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Planed this for Sunday hopefully will get a nice early start as long as the bed does not grow arms.

Bouncing Squirrel
Extra Special/Strong Bitter (English Pale Ale)


Type: All Grain
Date: 29/11/2008
Batch Size: 25.00 L
Brewer: Damfoose
Boil Size: 34.17 L Asst Brewer: SWMBO
Boil Time: 90 min Equipment: My Placky Brewery
Taste Rating(out of 50): 35.0 Brewhouse Efficiency: 70.00
Taste Notes:

Ingredients

Amount Item Type % or IBU
5.50 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter (5.9 EBC) Grain 91.67 %
0.50 kg Caramalt (49.3 EBC) Grain 8.33 %
40.00 gm Fuggles [4.20 %] (90 min) Hops 16.1 IBU
30.00 gm Challenger [7.50 %] (90 min) Hops 23.5 IBU
20.00 gm Challenger [5.60 %] (20 min) Hops 6.6 IBU
0.83 items Campden Tablet (Mash 5.0 min) Misc
1 Pkgs SafAle English Ale (DCL Yeast #S-04) Yeast-Ale



Beer Profile

Est Original Gravity: 1.053 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.014
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 5.11 %
Bitterness: 46.2 IBU Calories: 90 cal/l
Est Color: 14.0 EBC Color: Color Light brown/yellow


Mash Profile

Mash Name: Total Grain Weight: 6.00 kg
Sparge Water: 29.85 L Grain Temperature: 22.2 C
Sparge Temperature: 75.6 C TunTemperature: 22.2 C
Adjust Temp for Equipment: FALSE Mash PH: 5.4 PH

Step Time Name Description Step Temp
90 min Mash Add 13.33 L of water at 74.7 C 67.0 C

Carbonation and Storage

Carbonation Type: Kegged (Forced CO2) Volumes of CO2: 2.4
Pressure/Weight: 21.7 PSI Carbonation Used: -
Keg/Bottling Temperature: 15.6 C Age for: 28.0 days
Storage Temperature: 11.1 C

Water went on at 08:15 and its darn cold out in the garage. Grains are weighed out so are the hops.
I will update as the day goes on.

First problem with brewing in the garage at -3c my hoze has frozen this is going to cause hastle when I want to cool the wart.

Hit the mash temp pretty much bang on 66.5C.

Looks like a good recipe .. have you done this one before ? were you pleased with it or have you tweaked it ..

Danny wrote:Looks like a good recipe .. have you done this one before ? were you pleased with it or have you tweaked it ..

Came up with it last night after I had been to LHB to get some provisions got 1kg each various grains and more hops so I had the ability to brew pretty much anything.

I have for the last 2 brews bunged together recepies and they both taste good so I am hoping this will be just as good.

Have a great brewday. You were up earlier than me this morning! Too much homebrew for me last night. Luck it does't seem to give bad hangovers.....although everything's a little fuzzy around the edges this morning.

Seems to have taken half a lifetime to get up to the boil I am seriously going to have to put a second eliment in the boiler or go over to gas for the boil. Hops have been bunged in after a skimming of the wort to get rid of the hot break mterial.
On a plus note the Mash tun alteration for fly sparging worked a treat.

All done and dusted put to bed with a packet of S-04 Hit 1050 and it is a little cloudy but that will drop out. Not to shabby 8 hours from start to finish.

After 2 weeks in the fermenter due to the cool weather its been in the keg for 2 days but I just had to have a wee taste it has a very lager colour but is very drinkable . Wife said quafable this is going to be such an easy drink to get through.

Looks like this.