{"id":203,"date":"2025-05-19T21:55:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T21:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davestaubin.com\/beer\/?p=203"},"modified":"2026-08-18T19:17:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:17:53","slug":"brew-batch-13-pliny-the-elder-clone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davestaubin.com\/beer\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"Brew Batch 13: Pliny the Elder Clone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Batch 13: Brewed July 7, 2023. OG: 1.041 FG TBD. ABV TBD%.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adjustments planned for next batch: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Start mash with at least 5 gallons.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Measure gravity during mash. Continue at 15 minute intervals until gravity increase stops.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mash 1st 30 minutes at 152F.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mash 2nd 30 minutes at 154F.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mash remaining time at 156F.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. After reading many home brewer posts, my best guess is that too little mash water was used <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/davestaubin.com\/beer\/?p=203\">Read More &#8230;<\/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?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davestaubin.com\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davestaubin.com\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davestaubin.com\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davestaubin.com\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/davestaubin.com\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/davestaubin.com\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davestaubin.com\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davestaubin.com\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davestaubin.com\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}