Type: All Grain
Date: 14/12/2008
Batch Size: 5.00 gal
Brewer: Joe Inglis
Boil Size: 5.72
Boil Time: 60 min
Equipment: My ghetto Equipment
Brewhouse Efficiency: 74.00%
Ingredients
Amount Item Type % or IBU
2.50 kg Pale Malt (2 Row) UK (3.0 SRM) Grain 31.25 %
2.00 kg Wheat Malt, Ger (2.0 SRM) Grain 25.00 %
1.00 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 80L (80.0 SRM) Grain 12.50 %
1.00 kg Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM) Grain 12.50 %
1.00 kg Pilsner (2 Row) UK (1.0 SRM) Grain 12.50 %
0.50 kg Roasted Barley (300.0 SRM) Grain 6.25 %
2.50 oz Martins Lane [5.50 %] (60 min) Hops 36.5 IBU
1.00 oz First Gold [7.50 %] (30 min) Hops 15.3 IBU
1 tube WLPoo4 irish ale yeast
2 Pkgs US 05 Yeast-Ale
Est Original Gravity: 1.090 SG
Measured Original Gravity: 1.090 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.023 SG Measured Final Gravity: 1.0?? SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 8.86 % Actual Alcohol by Vol: 8.52 %
Bitterness: 51.7 IBU Calories: 420 cal/pint
Est Color: 67.9 SRM
Now if you are paying attention you'll see a hop in there that's you've not heard of? The reason for this is that a really nice man on this site called Graeme Coates(Coatesg) sent me some wild hops that he picked where he lives. He's not sure what they are i've got no idea whatsoever so a new new hop variety is born(well renamed).
So, without further ado on with the photos!
Ze grains, weighing in at a normal 8kgs
Grain filter in the bottom of my 23ltr mash tun(oh how i hear the siren song of 50/60ltr tuns)!
Grain in while waters heating up
Water going in at 72 deg
First part of mash took around 3 hours, i drained the bed into another big pan and then reheated the remaining water to 72 degrees, filled tun up
and left overnight and finally drained with a very small sparge this morning, anyway a photo of a part of the run off.
Quick shot of the liquid yeast and wort, total non event as you will see later
2 of 40G bags of hops from Graeme
On the boil
Hops in and a fantastic smell, both bags.
The reason for the name
Quick hydr reading post boil, finished at 1090 at 20 deg
Copper to FV transfer
My favourite shot out the lot! Its a cracker.
The remains of the hops and an extra Oz of first gold i threw in
The WLP004 irish ale yeast in wort after 12 hours
Pitched the yeast/wort combo anyway, gave it an hour saw nothing so fired in 2 packets of US05. I'll update later on fermentation progress. This ones getting sec fer on oak chips and dryhopped, not sure what would be a good hop aroma to go with the roast & choclate flavours of a beer like this, suggestions appreciated. Biggest difference for me this time around was the brewhouse efficency shot up and spreading the brew process over 2 days makes for a much more relaxed process. This is the second time i have done a looonnnggggg mash and i like it!
12 hours FFS 
I normally work on 5-7 days to go from a tube to a pitchable qty . . . if it finishes sooner that allows me to pour off the spent wort and make a Dabbs (Chris's) Flying Starter, on brewday
And, yup - Martin's Lane is the place they were picked 
Maybe it will work away with the 05 albeit at a slower rate. Anyway, the airlock is plibbing every couple of seconds and i've got that treacley smell from the FV that is so addictive. 
). Far too young (3-4 weeks in bottle) - it had great flavours though - just lacking on carbonation (got the psst on opening, but almost no head whatsoever - is this normal for an IRS to take a really long time to carbonate? (lets hope I didn't under prime... 
