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davestaubin.com\/beer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}