No Malt Left Behind

Like a malty Trivial Pursuit

Bakers have multigrain bread and the 'everything' bagel. The Italians have three cheese lasagna. Nature has the rainbow. This brew is my answer to all of these things. I call it 'No Malt Left Behind.' In my first year of homebrewing I've amassed a fair collection of < 1lb. quantities of specialty malt and European base malts. They're all crying out to be made into beer and my soft heart cannot deny them their destiny. So let's get to it!

Brew Recipe

Brew Date: 10/8/2013
Style: American Pale Ale
Batch Volume: 4.5 gal.
Type: All Grain
Color: ?? (Too much math...)
Target Bitterness: 40 IBU
Target OG: 1.044
Estimated FG: 1.012

Grist
3.5 lb. American Two-Row
22.9 oz. Mostly Golden Promise (Left over from Simcoe IPA kit)
4.3 oz. Vienna
3.7 oz. Crystal 20L
11.6 oz. Melanoidin
6.3 oz. CaraPils
8.2 oz. Red Wheat
11.2 oz. Amber
4 oz. Acidulated

1/2 oz. Centennial 8.8% (45 min.)
1/2 oz. Centennial 8.8% (30 min.)
1/2 oz. Centennial 8.8% (After wort cooled to 170F)

1 pkg. Safale US-05 Ale Yeast

Brew Notes

Mash Temp: 155 °F
Mash Time: 60 min.
Boil Time: 60 min.
Pre-Mash Volume: 5.5 gal.
Post-Boil Volume: 4.5 gal.
Measured OG: 1.044
Measured FG: 1.010
ABV: 4.5%
Calories: 144

Update 11/3/13 - Dry hopped with the last 2.5 oz of Cascade I had left in the freezer. Divided evenly between two hop bags. The bags just barely fit into the Better Bottle. Let's see how hard they'll be to get out. Decided not to rack to secondary mostly because I'm lazy but partly because the Better Bottle has a wider mouth which should make removing the hop bags a little easier.

Update 11/25/13 - Finally got around to bottling. Beer tastes a lot better with age. With yeast in suspension a couple weeks ago it tasted a lot like orange juice. Very drinkable now.

Racked beer to bottling bucket before adding priming sugar so I don't have go guess beer volume since the bottling bucket is graduated. Boiled 4 oz. of priming sugar in 16 oz. of water. 4 gallons of beer => I added 12.8-ish oz. of the sugar water to the bottling bucket and stirred. Yielded about 40 bottles.