04/04/09 Bouncing Squirrel 100% more pictures

[Damfoose]

Brewing this today mash is already on

Going to be brewing the favorite Bouncing Squirrel on Saturday now I have a mash tun and time.

Bouncing Squirrel
Special/Best/Premium Bitter


Type: All Grain
Date: 04/04/2009
Batch Size: 25.00 L
Brewer: Damfoose
Boil Size: 36.64 L Asst Brewer: SWMBO
Boil Time: 90 min Equipment: Shiney Brewery 1
Taste Rating(out of 50): 35.0 Brewhouse Efficiency: 72.00
Taste Notes:

Ingredients

Amount Item Type % or IBU
5.50 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter (5.9 EBC) Grain 91.67 %
0.40 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 10L (19.7 EBC) Grain 6.78 %
30.00 gm Challenger [7.50 %] (90 min) Hops 23.5 IBU
40.00 gm Fuggles [4.20 %] (90 min) Hops 16.2 IBU
20.00 gm Challenger [5.60 %] (20 min) Hops 6.6 IBU
0.83 items Campden Tablet (Mash 5.0 min) Misc
1.00 items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
5.00 gm Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate) (Mash 60.0 min) Misc
1 Pkgs SafAle English Ale (DCL Yeast #S-04) Yeast-Ale



Beer Profile

Est Original Gravity: 1.055 SG
Measured Original Gravity: 1.050 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.014 SG Measured Final Gravity: 1.010 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 5.26 % Actual Alcohol by Vol: 5.21 %
Bitterness: 46.3 IBU Calories: 465 cal/l
Est Color: 14.0 EBC Color: Color


Mash Profile

Mash Name: Single Infusion, Full Body, Batch Sparge Total Grain Weight: 6.00 kg
Sparge Water: 6.14 L Grain Temperature: 22.2 C
Sparge Temperature: 75.6 C TunTemperature: 22.2 C
Adjust Temp for Equipment: TRUE Mash PH: 5.4 PH

Single Infusion, Full Body, Batch Sparge Step Time Name Description Step Temp
90 min Mash In Add 15.00 L of water at 74.9 C 67.0 C
10 min Step Add 7.00 L of water at 95.3 C 75.0 C
10 min Step Add 15.00 L of water at 83.0 C 78.0 C

[Damfoose]

Day went well enough also did some gardening while the mash and boil was on.. Im getting good at this

Any way on with the pron

Heating the water up


Grain Bill


Check the temp


Mash on


First runnings and all the way through to about 6th runnings it was full of bits


Fill the boiler


First set of hops weighed out


Hops thrown in while running off from batch sparge


Nice rolling boil


Did the first part of the side bit of drive while mash was on


Grab some boiling wort after 30 min for starter


and finished it off while boiling


Cooler late hops and worflic in 15 min to go


Fermenter filling


Oops a little high on the gravity best bung a litre or two of boiled cooled water in it 1060


Yuck shot Trub


I managed to mess up with my water quantities some how and fell 2 litres short so the water top up was required which droped the gravity to 1055 which is aceptable.

[arturobandini]

Nice one Damfoose, your setup is looking better and better. Were the bits in the mash due to your false bottom plate lifting ?

[adm]

Nice one! Looks like you had fun.

If I might make a recommendation to ease your gardening chores, a Sheen X300 flame gun is by far the best weeding device I've ever found. It's like a civilian flame thrower with a 2000C flame. You just play the flame across the weeds briefly which stops the sap rising. 2 or 3 days later, they are dried up and crispy, so you give them another shot with the flame gun which incinerates anything left.

It's great - I weeded the borders of our property on SUnday while I was mashing and boiling. None of that boring old pulling out weeds business, just a roaring jet of flame. I did nearly set our hedge on fire though.

[lastordersplease]

Looks like you had a good day,brilliant photo,s, thanks for sharing your brewday with us. I find Roundup weed killer is the boyo for killing weeds. Personly I,ve not had much succes using a flame gun, they get rid of the annual weeds ok but seem to struggle on perrenial weeds. Any way I think you earn,t a rest and a pint today.

[Damfoose]

The area that I cleared had not been touched for I dont know how long even way before I moved in so their was alot of soil that needed lifting as well. The real problem I have is IVY it gets everywhere and as fast as I kill it off it returns in another patch of the garden. so far I have cut it down and drilled into the top of the root then poured in some extra strong weed killer into the drilled hole, I am starting to win but it is taking time.

As for the mash problems or should I say run off I think it may be because i was using the last of the bag of grain which has more small bits in it.