Brewday 6-10

[prolix]

Hope to make it a double brewday as I lost a brew last month to fruit fly and need to get stocks up.

Starting with an Theakstons OP clone like Spearmints except had to adjust ingredients as I ran out of crystal

Theakston op 20l

4.2 kg maris
0.5 kg crystal
0.1 kg black
0.3 kg wheat
0.5 kg sugar

mash @ 68 for 90mins

I'll try batch sparging again as it's quicker

Hops
25g fuggles @4.5% 90mins
20g challenger @6.2% 90 mins
10g goldings @4.0% 15 mins

should give 63 og @ 75% efficency

no moss or whirliflock left so oh hum this one shouldn't need to worry about brightness

There are even some photos

[J_P]

Have a good one Prolix, everyone seems to be brewing today I may have to drag the boiler out of the shed and join the party

[Jimberbob]

Yummy, Old Peculiar. Have a good brew up.

[prolix]

effiecency well down think I muffed the sparge oh hum looking at about 66% so will have to reduce brew length a litre or two to get the og.

[Vossy1]

Enjoy the brewday P

[mixbrewery]

Original OP is only about 5.6% isn't.
I wouldn't worry about your lower effiecency, just go for taste and colour
Hope is goes smooth from here.

[prodigal2]

I brew 2 goes a tad more to plan Prolix.
What is your brew 2 today?

[prolix]

hmm... now just confused decided to put the last vestifges of the mash tun in the boil to save some eff and retook the FG it was up to 56 from 48 with 2 litres extra wort that makes it nearly 90% eff now.

I used my refractometer for the readings but the second was after the hot break and hop addition.

I am gonna have to ignore all this science and go back to good old tatse testing a lot less stressfull

[prolix]

well some photos for all you brewaphiles!

My speciality grains not used much this year really


I love my grain scoop somehow makes the day more relaxed


grist number one for OP


mash on


my red sparge float to pour runnings back onto


boil on


second grist Choccolocco


DISASTER my pH5.2!


second mash on


My good boy reward! TC


Patsy saves the day!


I'll post the rest after I take them hehe

[prolix]

Second brew was going to be london pride but ran out of crysatl so thought I'd go mad and use chocolate instead hence the name

Choccolocco

3.8 maris
0.2 choc
40g fuggles 90
20g styrian 15
whiriflock 15

EBU 28

Yes Patsy we love you I forgot about the free sample you gave me last time and there it was in me box you beauty


Daab must have still had some water on the refractometer when I took the first reading only way to explain the gain.

[prolix]

are you saying that by adding 2L of the final runnings your gravity has gone up from 40 to 56, that doesn't sound right.

Sometimes i am so thick! the 500g of sugar I added might have been the reason for the increase in SG it was 48 to 56

[subsub]

Hope you're having a good un (minus the 5.2 incident)

[prolix]

this photo looks very suspect sringes spoons and white powder

[Vossy1]

Great pics P

I did M Ollossons Flowers Original Bitter and thought I'd screwed it up when the boil gravity was far too low mid boil....I had forgotten that I was about to add a whole lot of golden syrup to the boil

So your not the only one

[prolix]

Both beers safely asleep the yeast starters were like a rocket. That was a tiring day, think I'll stick to single brewdays from now on, just needed to stock up and get the OP on for Christmas.