A bock with wheat and a belgian yeast. Is it a bock is it a wezenbock is it a belgian dark? is it a total disaster? No, well... maybe ... it's a confused goat
Recipe Gravity: 1.079 OG
Recipe Bitterness: 26 IBU
Recipe Color: 18° SRM
Estimated FG: 1.020
Alcohol by Volume: 7.6%
Alcohol by Weight: 6.0%
2800g German wheat
1700g Golden Promise
1000g Munich
250g Weyermann caraaroma
200g British crystal 70-80L
200g Cane sugar
50g Carafa III
Magnum 8.00 g, Whole, 90 minutes
Hallertauer 60.00 g, Whole, 30 minutes
Yeast, recultured from Leute bottle
Single infusion mash as I am lazy and pushed for time today.
Confused Goat
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TheMumbler
Re: Confused Goat
Everything starts nicely enough
Grist
HLT 
Then I discover that it is amazingly easy to knock the tap off my HLT
clean up
run off 
use boiler (with no thermostat) to get mash/sparge water back to temp, remind myself that at least it wasn't hot sticky wort going everywhere...
Finish the mash guestimating the remaining volume due to the HLT throwing water all over the open MT as well as the floor
get the boil going
and have lunch (left overs from roast chicken at the weekend) 
Adjust hopping as the pre-boil gravity is way lower than it should be. The boil then cuts out after 70 mins or so, empty boiler, clean element...start again. Give up taking photos...
When I drop it into the FV the tap clogs immediately and a bit of proding around with a sanitised stirrer reveals that the hop filter has come off, presumably loosened when I transfered all the wort back and forth. So I then transfer out of the boiler into the FV, fix the filter (wearing a sanitised glove) put the wort back into the boiler and leave for another 20 mins before running off. By now I'm really in a hurry to finish as I have to be going out soon. The gravity is 1064 about 15 pts short so my effciency took a battering somewhere along the line.
add the yeast (about half of this)
Wait for the inevitable infection. Not my favourite brew day.
Grist
HLT Then I discover that it is amazingly easy to knock the tap off my HLT
clean up
run off use boiler (with no thermostat) to get mash/sparge water back to temp, remind myself that at least it wasn't hot sticky wort going everywhere...
Finish the mash guestimating the remaining volume due to the HLT throwing water all over the open MT as well as the floor
get the boil going
and have lunch (left overs from roast chicken at the weekend) Adjust hopping as the pre-boil gravity is way lower than it should be. The boil then cuts out after 70 mins or so, empty boiler, clean element...start again. Give up taking photos...
When I drop it into the FV the tap clogs immediately and a bit of proding around with a sanitised stirrer reveals that the hop filter has come off, presumably loosened when I transfered all the wort back and forth. So I then transfer out of the boiler into the FV, fix the filter (wearing a sanitised glove) put the wort back into the boiler and leave for another 20 mins before running off. By now I'm really in a hurry to finish as I have to be going out soon. The gravity is 1064 about 15 pts short so my effciency took a battering somewhere along the line.
add the yeast (about half of this)
Wait for the inevitable infection. Not my favourite brew day.
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GrowlingDogBeer
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Re: Confused Goat
I assume the inevitable infection will be as a result of that purple food you were eating 
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TheMumbler
Re: Confused Goat
Purple potatoes (mashed) from sainsburys, maybe the beer will be purple if I do pick up an infection from themRunwell-Steve wrote:I assume the inevitable infection will be as a result of that purple food you were eating
even a goat wouldnt!-
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Re: Confused Goat
I think the Cara Aroma must be where i was picking up on the Burnt candy sugar flavour.