Stout for Summer - brew day

The Brew

Continuing the Summer of Sessions with a stout. More specifically, with a variation of a Irish Dry Stout. Recipe primarily verbatim from Brewing Classic Styles with the one tweak being the use of Dry English Ale yeast instead of the more traditional Irish Ale strain. Simple recipe, hopefully tasty beer.

The Recipe

Grain/Sugars:

7.0 lbs. Maris Otter

2.0 lbs. Flaked Barley

1.0 lbs. Roasted Barley

Hops:

2.0 oz. East Kent Goldings @60. (A: 5.7%, B: 2.9%) 20 ibu

Yeast:

WLP007 Dry English Ale

Extras:

0.5 tsp Wyeast nutrient

1 tablet Whirlfloc

Brewday

Originally this was going to be my Fathers Day brew. But when Saturday afternoon opened up, I took the opportunity to avoid the 100+ F Sunday forecast and get the brew in.  Setup solo to start it off in the garage. Used the BIAB setup again for this brew. Heated up 8 gallons of water to about 154F and mashed in for 60 minutes. Mowed the lawn during the mash. Cleaned out the car during the boil. Very productive brew day.

At 60 minutes fired up burned and started mash-out. Pulled the bag, light squeeze and fired up burner to full. Measured 7.5 gallons of 1.035 preboil wort. Simple 60 minute boil was startedAdded hops per schedule, chilled, pitched yeast and set to ferment. OG landed perfectly at 1.045. Target FG is 1.011, which if hit, should leave a dry stout holding about 4.4% ABV.