{"id":239,"date":"2026-08-18T19:15:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davestaubin.com\/beer\/?p=239"},"modified":"2026-08-18T19:19:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:19:05","slug":"brew-batch-14-pliny-the-elder-dipa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davestaubin.com\/beer\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"Brew Batch 14: Pliny the Elder DIPA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong> Brewed May 9, 2025. OG: 1.056 FG 1.008. ABV 6.3%.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>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\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brewed May 9, 2025. OG: 1.056 FG 1.008. ABV 6.3%. Better OG than last batch, but still missed target. One adjustment made was to recirculate the wort during mash and boil. The MASH: The total mash volume was 4.5 gallons <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/davestaubin.com\/beer\/?p=239\">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-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davestaubin.com\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","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=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davestaubin.com\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/davestaubin.com\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davestaubin.com\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davestaubin.com\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davestaubin.com\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}