As its one of my favourite pints i decided to have a crack at getting something close to guiness. Ingredients were
6.5lbs Marris Otter
3.25lbs roasted barley
1lb flaked barley
1lb cara pils
1.5oz northernbrewer hops 60 mins
1.0oz EKG hops
1 can of 1 week soured guiness
Nottingham yeast
1 Tsp irish moss
Lots of nerves as this is my 1st complete AG!
Mixed up the grains in the tun and ran in water at 72 degrees, fair bit of stirring to get all dry grain pockets removed.
Mashed for 1 hour. What a look what a smell
1st runnings, sparged until volume of 26ltrs achieved gravity reading of 1.036
Tun filter was blocking up and causing slow transfer. I'll make another type for next brew.
Sparge complete and boil started, 1st hops added.
Last hops in along with IC for final 15 minutes to sterilise, soured guiness which was preboiled in microwave also added at this point.
IC getting its 1st run and really happy with results
Yeast ready to go while IC finishing its job
All done and soaking in soda crystal solution overnight. SG pre yeast pitch is 1.044 which is just where i wanted it to be, more luck than planning though.
I really enjoyed this brew session but i will need to buy a gas burner for outside use so i can move the whole process outside. Also got to work out a better way to transfer from copper to FV. Any of you guys using pumps for this stage? Also amazed at just how black this batch turned out to be. Yeah i know its guiness so its black but my god i saw every spilled drop land! I ended up with a brewhouse figure of 76.6%, i'm very happy with that.
Looks like the dark side has claimed another 