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Have this mashing at the moment.

MO 6.2 Kg
Crystal 0.2 Kg
Aromatic Malt 0.1 Kg

Mashing at 66 C

Boil for 60 mins with 30-35 IBUs from EKG.

Will be fermenting with windsor yeast.

plan to Add bourbon (200 mls) to cornie.

And maybe some oak chips to the fermenter (after primary fermetation has settled) if i can obtain them in time.

Edit: Water treatment- treating this as a sweet pale ale and using grahams water calc.

Link to an article about I&G beers goes into a little bit pf detail about the hops used etc.

Boil well underway, my crappy efficency continues unabated, looking at a gravity of about 1060.

hope you're having a good one DB - bet you're freezing your little irish knackers off out there

Gurgeh wrote:hope you're having a good one DB - bet you're freezing your little irish knackers off out there

Nothing little about them, i bounce about on them like space hoppers

TBH though it isn't that cold over here, i think for once we are getting some of the best weather going at the moment.


After reading that article i posted i might actually swop yeasts from windsor to s05 to leave it more of a 'blank canvas' for the bourbon to come through Although im worried it might dry it out too much

Went with US-05 in the end, about 25L of 1062 all tucked up in bed for the night, only mishap was the 'syphon effect' plastic hose fell into the fermenter, i'll fish it out tomorrow or if i can't get it tranfer it to a new fermenter.

sounds good delboy, nice one!

I will get the American oak chips in the post for you tommorrow Delboy.

cheers

Got the chips in this mornings post Ta!

I'll wait until the primary fermentation settles down before soaking them in bourbon and dumping them in. The reason im doing it in the primary is that i now from experience that US05 even after fermenting the beer tends to hang around the top for an age until it finally succombs.
I'll be putting the chips in at this stage and i'll be tasting it every day until i feel it has the right character, i'll then remove the chips and cornie/bottle it.

Looking forward to progress updates.
One of my rookie brewing partners is eager to try something along these lines.

delboy wrote:Got the chips in this mornings post Ta!

I'll wait until the primary fermentation settles down before soaking them in bourbon and dumping them in. The reason im doing it in the primary is that i now from experience that US05 even after fermenting the beer tends to hang around the top for an age until it finally succombs.
I'll be putting the chips in at this stage and i'll be tasting it every day until i feel it has the right character, i'll then remove the chips and cornie/bottle it.

Doh just Pmed you
Then read this post
Glad they arrived sadly

True with US05 it does take a bit longer
I normally just let the primary get cold in the garage for about four days and then transfer it to the keg

The oak chips (50g) soaked in bourbon (150 ml) overnight were added to the fermenter on tuesday.
A hydrometer sample taster tonight (thursday) revealed that its already taking on the oak flavours, in fact i'll probably look to get it cornied and bottled some time in the next few days.

As far as being a clone of innes and gunn i would say that i underdid the crystal malt it needs to be darker and richer (maybe an extra 100 or 200g of crystal) at the moment its more like their lighter blonde oak aged beer (no bad thing really).
The flavour is pretty damn good although i don't think it has the same complexity as the orginal when it comes to the oak flavours, also with the bitterness i'd be tempted to up it a little (but still using EKG at the start of the boil) to make the finish a tad more dry.

Are you getting any of the bourbon flavor coming through?

flytact wrote:Are you getting any of the bourbon flavor coming through?

Plenty of flavour coming through, to be honest though im afraid of picking up to much astingency from the oak, so i'll be getting it out of the fermenter and away from the chips (i just threw them in unbagged) tonight.

Watching this with interest as I love I&G