19-01-08 - AG#17 Chiswick

[coatesg]

I make this one my 17th brew - and a bit of an emergency brew session yesterday (realised we have a load of mates round in a shade under three weeks!) - and so no pics unfortunately

Based on Fullers Chiswick:

3.9kg Pale
190g Crystal

Mash 66C for 60min

Hops:
22g Target 9% 60min
12g Northdown 7.9% 15min
12g Challenger 5.6% 15min
14g EKG steep at 80C for 15min

Yeast was a big slug of slurry scrounged from the bottom of the other FV - it was Brakspears originally and had just finished the Boadicea brew I did with it (and it did a fine job getting from 1058 down to about 1010-1012 by the looks of it!). I had to rack that beer into another FV to give me access to the yeast - I'll have to leave it in there as a secondary for a week before I'll have chance to bottle!

Despite the short mash, everything was fine and got 24-odd litres at 1039. I'll dry hop this one with 14g EKG (4 days or so) and add finings when it's in the keg - hopefully it'll be ready for drinking by the 6th... all looked healthy this morning in the FV, and this morning (8 hours) had a head developing - after 18hours, it had reached the lid of the FV so everything appears to be going nicely

[Hogarth]

Emergency sessions are always the best. Hope it turns out well. You're certainly making your yeast work for a living.

[coatesg]

Cheers - the yeast seems to be OK with it - though it's the third brew with it so I'll probably ditch it and start over with a new lot from another couple of bottles at some point. Looks like it's mostly done now.