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Saturday Summer Lightning - 27-09-08
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 3:40 pm
by coatesg
Tomorrow morning is gonna be an early start for a brew - looking to do a summer lightning style beer.
I have some yeast recultured from a SL bottle in the fridge ready to be woken up (hopefully it'll be OK - I hear it needs rousing after a day or two?), and the recipe I will use as follows:
5.5kg Maris Otter (75% brewhouse efficiency, based on 25L post boil)
44g Challenger (5.6%, 90min) - 27IBU
26g EKG (3.9%, 90min) - 11IBU
15g EKG (15min)
10g EKG (0 min Steep)
Treat boil water with 1.5tsp gypsum.
OG: 1050ish
Ferment at 17-18C using Hopback yeast.
Get everything setup tonight with the water and weigh the grain so we're ready to go first thing (or as soon as I get out of bed - though need to be up early - I have a pile (35kg+?!) of apples to sort through and start making some wine with...!
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 4:02 pm
by ChrisG
Good luck, I'm doing my 1st tomorrow morning, early for me too 6am i hope.
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 4:20 pm
by fivetide
Hey coatesey -- the only bit of info I can add other than the hop profile you've calculated, is that Hopback uses that reduced colour version of pale malt. H&G stock it.
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 4:28 pm
by coatesg
fivetide wrote:Hey coatesey -- the only bit of info I can add other than the hop profile you've calculated, is that Hopback uses that reduced colour version of pale malt. H&G stock it.
Thought they used Optic in SL, and MO in GFB?
Gonna be MO for me - it's all I have
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 4:54 pm
by fivetide
Well that's that sorted.
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 5:00 pm
by Grahame
ChrisG wrote:Good luck, I'm doing my 1st tomorrow morning, early for me too 6am i hope.
Looking forward to loads of pictures tomorrow, ChrisG!!
G.
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 8:22 am
by coatesg
Mash is away - took a bit of time to get the strike temp right.
Strike water in the tun:
Weighed out grain:
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 8:31 am
by Garth
looking good Graeme, anything similar to Summer Lightening should be great
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 10:33 am
by ECR
Hope it's going well
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 11:19 am
by coatesg
OK - Sparge all done - and by my reckoning I have 31L at 1043 pre-boil.
The sparge:
Bittering hops - challenger and EKGs in there:
Hops in just before the boil:
Boil just starting:
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 11:33 am
by Dennis King
nice pics. looking good.
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 11:44 am
by The Mighty Badger
Looks like a good one - a cracking beer too.
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 12:39 pm
by coatesg
Last few minutes of the boil now - have run off a litre or so of wort and cooled it and whacked it in with the yeast to wake it up a little - may put it on the stirrer plate briefly to rouse it in the demijohn before I pitch it.
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 1:33 pm
by prolix
very nice. great pics btw
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 1:52 pm
by coatesg
OK - so all done (just a bit of tidying to do...)
23L @ 1050 so exactly as planned which is nice
It's pitched (chucked in 1/2 tsp brew-vit for good measure) and in the fridge - just need to sanitise the temp probe and set the ATC up.
CFC setup:
Temperature of the wort
Remaining wort in the boiler with the hop/protein stuff settled out:
