1000 - Not out! Double brew weekend

[Wez]

Nice one J_P

[J_P]

Firstly please accept my sincerest apologies for the lack of pictures and / or commentary yesterday, it wont happen again

I have decided to bring brew number two forward to today. The Anglo American beer has gone out of the window as I can't get hold of any Amarillo hops so I've decided to try another English bitter this time fermented with liquid yeast. I have gone for the WLP023 Burton Ale yeast.



I know Delboy and I were considering using it so I've bitten the bullet and bought some, full tasting report to follow Del!

Recipe as follows

Grain Bill
4.2kg Pale Malt
0.3kg Crystal Malt
0.2kg Torrified Wheat

I'm planning to mash at around 68C for 90 minutes in around 12l of water.

Hopping Schedule
25g Northdown - 90 Mins
20g Fuggles - 15 Mins
15g Northdown - 15 Mins
40g Styrian Goldings - 5 Mins[/img]

It should weigh in at around 35 IBUs OG around the 1045 mark.

Any thoughts / suggestions etc?

[J_P]

Sparging is nearly done, boiler is on and I'm about to weigh out my hops

[J_P]

25g Northdown hops for bittering. Boil is on starter wort is cooling

[J_P]

Cooled aerated wort and yeast


Pitched yeast with air squashed out of bottle

I'm quite excited about this little experiment with liquid yeast if it works out it will open a whole new world of possibilities for my beer.

[J_P]

Right the brews have been named.

Brew number one is "Merry Men Ale" as it was a Jolly Roger variant made with Nottingham yeast and at 1050 it'll certainly make me merry.

Brew Number two is The Burton Beast made with Burton yeast!

[J_P]

I was just planning on waking the yeast up like I'd do with dried yeast rather than making a full blown starter. Apparently there is enough viable cells in the vial to pitch direct according to the tube.

[spearmint-wino]

Having a good one JP?

[J_P]

Well I was until I was informed that the liquid yeast I was using probably won't have enough viable cells to do a proper job, other than that it's going pretty well I'm just about to make my last hop addition now.

[DRB]

Hope you had a good un.

[J_P]

You can always add 5L of your wort to a demijohn and ferment that with the liquid yeast and effectively make yourself a drinkable starter for use later.

The rest you can pitch some dried yeast into. It's nice to use a different yeast but it isn't the be all and end all

I've just got the message after pitching the yeast - if nothing has happened in 48 hours I'm sending in the S04. The starter was fizzing very slightly when I pitched it so all may not be lost

[anomalous_result]

full tasting report to follow Del!

I'd also be interested, sounds like my kind of pint (as you may have guessed from the other thread)

Have a good one =)

[J_P]

I'm getting cross eyed with all these post

No worries there AR I'll let you know how it turns out. It looks like there will be a few days of nail biting in our house waiting to see if the brew will take off. Cross your fingers for me!

[Vossy1]

Glad to hear you had a good brew day J_P
I would have posted earlier but I was aiding in brewing myself

Don't worry about the yeast I'm sure it will be fine

I've been amazed what I've learned trying to build a 4ltr starter. Lag times are so visual when under airlock

[J_P]

Glad to hear you had a good brew day J_P
I would have posted earlier but I was aiding in brewing myself

Don't worry about the yeast I'm sure it will be fine

I've been amazed what I've learned trying to build a 4ltr starter. Lag times are so visual when under airlock

The way I see it is it's got two choices it ferments or it doesn't! I suppose my expectations will be skewed by the speed my usual "flying starter" gets things going, I'm just trying to think of how long it took for a packet of yeast sprinkled in top of a kit to take off, has it really been that long since I've brewed a kit?