Lowside Pale Ale

[stevezx7r]

Mash started at 12:40 with the following recipe -

Ingredients

Amount Item Type % or IBU
4000.00 gm My Grain (5.0 EBC) Grain 88.50 %
250.00 gm Aromatic Malt (55.0 EBC) Grain 5.53 %
250.00 gm Wheat, Torrified (3.3 EBC) Grain 5.53 %
20.00 gm Roasted Barley (1160.0 EBC) Grain 0.44 %
60.00 gm Amarillo Gold [8.00 %] (60 min) Hops 53.2 IBU
30.00 gm Cascade [7.10 %] (30 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops -
15.00 gm Amarillo Gold [8.00 %] (10 min) Hops 4.8 IBU
0.50 tsp Irish Moss (Boil 10.0 min) Misc
1 Pkgs SafAle English Ale (DCL Yeast #S-04) Yeast-Ale

Est Original Gravity: 1.042 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.011
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 4.00 %
Bitterness: 58.0 IBU
Est Color: 14.7

I've amended my recipe from earlier as I had 75g of Amarillo left so I thought I'd up the ibu's a little by splitting it - one dose at 60 min for bitter the rest at 10 mins for a tad aroma.

I might up the cascade as the Roasted Barley may be overpowering.

Anyway, I've taken some pics so i'll upload them in a bit.

[Bionicmunky]

Nice looking recipe.

p.s. Get that courier booked, your beer engine is taking up valuable kitchen space

[stevezx7r]

I forgot all about that !

Thanks for the reminder, will get onto it today.

I've been busy mopping up water. My sparge water (fv with element) tank decided to let go at the tap so I lost about a gallon in the process of moving it from the fv to the keg, then, I lost some more after I replaced the tap as I forgot to close the tap

These things are sent to test me.

[stevezx7r]

After filling the boiler almost to the brim (I know) it boiled over. So, I've had to throw all of my bittering hops in, thats ~70g and will continue to boil for 60 mins depending on what the gravity/amount is at the end.

If I brewed every day I bet I wouldn't have these problems.

Anyway, back to the boil...

[Matt]

Steve, hope the rest goes OK

[retourrbx]

all sounds good fun to me

[Vossy1]

I hope all ended well Steve

[stevezx7r]

As per usual the day started off well, kids and me fed and watered then nipped off to the kitchen to brew.

Kids were fine, I think they're getting used to being told "NOT in the kitchen" while i'm in making beer/food.

Anyway, everything was going fine, taking pics, fairly clean and cleaning up after myself then the fv tap went pair shaped and I had a boil over from hell

Collected way more wort than I needed (I was being greedy) too.

As I was filling the fv from the boiler the tap on the fv went again! So i've replaced it (and the other one) with barrel taps - they have less/shorter threads but they are a better fit for the job than the tat I had.

So, I now have TWO fv's with fermenting wort One has around 6 gallons the other has a few litres plus ALL the loose hop leaves and trub. Nice.

As you have probably guessed, I lost my patience today, what with THREE bloody taps giving way Grrr !

Anyway, here's the pics upto the point where things went south.


Copper Immersion Chiller, looking a bit kinked.




Copper Hop and Grain Filter.



The Ingredients.



Ingredieants Measured Out.



Mash On.



Sparging.




Running Off.



A Tad Too Cloudy For Me.



Coming To The Boil.



Boiling Over.



That was the point where I stopped taking pics.

In a few weeks, provided I have no other problems, I'll take a pic of the finnished article.

BTW, SG 1038 so a tad off from the 4% I was after @ 3.6ish % I'm tempted to throw some us05 to lower the FG a bit more....