{"id":1241,"date":"2014-11-15T20:24:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T04:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blt.homenet.org\/wordpress\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2017-08-07T21:56:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T04:56:33","slug":"beer-8-black-rye-ipa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/?p=1241","title":{"rendered":"Beer 8 &#8211; Black Rye IPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Beer Name:\u00a0Burnin&#8217; Spades RIPA<\/li>\n<li>Style: \u00a0Black, Rye, IPA<\/li>\n<li>Alcohol: 7.1%<\/li>\n<li>Color: unknown<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My first venture into all grain brewing has literally blown up in front of me.\u00a0 So who know how it tastes, but here is what happened.\u00a0\u00a0 After coming home from vacation I saw liquid coming from the fermentation chamber.\u00a0 When I opened the doors about 6 bottle or so had exploded at the bottom.\u00a0 So I took everything out and cleaned things up, exactly what you want to do after a long travel day.\u00a0 Just as I was putting the beers back in the fridge, the bottom of a six pack broke open and the bottles dropped maybe a foot.\u00a0 Well all 6 of those bottles exploded.\u00a0 Sounded like a bomb went off.\u00a0 I was lucky no glass hit my face, but my legs and feet were not so lucky and had blood streaming down.\u00a0 Now I had another mess to clean up.\u00a0 So while I was cleaning that up 2 more bottles exploded just sitting on the sidewalk.\u00a0 Awesome, I have bottle bombs.\u00a0 Not wanting to loose everything. I place the remaining beer bottles in a cooler and inside my fridge.\u00a0 That night I heads several more explode&#8230;sounded like a gun shot.\u00a0 Hoping to save the beers, I planned to pop the tops on the remaining bottles and then re-cap them.\u00a0 I put on my bomb squad gear (an old paintball face mask, a thick long sleeve, and some gloves) and reached into the cooler to take the tops off.\u00a0 The first one gushed everywhere, same with the second, third and so on.\u00a0 After a bit there was so much foam I was just feeling through the cooler to find unopened bottles.\u00a0 Well needless to say this was a total loss.\u00a0 I did try about half a glass full just to see what it was like and it was sweet almost like the raw wort.<\/p>\n<p>So here is what I think happened.\u00a0 During my last batch of beer my fridge died, so I didn&#8217;t really have good fermentation control while this beer was fermenting.\u00a0 We had really hot days and warm nights.\u00a0 I think the yeast shutdown due to the high temperatures.\u00a0 I should have noticed that my final gravity reading was high and done something, but just moved right into bottling.\u00a0 After I bottled I also replaced the AC unit with a min-fridge coils and was able to set the temp.\u00a0 I think when I did this the yeast woke up again and started chomping on all the unprocessed sugars, thus creating my bottle bombs.<\/p>\n<p>On the fun side, I got some 3\/4&#8243; stickers to make cap labels for my beers. \u00a0I got lucky and made labels for my previous beers as I had to move my bottles all around while cleaning. \u00a0Making a label is now part of my beer making process.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg_displayed_gallery mceItem\" src=\"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/nextgen-attach_to_post\/preview\/id--1280\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>My Brew Notes<\/h1>\n<h2>Recipe Info<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>My Recipe: <a title=\"Brewtoad\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brewtoad.com\/recipes\/nb-ace-of-spades-black-ipa-w-rye\" target=\"_blank\">Brewtoad<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Recipe Source \u00a0<a title=\"Northern Brewer Ace of Spades\" href=\"http:\/\/www.northernbrewer.com\/shop\/ace-of-spades-black-ipa-all-grain-recipe-kit.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ace of Spades<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Schedule Link: <a title=\"Brewing Schedule\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B1dk9jfY09GmZjM0M0FvN0dVLTg\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\">#8<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\u00a0<a class=\"shutterset_\" title=\" \" href=\"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/beer-8-black-rye-ipa\/Recipe-Notes.jpg\" data-image-id=\"234\" data-src=\"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/beer-8-black-rye-ipa\/Recipe-Notes.jpg\" data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/beer-8-black-rye-ipa\/thumbs\/thumbs_Recipe-Notes.jpg\" data-title=\"Recipe Notes\" data-description=\" \"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center\" src=\"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/beer-8-black-rye-ipa\/thumbs\/thumbs_Recipe-Notes.jpg\" alt=\"Recipe Notes\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>Execution Notes<\/h2>\n<p>Tried making a 2L starter in a 2L flask.\u00a0 Resulted in a boil over.\u00a0 Separated into two flask for the boil then recombined when they cooled.\u00a0 Ended up with 1.6L of the 2L.<\/p>\n<p>First time making all grain batch.\u00a0 MLT filter was too small and got a stuck sparge.\u00a0 I knew what my number were supposed to be, but wasn&#8217;t prepared to be able to measure if I was hitting them or not (ie. depth to volume conversions). Messed around switching in a different filter which caused the temps to go wild.\u00a0 Through all the hops directly in which wasn&#8217;t so bad.\u00a0 What was bad way the bag I had to catch the gunk at the output end of the hose when transferring to the primary got clogged up and ended up not using it which passed a lot of material in the fermenter.\u00a0 When transferring to bottling bucket the the filter around the tube also was causing problems so a lot of material ended up in bottles.\u00a0 Need to do this better next time<\/p>\n<h2>Schedule<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Brew day: 6\/13\/2014<\/li>\n<li>Cold Crash Start: N\/A (Broken fermentation chamber)<\/li>\n<li>Secondary Fermentation: 7\/2\/2014<\/li>\n<li>Dry Hopping: 7\/29\/2014<\/li>\n<li>Cold Crash 2: N\/A<\/li>\n<li>Gelatin: N\/A<\/li>\n<li>Bottling Prep: 8\/4\/2014<\/li>\n<li>Bottling: 8\/5\/2014<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Recommendations for next time<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Get the filtering down much better<\/li>\n<li>Make sure the fermentation chamber is working<\/li>\n<li>Know numbers better and know how to take measurements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\/strips\/comic\/1994-01-27\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beer Name:\u00a0Burnin&#8217; Spades RIPA Style: \u00a0Black, Rye, IPA Alcohol: 7.1% Color: unknown My first venture into all grain brewing has literally blown up in front of me.\u00a0 So who know how it tastes, but here is what happened.\u00a0\u00a0 After coming home from vacation I saw liquid coming from the fermentation chamber.\u00a0 When I opened the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,249],"tags":[183,215,217,216,112,190,214],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beer-topics","category-beers","tag-all-grain","tag-black","tag-bottle-bomb","tag-explode","tag-home-brew","tag-ipa","tag-rye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1744,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}