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Posted: **Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:05 pm**

Got a night off tonight so I thought I'd get up early and brew Union Street as I've been wanting to do this recipe for a long time. It's straight out of Marc's book but I've changed the amount of Target in the recipe due to the large AA of my hops.

23L
Mash 90min
Boil 90min

Est OG 1050

Pale Malt 5315g
Crystal Malt 115g
Roast Barley 225g

16g Target 11%AA 90min
7g Hallatauer 2% AA 15min

Not too happy with the Fawcett malt (usually use Warminster), after recirculating 7L of wort it still wasn't a clear runoff, compared to 1.5L of the usual malt.

Had to use the 10 gallon boiler after 30mins as the element had switched off due to excessive amounts of trub caking to it. The element was super shiny when it went in! Not particularly happy with the hop strainer in the boiler as I felt I could've obtained more wort out of the boiler (I certainly would've using Joes strainer in the Leyland boiler). So a design rethink is in order at some point.

I ended up with 21L @ 1052 which I could've watered down to 1050 and got the desired 23L but this is The Lazy Brewery after all and I really couldn't be arsed

The Brew has just gone into the FV and I'll be upping pics later. Time for a pint of No Regrets as I don't really deserve it

Posted: **Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:12 pm**

looks nice, what yeast did you use?

Posted: **Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:54 pm**

Thats not bad going for a lazy brewery

Posted: **Thu Mar 06, 2008 9:09 pm**

oblivious wrote:looks nice, what yeast did you use?

I used S04 as thats all I had available (Yeast Order not arrived and nothing in the fridge being suitable).

Posted: **Thu Mar 06, 2008 9:09 pm**

delboy wrote:Thats not bad going for a lazy brewery

Cheers Del

Posted: **Thu Mar 06, 2008 9:30 pm**

Sounds like you had to put the effort in there SS!

I bet it'll be lovely

Posted: **Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:23 pm**

Heres the pics

Posted: **Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:29 pm**

Excellent pictures

Posted: **Sat Mar 22, 2008 4:24 pm**

Out of secondary into the keg today plus a few bottles. Finished at 1010 so that's 5.5% abv, 0.5% over the book stats but I'm not complaining

Posted: **Sat Mar 22, 2008 5:56 pm**

Su bloody perb

Posted: **Sat Mar 22, 2008 6:32 pm**

The lazy brewery has sure been active of late.

Looks like another winner!

Posted: **Sat Mar 22, 2008 6:42 pm**

iowalad wrote:The lazy brewery has sure been active of late.

Looks like another winner!

Cheers Iowalad. Activity is directly linked with lack of stocks 6 cornis, 2 King Kegs , 2 HB supercasks & 3 Pressure Barrels are empty at the moment and are in need of filling pronto as I only have 3 cornis and a few bottles full

Posted: **Sat Mar 22, 2008 8:00 pm**

DaaB wrote:How's it tasting though?

subsub wrote:Su bloody perb

That's all that counts in the end, nice one subsub!

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Aberdeen Union Street 200

Aberdeen Union Street 200