Spitfire brewday 9-23-07

[flytact]

If you like pictures I'm sorry, you can stop reading now.

Brewed up 10 gallons of a Spitfire clone that I think I got from here.

13 lbs 12.6 oz Maris Otter
1 lbs 7.5 oz Crystal Malt - 40L
1 lbs 7.5 oz Wheat, Torrified
14.7 oz Amber Malt
11.7 oz Wheat Malt, Ger
2 oz Target [10.00 %] (60 min)
1.6 oz Goldings, East Kent [5.50 %] (60 min)
0.4 oz Goldings, East Kent [5.50 %] (15 min)

BIG day of activity started at 9AM with the mash water and grain crushing
Remembered to put in the 5.2 Stabilizer!!
Beautiful runoff, sweet all the way to 13 gallons
Cleaned two kegs, racked 10 gallons of Mt. Hood pale into kegs
Yada, yada, yada...
Siphoned off wort onto yeast cakes of two fermenters one with Nottingham, one with S-04

Great day 4.5 hours from start to finish.

[oblivious]

Hope it goes well

[prodigal2]

Nice one there

[spearmint-wino]

Good work. Wish I could get my brewday down to such a short time(!) I currently average around 6-7hrs

[flytact]

(not even a pic of fermenting wort )

Even better would be an audio recording, two fermenters bubbling away is real music.

Sorry for the lack of pics, the camera was elsewhere.

I think the speed is due to 60 minute mash and boils. But like I've said before, timing with the sparge water is key.

[iowalad]

Nicely done, I have a bit of amber dying to be used.
I tried it in my Scottish and wasn't that wild about that brew. Not sure it was the amber that put me off though.

Will try it in another beer in a couple of months.

[DRB]

You must have raised a little sweat doing it that quick.

[Frothy]

Yeah it's all about getting the HLT up to temp bang on time for the end of the mash, so many times I forget to switch it on & there goes another 1/2hr.

Do you recycle your yeast then?

Frothy

[flytact]

I've got two heat sources to keep up with the sparging.
If by recycling you mean washing and propagating the yeast then no. I'm just dumping on the yeast cake from some prior batches.