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Ambush
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:23 am
by Hoppkins
Recipe:
4kg Pale Malt (Marris Otter)
500g Lager Malt
30g Styrian Goldings (90 mins)
10g Styrian Goldings (15 mins)
Pinch Irish moss (15 mins)
12l Strike water
10l Batch Sparge
Used Safale US-05 yeast made into a 2 litre starter (left for a day with plenty of spray malt)
My first AG went alarmingly well. The 2nd runnings after sparging with 10 litres of water the gravity was down to 1.010 approx.
FG was 1.040 and the final volume was 20 litres. It has a nice straw colour to it and smelled great.
Strike water heating up
Doughed in and added strike water
Mash temp after 30 mins
Took first running and returned to tun then drained into FV while more sparge water heated up.
Nice and clear
Boiling Wort
Chilling
GUNK!
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:58 am
by Hoppkins
No i forgot to compensate for tempreture. The FV has 20 litres in at the moment, a couple of litres evaporated off im sure.
Which way does being warm make the gravity go? Up or down?
Cheers
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:10 am
by spearmint-wino
Measurements at temperatures higher than the calibration of your hydrometer (usually 20°c) means the reading you get is lower than the actual gravity and you should compensate accordingly (there's a conversion table somewhere in one of DaaB's posts on the forum)
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:14 am
by Hoppkins
Ah well just have to wait and see. The FG was taken when it was cooled as it was after the immersion chiller had done its work so im guessing the FG must be reasonably correct.
As for my final runnings thats going to be wrong for the above reason i guess. Next time ill know to correct for tempreture.
Thanks guys
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 12:12 pm
by subsub
Nice to see you on the darkside H
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 2:50 pm
by prodigal2
Good one H,
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 2:55 pm
by iowalad
Nice one, a brew day is always a good day.
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 2:57 pm
by roger the dog
Nice work H, looks like a good first AG to me
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 3:19 pm
by stevezx7r
Excellent Hoppkins, btw, does anyone filter the trub from the wort before adding yeast? Is there any point or does this help "make" the beer?
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:12 pm
by ECR
Looking good
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:20 pm
by Horden Hillbilly
Nice one Hoppkins, well done!
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:08 am
by Hoppkins
The gravity has reduced to 1.006
I tasted it, very nice and pale tasting. Very clean.
But..not as hoppy as i expected. Would it be ok to add a bag of about 20g of hops to the FV for the last 2 days to hop it up a bit?
I have some Hallertau hops, Styrian Goldings, Fuggles and Challenger
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:14 am
by Vossy1
1040 to 1006 in a day and a half......are you sure
That's SO4 territory
It's far too early to tell what the hop aroma of the final ale will be...give it some time.
What temp are you fermenting at?
Welcome to the dark side.....you won't regret it
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 9:11 am
by Hoppkins
Sorry Vossy i set this brew going last friday (21st)
So 6 days now and its had a brew belt on the whole time
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 11:36 pm
by Vossy1