As planned, I had my Christmas Brewday yesterday, and went relatively smoothly! Even remembered to bring the garden hose in to defrost before connecting it up to the wort chiller. only problem is my OG is siginicantly higher than intended (1.062 vs 1.052) I did a few "tweaks" along the way, and finished up with this... The only think I can put the high OG down to is a signicantly more effeicient mash then expcted - I've subsequently re-tweaked the recipe to account for an 85% efficiency - and this is what it looked like :
Is that high an efficiency possible? - Does the use of syrup adjuncts make an efficiency seem higher that it otherwise would be in the tun?
Mash liquor dropped from 75C to 67C at mash-in, and mashed out at 64C for 100 mins - hoping this will provide a good proportion of unfermentables, and some body/residual sweetness.
I've only recently started collecting the first 2 litres of runnings, heated on the hob, and then recirculated in the top of the tun - the worts seems to be clearer that way :
Thanks, TC2642 for suggesting boiling some wort up with the syrup - worked a treat
and no burn't boiler element! As always happens to me, it started p155ing it down during the boil, so ended up with a kitchen full of steam.
Well, after a week in the fermenter with S-04, a month in the cask, and then couple of months contitioning, hopefully this will taste Sneck-ish
I'm hoping the finished gravity will hit the 1.015 mark, but in my past experience, S-04 has always finished about 1.011/1.012
