GW Black Sheep Riggwelter

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Damfoose

GW Black Sheep Riggwelter

Post by Damfoose » Sun Feb 15, 2009 9:11 pm

Brewed Black Sheep Riggwelter today started at about 13:30 finished including clean up 20:00 not to bad.
Had a few hickups with the new brewery mashtun does not reach over the boiler I do have an idea for this but im going to see how it panns out befor I show and tell :twisted: . I fell short on the water for the sparge not much of a problem though as the new gas burner heated 15 litres up to 80 c in 10 min I did have the burner on quite high and the bottom of the boiler was glowing red :shock: also melted the front of the temp gauge I had installed in the boiler im going to have to get a much better gauge one that can take a little heat :? good ring that for £20 ..... Had a boil over as well made a mess of the shiney boiler but it cleaned right off after id finished.... New chiller worked really well 20 min from boiling to 26c.
Ended up with a gravity of 1050 of some remarkably clear wort also my first time with worflic. Ended up with 23 litres of wort at the end would have liked 25 but I shall have to get used to the new setup first a few more dry runs so to speak. I am so used to my plaky brewery the change over to gas had me all stumped...

Pics not many sorry was to intrested trying to get the brew right as it was my first using gas and new brewery.....

Grain bill
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Boil over :shock:

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Nice clear wort after the cool down

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Running off and areating.

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Trub

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Hydromiter reading. 1050

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Last edited by Damfoose on Sun Feb 15, 2009 9:54 pm, edited 1 time in total.

tomU

Re: GW Black Sheep Riggwelter

Post by tomU » Sun Feb 15, 2009 9:29 pm

Sounds good. I did the almanac version of riggwelter a month or so ago and thought it was a bit heavy on chocolate. Was very nice though. I got an OG 1054, was aiming for 1057. Any chance of posting the recipe or would that impinge on Graham's copyright?

Damfoose

Re: GW Black Sheep Riggwelter

Post by Damfoose » Sun Feb 15, 2009 9:38 pm

tomU wrote:Sounds good. I did the almanac version of riggwelter a month or so ago and thought it was a bit heavy on chocolate. Was very nice though. I got an OG 1054, was aiming for 1057. Any chance of posting the recipe or would that impinge on Graham's copyright?
Might be copyright hence I did not post the recipe, As it is from his new book. Sorry folks.

tomU

Re: GW Black Sheep Riggwelter

Post by tomU » Sun Feb 15, 2009 9:52 pm

I guess I'll have to get the book then :)

Damfoose

Re: GW Black Sheep Riggwelter

Post by Damfoose » Mon Feb 16, 2009 5:39 pm

20 hours later and this thing is trying to climb out of the fermenter its hit the lid...

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