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Here goes with AG#2.
Been through lots of different IPA recipes on here & ive put this together from them. Yes its gonna be powerful but i intend to leave it for at least 6 months. (Hahaha yeah right). Oh and as you can tell, i love cascade hops.

Aiming anywhere in the top end of 50's for my OG.
AG#1 was 12 points under. Cant have that again.

5kg Pale Malt
310g Torrified Wheat
250g Crystal

100g Cascade 90 Minutes Edit - now 105 mins Ended up 2hrs.
100g Goldings 60 Minutes
50g Fuggles 60 Minutes
50g Goldings 45 Minutes
5g Irish Moss 15 Minutes
75g Cascade Flame off


Strainer fell off last week. The little mod wont let that happen again.

Temp close enough for me.

Good luck with your brew day hop ( yes pun intended ) it is a good one for you ......

Quick Q though any chance of popping round on your next Ag brew day please

Damfoose wrote:Quick Q though any chance of popping round on your next Ag brew day please

Im as knowledgeable as you are when it comes to AG if its tips your after.
My spaging constists of tipping the hot water back over the grain. (i'm a tight tw@t when it comes to spending, ie 20quid on a rotating arm, sod that).

So yeah. It'd be blind leading the blind. Let me get better first.

Heres more pics.

Post mash temp. 3c drop. Not bad.

Run off.

First hops.

Chilling.

Starter.

12 hours later.


Went better than last weeks AG.
Cant wait to sup this one. Must resist, must resist.

I see you have used ASDA Smart Water ..I used it for my first AG Brew 2 weeks ago..Cos I have not managed to sort out my Water Analysis yet ..

As a Newby..I have a couple of questions to ask..
How much water did you use for this recipe..and ....Have you used ASDA's Smart water in all of your brews?

Steve

Martial I hope you waited till it had fermented before adding the red label

prolix wrote:Martial I hope you waited till it had fermented before adding the red label

Thats SWO's vodka. Christ man if i touched that i'd get my fingers broken. She kicked off 1 night when i drank 1 of her cans of fizzy shit (carlsberg). Gave me a lecture that i have fookin loads of my own n how she'll stab me with a fork if i did it again.

So i leave well alone.

highwayman wrote:I see you have used ASDA Smart Water ..I used it for my first AG Brew 2 weeks ago..Cos I have not managed to sort out my Water Analysis yet ..

As a Newby..I have a couple of questions to ask..
How much water did you use for this recipe..and ....Have you used ASDA's Smart water in all of your brews?

Steve

Ive started using asda 2L pet water as somewhere DaaB said it was decent stuff after testing it.

Also ive got something to bottle my brew into. Cant be arsed washing, filling & capping pint bottles. just gone really lazy. So i ferment, secondary clear with finings for 1 week min. Then bottle into the 2L pets to carbonate, with tiniest blob of FV shit. Theres hardly any sediment to complain about.

Its 2nd brew with Asda smart water. Used the dearer asda water usually but the bottles were no good for carbonating.
I lost about 8 litres in total but it was a 2hour boil.

If you want a cheap sparging device, mine was less than £1. Its a plastic cutlery holder with a hundred or so small holes drilled in the bottom, fits nicely over my coolbox mashtun.

Flaming Barrel wrote:If you want a cheap sparging device, mine was less than £1. Its a plastic cutlery holder with a hundred or so small holes drilled in the bottom, fits nicely over my coolbox mashtun.

Good idea. will keep my eye out for one that fits.