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booldawg

Got this planned for tomorrow

Post by booldawg » Mon Oct 27, 2008 5:29 pm

Got the whole week off work, rude not to brew!

Goldings Pale Ale - 30L

4000g Maris Otter Pale Malt
195g Crystal Malt
185g Torrified Wheat
65g Chocolate Malt

60g EKG (60 mins)
20g EKG (10 mins)
20g EKG (>80 C)

Nottingham yeast

Mash for 60 mins at 66C

Colour: 9.5 SRM, Bitterness: 28.2 IBUs, OG: 1042

This time I'm going to let the wort sit for 30 mins to let the trub settle before running off into FV. I've read on here that some brewers use that technique. Its my 11th AG and I'm still putting in little tweaks to my technique! Will be batch sparging as usual.

Matt

Re: Got this planned for tomorrow

Post by Matt » Mon Oct 27, 2008 5:46 pm

Looks like a nice one booldawg, have a good brewday 8)

Alton_Bee

Re: Got this planned for tomorrow

Post by Alton_Bee » Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:46 pm

Have a good un - I'll try to leave an office window open so I can tell when your brewing .......

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Re: Got this planned for tomorrow

Post by Garth » Mon Oct 27, 2008 9:12 pm

the whole week? you jammy sod

recipe looks great, don't forget the piccies :D

Chemo

Re: Got this planned for tomorrow

Post by Chemo » Mon Oct 27, 2008 9:20 pm

good luck with the goldings ale:
I've also got the rest of the week off to brew :D

subsub

Re: Got this planned for tomorrow

Post by subsub » Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:10 am

Mmm Goldings. Have fun with the brew. Week off - Spawny Get :lol:

booldawg

Re: Got this planned for tomorrow

Post by booldawg » Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:52 pm

I'm well impressed with the idea of leaving the wort for 30 minutes after cooling, to let the trub settle. I've just realised that after 11 AGs I've never seen trub before! It mustve all gone through with my wort in the FV before. Another top tip from JBK!

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Re: Got this planned for tomorrow

Post by Barley Water » Tue Oct 28, 2008 5:17 pm

Sounds like a good plan to me. I do it every time I brew although I only think it really only matters when doing pale beers, especially lagers with realatively little in the way of hops (like Helles for example). What I do is just run the wort through my counter flow chiller and then let it sit while I clean up the rest of the equipment. I then just rack the wort off the trub and cold break, pitch the yeast and oxigenate. It's really not that much trouble and it seems to work out. Once the wort is cool though, one must be careful otherwise one could be making a Belgian by mistake.
Drinking:Saison (in bottles), Belgian Dubbel (in bottles), Oud Bruin (in bottles), Olde Ale (in bottles),
Abbey Triple (in bottles), Munich Helles, Best Bitter (TT Landlord clone), English IPA
Conditioning: Traditional bock bier, CAP
Fermenting: Munich Dunkel
Next up: Bitter (London Pride like), ESB
So many beers to make, so little time (and cold storage space)

adm

Re: Got this planned for tomorrow

Post by adm » Tue Oct 28, 2008 5:39 pm

I chill mine (IC), then let it sit covered for 20 mins for the trub to settle. Then I run it off through my hop filter. I alsways get nice clear worts, although sometimes the run off is very slow - although this could be my H&G hop filter.

I'm upgrading to a plate chiller and hopback configuration soon - so am also now thinking about whirlpooling

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