====== God Hates Figs ====== **Style:** Biblical Braggot with Figs Bentleybrau Brewery's God Hates Figs **Ezekiel 4:9**: \\ //Take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and buckwheat; put them together in one bowl; and make bread from it. For as long as you lie on your side, 390 days, this is what you are to eat.// **Mark 11:13-14**: \\ //And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet. And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.// ===== All-Grain BIAB ===== **Brewed:** 10/20/2012\\ **Target OG:** 1.089\\ **Strike hit:** 151F\\ **OG:** 1.072 (70F)\\ **FG:** 1.010 (64F)\\ **ABV:** 8.4%\\ **BrewTarget Recipe:** God Hates Figs - Braggot ================================================================================ Batch Size: 5.500 gal Boil Size: 7.900 gal Boil Time: 1.500 hr Efficiency: 70%% OG: 1.089 FG: 1.023 ABV: 8.5%% Bitterness: 33.9 IBUs (Tinseth) Color: 10 SRM (Mosher) Fermentables ================================================================================ Name Type Amount Mashed Late Yield Color Caramunich Malt Grain 12.000 oz Yes No 72%% 56 L Millet, Malted Grain 2.000 lb Yes No 10%% 1 L Buckwheat, Malted Grain 16.000 oz Yes No 10%% 1 L Wheat Malt, Dark Grain 4.500 lb Yes No 84%% 9 L Pilsner (2 Row) UK Grain 5.500 lb Yes No 78%% 1 L Honey Extract 6.000 lb No Yes 75%% 1 L Total grain: 19.750 lb Hops ================================================================================ Name Alpha Amount Use Time Form IBU Hallertau 4.5%% 2.000 oz Boil 1.000 hr Pellet 29.4 Willamette 5.0%% 0.500 oz Boil 15.000 min Pellet 4.1 Willamette 5.0%% 0.500 oz Boil 1.000 min Pellet 0.4 Misc ================================================================================ Name Type Use Amount Time Figs, Frozen Other Primary 4.000 lb 0.000 s Yeast ================================================================================ Name Type Form Amount Stage Wyeast - Belgian Ardennes Ale Liquid 0.528 cup Primary Mash ================================================================================ Name Type Amount Temp Target Time BIAB Infusion 9.767 gal 156.685 F 151.000 F 1.500 hr **Brewday Notes (10/20/2012):** \\ 2L starter, grown 1L at a time on stirplate. Started a bit over 24 hrs in advance. \\ 2 lbs dried turkish figs, boiled. \\ 2 lbs fresh brown turkey figs, boiled with 1/2 tsp cardamom. \\ **RECIPE CHANGE:** 1 quart prune juice (no preservatives). \\ **RECIPE CHANGE:** 1/4 oz fresh Nugget hops from garden in primary. \\ Overheated strike to 159F, hit 151F perfectly. Ambient was cool. \\ 1/4 whirlfloc and yeast nutrient at 10 min. \\ OG low (1.072) with a lot left in the brewpot. Looks like severely overestimated boil-off. \\ Massive activity at 12 hrs. First day filled two blow-off jugs. \\ 66F for first 2 days, then 64F. \\ In primary for over 2 months.\\ FG 1.010 @ 64F \\ Bottled with 3.3oz corn sugar. Aim was 2.0 volumes at 5.5 gallons, but didn't get 5.5 gallons.\\ Only 4.9 gallons, 46 12oz bottles. Some spillage. \\ **Tasting Notes:** \\