Sneaky Brew Day 22 June 2006

J_P · Post by **J_P** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:38 pm

Cheers for the jinx folks - there's a big fat thunder storm brewing over the Cleveland hills I do hope it's not headed this way.

Mash on 68C

roger the dog · Post by **roger the dog** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:53 pm

Have a good one J_P, I'm just running off the second batch sparge addition.

I think this makes us brothers in (sparge) arms !

(I'll get me coat)

oblivious · Post by **oblivious** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 1:26 pm

Scooby wrote:Funnily enough Black malt is the same as Choc

awalker · Post by **awalker** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 1:29 pm

DaaB wrote:
J_P wrote:Cheers for the jinx folks - there's a big fat thunder storm brewing over the Cleveland hills I do hope it's not headed this way.

Mash on 68C
You could always leave the top off the mash tun and give fly sparging a try

But what would the Ph be?
You might get acid rain

Scooby · Post by **Scooby** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 4:45 pm

oblivious wrote:
Scooby wrote:Funnily enough Black malt is the same as Choc

In answer to the question:

Cheers for the figures Scooby I don't suppose you have any figures for black malt do you only some idiot got the wrong grain!

Scooby · Post by **Scooby** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 4:55 pm

DaaB wrote:
Scooby wrote:I joined the forum to improve my brewing and look what happened when I followed your advice a jar of p*ss, so not wanting to embarrass you I had to resort to the old PS

actually it was more a dig at HG, I suggested that the original was on the left but hey now the truth is out....

Yep i know you rate it highly

Your right DaaB, drinking the half of my beer was a lot easier than the half of p*ss

By the way it's going down it will be in the cornie longer than normal, (I see Norm is back so maybe time to increase my cornie count by 50% and try that batch sparge)

but it was a worthwhile exercise.

Horden Hillbilly · Post by **Horden Hillbilly** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:11 pm

Hope you have a good brew day J_P and that the weather stays kind for you. Up here, not too far away from you it has come over extremely black a couple of times but no rain yet.

oblivious · Post by **oblivious** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:47 pm

Scooby wrote:
oblivious wrote:
Scooby wrote:Funnily enough Black malt is the same as Choc

In answer to the question:

Cheers for the figures Scooby I don't suppose you have any figures for black malt do you only some idiot got the wrong grain!

Sorry did not see that

J_P · Post by **J_P** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:27 am

What a nightmare I had this weekend!

Firstly as soon as I got the mash on the thunder started so I moved everything inside the resultant thunder and lightening storm did this to the brew tent

The ensuing cold snap (possibly due to the hail that was the size of peas) meant my mash temp was way down on where it should have been and in a completely unrelated spot of bad luck my cable modem decides to give up the ghost as well! Oh and after all this the sun came out so I got the boil underway on the patio 90 mins in the thunder started so I cut the boil short which I was gutted about as I was about to hit my target 25l instead I got around 27 and ended up wringing another 3l out of the hops so I could fill up a demijohn and ferment! I daren't check my efficiency!

Anyhoo final recipe is as follows

4Kg Pale malt
340g crystal malt
100g black malt
100g torrified wheat

25 IBU's from 62.5g Fuggles 90 min boil
20g EKG s 15 min boil
20g Bramling cross 15 minute boil

Provisionally renamed "Thunderhead" after the big old thunderhead cloud that cut the boil short.

J_P · Post by **J_P** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:00 am

I got a bucket and a demijohn full of fermenting beer! It didn't turn out too bad gravity wise, I've just checked it on the calculator linked from your site and it came out around 1043 which, in my opinion, isn't that bad!

I'm going to work out the efficiency later on when I get bored, I've found out that I can get away with formulating beer recipies at work, scribbling out all the sums in my notebook looks very much like work to the uneducated eye

I'm going to formulate this weekends brew later on too I'll take advantage of the baltic weather and keep the fermenter full!

J_P · Post by **J_P** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:23 am

I have also dry hopped the brew with 15g of bramling cross and have started to get the spicy orange flavour I was aiming for after I drank a bottle of thwaites double century the other week

Bigster · Post by **Bigster** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:15 pm

I laughed as soon as I saw that pic, does that make me a bad person

In deed it does. Have had many tent weather related incidents over the years but will always remember one year when the tent next to us collapsed in a huge storm. The next day I was stood chatting to the owner looking at the mangled remains of his tent under a foot of water and he said to me
' do you think I should get the wife out of there now '

J_P · Post by **J_P** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 11:32 pm

Well it's bottled and it tastes sod all like I'd planned

The Safbrew t58 has given the brew a real banana wheat beer taste, it's not unpleasant but I reckon I'll stick to S04 in future!

J_P · Post by **J_P** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 1:50 pm

Boy has this brew changed. The banana has faded into the background and the promised spiciness is coming through. I dare say it would be a passable clone of brown ale if it had a little more torrified wheat in there to aid the head retention.

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