Well its my first time posting a brewday on here so be gentle! Recipe is a dumbed down version of Stone's Arrogant Bastard Ale, which although I've never had, sounded pretty tasty. The recipe specifics for 54 litres with an expected OG of 1.055 are:
83.3 10.50 kg. Pale Malt Marris Otter
5.6 0.70 kg. Munich Malt
5.6 0.70 kg. Aromatic Malt
5.6 0.70 kg. CaraMunich 40
45.00 g. Pacific Gem Pellet 16.30 43.6 60 min.
45.00 g. Chinook Pellet 11.40 8.1 15 min.
45.00 g. Chinook Pellet 11.40 0.0 0 min.
DCL Yeast US-05 American ale
Very pleased with the day despite the snow and a collapsed gazeebo (don't ask), got it wrapped up in 5 hours which included a 90 minute mash and a 75 minute boil. I'll tell the rest of the story with pictures.
The grain
False bottom in my 50 litre bain marie
Doughing in
A little help is needed with this much! B&Q plaster mixer is my best buy of 2009!
This bad boy is a little bit full
Rest temp was a bit low, I was aiming for 152 but I'm guessing 'sex on a stick' knocked out a lot of the heat
Recirculating. With the false bottom I find the wort is clear straight away but still has large particles if you get what I mean. These are 1 litre jugs and I normally recirculate about 6 litres.
Lovely colour
The sparge. I mash and sparge inside and boil outside, until I get the brewshed built that is!
Coming up to a boil. The G clamp is to stop the lid sliding back on and causing a boilover.
Hops, beautiful hops
pre-boil volume of 64.5 litres at 15.3 brix. Crap photo but I'll try better next time!
My mess of a whirlpool immersion chiller
Chill man! I've built a whirlpool immersion chiller which I'll try and link a video to of it in action. Trust me. It works!
Chillin' while chilling. My Anchor Steam rip off.
My babies, soon to be tucked up
Oh and SWMBO knocked the mash tun lid onto a battery I was charging
Whirlpool immersion chiller in action
All the best
Paul
