The Friday Question
Last weeks question was a tricky one I admit and produced some interesting answers but I judge Dave G to be the winner as his guess of 14lbs of hops was spot on and he got 2 out of the 4 hops correct, nice one. For those of you interested here are the particulars of the hop additions:
start of boil : 4 lbs First Gold, 2 lbs Target
@ 1 hour : 2 lbs Bramling Cross
late hop (leaf in hop percolator) : 3 lbs Bramling Cross, 3 lbs Kent Goldings
so Dave you get a choice of prizes, either a growler of Oliver Ale and a t-shirt or 2 tickets to the forthcoming BAM Springfest in Frederick on May 29th.
For this weeks question the prize remains the same, tickets for Springfest or some Oliver’s merch/beer. The question is this :
Next week, as you know, we will be brewing batch #2 of the Hot Monkey Love. The recipe changes a little every time I brew it. What will be the original gravity of batch # 2 and how many lbs of grain will be used in making a 7 barrel batch? Have at it and good luck!
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1100 lbs of malt/honey
1.090 OG
1.092 gravity and 588 pounds of grain
I am going to go with a OG of 1.114 and a nice round number for the grains grains 2,000lbs.
1.097 OG and 777lbs grist
i’m gonna say 1.105 and 850lbs
1.094 and 803 lbs of grain